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Re: News: Did Gas Fires Kill Dinosaurs?
Dear List and interested methane smellers;
I tried an explosive meter once after dinner settled....
How about the Non-Leonoids, good practice for the Geminids....
Meteorites,
Dave F.
Alexander wrote:
> Good point, interesting topic, anyone?
> Not quite about meteorites anymore though.
>
> (Unless there is huge one down there somewhere deflecting compasses somehow,
> or maybe it is Atlantis stiil beaming out messages to the universe, I kinda
> liked the methane gas angle, until you showed me the hole in it)
>
> Anyway, I still stand by the fact that small furry creatures would be blown
> away in the firestorms, (see article below), unless they were hiding deep in
> burrows whereas dinosaurs would have a hard time hiding anywhere. But there
> were small dinos too.
>
> Can we actually talk about dinosaurs and the Bermuda triangle here?
>
> Alex
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Bruce D. Yager <bdyager@mhtc.net>
> To: Meteorite Central List <meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com>
> Sent: Thursday, November 18, 1999 7:05 PM
> Subject: Re: News: Did Gas Fires Kill Dinosaurs?
>
> > And, just how, one might ask, does escaping methane disrupt compasses in
> the
> > area?????????
> >
> > Bruce Yager
> > bdyager@mhtc.net
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Alexander <themelis@albedo.net>
> > To: Louis Varricchio <varricch@aero.und.edu>
> > Cc: metlist <meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com>
> > Date: Thursday, November 18, 1999 12:25 PM
> > Subject: 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
> > >
> > >
> > >Snail Mail:
> > >Alex Themelis
> > >246cWoolwich St, Guelph,
> > >Ontario, Canada, N1H-3V9
> > >
> > >----- 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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