-Caveat Lector- <A HREF="http://www.habtheory.com/100.htm">Expanded Discussion of The HAB Theory</A> -- Expanded Discussion of The HAB Theory by Gershon Gales <http://www.habtheory.com/> -- Overview: The core of "The HAB Theory" Geophysical science offers rather thin explanations for the periods of history during which great glaciers allegedly advanced and retreated from the polar regions, leaving a great deal of physical evidence. Equatorial Bulge Displacement. When a tilt occurs, the poles rapidly accelerate until the ice caps reach 45 degrees from the axis of spin, due to the centrifugal force acting on them. Immediately upon passing this 45-degree point, an equally rapid deceleration begins, and the ice caps comes to a full stop between 10 and 15 degrees from the former equatorial latitude. Result and Aftermath. During and following the capsizing of the Earth, incredible surface devastation occurs as the planet absorbs the phenomenal kinetic energy which the rollover has generated. That, in essence, is what's happening in Antarctica today. The weight of the ice cap is squeezing the material of the continent out from under it. The extruded material forms a range of mountains before it, all the way to the coastal areas and even beyond. There's good evidence that in this way not only is the ice cap growing, but the continent itself is expanding. Previous Poles Two tilts ago, a polar cap was where there is an even larger and deeper depression than the Sudan Basin (a polar site before the most recent tilt) -- present Hudson Bay. While the Hudson Bay ice cap was in existence, the land masses of India, Borneo, Africa and South America lay in tandem along the equatorial bulge. Shifts of the Magnetic Pole Another foundation stone in the support for the HAB Theory lies in the discovery in the relatively recent past of some rather odd rocks which, though magnetic, do not point to what is currently north and south. Advanced Human Civilizations in the long distant past? According to the HAB theory, there have been many occassions in the past during which the time between capsisings allowed human civilizations to develop, only to be wiped out again as the Earth tilted. Historical Origin of Fruits and Vegetables The seats of origin of most of the world's important staple vegetables and fruits are the Sumatra-Malaysia area, and the Ecuador-Peru area. Most of our fruits have originated, as best as can be determined, from a large radius of southern Asia, of which the Malay Archipelago appears to be the hub. These include fruits such as cherries, pears, apples, plums, olives, figs and grapes. Others, too, perhaps -- apricots and peaches, citrus fruits, bananas, coconuts and mango. Records of Past Civilizations Ancient Egypt The culture of the Egyptians appeared full-blown, without any history antedating the First Dynasty. About the year 450 BC, the Greek historian Herodotus journeyed to both Memphis and Thebes on the Nile and talked at length with the priests there about their country and its history. Records of Past Civilizations: China Such records have indeed been found ... in China. These were contained in a large number of peculiar stone disks discovered in some underground repositories in the Himalayas near the border of Tibet. Records of Past Civilizations: Ecuador Back in 1965 an Argentine citizen, Juan Moricz, who is an amateur archeologist, was poking about in the Ecuadorian Andes about 150 miles south of Quito, in the Province of Santiago. He found a cave held in superstitious awe by the Indian tribes of the area. After finally gaining their confidence, he was allowed to enter the cave to explore. What he found is amazing. An Explanation for the Otherwise Inexplicable Perhaps now one of the most puzzling of these, the incredible find at Marcahuasi, only 80 km northeast of this city, can be solved. Are these the remains of a civilization made extinct by a previous capsizing? The remains have been a continuing enigma to archeologists, particularly a spectacular discovery made in 1952 at an altitude of over 13,000 feet in the Andes. -- Geophysical science offers rather thin explanations for the periods of history during which great glaciers advanced and retreated from the polar regions, leaving a great deal of physical evidence. The more one delves into the actual evidence, the more skeptical one becomes of the existing theories. The truth, according to the HAB Theory, is that periodically - at intervals ranging from 3,000 to 7000 years but averaging around 5,500 years apart - great global cataclysms have occurred which destroyed virtually all of whatever life forms or civilizations had developed on the Earth to that point. The cataclysms occur when the Earth is thrown off balance due to a massive, unbalanced accumulation of ice at the polar regions. As these polar ice caps grow, their enormous weight, accumulating unevenly as it does, creates an imbalance, and a wobble begins to develop in the rotation of the Earth on its axis. Year by year, as the ice caps grow, this eccentricity increases until, with devastating suddenness, the polar masses are thrown toward the point of greatest spin, which is the equator. Quite abruptly, the areas which were polar now become equatorial, and vice versa. The resultant cataclysm is, of course monumental across the entire face of the Earth, except at the two points which become pivotal when the capsizing effect occurs. An Analogy: Picture the