Re: Supernova Explosion May Have Caused Mammoth Extinction (Forwarded)

In message <yle_e.1151$l03.260518@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Andrew Yee <ayee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes 
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September 23, 2005

Supernova Explosion May Have Caused Mammoth Extinction

BERKELEY, CA -- A distant supernova that exploded 41,000 years ago may have led to the extinction of the mammoth, according to research conducted by nuclear scientist Richard Firestone of the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab).


Interesting! Richard Firestone has been arguing for years that there was also a bombardment of subatomic particles. Look at <http://ie.lbl.gov/Paleo/paleo.html> and <http://abob.libs.uga.edu/bobk/nuclear.html>, for instance.
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