Re: Meteoric and Cometary impacts in historical times - Hard Evidence

From: Jim Webster (Jim_at_zerospam.moik.net)
Date: 10/17/04 

Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2004 07:11:09 +0100

"Eric Stevens" <eric.stevens@sum.co.nz> wrote in message
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> On Sat, 16 Oct 2004 21:41:05 +0100, "Jim Webster"
> <Jim@zerospam.moik.net> wrote:
>
> >
> >"Eric Stevens" <eric.stevens@sum.co.nz> wrote in message
> >news:g413n0lf42jbq44k2mumahuk2djqeo2hkv@4ax.com...
> >> On Sat, 16 Oct 2004 11:39:25 GMT, "I_ E. Johansson"
> >> <ingerxjohanssonx@telia.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> >Sollers and Eric,
> >> >sorry to disappoint you but of the many hundred sources I have read of
> >which
> >> >at least 25 who give detailed information down to the links of
> >> >weatherconditions and who should have been eyewitness had the proposed
> >> >scenario happened, NONE give any indication what so ever for anything
at
> >all
> >> >happening in or around the area you discuss.
> >>
> >> Then how do you explain the holes in the ground and the assymetrically
> >> heat-damaged archaeological artifacts? Or are you saying that if it
> >> happened, it happened at a different time?
> >
> >I think there are a couple of issues.
> >
> >1) As you can see from the bit of Gregory of Tours quoted, our
predecessors
> >did notice some at least of these phenomena.
> >2) Others are bound to have happened where there were no literate
witnesses.
> >
> >I think that what the theory needs is evidence that those impacts that
were
> >reported had impacts other than being a briefly memorable light in the
sky.
> >
>
> Agreed. One problem is that many of the close witnesses to the major
> impacts such Chiemgau would not live to tell the tale. Those further
> way would only know that they had seen lights in the sky and heard
> crashing of trees. They might have also experienced a blast wave and
> been at a loss to explain it. For this kind of reason I don't expect
> these kinds of events to be described in terms we would immediately
> recognise today. Lights in the sky is OK but as for the rest ... what
> could they meaningfully say?

Remember that people might notice if towns they traded with disappeared.
Similarly a major blast wave that they didn't experience but leveled forests
would also be commented on as levelled forests are noticable.
These sort of after effects should appear in the literature if they happened

Jim Webster

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