Earth as a round ball spinning in place on a glass tabletop. Imagine then, that on the uppermost part of this spinning ball, you drop a tiny glob of molten metal, just slightly off center. The ball immediately begins to wobble... Add more weight and that wobble becomes more pronounced. Add still more and the eccentricity becomes so great the centrifugal force of the spinning ball grips the weight and turns the entire ball so that the weighted portion is thrown to the imaginary line encircling the ball where the speed is greatest - which is coincident with the imaginary line on Earth known to us as the equator. That is precisely what happens periodically to the Earth. The buildup of ice at the poles increases until its weight is suddenly thrown some 90 degrees from pole to equator. Yes, the Earth is 26 miles greater in diameter when measured around the equator than when measured around the poles, and one might argue that this bulge provides a stability that would make such a sudden tipping unlikely. But consider: such a variance, considering the size of the planet, is far less than the manufacturing tolerances of an ivory billiard ball. As the sun evaporates the oceans, the moisture thus released precipitates as rain or snow all over the Earth. But the snows that fall on the polar caps do not melt or flow off at anything like the rate at which they evaporate elsewhere. Snow at the poles piles up and gradually turns into glacial ice. As this process continues, the ice caps increase in size. At a symposium of the Union of Geodesy and geophysics, Dr. Pyyotor Shoumsky reported that the south polar ice cap was growing at a minimum rate of 293 cubic miles of ice annually. To put that number in perspective, Lake Erie contains only 109 cubic miles of water. Thus, a volume of ice forms on top of the existing ice at Antarctica each year which is almost three times the volume of water in Lake Erie! That's enough ice to form a layer one mile wide and two miles high from New York to Chicago. And this is the buildup of only one year! These figures were confirmed by Franz Loewe of France and Malcolm Mellors of Australia. There is no mistake. The present ice mass is considerably over 5.5 million square miles. If the South Pole were over Chicago, that would make a two-mile thick slab of ice extending from Hudson's Bay to Key West, Florida. Even this wouldn't be a threat if the ice were perfectly centered over the Earth's axis of spin, but it is not. The wobble was discovered by astronomers in 1885. It amounted to only a fraction over an inch. By the mid 1930s, this had increased to just over six feet. In 1970, the radial movement was close to 80 yards. And right now (1978), the wobble is approaching a half-mile in radius. There is no known means of calculating the point at which rollover will occur, though the summer equinox is the most dangerous time each year. It could conceivably happen with another fraction of an inch of added eccentricity. Or the system may remain more or less stable even if the wobble worsened by another mile or more. Eventually, though, it'll reach the point of no return and the capsizing effect will occur, with essentially no warning. Overcoming the gyroscopic stabilizing effect of the Earth's equatorial bulge, and in obedience to the laws of centrifugal force, the weight of the ice will be thrown toward the equator. The Earth will continue spinning on it's axis as before, but with some dramatic differences: The ice caps will be riding on the equator, and practically all life - Man included - will have been extinguished. This is not just a one-time occurrence; it has happened over and over again=2E There have been thousands of such rollovers, perhaps even millions, during the 4.5-billion year history of the Earth. How much time have we got before the next capsizing occurs? The interval between each occurrence in the past has ranged between 3,000 and 7,000 years. The longest period between tilts was just about 7,000 years, give or take 50. The physical evidence indicates that our present epoch has lasted approximately 7,500 years; we've been living on borrowed time for quite a while. Equatorial Bulge Displacement. When a tilt occurs, the poles rapidly accelerate until the ice caps reach 45 degrees from the axis of spin, due to the centrifugal force acting on them. Immediately upon passing this 45-degree point, an equally rapid deceleration begins, and the ice caps comes to a full stop between 10 and 15 degrees from the former equatorial latitude. The reason for this is that the equatorial bulge -- moving more slowly, to be sure, to overcome the resistance of the Earth's crust -- has been moving to meet the onrushing ice cap. Thus, the capsizing is not a full 90 degrees, but rather between 75 and 80 degrees. At the same time, the equatorial bulge has moved 10 to 15 degrees toward the ice cap, with which it merges. Immediately the two masses work in unison to establish the new equatorial bulge for stabilization of the globe, still at right angles to the axis of spin. Result and Aftermath. During and following the capsizing of the Earth, incredible surface devastation occurs as the planet absorbs the phenomenal kinetic energy which the rollover has generated. There will be general chaos -- torrential rains, electrical storms unbelievable in their intensity, dust storms, hurricanes, typhoons, massive and extensive earthquakes, a multitude of volcanic eruptions and, most