[meteorite-list] More golden showers

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You forgot Texas Tea!

Larry

On Tue, July 8, 2008 8:11 am, Pete Shugar wrote:

> It seems the  only thing  not mentioned wassome hillbilly trying to

> shoot a possum,  missinng and then up from the  ground  came bubbling

> crude, black gold, oil, that is. Taking a clue from Darren, I  better hush

> up. Pete

>

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> Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2008 12:57 AM

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>> 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

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>> 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

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>>

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>> 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

>>

>>

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>>

>> 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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