[meteorite-list] More golden showers

[Don Rawlings]

All the postings to this thread ended up in my spam folder.  Don't you think a better choice for a subject line would have been better.  GOLDEN SHOWERS?   LOL

Don Rawlings


--- On Tue, 7/8/08, Sterling K. Webb <sterling_k_webb at sbcglobal.net> wrote:


> From: Sterling K. Webb <sterling_k_webb at sbcglobal.net>

> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] More golden showers

> To: cynapse at charter.net, meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com

> Date: Tuesday, July 8, 2008, 1:57 AM

> Hi, Darren, List,

> 

>     Please note that the first press release said

> that the discovery disproved the "now

> discredited"

> theory of glacial transport. A few days later, they say:

> "diamonds, gold and silver could have been ejected

> into the air during the blasts, West said, or they could

> have been carried south by rivers formed from the

> meltwater of liquified glaciers."

> 

>     Change your tune much?

> 

>     Note also that they specify a magnitude for the

> blast of 300,000 megatons. This would require an

> impactor of 1000 to 1300 meters in diameter (more

> for a comet) and would produce a 20-kilometer crater.

> They say a 5000 meter comet, for good measure.

> 

>     Even better is this assertion: "For several months

> following the comet strike, the skies rained precious

> stone and metals, the researchers speculate. Diamonds

> drizzled down by the tons."

> 

>     FOR MONTHS? Diamonds and gold rained from

> the sky for MONTHS? As dust, they explain -- diamond

> dust and presumably gold dust. I wonder how many tens

> of thousands of tons of diamonds they think were laying

> around on the Canadian tundra?

> 

>     One easily testable assertion of their scheme is these

> massive floods of glacial meltwaters at precisely 12,900

> years ago EVERYWHERE in the northern tier of states,

> entirely at the same instant, from the Atlantic to the

> Pacific.

> Since glacial melt chronology has been worked out in

> great detail over a century, there should be some sign

> of this massive melt they speak of. (PS: they're

> isn't any.)

> 

>     While in one place, they speak of a "three-mile

> comet,"

> elsewhere in the press release, they speak of "the

> multiple

> airbursts..." Always good to have a couple of

> different

> stories going, I guess.

> 

>     This just gets more entertaining by the day...

> 

> 

> Sterling K. Webb

> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------

> ----- Original Message ----- 

> From: "Darren Garrison"

> <cynapse at charter.net>

> To: <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>

> Sent: Monday, July 07, 2008 11:36 PM

> Subject: [meteorite-list] More golden showers

> 

> 

> http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,377449,00.html

> 

> Diamonds May Have Rained Down From Space During Ice Age

> 

> Monday , July 07, 2008

> By Ker Than

> 

> LS

> ADVERTISEMENT

> 

> Diamonds and precious metals found in the eastern United

> States might have

> rained down during the last Ice Age after a comet shattered

> over Canada and 

> set

> North America ablaze, all leading to a mass die-off of

> animals and humans.

> 

> New chemical analyses of diamond, gold and silver found in

> Ohio and Indiana

> reveal the minerals were transported there from Canada

> several thousand 

> years

> ago. The question is, how?

> 

> "There are no gold mines or silver mines in Ohio that

> anyone knows of, but 

> there

> are plenty of them in Canada," said retired

> geophysicist Allen West, who was

> involved in the study.

> 

> The discovery is consistent with a theory proposed by West

> and colleagues 

> that a

> 3-mile-wide comet splintered over glaciers and ice sheets

> in eastern Canada

> about 12,900 years ago and wiped out man and beast.

> 

> "These would have been like ten thousand Tunguskas

> going off at once," said

> West, referring to a mid-air explosion over Siberia a

> century ago possibly

> caused by a fragmenting meteor.

> 

> Precious rain

> 

> The diamonds, gold and silver could have been ejected into

> the air during 

> the

> blasts, West said, or they could have been carried south by

> rivers formed 

> from

> the meltwater of liquified glaciers.

> 

> For several months following the comet strike, the skies

> rained precious 

> stone

> and metals, the researchers speculate. Diamonds drizzled

> down by the tons.

> 

> "Some of them you couldn't see, and animals

> would've been breathing them 

> in,"

> West told LiveScience. "But other ones would clearly

> have been visible. They

> might've even hurt if they hit you."

> 

> The larger diamonds were visible to the naked eye and

> dropped like hail 

> stones

> within seconds of the blasts, West said.

> 

> The smallest diamonds, the "size of cold

> viruses," would have lingered in 

> the

> atmosphere for weeks or months, eventually wafting down to

> Earth like 

> expensive

> snowflakes.

> 

> Killed man and beast

> 

> Flaming fragments of the comet crashing to Earth sparked

> forests fires 

> around

> the globe, West contends.

> 

> The intense heat from the blasts set the very air on fire.

> North America's

> grassland, the furs of animals, the hair and clothing of

> humans - all would 

> have

> been set ablaze.

> 

> West and his colleagues have proposed that the comet strike

> contributed to 

> the

> extinction of several species of North American megafauna,

> including 

> mammoths

> and mastodons, and led to the early demise of the Clovis

> culture, a Stone 

> Age

> people who had only recently immigrated to the continent.

> 

> The multiple airbursts might have also caused large amounts

> of fresh water 

> to be

> dumped into the Atlantic Ocean, temporarily disrupting

> currents and 

> prompting a

> sudden global cold snap called the Younger Dryas period.

> 

> "The kind of evidence we are finding does suggest that

> climate change at the 

> end

> of the last Ice Age was the result of a catastrophic

> event," said study team

> member Ken Tankersley, an anthropologist at the University

> of Cincinnati.

> 

> While the discoveries in Ohio and Indiana are consistent

> with the theory of 

> a

> comet colliding with Earth during the last Ice Age, West

> cautions that it is 

> not

> a "smoking gun."

> 

> "We're a long way from saying categorically that

> these things got here 

> because

> of this event," West said. "They're

> consistent, but we've got a lot more 

> work to

> do to show there's a direct connection."

> 

> The researchers are preparing to submit their research to a

> scientific 

> journal.

> 

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