devastating of all, a monstrous deluge as tidal waves of fantastic power sweep all oceans at close to the speed of sound, pounding continents to pieces, inundating whole mountain ranges, submerging great land masses, and exposing land which was heretofore seemingly at too great a depth ever to move above sea level. Existing mountains will be raised or lowered in relation to sea level, old ranges will be flattened and new ones will appear. There will be no gradual withdrawal of ice, as theorized in the prevailing "Ice Age" concepts. The ice caps, now directly on the equator and fully exposed to the blazing heat of the sun, will begin to melt at once and, while it may have taken thousands of years for them to reach their enormous size, it may take only brief decades for the total thaw to occur. As it melts, the ice caps will leave evidence of their former presence. Enormous depressions will remain in the surface of the Earth where they sat, and these will be ringed by circular ranges of hills or elevated plateaus, rising gradually from the center of the depression and then falling away sharply on the outside of the rim -- the residue of the materials squeezed from beneath the ice caps as they grew. Glacial striations will clearly show on many of these rocks. Riverbeds will form and glacial runoff will carve itself deeply into the Earth's surface as vast quantities of water rush from the melting ice. At the same time, the tropical areas which were suddenly shifted to the polar regions will undergo a quick-freezing process, and will soon under below layers of snow gradually turning into glacial ice as new ice caps begin to form even while the old ones are melting. As the great ice caps continue to melt, ocean levels will rise, inundating still more areas and, as the isolated ice mass is reduced and its weight is distributed as water throughout the oceans, earthquakes of great violence will continue to occur as the equatorial bulge adjusts and readjusts to equalize the rearrangement of such a weight. At last the violent disturbances will settle down and a new stability will become evident. Little animal life will remain on land, but what is there, including human life, will adjust to the new conditions. Much marine life will also be wiped out, but much will remain, though it too must adjust, for the ocean temperatures will have been greatly lowered by the volumes of icy water rushing into the sea. Also, the ocean water will have a greatly reduced salinity. When at last the old ice caps have wholly disappeared and the ocean levels are relatively stabilized, the slow but inexorable process begins all over again. As the weight of the ice increases, the caps cause the mud and rock under them to squeeze out from under them. As the pressure becomes ever greater, this extruded material forms a raised rim around the perimeters of the ice caps. That, in essence, is what's happening in Antarctica today. The weight of the ice cap is squeezing the material of the continent out from under it. The extruded material forms a range of mountains before it, all the way to the coastal areas and even beyond. There's good evidence that in this way not only is the ice cap growing, but the continent itself is expanding. The danger lies in what happens through the creation of these mountainous perimeters. The new mountain ranges serve as barriers preventing the flow-off of the glacial ice into the sea. In effect, huge srone basins have been created, an actual impoundment of sorts. This allows a much greater volume of ice to add its weight to the ice cap. This buildup has progressed through the centuries. About 300 years ago, one of the edges of the South polar ice cap pushed beyond the continental mass=2E This was probably caused by two factors: first, the mouths of the continental rivers did not present as great a barrier at the perimeter as elsewhere; and second, the depth of the ocean close to the shore allowed some portions of the mountains to literally be shoved off the continent and slide down to the bottom of the sea. It was at that time that the first icebergs began being sloughed off into the water. This tends to act as something of a safety valve, because it gets rid of some of the weight that has accumulated. But it's nowhere near enough. More new ice accumulates in one month than is carried off by icebergs in a year. Pretty much the same thing on a smaller scale is occurring with the ice cap presently on Greenland. Just as with Antarctica, Greenland's land mass has become a depressed rock basin, with the weight of the ice cap up-thrusting a range of coastal mountains before it. Much of the rock floor of Greenland is now well below sea level, because of this extrusion. The mass of the ice caps at both poles is increasing every day, and right now the pressure of the ice on Antarctica is around three tons per square inch. As a sidelight, this sheds a whole new view on why some areas of the Earth are far below sea level -- areas such as the Dead Sea region in the Middle East, the Valdes Peninsula in Argentina, and Death Valley in California. These areas, according to the HAB Theory, were once polar seats, and became deeply indented by the weight of the ice caps which grew over them. Modern man has it within his power to save himself from extinction or severe retrogression. By detonating thermonuclear devices strategically placed at intervals along the 12,000-mile coastal rim of the gigantic