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Ok but this paper was a work of many different researchers, on site and off site, over many years. And now someone on Twitter is claiming it's wrong and someone
by INTPenis 5y ago
Ok but this paper was a work of many different researchers, on site and off site, over many years. And now someone on Twitter is claiming it's wrong and someone else is claiming some image in the paper has been doctored.
Sorry but this reeks of attention seeking.
I can't say what's what since I'm just a layman but until I see an argument that makes sense to me I'm on the side of the original authors.
- hef19898 5y agoI saw a documentary once covering a similar incident in Europe affecting the Celts. There was a period were high quality iron ore showed up for a while in weapons, settlements vanished and the term "heaven falls on our heads" came up first. Also some geological analysis done. The conclusion was a Tonguske style event.
- anonAndOn 5y agoIt would be interesting to find out how many times over the millennia the Gods (aka random astronomical rocks) have bestowed superior weaponry to their chosen (also random) people. Even King Tut's dagger was likely from a meteorite.[0] [0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tutankhamun%27s_meteoric_iron_dagger https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tutankhamun%27s_meteoric_iron_...
- native_samples 5y agoThe link by KuiN seems conclusive. The image is indeed a Photoshopped version of an older image from 2014. The question is why, but the stated explanation in the thread seems probable - they found the photo and wished to present it as their own, but it had a label in that lower right corner that would give it away. So they photoshopped in some sand to cover up that they hadn't taken it on-site. All very disappointing but not really surprising. The quantity of Photoshops in scientific papers is baffling, and Nature has been publishing a long string of nonsensical papers in the past years.