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Re: News: Did Gas Fires Kill Dinosaurs?

Hi Louis,

I think those folks are right when they say  that is what lies behind the
Bermuda Triangle,  methane periodically erupts and the bubble arrives under
a ship, momentarily sinking it, then the surround ocean engulfs it and it is
the deep six for everybody.

Also aircraft flying into the gas cloud would lose engines due to lack of
avaiable O2, resulting in a crash and Davy Jones Locker,(drowning), for all
concerned again...

The reason why there are never any survivors is because of asphixiation due
to inhalation of methane.

Case solved!

Some folks think that Atlantis was actually Thira, in the Mediterrean
.(Santorini today, now part of Greece and one island among the many
Cyclades.)
A massive explosion blew away almost the entire island resulting in the
destruction of the nearby Minoan Empire.(Crete today)
You gotta see this island! It is like a finger nail of land with a still
simmering volcanoe in the middle of the huge bay left by the blast.
In fact it is more bay than land....



as for the dinosaurs, sounds like a lot of bronto burgers to me, how would
the furry mamals have avoided becoming crispy critters along with those
titans?

Alex

 alex@superimpactor.com


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----- Original Message -----
From: Louis Varricchio <varricch@aero.und.edu>
To: <BAALKE@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov>; <meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Thursday, November 18, 1999 12:14 PM
Subject: News: Did Gas Fires Kill Dinosaurs?


> BBC News, 11/18/99
>
> Fiery end for dinosaurs?
>
>              Scientists believe the entire atmosphere may have burned
>
>              The dinosaurs may have been wiped out in a gas-fuelled
>              firestorm, according to a new theory.
>
>              A "hell on Earth" may have been triggered by vast
>              quantities of trapped methane released from under the
>              ground by a comet.
>
>
>                            A massive impact in the Gulf of
>                            Mexico 65 million years ago is
>                            thought to have changed the Earth's
>                            climate and driven the dinosaurs to
>                            extinction.
>
>              But a team of American oceanographers believe this is
>              only half the story.
>
>              They say the dinosaurs' end may have been even more
>              dramatic, as shock waves from the explosion released
>              highly flammable methane from within the Earth.
>
>
>                                  At the end of the Cretaceous
>                                  period huge amounts of the
>                                  gas, generated by rotting
>                                  vegetation, lay trapped in
>                                  sediments 500 metres below
>                                  sea level.
>
>                                  Bubbling up to the surface,
>                                  the methane would have
>                                  escaped into the air and
>                                  been ignited by lightning
>                                  bursts in the disturbed
>                                  atmosphere, say the
>              scientists.
>
>              Burton Hurdle, of the Naval Research Laboratory in
>              Washington DC, told New Scientist magazine: "The
>              atmosphere itself would have been on fire. This could
>              have contributed to the demise of the dinosaurs."
>
>              Periodic escapes of gas
>
>              As evidence, the researchers point to an earlier
>              discovery of disruption in late Cretaceous sediments at
>              Black Ridge, off the coast of Florida, which may have
>              been due to methane release.
>
>
>                                  A smaller "blow-out" is
>                                  thought to have occurred in
>                                  the Gulf of Mexico during the
>                                  late Pleistocene epoch.
>
>                                  More recent activity on the
>                                  ocean floor suggests trapped
>                                  methane periodically
>                                  escapes even without
>                                  asteroid strikes.
>
>                                  Some scientists believe the
>                                  Bermuda Triangle
>                                  phenomenon could be
>                                  explained by methane
>              escaping and overwhelming passing ships or planes.
>
>              Dinosaur expert Dr Angela Milner, from the Natural
>              History Museum in London, said many dinosaurs appear
>              to have been in serious decline even before the impact.
>
>              But she agreed huge methane fires "could have been the
>              final straw" for some species.
>
> LOUIS VARRICCHIO
>  Environmental Information Specialist &
>  Producer/Writer, "Our Changing Planet"
>   (Visit OCP-TV on the Web at: www.umac.org/ocp)
>   Upper Midwest Aerospace Consortium
>   Odegard School of Aerospace Sciences
>   University of North Dakota
>   Grand Forks, N.D. 58202-9007  U.S.A.
>     Phone: 701-777-2482
>     Fax: 701-777-2940
>     E-mail: varricch@umac.org (in N.D.); morbius@together.net (in Vt.)
>
> "Behind every man alive stand thirty ghosts, for that is the ratio by
> which the dead outnumber the living. Since the dawn of time, a hundred
> billion human beings have walked the planet Earth." -- Arthur C. Clarke
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