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I've debunked some charlatans in the area of astrophysics before. But it's worth revisiting to cover one of the primary figures of this rubbish, Wal Thornhill. He runs the channel "Thunderbolts Project", and has basically dedicated his life to lying about science to make money on the internet. Let's go through some of his favorite talking points and explain why they're stupid, shall we?

Composition of Comet Hyakutake: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1029/2001JE001838
Deep Impact and Tempel 1: http://www.jerichardsonjr.info/Papers/mfahearn_SCI2005.pdf
Chandra and Tempel 1: https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.462.6447&rep=rep1&type=pdf
Swift and Tempel 1: http://swift.gsfc.nasa.gov/results/publist/Willingale_ApJ_649_541_2006.pdf
Water on Tempel 1: https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/pdf/2006/12/aahi281.pdf
Composition of Hartley 2: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1406.3382.pdf
Diamagnetic Cavity at 67P: https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/pdf/2016/04/aa27728-15.pdf
Halley's Coma:
https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/94666/grl3718.pdf;sequence=1
More on Tempel 1: https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/pdf/2012/06/aa18718-11.pdf
Cometary X-rays: https://adsabs.harvard.edu/pdf/2002ASPC..264..254L
MIRO and 67P: https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/pdf/2015/11/aa26152-15.pdf
CONSERT and 67P: https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/469/Suppl_2/S805/4705912
Structure of 67P: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0019103517304165
Exposed Water on 67P: https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/pdf/2016/11/aa28764-16.pdf
Water and Carbon Dioxide on 67P: https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/pdf/2015/11/aa26303-15.pdf
Rosetta Observations: https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/469/Suppl_2/S396/4036875
67P Outburst: https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/469/Suppl_2/s606/4565550
LIGO-Virgo Detector Guide: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6382/ab685e/pdf

Electric Universe debunk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9q-v4lBGuw
SAFIRE debunk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmVdPgkudC8
Sky Scholar debunk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zi_mQ0sKOfo
Suspicious0bservers debunk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fTLZTEE7mU

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