Re: This may be the most important aticle I have ever written.

On Dec 14, 5:24 pm, Eric Stevens <eric.stev...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I always enjoy discovering things.

Even if I can't discover them for myself, I enjoy watching other
people discovering things.

I am now reporting on what may be best described as the process of
discovery of a 'Theory of everything (in the fields of
archaeology/anthropology/human history).

This is one of those shell-shocked moments when nearly everything
suddenly falls into place.

In October 2007 I wrote an article titled "Evidence for an
extraterrestrial impact 12,900 years ago ...". Then in September 2007
I wrote another article titled "More on the possible 12,900 BCE
impact". This article continues on from those two.

I have now read the appallingly named book:

"The CYCLE of COSMIC CATASTROPHES,
Flood, Fire and Famine in the History of Civilization"

The authors are Richard Firestone, Allen West, and Simon
Warwick-Smith.

Seehttp://www.amazon.com/Cycle-Cosmic-Catastrophes-Stone-Age-Changed/dp/...
orhttp://tinyurl.com/2w7yjgfor the Amazon link.

I implore you to click on the link and read the reviews. This is NOT a
book from the lunatic fringe: quite the reverse, its from the cutting
edge of new discovery. Formal papers are being written, peer reviewed
and no doubt once they clear the log jam they will be published. In
the meantime this book brings you up to some time before 2006. The
book gives a web site for the latest updates but that sitewww.cosmiccatastrophes.comseems not to work.

The general thesis is:

Approximately 41,000 years ago a nearby supernova exploded and briefly
bathed the earth with intense radiation. The supernova has not been
positively identified but most likely was what is now the pulsar
Geminga in the constellation Gemini.

The burst of radiation caused many fatalities but also many mutations,
including the mutations which gave rise to modern man with all his/her
mental capabilities. There already is evidence for the explosion of a
nearby supernova at that time.

34,000 years ago the shockwave from the super nova explosion arrived
at the solar system. There were numerous relatively low-key effects
nothing like the original blast of radiation. Nevertheless these led
to further extinctions and mutations. There is evidence for the
arrival of this shock wave.

Then 16,000 to 13,000 years ago the debris wave arrived. It was not
the tenuous cloud of gas in an expanding spherical shell which is how
the debris from a super nova is commonly pictured. It had lumps in it
and a cluster of lumps hit the solar system. The lumps were
low-density accumulations of dust but of very considerable size just
the same. There is unambiguous evidence that Mars, the Moon and Earth
were hit by substantial bodies of the same very unusual materials all
approaching from the same angle. So too possibly was Venus. The sun
may also have been affected.

It is commonly regarded that when objects strike the earth they will
cause craters. In fact it is known that when low-density objects
strike the earth they will cause very shallow craters and may even
leave a mound rather than a crater. The authors propose that the
Carolina Bays were created by the impact of low density fragments of
what would have appeared to anyone on the earth as a comet.

To simplify matters, the authors refer to all the multiple impacts and
what happened in consequence as 'the event'.

The authors went looking for evidence of more features like Carolina
Bays and found them all over North America and also in Europe.

The authors are now of the opinion that at least parts of Lake
Michigan and probably also the other Great Lakes are impact craters
left by cometary fragments striking the ground. The largest supposed
crater is Hudson Bay. (Don't start talking about 'shocked quartz'.
Apparently you don't get that with low density impacts).

I expect that at this stage people will start shaking their heads in
disbelief but apparently there is hard physical evidence for most of
this.

I don't know about yours but my mind boggles at the thought of what
happened at this time.

The impact in North America:

1. Precipitated the Younger-Dryas event.

2. Caused the sea to rise by 200' in 4000 years.

3. Precipitated an enormous submarine mudslide on the east coast of
North America. The resulting tsunami from this triggered an enormous
mudslide on the west coast of Europe and North Africa. The tsunami
from this triggered an enormous mudslide on the east coast of South
America. The combined tsunamis in the Atlantic stopped the Gulf Stream
and wiped out all life in very considerable coastal regions in both
the America's, Africa and Europe.

I think it is fair to say that we survivors are very lucky to be here.
We very nearly participated in a mass extinction.

There is much more to this but you will have to read the book to find
it out.

I will mention that there is a clear and unambiguous horizon at which
the Clovis layers stop. Usually it is marked by a band of black algae
but it can also be determined by means of a high-power magnet pulling
micro-spherules out of the soil. Clovis stops dead (probably
literally) at this point. There is a gap of several hundred years
before anything else comes along again.

No doubt you have all read those stories of frozen hairy mammoths
which died and froze so quickly that their food remained undigested in
their stomachs. I've always wondered how this could have happened but
this book provides an explanation.

Talking of mammoths, there are mammoths and giant bison whose tusks
and horns are impregnated by microscopic metallic spheroids.
Experiments have shown that this cannot be achieved by shot gun
velocities but it has been done in a cyclotron. How fast were those
metallic particles moving? Where did they come from?

This book also provides an explanation for the extinction of the
mega-fauna.

All I can say is 'read it' even if you have to steal it. :-)

Eric Stevens

Watermark: The Disaster That Changed the World and Humanity 12,000
Years Ago (Paperback)
by Joseph Christy-Vitale (Author)

From Publishers Weekly
The pyramids of Egypt and Central America; diluvial deposits high up
on mountain sides; strange collections of animal bones in North
American caves-- Christy-Vitale, amateur scientist and travel industry
consultant, believes these seemingly unconnected phenomena hint at a
cosmic catastrophe 12,000 years ago: a supernova 45 light-years from
Earth that shot a chunk of the star (which he calls Phaeton) into our
solar system, shattering a 10th planet between Mars and Jupiter into
what we know as the asteroid belt, killing off thousands of animal
species and almost extinguishing an advanced human civilization.
Memories of this event live on in stories of a golden age destroyed in
a worldwide flood. While Christy-Vitale seems never to have met a myth
he didn't like, he ignores some basic scientific facts. If a supernova
had exploded in our vicinity even in the last 100,000 years, its
glowing shell would still be visible. Also, supernovas don't shoot off
ministars--rather, these cosmic explosions tend to pepper the
surrounding cosmos with an iron isotope; scientists haven't found a
layer dating from this era. There is also no evidence of a genetic
"bottleneck" in humans dating back a mere 10,000 years. Christy-Vitale
believes that the chunk of star dust zooming past us caused Earth to
flip back and forth on its axis, resulting in, among other things, the
current configuration of the continents. So much for continental
drift. Christy-Vitale's scenario is an interesting one, but he seems
more a New Age Erik Von Daniken than someone advancing a revisionist
theory that will attract serious scientific attention.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0743491904/ref=reg_hu-wl_list-recs
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