Re: [meteorite-list] Age of Man

2009-06-19 Thread Michael Fowler
Hi Sterling, It is a rare day that I ever have anything to add to your eloquent and informative posts, let alone disagree, but here goes.. Steen-McIntyre's dating as mentioned in the wikipedia link you supplied as well as everywhere else on the web is 250,000 years ago. The dating of

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2009-06-19 Thread michael cottingham
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Re: [meteorite-list] Age of Man

2009-06-19 Thread GeoZay
>>It is an urban myth that Wegener was ridiculed in any extreme way. << I first heard about Wegener's theory when I was in the 9th grade in 1961. I found a book in the school library that talked about it. Then I did not get the impression of any ridicule being directed his way. What I did ge

Re: [meteorite-list] Even More stupid media use of meteorites + Age of Man

2009-06-19 Thread Darren Garrison
On Fri, 19 Jun 2009 13:45:43 -0700 (PDT), you wrote: > >So... what... like a mining gang NEVER EVER pulled a prank on their mining >engineer? > That brings this to mind: http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1134/is_n3_v107/ai_20485364/ __ http://ww

Re: [meteorite-list] Age of Man

2009-06-19 Thread Darren Garrison
Here's another person featued in the clip: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Cremo __ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list

Re: [meteorite-list] Even More stupid media use of meteorites + Age of Man

2009-06-19 Thread Mr EMan
So... what... like a mining gang NEVER EVER pulled a prank on their mining engineer? Wind or water transported volcanic ash will date to the same age as the ash fall they are composed of when using Zircon and Uranium dates because mechanical transport doesn't reset the clock. Like most UFO/A

Re: [meteorite-list] Age of Man

2009-06-19 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Hi, Chris, List, Wegener was a meteorologist, not a geologist. He was working "outside his field," the ultimate crime. He could never get academic support (or a job) because he was not a geologist. Finally, an Austrian university created a chair of "meteorology and geophysics" for him, late in

Re: [meteorite-list] Age of Man

2009-06-19 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Hi, and here we go... Yes, the video is a whacko video; the authors of Forbidden Archaeology are whackoes, everything Darren said. But this is a case, all too common in the internet/media age, of whackoes exploiting a genuine issue for their own whacko enrichment. Forgetting for a moment a

Re: [meteorite-list] Age of Man

2009-06-19 Thread Meteorites USA
If an internet web site claims a 360 million fossil human skull with no way to verify the claim, why would any one immediately question all we know about the evolution of mammals, primates, and yes, even humans? Most humans suffer from LBS or "Lazy Brain Syndrome." The lack of being able to

Re: [meteorite-list] Age of Man

2009-06-19 Thread Chris Peterson
It is an urban myth that Wegener was ridiculed in any extreme way. He observed some interesting evidence but could not find a way to reconcile it and existing geological theory. So his ideas were- quite correctly- met with skepticism. He did not lose respect in the scientific community, and was

Re: [meteorite-list] Age of Man

2009-06-19 Thread Jerry Flaherty
The video's commentary describing "knowlwdge filter " rings true. Remember the reception by the then vaunted "Scientific Community's" of Alfred Wegener's classic of the mid 1920's "The Origin of the Continents and Seafloor Spreading" Utterly ridiculed, Wegener continued in his quest until his un

Re: [meteorite-list] Impact Earth

2009-06-19 Thread Dave Gheesling
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Re: [meteorite-list] Age of Man

2009-06-19 Thread Michael Fowler
If you read an article in a tabloid that stated that a human had successfully mated with a pig, would you immediately say that proves that everything we know about genetics is wrong? If an internet web site claims a 360 million fossil human skull with no way to verify the claim, why would a

Re: [meteorite-list] Age of Man

2009-06-19 Thread Darren Garrison
On Fri, 19 Jun 2009 14:32:20 -0400, you wrote: >So, if some information seems paradoxical, contradictory or fundamentally >unsound against the backdrop of the current rational melieu, SUSPENSION OF >JUDGEMENT might be the first utterance to postulate. >Just humbely "stick it away" into the vast

