What a genuine crater looks like
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Political Science at its worst: Illustrating the Chicxulub formation as a perfect circle. The picture below is an ILLUSTRATION that National Geographic editors put on their mag to mislead the public and unduly promote the Alvarez Hypothesis. Casual readers unwittingly mistake the drawing for the real thing. Why don't the popularization mags show the actual images rather than drawings? The Chicxulub 'Crater' is much like the black hole of Mathemagix. The so-called 'physicists' never show you an IMAGE of an authentic black hole. They can't. There's no such monster in Physics that is 0D. All objects are 2D or 3D. No exceptions! Therefore, the mathemagicians have no choice but to show you an incompatible drawing. |
Blow up of the Chicxulub region (courtesy of NASA) Let's first clarify that the picture below is a computer-generated, 'doctored' image. The NASA site explains... |
Google Maps satellite view of the region (left) does not show a clear cut view of the alleged crater. In the best of cases, catastrophists have yet to make their case that Chicxulub is a crater...not to mention their case that it was created by an asteroid AND that the event occurred on dinosaur death day 65 mya. It is much easier to believe that catastrophists are going out of their way to declare this geographic feature a crater and molding it to fit their preconceived theory in order to peddle it to the unwary masses. |
Chicxulub Crater? |
Chicxulub: The only crater with iridium The first obstacle that Hildebrand encountered was again that some people questioned whether Chicxulub was caused by an asteroid. Arthur Meyerhoff, a consultant to Mexican oil company Pemex, published his paper titled Chicxulub Structure: A Volcanic Sequence of Late Cretaceous Age (1994), in which he argued that Chicxulub had volcanic origin. Charles Officer, et al., did a follow up in his book The Great Dinosaur Extinction Controversy in which he went into more detail, essentially:
deeper hole than the shallow Chicxulub crater
surface. None of them is associated with a mass extinction. Even Paleo-Mathematician and asteroid buff Michael Benton concedes that there have been no other extinctions traceable to impacts:
coinciding with the other mass extinctions, none has stood up to scrutiny. It now seems that the KT event was unique – the only mass extinction caused by an impact." Of course, you can expect the 'researchers' to make the dates of these impacts match extinctions in the future in order to validate their asteroid theory. And they'll find iridium if they have to! And they'll also make the Chicxulub as deep as they have to in order to accommodate the asteroid theory. |
The crater that vanished
The Alvarez Hypothesis postulates that an asteroid struck the Earth 65 mya and triggered the events that
culminated with the extinction of the dinosaurs. Thanks to that lucky strike that created the alleged Mexican
crater known as Chicxulub we mammals were allowed to radiate and become the new masters of our
beloved blue planet. It is a heartwarming story. Made for Hollywood. It is also big fat lie. The jury is still out
on whether Chicxulub is a crater, on whether the alleged hole was caused by an asteroid, and on the exact
date the event happened.
Take a look at the following pictures. Will you bet your life that you are staring at a crater? Will you bet
your life that this geological feature was caused by an asteroid impact? Will you place your most loved
one's life on the line and swear that the mark was made 65 mya?
How about this curve @ the Nile Delta? Can you tell whether it was generated by an asteroid impact? |
"Two visualization methods were combined to produce the image: shading and color coding
of topographic height. The shade image was derived by computing topographic slope in the
northwest-southeast direction, so that northwestern slopes appear bright and southeastern
slopes appear dark. Color coding is directly related to topographic height, with green at the
lower elevations, rising through yellow and tan, to white at the highest elevations."
- When you factor that NASA has a vested interest in promoting extraterrestrial catastrophic extinction theories,
you arrive at the conclusion that there is a conflict of interests.
For instance, NASA used taxpayer money to fund the 'study' into the supernova, gamma-ray (Death Ray)
extinction of the Ordovician. And Dewey McLean testifies that he discovered that NASA was in trouble around
the time of the Great Dinosaur Extinction Debate and was forced to do some promoting and PR...
- "I would learn later that in June 1980, the same month of publication of the Alvarez theory,
NASA (the National Aeronautics and Space Administration) had chosen it to be the basis
of a new program known as Project Spacewatch. At that time, President Ronald Reagan
was putting the budgetary axe to the space agencies. The Alvarez impact theory which
evoked death from the heavens -- imminent, unavoidable, catastrophic, horrifying mass
extinctions of life on earth -- was just what the space agencies needed to rejuvenate them
via new funding and career opportunities."
- These promotions help keep the publics' interest in space programs. Therefore, the impartiality of NASA is
seriously compromised and put into question.
What is NASA doing spending taxpayer money on Paleontology, anyway? Weren't they involved with space
programs? Isn't the task of NASA to develop technology for the future rather than worry about extinctions
in the past? Could it be that this is part of NASA's propaganda budget to get people to pay attention to and
support its space missions?
