Re: More on the possible 12,900 BCE impact

On Fri, 28 Sep 2007 21:02:23 -0700, rick_sobie@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

On Sep 29, 4:31 am, Eric Stevens <eric.stev...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Fri, 28 Sep 2007 19:11:27 -0700, rick_so...@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
On Sep 29, 2:35 am, rick_so...@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
On Sep 28, 10:54 pm, Eric Stevens <eric.stev...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

http://www.brown.edu/Administration/News_Bureau/2007-08/07-040.html

"PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] - At the end of the Pleistocene
era, wooly mammoths roamed North America along with a cast of
fantastic creatures - giant sloths, saber-toothed cats, camels, lions,
tapirs and the incredible teratorn, a condor with a 16-foot wingspan.

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What caused that mass extinction 12,900 years ago is anyone's guess I
suppose. Including alien attack from the moon.

What sort of attack?
Well you know Star Wars and the Death Star, well if you were to put a
charge on the moon's surface using some sort of huge power system, its
possible you could discharge a lightning bolt of Biblical proportions
onto the earth.
Maybe even " in more than 50 sites around North America"

Plato wrote something to that effect. That Zeus, um fired lightning
bolts at the earth, ...

I may turn out to be wrong but I think thast if you go back to the
original, Plato (and other ancients) did not write about 'lightning
bolts' but only 'bolts'. The addition of the word 'lightning' is the
work of later translators who did not think that 'bolts' on their own
made sense.

What is proposed for 12,900 years ago is indeed a 'bolt' without much
in the way of accompanying lightning. It is likely that this is the
kind of event that Plato and others were actually writing about.



Well Louis Frank at the University of Iowa, did a study in conjunction
with NASA, and concluded that ice and snowballs from space happen
every minute. Some as big as 20 or 30 tons. Some as big as Tunguska
happen occasionally as well, and some maybe even larger occasionally
happen. And if it exploded in the atmosphere, it wouldn't leave a
crater.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Younger_Dryas_impact_event

The only thing is, that it seems like that is just not quite enough,
to explain why the change was not global.
There seems to be no evidence that New Zealand was effected or
Antarctica, and South America wasn't affected much either.

You seem to be working on the basis that if we don't actually know of
an impact then there wasn't one. With regard to New Zealand you should
investigate the Mahuika crater.

How do you get a localized cold snap of that magnitude, unless maybe
for a short while, the earth wobbled off its axis, and the North Pole
was somewhere different. Greenland was clearly affected.

You seem to think the climate of the earth is stable. Well, it isn't.

Besides all that though, does it not seem incredible, that after that,
people started to build cities, farm, read write, and grow in
population to 6.5 billion, within an instant of geological time.

Myself I think there is evidence from at least 25,000 ya that man was
farming, maybe even far before that if you consider questionable
recent finds in Mexico and Peru and off Cuba.

Cities, well there is that city off Cuba, that might be 50,000 years
old.
And there is some proto-Surmerian writing on the rocks in that city
apparently.

So I don't think we have identified a connection with that event and
the sudden increase in mankind's survival ability or intelligence. But
the dying off of Mega-fauna, well man might have hunted them to
extinction as well or disease may have helped with that.
Maybe it only takes one really really bad year to kill things off and
it is so short a duration that it doesn't register well in the
geologic record.
Maybe a really really cold day in winter, of minus 100 would kill off
the Mega-fauna, and who knows why something as weird as that might
happen. Maybe a disruption in the North Atlantic. Thats been
suggested. But why the Mega-fauna and not the rest of the mammals?
Thats why hunting seems more probable to me.

But it doesn't explain the migration of humans out of North America.
There were bison, and all sorts of things to eat still.






Eric Stevens
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