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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Sterling K. Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] More golden showers > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], meteorite-list@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" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <meteorite-list@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. > > Copyright © 2008 Imaginova Corp. All Rights Reserved. This > material may not > be > published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. > ______________________________________________ > http://www.meteoritecentral.com > Meteorite-list mailing list > Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list > > ______________________________________________ > http://www.meteoritecentral.com > Meteorite-list mailing list > Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list ______________________________________________ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list