[meteorite-list] Fwd: Age of Man

2009-06-19 Thread Michael Fowler
If you read an article in a tabloid that stated that a human had successfully mated with a pig, would you immediately say that proves that everything we know about genetics is wrong? If an internet web site claims a 360 million year old fossil human skull with no way to verify the claim

Re: [meteorite-list] Age of Man

2009-06-19 Thread Darren Garrison
On Fri, 19 Jun 2009 12:12:03 -0400, you wrote: >does this sort of thing happen in meteoritic's Speak of the devil and he doth appear. Here's a new bit of meteorite-related crazy pulled out of someone's exit vortex today: http://www.allnewsweb.com/page6946948.php Of course, even the "meteorite"

[meteorite-list] 2012 Meteorite or not?

2009-06-19 Thread Dennis Miller
Hello All... Long time reader, first time responder. Love the movie trailers and am looking forward to viewing. They are thought provoking, amusing and entertaining. But, what might we see during the 2012 winter solstice? I find it interesting and amazing that the early Mayan, Egyptian, and Chi

Re: [meteorite-list] Even More stupid media use of meteorites + Age of Man

2009-06-19 Thread Galactic Stone & Ironworks
Edgar Cayce predicted all of this. ;) On 6/19/09, Carl 's wrote: > > > > > Hey Eric, Here's a possibility for Spielberg and Lucas. The German kid that > got hit on his hand with a flaming meteorite is now 17. He is now a world > famous archeologist/meteorite hunter and discovers artifacts un

Re: [meteorite-list] Even More stupid media use of meteorites + Age of Man

2009-06-19 Thread Carl 's
Hey Eric, Here's a possibility for Spielberg and Lucas. The German kid that got hit on his hand with a flaming meteorite is now 17. He is now a world famous archeologist/meteorite hunter and discovers artifacts under Table Mountain that is not only 55 million year old but mentions a giant as

Re: [meteorite-list] Age of Man

2009-06-19 Thread Chris Peterson
It takes a _lot_ more examples. If humans are millions of years old, I want to see as rich a fossil record of that as we have for thousands of other species. The reference describes a fossil skull, which may or may not be real (there is no peer review, and the images don't look like a real fos

Re: [meteorite-list] Age of Man

2009-06-19 Thread GeoZay
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Re: [meteorite-list] Age of Man

2009-06-19 Thread cdtucson
Chris, I am asking not telling but here is yet another example that is 360 million years old? How many odd examples does it take? If two men say they are Jesus, one of them must be wrong. Right? see link. http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=it&u=http://www.croponline.org/homoalaouite.

[meteorite-list] FW: 2012 Meteorite or not?

2009-06-19 Thread Dennis Miller
From: astror...@hotmail.com Subject: 2012 Meteorite or not? Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2009 12:28:24 -0500 Hello All... Long time reader, first time responder. Love the trailers and am looking forward to viewing. They are thought provoking, amusing and entertaining. But, what changes will w

[meteorite-list] When the eye hits your moon...

2009-06-19 Thread Darren Garrison
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Re: [meteorite-list] More stupid media use of meteorites

2009-06-19 Thread Darren Garrison
On Fri, 19 Jun 2009 09:12:03 -0700, you wrote: >Come on guys... It's a movie! And before you guys jump on me exclaiming >that the movie should be more scientifically accurate, and Hollywood is >only in it for the money I want to say. You're Right! There is an old adage I've heard somewhere lon

Re: [meteorite-list] Age of Man

2009-06-19 Thread cdtucson
Thanks Darren, Now tell us how you really feel? LOL. Carl Darren Garrison wrote: > On Fri, 19 Jun 2009 12:12:03 -0400, you wrote: > > >Could this possibly be true > > Complete, utter, undiluted, unequivocated, barking at the moon bullshit. > Insane, idiotic, paranoid woo. Incompetent, i

