Did Planet X / Nibiru
Kill
The Dinosaurs?
YOWUSA.COM, 28-January-02
Marshall Masters
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In addition to these catastrophic changes would also come a global ecological instability, such as floods and droughts causing sudden migrations of species in order to
survive, exposing them to deadly new diseases.
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In addition to loss of habit, food sources and new diseases, animals would also die from hyperthermia, a condition not unknown to mankind. Every time a new
summertime temperature record high is reached, there is inevitably a tragic story about an elderly shut-in who died from the elevated body temperatures of hyperthermia.
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But those animals on land were not the only ones to suffer. In the oceans, warming and acidification of the upper waters killed aquatic life on a massive scale.
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MARSHALL MASTERS
All told, around 70% of the species on Earth were wiped out by these events. And all this is borne out in the fossil record.
If the K-T extinction were the result of an impact event, it would have happen in just a matter of days. However, if it had been the result of the Deccan Traps eruption as
Dewey Mclean’s volcanism theory suggests, the die-off could have been something even more disheartening.
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When the environment to which a given species has become adapted undergoes sudden and catastrophic change the ability of that species to reproduce is dramatically curtailed.
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Man is the only species to ever walk the Earth, to be capable of reproducing via artificial means. A practice that is becoming more and more necessary as social norms change and evolve.
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What the fossil records show us is that one in one hundred species will cease to exist. If we as a species are foolish enough to rely solely on our ability to
reproduce through artificial means as way of coping with catastrophic Earth changes, then we will most likely meet
the same fate as the dinosaurs.
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EXT. VOLCANO - DAY
STOCK FOOTAGE: Volcano erupting.
MR. ORBACH (V.O.)
Could the devastation brought on by volcanic activity and trapped greenhouse gasses have snuffed out the lifeblood of the dinosaur population? If so, the case for Dewey
McLean’s volcanic theory has gained new credence. But what McLean’s theory does not address is what could have caused the Deccan Traps eruption that may have ended
the rule of the dinosaurs some 65 million years ago.
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That “what” has been answered by the K-T impact extinction theory offered by Luis Alvarez. According to Alvarez, that impact which happened around the same time as the
Deccan Traps eruption in what is now India is why dinosaurs became extinct.
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The reconstructed skeleton of a large dinosaur is on display. Pan the skeleton with fonts.
Whether it was from an impact event or a volcanic eruption, we know that dinosaurs no longer walk the Earth. Understanding why is not an academic issue.
Rather, it is an issue that could have a direct bearing on whether or not mankind falls prey to the same fate as that of the dinosaurs.
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When we compare the theories of Alvarez and McLean we see two similarities. First, both theories attribute the extinction of the dinosaurs to a catastrophic event that
was global in proportion. Second, there is a global presence of Iridium in the KT boundary layer, which is logically explained by both theories.
Where they differ is in what caused the catastrophic event. Alvarez says it was caused by the Chicxulub impact, but the recent findings of Taylor and Abdul-Sada now show a total absence of bucky balls in the KT
boundary layer, a fact that is now chipping away at the certainty of an impact event. On the other hand, McLean says it was the Deccan Traps eruption, but given that
mankind has never seen an eruption of this magnitude how are to judge the causes of such an event. But perhaps there is another possible explanation. One
that follows the old adage, “the truth usually lies somewhere in the middle.”
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What we do know about earthquakes and volcanic eruptions pale in comparison with what we do not know and in the absence of a deeper understanding of these natural forces
we can only speculate as what could have caused the Deccan Traps eruption. There are of course the terrestrial causes, but perhaps the Alvarez impact theory points in a direction towards
the catastrophic eruption that serves as the basis for the McLean theory. Perhaps a non-impact interaction between Earth, and another body in our solar system.
One possibility is the coincidence of the sunspot cycle with disturbances in the earth's magnetic field noted over 150 years ago by Rudolph Wolf, director of the Zurich Observatory.
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 In 1848 Wolf devised a daily method of estimating solar
activity, and his system is still in use today.
By October of 2001, the Wolf sunspot count for that year over 230, which was far above NASA’s original estimate of
150. Incidentally, this also makes 2001 the most active year for sunspots in the last three centuries.
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Also during the period of January 2001 through September 2001, the Earth experienced 28 major volcanic eruptions, which is significant when this figure is compared with
twenty-two in all of 2000, 11 in 1999, 13 in 1998, 12 in 1997, 9 in 1996 and 5 in 1995. Is there a correlation between solar activity and
volcanic eruptions? The data suggests there may be.
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Another possibility is that our solar system could have a 10th planet, and that free-floating planets could be orbiting our solar system. If so, could one of them have
come close enough to cause a global disaster?
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 In July of 2001, astronomers discovered a large reddish object
orbiting our system in the neighborhood of Pluto.
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Dubbed 2001 KX76, the object could be as large as 1200 kilometers in diameter making it the size of a small moon.
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The discovery of 2001 KX76 is significant for two reasons. First it makes it even harder for scientists to define what is a planet, and second, it raises the
possibility that there may be even larger objects than 2001 KX76 in extremely long elliptical orbits about our system that could be measured in the hundreds if not thousands of years.
On one hand, this threat could be pure conjecture. On the other, our own understanding of our own solar system and what lays just beyond it is far from complete.
Another good example of this is that scientists have just learned that comets may not necessarily be “dirty snowballs” after all.
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Astronomers have long regarded comets as “dirty snowballs”, and as a source of the water that now fills our oceans. For this reason, there has been some doubt
as to the ability of comet to causing a major earthquake as a result of the gravitational forces it could exert on our planet during a flyby event.
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 However, in September of 2001, our knowledge about comets took a
huge leap forward when the Deep Space 1 probe took close-up photographs of Comet Borrelly.
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According to U.S. Geological Survey scientist Larry Soderblom, who led the Deep Space 1 imaging team, "These pictures have told us that comet nuclei are far more complex than we ever imagined.”
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n other words, not all comets are dirty snowballs. Therefore, if large, dense and complex comet such as Comet Borrelly were to fly close to the Earth,
perhaps even close enough to bounce off our atmosphere, the flyby could trigger a series of catastrophic earthquakes and volcanic eruptions such as Deccan Traps.
MR. ORBACH
In the final analysis, there is much that we do not know. But what we do know is that whatever caused the extinction of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago was not
a freak occurrence of nature. Rather, in the vast expanse of geological time it could have been nothing more than a naturally recurring phenomenon. Unlike the
dinosaurs, we have technology and hopefully the time we need to avoid extinction as well.
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