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What I'm thinking about, of course, is Firestone et al.'s supernova debris and radiation blasts (Firestone, R., A. West, and Simon Warwick-Smith, 2006, The Cycle of Cosmic Catastrophes: Flood, Fire, and Famine in the History of Civilization, Bear and Company, Rochester, Vermont, 392 pp, ISBN-13:978-1-59143-061-2, ISBN-10-59143-061-5). About 16,000 years ago one of the blast waves passed over the Great Lakes area and to the north of them. Caused catastrophic flooding as the northern ice sheets rapidly melted. The Channel Scablands of the Pacific Northwest were formed then. Could this unusual runoff at Brushy Creek be part of that nightmare? And it was followed at around 13,000 years ago by another blast wave that did in the Pleistocene megafauna in the northern hemisphere and wiped out Clovis and Cro-Magnon cultures. I sure hope there are no more blast waves coming!

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What I'm thinking about, of course, is Firestone et al.'s supernova debris and radiation blasts (Firestone, R., A. West, and Simon Warwick-Smith, 2006, The Cycle of Cosmic Catastrophes: Flood, Fire, and Famine in the History of Civilization, Bear and Company, Rochester, Vermont, 392 pp, ISBN-13:978-1-59143-061-2, ISBN-10-59143-061-5). About 16,000 years ago one of the blast waves passed over the Great Lakes area and to the north of them. Caused catastrophic flooding as the northern ice sheets rapidly melted. The Channel Scablands of the Pacific Northwest were formed then. Could this unusual runoff at Brushy Creek be part of that nightmare? And it was followed at around 13,000 years ago by another blast wave that did in the Pleistocene megafauna in the northern hemisphere and wiped out Clovis and Cro-Magnon cultures. I sure hope there are no more blast waves coming!

Well, Charlie, at least we can start talking about it now and analyzing the data. Virginia refers to these events as nightmares. If you didn't fry to death in the open, you could drown in a river valley. And these events would have been preceded by a gravitational bow wave, initiating massive earthquakes prior to the main show.

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