Antarctic ice basin, great pressures can be alleviated. An Explanation for the Otherwise Inexplicable Could it be that previous civilizations of man were destroyed by such capsizings? Could it be that this was what caused the extinction of the mysterious race which originally built the amazing cities, the ruins of which are extensive in Peru, long before the ancient Incas were living their own highly advanced civilization? Perhaps now one of the most puzzling of these, the incredible find at Marcahuasi, only 80 km northeast of this city, can be solved. Are these the remains of a civilization made extinct by a previous capsizing? The remains have been a continuing enigma to archeologists, particularly a spectacular discovery made in 1952 at an altitude of over 13,000 feet in the Andes. The discovery, made in 1952 by Dr. Daniel Ruzo, is a great stone amphitheater in which are magnificent sculptures -- but sculptures which, according to all we know, are wholly anachronistic. Here, for example, among carvings of familiar South American animals and people, can also be seen unmistakable likenesses in white dioritic porphyry stone of camels and cows, lions and elephants, and other animals which have never lived there, along with finely carved heads, in the same material, of Semites, Caucasians and Negroes, all of whom supposedly came to this continent less than 500 years ago. There is even a perfect rendering of the turtle's long-extinct ancestor the amphichelydia; yet in all recorded history, the amphichelydia is known only from its fossilized remains. It lived during the Upper Triassic Period and became extinct about 180 million years ago. Where, then, could the sculptor have gotten his model? There is also a rendering of a horse, but horses became extinct in the region 9,000 years ago and did not reappear until brought by Spanish conquistadors in the sixteenth century. Dr. Ruzo's great discovery too long has been ignored. It is now time for science to take a fresh look at such mysteries of the past. Or consider Tennessee's famous fossil footprints. Found during the last century near Brayton in Bledsoe County, these prints of bare human feet are embedded in solid granite which is probably hundreds of millions of years old=2E Not only that, the human who made those prints must have been gigantic, for the heel alone measures 13 inches in width. Previous Poles Two tilts ago, a polar cap was where there is an even larger and deeper depression than the Sudan Basin (a polar site before the most recent tilt) -- present Hudson Bay. While the Hudson Bay ice cap was in existence, the land masses of India, Borneo, Africa and South America lay in tandem along the equatorial bulge. Identification of Hudson Bay as the location of the North Pole two tilts ago comes from calculations showing that it is approximately the same distance from Lake Chad in the Sudan Basin as the latter is from the present North Pole, indicating again a separation of about 80 degrees of latitude. The location of the North polar ice cap three tilts ago is ascertained in the same manner, and proves to have been at the Caspian Sea, which is located in a great depression similar to that formerly occupied by the ice caps for the Sudan Basin and Hudson Bay. All three of these depressions are presently the drainage focus for extensive river systems. It becomes possible to trace depression after depression as the location of a former ice cap. Glacial striations were even discovered on Permian rocks two centuries ago in the Amazon Valley within an area of 20 degrees on both sides of the equator. As a matter of fact, such glacial striations are found in the rocks of the Earth at random places all over the globe. So-called Ice Ages can be traced back through their telltale striations on rock faces not only as far back as the Paleozoic Era's Lower Cambrian Epoch of some 600 million years ago, but even farther back, though these records begin to dim over such a period of time with continued capsizings and the concomitant disruption of the Earth's surface. Three such Precambrian ice cap sites are located in Africa, three others in Asia and two in Australia. Five glaciated horizons of the Permian Period (230-280 million years ago) are found in South America, and an equal number of the most recent Ice Ages are located in North America. In the present geologic epoch, called the Pleistocene (of the Quaternary Period and Cenozoic Era), which, in essence, takes in the past one million years, many hundreds of capsizings have occurred. A partial listing of some of the more important and obvious ice-cap sites during the Paleozoic, Mesozoic and Cenozoic eras can include: The Gobi Desert; Lake Victoria: Mar Chiquita in Argentina; The Black Sea; Death Valley, California; The Amazon Valley; Baikal Lake in the USSR; Lake Winnipeg; The Null Arbor Plain in Australia's southwest; Baffin Bay; The Baltic Sea; The Congo Basin; The Mediterranean Sea, Great Bear Lake, Canada; Great Salt Lake, Utah; The Thar Desert in northwest in India; Aral Sea, Uzbek, USSR; The Painted Desert-Lakes Michigan-Huron-Superior; The Angola Basin off the coast of western Africa; The Bighorn Basin, Wyoming; In northeastern Siberia in the vicinity of Tabor The Takla Makan Desert north of the Himalayas; Canary Basin off the northwestern African coast; Great Slave Lake, Canada; The Argentine Basin southeast of Buenos Aires; The Wharton Basin, 900 miles south of Djakarta. In every