(not quite)PALEONEWS: putting the smack down

[Betty Cunningham <bettyc@flyinggoat.com>]

http://www.spacer.com/spacecast/news/deepimpact-00a.html

Impact Events Shaped Rise Of Civilization 
Liverpool - March 7, 2000 - 
(excerpt)
In a presentation to the Annual Meeting of the American Association for
the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Dr Benny Peiser of Liverpool John
Moores University, presented new evidence suggesting that more than 500
impact events of extraterrestrial orgin have punctuated Earth during the
last 10,000 years.

 The great majority (70%) of these events have been of the Tunguska-type
class of atmospheric impacts with an average energy yield of between 20
and 100 Mt TNT. However, more than 100 surface impacts, including more
than a dozen oceanic impacts, are believed to have repeatedly devasted
whole regions, small countries and early civilisations around the globe.
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