Re: [meteorite-list] Age of Man

2009-06-19 Thread Darren Garrison
On Fri, 19 Jun 2009 12:12:03 -0400, you wrote: >Could this possibly be true Complete, utter, undiluted, unequivocated, barking at the moon bullshit. Insane, idiotic, paranoid woo. Incompetent, irrational nutbaggery. Need I break out a thesaurus and go on? >does this sort of thing happen in met

Re: [meteorite-list] More stupid media use of meteorites

2009-06-19 Thread GeoZay
>>I'm not defending the inaccuracies in the movie, but sheesh. It's entertainment.<< Entertainment is fine, just as long as it doesn't provide the sole source of the general publics education. All sorts of weird things come about from that...such as reports of 14 year old boys getting hit

[meteorite-list] Impact Earth

2009-06-19 Thread Ruben Garcia
Hi all, I've been hard at work over the past two weeks finishing up my latest video entitled "Impact Earth" It was done documentary style for a contest. You know the type - "what are you doing to change the world?" type thing. So I thought whats better than meteorite hunters helping to save the w

Re: [meteorite-list] Age of Man

2009-06-19 Thread Chris Peterson
What the video is suggesting is rubbish. The likelihood of man being much older is very, very small. Dating artifacts is notoriously difficult; dating techniques for organic material are very sensitive to contamination, and geological dating is unreliable (artifacts can easily end up in unexpect

Re: [meteorite-list] Age of Man

2009-06-19 Thread GeoZay
>>I have two questions about this very interesting video that may be a bit off topic. The questions are ; Could this possibly be true and does this sort of thing happen in meteoritic's. see link below.Thank's.<< Did you notice at the beginning the logo of "UFOTV"? That alone should speak v

[meteorite-list] Age of Man

2009-06-19 Thread cdtucson
List, I have two questions about this very interesting video that may be a bit off topic. The questions are ; Could this possibly be true and does this sort of thing happen in meteoritic's. see link below.Thank's. Carl Esparza IMCA 5829 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nne_-j08yMo _

Re: [meteorite-list] More stupid media use of meteorites

2009-06-19 Thread Meteorites USA
Hi Darren, Carl, Paul, List, I started to reply to this yesterday but got pulled away before I could send the email. So far I've read 3 negative comments against this movie and one positive. Come on guys... It's a movie! And before you guys jump on me exclaiming that the movie should be more

Re: [meteorite-list] Even More stupid media use of meteorites

2009-06-19 Thread Darren Garrison
On Fri, 19 Jun 2009 07:51:59 -0700, you wrote: >How many times have you seen a nuclear aircraft carrier capsizing unto a city? That's not a city, that's JFK returning to the White House. __ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list Me

Re: [meteorite-list] Ad Post for Langs

2009-06-19 Thread Mike Jensen
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Re: [meteorite-list] Even More stupid media use of meteorites

2009-06-19 Thread Carl 's
Hello Larry, Darren and All, Whoa!! That trailer looks awesome! First time I'd seen it. I'm a sucker for these disaster movies. How many times have you seen a nuclear aircraft carrier capsizing unto a city? Anyway, thanks to everyone one this list, at least I now know incoming stones shouldn

Re: [meteorite-list] Even More stupid media use of meteorites

2009-06-19 Thread lebofsky
Hi All: If they had only spent a tenth of their budget in this on getting science facts correct as they spent on this "stuff" in general... How many people are going to believe this stuff? If I read this site correctly, the Sun will be in the center of the galaxy? If that were true, we would hav

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2009-06-19 Thread SPACEROCKSINC
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[meteorite-list] Even More stupid media use of meteorites

2009-06-19 Thread Paul
Darren wrote: " http://www.traileraddict.com/trailer/2012/trailer " For even more hype, disaster movie "2012" also has a faux scientific website at: http://www.instituteforhumancontinuity.org/ It is the "home" of a entirely fictitious "The Institute for Human Continuity". The website has a f

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2009-06-19 Thread bernd . pauli
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