< Or how about this crater? Was it caused by an asteroid? This archipelago is known as Santorini. It used to be a volcano, the center of which exploded some 1500 years BC. The explosion finished off the colony that the Minoans had on the Island of Thira and allegedly ended the Minoan Civilization. It left the islands we see today and which formed the perimeter of the volcano's base. The interesting part is that to this day the experts cannot agree on the date of the eruption which happened relatively recently (geologically speaking) -- around 3500 to 4000 years ago. Yet, the NASA funded 'experts have already proven that the Chicxulub 'Crater' was produced by an asteroid and it happened exactly 65 mya just in time to kill off the dinosaurs. What a coincidence! Was the Chicxulub 'crater' produced by a volcano? |
Hildebrand set out to prove his foregone conclusions. Rather than reason whether an impact could have even
remotely killed off all the dinosaurs and ancient marine and flying reptiles, he took this for granted. He was at
the next step, at trying to make a name for himself discovering evidence to persuade his peers that Alvarez
was 'right'. That's how suggestions and probabilities become facts in Newton's 'Scientific' Method. Of course,
with such self-interest guiding his quest it is not surprising that Hildebrand found his beloved crater and converted
it into an asteroid impact which coincidentally happened at just the right time to 'prove' his theory. They had to
convert Chicxulub into an impact crater for else what would have happened to Alvarez's asteroid theory?
The future of extinction theories
The Barringer Crater The Barringer Crater was generated by a 50 meter bolide that struck Arizona around 50,000 years ago. It struck at a time when mammoths, giant sloths and other megafauna inhabited the land. It is very likely that animals near the blast were wiped out, but certainly there were no species-level extinctions. The question is: Why not? If as asteroidists argue there are secondary effects triggered by asteroid impacts we should have climate change and heated rocks flying up in the air, causing mega fires throughout the Southwest, and sulfur reacting with humidity, inducing acid rain. Where are all these secondary killers when you need them? |
Some of the largest crater-causing bolide impacts There is no extinction or iridium associated with any of them |
The Chicxulub 'crater'? (The alleged 'crater' is just inside the smaller circle.) |
- So how is it that some satellite pictures taken by NASA show a well-defined curve?
We'll let the horse tell you through his own mouth...
| The History of Life on Earth |
| Vredefort, South Africa 2bya |
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Even craters much older than 65 mya show a distinctive circular shape in ordinary Google Maps. Erosion has not
wiped out the evidence. Catastrophists get around the issue by arguing that the Chicxulub asteroid fell in the water.
Even craters much older than 65 mya show a distinctive circular shape in ordinary Google Maps. Erosion has not
wiped out the evidence. Catastrophists get around the issue by arguing that the Chicxulub asteroid fell in the water.
| Manicouagan, Canada 100mya |
| Acraman, Australia 85mya |
The future of craters and asteroids
The new breeds coming out of college are being brainwashed to believe in gargantuan catastrophes, especially,
extraterrestrial mechanisms such as comet impacts and supernova death rays. It is NASA which puts its weight
behind these efforts. NASA is not interested in extinctions. NASA is interested in keeping the publics' interest in
its space programs. NASA managers are not interested in the past or even in exploring whether Man is due for
extinction. NASA is interested in the future: in how humans will leave the planet and colonize the galaxy... and
especially how they will fund such ventures. Their entire taxpayer budget set aside for promotional purposes will
see to it that you don't forget their ultimate mission: to get you out of our beloved Earth and send you where no
man has gone before.
Therefore, extraterrestrial theories will be in the news for long time to come together with black holes, dark
matter and Big Bang. These theories are sponsored by big name institutions which go out of their way to
suppress rational theories of extinction because they challenge what has already been 'proven' by the
Mathemagical Establishment. The Chicxulub 'Crater' theory has little to do with Science. It is entirely
Political 'science'.
How Chicxulub became an impact crater
One of the crusaders for the asteroid theory was Alan Hildebrand. He started looking for craters right after Alvarez
published his paper and the Great Dinosaur Extinction Debate began in earnest. He wrote what was to become an
influential paper titled: Chicxulub Crater: A possible Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary impact crater on the Yucatan
Peninsula, Mexico.
He writes:
It makes you wonder how the vague, underlined words 'suggest' and 'probably' end up morphing into proof and
fact. When you ask the authors nicely whether they said that Chicxulub is a crater, they will likely answer that
they merely insinuated it their papers. But when you attack their theories, the paleo mathemagicians put you on
notice in no uncertain terms that it has been proven.
It turns out that Hildebrand was hunting for an impact crater that would confirm the Alvarez Hypothesis ever since
Luis and Walter usurped the theory from De Laubenfels in 1980. Hildebrand was writing about the K-T Extinction
asteroid at least two years before he published the paper referenced above. He was bent on finding evidence to
confirm his preconceived opinion...
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