See a book called Ice:The ultimate disaster by Richard Noone. Super kooky !
Naresh Narasimhan Sent from my Phone > On 07-Mar-2017, at 7:20 AM, Charles Haynes <charles.hay...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hapgood was a kook. > >> On Fri., 3 Mar. 2017, 5:20 pm Nani, <nani2...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Can't speak for Auchincloss Brown or Hapgood. And (knowing nothing about >> cartography or geology) I hardly have a hypothesis so much as a fun >> explanation for why the US might 'appear' to be lackadaisical about an >> accepted global phenomenon. >> >> >> That said, I sure would love to find out answers (but not alternative >> facts!) 😏 to these questions: >> >> >> >> 1. How did those Siberian mammoths happen to have tropical grass in >> their bellies? >> 2. What event caused them to get buried alive by *that* much snow that >> rapidly? >> 3. How was it possible for ancient maps to be right about the existence >> of a mountain range in Antarctica (that modern science only discovered >> buried under a mile thick sheet of ice) and YET so wrong about that >> entire >> continent being tropical? >> 4. Why is so much ice accumulating in Antarctica every year? Has this >> been happening in perpetuity? >> 5. If a trillion tons of ice piled up in just TEN YEARS, what effect, if >> any, would long-term accumulation have on planetary motion? >> >> >> Hapgood wasn't a kook (at least, Einstein didn't seem to think so), so I >> for one am curious why there aren't published studies (or rebuttals) of his >> ideas instead of passing scorn. >> >> BTW, I am new to this forum; the intent of my post was to stimulate >> thought/discussion on a topic that I found interesting. No offence meant >> (and none taken). :) >> >> Cheers, >> Nani >> >> On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 4:05 PM, Charles Haynes <charles.hay...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> The first question to ask anyone with a wild new theory is - what would >> it >>> take to falsify your hypothesis? What evidence would convince you it was >>> false? >>> >>> -- Charles >>> >>>> On Mon, 27 Feb 2017 at 22:04 Nani <nani2...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> Slow Monday... figured this is as good a time as any to get folks wound >>> up >>>> a bit... :D >>>> >>>> THE ASTONISHING THEORIES OF CHARLES HAPGOOD AND HUGH AUCHINCLOSS BROWN >>>> >>>> Have you guys e >>>> ver wondered why the most powerful nation on earth seems hellbent on >>>> ignoring global warming, a phenomenon that virtually everyone is in >>>> agreement as being real? >>>> >>>> Conspiracy theories are seen as being kooky; but what if, instead of >>>> climate change denial, there is a 'conspiracy' of willful ignorance, >> and >>> it >>>> is a GOOD one for the benefit of mankind? >>>> >>>> #1 Tropical Antartica: >>>> Those of you who've watched "2012', the Hollywood blockbuster starring >>> John >>>> Cusack, may recall a far out reference to an "Earth Crust Displacement >>>> Theory" espoused by a Prof Charles Hapgood. >>>> >>>> Turns out, this gent did solid research on the world of cartography, >> and >>>> unearthed scientifically accurate ancient maps describing Antartica and >>>> other parts of the Earth that weren't "discovered" until centuries >> later. >>>> These maps were so sophisticated and accurate that they couldn't have >>> been >>>> created without the use of advanced math such as plane geometry and >>>> spherical trigonometry; yet the ancient sources, on which they were >>> based, >>>> dated back to times when such knowledge purportedly did not exist. >>>> >>>> Apparently, Antartica was a tropical land, rather than a barren >> icescape >>>> with a mile-thick layer of sheet ice, as we know it today. Giant woolly >>>> mammoths supposedly roamed the Arctic and the Antartic. Scientists have >>>> found mammoths preserved under the Siberian permafrost - frozen solid >> and >>>> standing upright with the flesh on their bodies still intact - as a >>> result >>>> of being almost instantaneously covered by meters of snow/ice - due to >>>> rapid climate change from tropical to arctic within a matter of hours. >>> Now >>>> here’s a mind-blowing fact - the undigested grass inside their bellies >>> was >>>> TROPICAL grass! >>>> >>>> Modern experts dispute segments of these maps that show South America >>>> merging with Antartica. But what if there was no sea there at that >> time? >>>> What if these continents were indeed connected by a land bridge, much >>> like >>>> Sri Lanka and India were in antiquity? >>>> >>>> In fact, what if ALL places in the world that are deserts today, like >> the >>>> Sahara, Gobi, and Thar, were once colossal lakes or even completely >>>> undersea? >>>> >>>> #2 Global Warming: >>>> Here is an unreal but true factoid - the Earth accumulates billions of >>> tons >>>> of ice at the poles EVERY year - that is billions with a B! A satellite >>>> study by NASA concluded in 2015 that the Antartic sheet had a net gain >> of >>>> 112 billion tons of ice EACH YEAR from 1992 to 2001, and 82 billion >> tons >>>> per year subsequently. That is a whole lotta ice! >>>> >>>> Back in 1948, an electrical engineer named Hugh Auchincloss Brown >>>> postulated a wild theory that when this polar 'weight' becomes too >> high, >>>> once every 7 thousand years or so, the Earth "wobbles" on its axis and >>>> "tips over", thereby causing the poles and equator to 'switch places' >>>> rapidly, presumably to maintain centrifugal balance. >>>> >>>> If true, that might explain how Antartica could've been equatorial land >>>> once. >>>> >>>> So what's the Conspiracy? >>>> >>>> HAB's fantastic theories have long been ridiculed, and Hapgood's >> theories >>>> have never been investigated at all. >>>> >>>> But here's the thing - WHAT IF the powers-that-be had secretly figured >>> out >>>> all along that a cataclysmic event was indeed on the brink of >> occurring? >>>> What if they have deliberately ALLOWED global warming to progress, >>> thereby >>>> causing the ice caps to melt at a controlled rate, sufficiently enough >> to >>>> reduce polar weight gradually without causing gigantic tsunamis that >>> could >>>> wipe out the human race?! >>>> >>>> Even within our lifetime the North Pole has changed from being an icy >>> land >>>> where intrepid explorers once walked and planted their flags, to a >>> seascape >>>> where ships can now sail through at all times of the year. Maybe when >>>> outcomes were weighed in the balance, a few polar bears losing their >>>> habitat wasn't the worst thing compared to the potential obliteration >> of >>>> mankind. >>>> >>>> Food for thought… ;) >>>> >>>> >>>> Cheers, >>>> Nani >>>> >>>> References: >>>> >>>> https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/nasa-study-mass-gains- >>> of-antarctic-ice-sheet-greater-than-losses >>>> >>>> http://www.archive.org/stream/eathsshiftingcru033562mbp/ >>> eathsshiftingcru033562mbp_djvu.txt >>>> http://www.skrause.org/writing/papers/hapgood_and_ecd.shtml >>>> http://bcm.bc.edu/issues/fall_2000/ft_linehan.html >>>> http://www.knowledge.co.uk/velikovsky/index.htm >>>> >>>> http://archive.aramcoworld.com/issue/198001/piri.reis. >>> and.the.hapgood.hypotheses.htm >>>> >>>> http://www.bc.edu/content/bc/libraries/about/exhibits-new/ >>> ONLobbyExhibits/deepfreeze.html >>>> >>> >>