location at which records written by nature or man can be studied, these sites shows radial striations which pinpoint the seat of a former ice cap. In the matter of duration, geologic evidence indicates that an individual ice cap may grow to maturity in as short a span of time as 2,900 years, although the average appears to be more in the vicinity of 5,750 years. Only rarely does an individual epoch last 6,500 years, and no other epoch within at least the past dozen has lasted as long as the present one.... Think about the finding of fossil trees, or at least portions of them, at depths of 13,000 feet beneath the Earth's surface through core boring; the discovery of 59 horizontal strata of fossilized trees separated by massive strata of marine clay - rock of non-fossil variety at Sydney Mines in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia; the fact that carbon-14 dating of the flash-frozen mammoth remains found in Siberia and North America clearly indicate an age of 7,500 years. All this material supports the contentions of the HAB Theory. Further evidence of Earth capsizings can be found in the massive mineral deposits which man is in the process of tapping. For example, numerous salt beds are found in subterranean strata. There is only one way to rationally account for their presence: that they were at one time the bottoms of land depressions which filled with seawater, and then became exposed again as salt wakes. Seven successive beds of these salt deposits have been found in central New York, and a massive one is presently being tapped 1,000 feet below Cleveland, Ohio. Over 30 such beds have been discovered in the American Southwest, some deeply buried, some just under the surface. The most significant on the North American continent, however, is the one which is presently being formed in a lake which, while constantly evaporating, still covers an area about the size of the State of Delaware -- the Great Salt Lake of Utah. This 2,000-square-mile lake is the last trace of the great prehistoric body of water known to geologists as Lake Bonneville, which covered an area of 20,000 square miles and was over 1,000 feet deep. The great Bonneville Salt flats are on the surface now, but following the next capsizing of the Earth they will probably become silted over and eventually, following further capsizings, will become yet another of the multitude of subterranean salt beds. Coal is another mineral deposit clearly corroborating the theory. Coal beds are found in subterranean deposits on a worldwide scale, including the Arctic and Antarctic, and even beneath the ocean floors. Coal mines are presently in operation in the Pacific off the coast of Chile and in the Atlantic off Nova Scotia and England. There is only one way that coal can be formed. It is the residue of warm temperate, subtropical and tropical vegetation. Through hundreds or thousands of years great quantities of vegetative debris -- leaves, twigs, fruits, branches, roots -- sink to the bottoms of swamps, rivers or lakes. The water covering them reasonably protects them from the oxidation that would have occurred had they been exposed to air. At the time of a capsizing, these submerged deposits are suddenly shifted to a region of subzero temperature, and the water above them freezes. The polar summers bring enough of a thaw to allow siltage to accumulate over the mucky vegetation. When the next capsizing occurs and the deposit is shifted back to a tropical or temperate zone, this layer of silt prevents oxidation of the vegetable matter below it, while a new collection of vegetable matter is accumulating on top. Through repeated capsizings and increasing pressures, the vegetation layers are compressed into coal and the polar siltage layers become slate or shale. Some of the coal mines in Pennsylvania have shown as many as seven horizontal layers of coal with as many corresponding layers of slate or shale interleaved between. Recurrent capsizings of the Earth is the only reasonable explanation for such formations. Another foundation stone in the support for the HAB Theory lies in the discovery in the relatively recent past of some rather odd rocks which, though magnetic, do not point to what is currently north and south. This is a powerful indication that they received their magnetization at a time when the location of the poles differed from what it is at present. Some of these rocks point toward the Sudan Basin and others point toward Hudson Bay. Still others point at other areas where physical evidence indicates that ice caps have formed in past epochs. Non-conventionally directional magnetic rocks have been discovered in 15 locations on the European and North American continents. They are corollary to, and proof of, the recurrent capsizings of the Earth... It is an acknowledged fact among historians that the authentic and accurate history of man did not begin until between approximately 7,000 and 7,500 years ago. Actual historical records go back only as far as the earliest known civilizations, such as those of Egypt, Peru, Babylonia, India, Central America, Sumeria and Assyria. Yet that 7,500-year period represents considerably less than 1% of the time that man has been known, through fossil remains, to have existed on Earth. What of the remaining 99% of the time? -[cont]- DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance—not soapboxing! 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