Thread by @MarkBoslough

I thought it would be a good idea to leave everyone with a list of videos to watch while waiting for my next thread. Some of them are available online, but here's my IMDB page if you want to look for them yourself. I'll post links to the ones I can find. imdb.com/name/nm2334005/

I had hoped to be able to share a link to Siberian Apocalypse (2008), the Discovery Channel production that I wrote several threads about. Here's the IMDB link to it. Maybe there's a way order or stream it on a subscription service. imdb.com/title/tt132453…

I just found this review of Siberian Apocalypse, which is a pretty good summary. stephendsullivan.blogspot.com/2008/11/invest…

Here's Close Encounters in Siberia (2009), a fairly low-budget & obscure film. I only discovered it a few years ago & not sure I ever watched it all the way through, what I saw was quirky, entertaining, & informative.

Here's a German Documentary, Big Bang at Tunguska (2008) if you have an insatiable appetite for Tunguska

My first doc was The Day the Earth Got Hit (1997). The only trace of it I can find on the internet is a note by Benny Peiser, a gadfly who used to post misinformation about impacts. Now he's a prominent #climate #denier.
I might still have it on VHS.
defendgaia.org/bobk/ccc/cc111…

Of all the docs on my list this is still my favorite. Produced by TV6 with the same film crew that shot Micheal Palin's travel series. This is the BBC version. Other versions w different names & alternate editing were on Nat Geo & Discovery Canada.

There is a direct line from Tutankhamun's Fireball (2006) to the #YDBS & therefore to #TEHburst. TK was first aired in Sept, 2006. Team Comet saw it & in May, 2007 showed a clip from it at @theAGU joint session press conference announcing their hypothesis.

When Allen West showed the clip, he said this is what they thought the impact/airburst that was the basis for their hypothesis would have looked like. The clip was based on one of my simulations of an early model that I'd abandoned as unrealistic.

I'd actually tried to talk TV6 out of using it in the final version of their production, but they'd already done the CGI & used it anyway. So I have to take some blame in the creation of these monsters called #YDBS and #TEHburst.

The next video worth watching is a panel discussion, in debate format, In Aug. 2008 (less than a year after publication of the first #YDBS paper). On the pro-#YDBS team were #TEHburst lead author Ted Bunch and correspondence author/sample curator Allen West.

My partners on the skeptical side of the #YDBS debate were Carolyn Shoemaker & John McHone. Team Comet's link to fringe archaeology did not just start this week. The linked videos start with this one.

When the producers of NOVA were doing research for a planned episode about the #YDBS they ran across these videos & invited me to participate. Here's a clip of my most prominent scene in the final cut. You can see why fire & brimstone people latched on.
pbs.org/wgbh/nova/vide…

It was originally broadcast as "Megabeasts' Sudden Death" but also called "Last Extinction" (or maybe vice versa). It won the AAAS Kavli award for best documentary of 2009. pbs.org/wgbh/nova/abou…

Despite it's wide acclaim & award-winning status, Megabeasts streaming was quietly discontinued in 2011 after PBS/WGBH learned that Team Comet had not been straight with them. More on that later. Here's the NOVA page with dead links. pbs.org/wgbh/nova/clov…

IMDB has a summary of Megabeasts. imdb.com/title/tt139356…

Here's another PBS link that's been dead for about a decade. pbs.org/wgbh/nova/vide…

Occasionally someone uploads Megabeasts to Youtube but gets removed. I've been searching for days. Woke up last night & found but didn't save link. Almost thought I'd dreamed it but just found again. Might want to download before it disappears. Here it is.

That completes the list of videos that are most relevant to the #YDBS and #TEHburst. If you want to watch more, here's Meteor Strike (requires PBS membership but you can watch the preview) pbs.org/video/nova-met…

Here's a trailer for Disaster Playground, a fun and quirky adventure that redefines asteroid documentaries. I think you have to pay to watch the entire film.
vimeo.com/ondemand/thedi…

Finally, here's a promo clip for Asteroid Hunters. It's only available in IMAX theaters.

I hope everyone enjoys their weekend of asteroid video watching. To close this thread, here's an essay I wrote that explains why I like scientific explanations so much more than pseudoscientific ones. huffpost.com/entry/ufo-over…

I'm going to be talking about the history of the #YDBS in the next several threads. Have a good weekend!

I got another thread done tonight. Happy reading!

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