[meteorite-list] More golden showers

[Pete Shugar]

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


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sterling K. Webb" <sterling_k_webb at sbcglobal.net>
To: <cynapse at charter.net>; <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2008 12:57 AM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] More golden showers



> 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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