Did Planet X / Nibiru
Kill
The Dinosaurs?
YOWUSA.COM, 28-January-02
Marshall Masters
…Continued
PAX -- Encounters With The Unexplained
While PAX chose to use part of my initial script draft, I am presenting the full draft to show how I had originally intended on presenting my scenario.
EXT. SPACE (65 MILLION YEARS AGO)
COMPUTER ANIMATION: An asteroid moves toward us through the darkness of space. We swing around the comet to see what lies in its path--EARTH.
MR. ORBACH (V.O.)
The presence of the rare element Iridium in the KT boundary certainly SEEMS convincing. However, this may now prove to be a partial answer as scientists search for
other indicators besides iridium, called FULLERENES. This is important because if the KT boundary layer contains both Iridium and fullerenes, the evidence of an asteroid
impact event would be virtually irrefutable. However, recent findings show a TOTAL ABSENCE of fullerenes in the KT boundary layer. Given this recent scientific
revelation, can we continue to believe that an impact event killed the dinosaurs -- with total certainty?
INT. MARSHALL MASTERS HOME — DAY
Interview with Marshall Masters, former CNN Science & Tech Producer
When Taylor and Abdul-Sada, two highly regarded scientists, published their findings in 2000 in an article titled, "There are no fullerenes in the K-T
boundary layer" they fired a marvelous shot across the bow in the direction of Luis Alvarez, his Berkeley team, and their K-T impact extinction theory. Briefly speaking…
INSERT SHOT: BUCKMINISTER FULLER AND A GEODESIC DOME
Fullerens molecules are composed of carbon atoms arranged into a cage-like structure with a hollow interior and they look the geodesic domes created by Buckminister
Fuller. The proper name for this family of molecules is buckministerfullerene…
RETURN TO MARSHALL MASTERS ON CAMERA
… which is mouth full, so everyone just calls them bucky balls. The reason why bucky balls are so important to this debate is that they can trap other types of atoms, such
as helium and argon, which can provide hard proof of asteroid or a comet.
INSERT SHOT: MOSQUITO IN AMBER FROM JURASSIC PARK
In a manner of speaking, bucky balls are like the balls of amber we saw used in the movie Jurassic Park. The amber had trapped lived prehistoric mosquitoes along with
the blood they had sucked millions of years ago, which was then used bring the dinosaurs back to life.
RETURN TO MARSHALL MASTERS ON CAMERA
What is interesting about the absence of bucky balls in the K-T boundary layer is that it presents us with a very real possibility. Not only can extinctions be caused by
random impact events, they can also be caused by a sudden imbalance within our own biosphere. In other words, if we only look at the sky above us for a
possible sign of an extinction event then we will be ignoring an equally dangerous threat. We must therefore look at the ground below our feel as well as the sky above us if mankind is to survive.
MR. ORBACH
If extinction events are not caused exclusively by impact events, could there be a more terrestrial explanation? On explanation that has conjured a great amount of debate
in the scientific community is volcanism theory of Dewey McLean, a Professor Emeritus of Geology at Virginia Polytechnic. McLean believes that at the end of the
Cretaceous period--when the dinosaurs died out--there was a large increase in volcanic activity, and if his theory is right, could a sudden increase in volcanic activity
threaten our planet and our own survival even to this? And--the present day rate of major volcanic activity has increased dramatically. Should we be concerned?
DISSOLVE TO: EXT. ISLAND OF MONT SERRAT (LATE 1990'S) - DAY
We see the horrible images of a huge volcano erupting.
The streets of a tiny island village fill with ash and smoke.
People run for their lives, huddle in doorways, or flee for the safety of the ocean.
DISSOLVE TO: INT. MARSHALL MASTERS HOME — DAY
The absence of bucky balls in the in the K-T boundary layer has not focused our attention on Iridium. Rather, it has focused our attention on what could have caused
that global layer Iridium to come into existence. Yes, it could have been from an impact event. But, it could also have been created by a regional or a global
wave of massive volcanic eruptions, because just like comets and asteroids, the earth's molten mantle is relatively rich in Iridium.
If we are ready to consider the fact that a massive
volcanic eruption can also create a global layer of
Iridium, we must be willing to examine the volcanism
theory of Professor Dewey McLean.
INSERT GRAPHIC: DECCAN TRAPS MAP
 The cornerstone of his theory is the one of the greatest episodes of
volcanism in earth history, and it happened sixty-five million years ago, in an area of India known to geologists as the Deccan Traps.
INSERT SHOT: MASSIVE LAVA FLOWING AND ERRUPTIONS
The eruption of the Deccan Traps happened about the same time as the Chicxulub impact, which according to Luis Alvarez caused the die-off of the dinosaurs.
The Deccan Traps eruptions were so massive and violent as to be beyond human comprehension, because they literally covered over a million square miles of what we now know
to be India with layer upon layer of hot lava, and building them up into great piles.
INSERT SHOT: COLD LAVA BED
The depth of these lava piles could not have been measured in feet or yards but rather in miles.
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What is so incredible about these eruptions is that even after 65 million years of erosion, what remains of the Deccan Traps lava pile is still about one and one-half
miles thick and can be found in western India, near Bombay.
And this brings us to the 64,000-dollar question — could the Deccan Traps eruption 65 million years ago
have been the source of the Iridium layer we now
find in the K-T boundary layer and not the Chicxulub
impact event that also happened at about the same
time?
The answer is yes, because even though that Deccan Traps lava pile is now 65 million years old, it is still releasing iridium to this very day!
MR. ORBACH (V.O.)
If we can accept the possibility that the Deccan Traps eruptions now 65 million years were partly or wholly responsible for the die-off of the dinosaurs, then we
must accept that fact as proof that our own biosphere is fragile and must be protected.
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EXT. CITY STREETS - DAY
STOCK FOOTAGE: Shots of environmentalists protesting greenhouse gas emissions.
MR. ORBACH (V.O.)
This is because the fate of the
dinosaurs may be as relevant to us today as our
nightly TV news program. While protestors
demonstrate against the effects of man-made
greenhouse gasses on the environment, those who
disagree with them say that one eruption the size of
a Mount St. Helens's can dump more greenhouse gases
into the atmosphere than mankind could hope to do in
a decade or more. Perhaps the global-warming debunkers have pinpointed why the dinosaurs went extinct — perhaps it could have been
the green house gases emitted by the Deccan Traps eruption 65 millions years ago. But is this what killed them?
CUT TO:
INT. MARSHALL MASTERS - DAY
MARSHALL MASTERS
If we wind the clock back to the time of the dinosaurs, we would find that greenhouse gasses like carbon dioxide were greatly increased as a result of the massive
volcanic eruptions and in vastly greater quantities that what mankind can create.
INSERT SHOT: COMPUTER ANIMATION OF CO2 BUILDING UP IN THE EARTH'S ATMOSPHERE AND WARMING UP THE PLANET.
MARSHALL MASTERS (V.O.)
As a result of the massive eruption, the CO2 built up in the atmosphere must faster than the biosphere could manage it. It was global warming gone woefully amok and
the resulting greenhouse effect resulted in catastrophic changes in the climate.
INSERT SHOT: RAGING, RAIN-SWOLLEN RIVERS FILLED WITH MUD AND DEBRIS.
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