[meteorite-list] More golden showers

From: Mark Ford <mark.ford_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2008 10:28:36 +0100
Message-ID: <29A9DB45B84970458190D7D39BD42C4934F71C_at_gamma.ssl.atw>

Agreed it truly is getting more bizarre by the day.

Given that there are hundreds of thousands maybe even millions of tons
of rock per every diamond, we would have a serious transport of MAJOR
debris, beyond anything ever known,- or are they claiming the gold and
diamonds (and silver) where somehow sorted out from the cheaper
material... or maybe perchance the key detail is the phrase "[retired]
geophysicist Allen West, who was involved in the study"... ;)lol

.. Just doesn't make any sense whatsoever.

Mark





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Sterling K. Webb
Sent: 08 July 2008 06:58
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Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] More golden showers

Hi, Darren, List,

    Please note that the first press release said
that the discovery disproved the "now discredited"
theory of glacial transport. A few days later, they say:
"diamonds, gold and silver could have been ejected
into the air during the blasts, West said, or they could
have been carried south by rivers formed from the
meltwater of liquified glaciers."

    Change your tune much?

    Note also that they specify a magnitude for the
blast of 300,000 megatons. This would require an
impactor of 1000 to 1300 meters in diameter (more
for a comet) and would produce a 20-kilometer crater.
They say a 5000 meter comet, for good measure.

    Even better is this assertion: "For several months
following the comet strike, the skies rained precious
stone and metals, the researchers speculate. Diamonds
drizzled down by the tons."

    FOR MONTHS? Diamonds and gold rained from
the sky for MONTHS? As dust, they explain -- diamond
dust and presumably gold dust. I wonder how many tens
of thousands of tons of diamonds they think were laying
around on the Canadian tundra?

    One easily testable assertion of their scheme is these
massive floods of glacial meltwaters at precisely 12,900
years ago EVERYWHERE in the northern tier of states,
entirely at the same instant, from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
Since glacial melt chronology has been worked out in
great detail over a century, there should be some sign
of this massive melt they speak of. (PS: they're isn't any.)

    While in one place, they speak of a "three-mile comet,"
elsewhere in the press release, they speak of "the multiple
airbursts..." Always good to have a couple of different
stories going, I guess.

    This just gets more entertaining by the day...


Sterling K. Webb
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Darren Garrison" <cynapse at charter.net>
To: <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Monday, July 07, 2008 11:36 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] More golden showers
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,377449,00.html
Diamonds May Have Rained Down From Space During Ice Age
Monday , July 07, 2008
By Ker Than
LS
ADVERTISEMENT
Diamonds and precious metals found in the eastern United States might
have
rained down during the last Ice Age after a comet shattered over Canada
and 
set
North America ablaze, all leading to a mass die-off of animals and
humans.
New chemical analyses of diamond, gold and silver found in Ohio and
Indiana
reveal the minerals were transported there from Canada several thousand 
years
ago. The question is, how?
"There are no gold mines or silver mines in Ohio that anyone knows of,
but 
there
are plenty of them in Canada," said retired geophysicist Allen West, who
was
involved in the study.
The discovery is consistent with a theory proposed by West and
colleagues 
that a
3-mile-wide comet splintered over glaciers and ice sheets in eastern
Canada
about 12,900 years ago and wiped out man and beast.
"These would have been like ten thousand Tunguskas going off at once,"
said
West, referring to a mid-air explosion over Siberia a century ago
possibly
caused by a fragmenting meteor.
Precious rain
The diamonds, gold and silver could have been ejected into the air
during 
the
blasts, West said, or they could have been carried south by rivers
formed 
from
the meltwater of liquified glaciers.
For several months following the comet strike, the skies rained precious
stone
and metals, the researchers speculate. Diamonds drizzled down by the
tons.
"Some of them you couldn't see, and animals would've been breathing them
in,"
West told LiveScience. "But other ones would clearly have been visible.
They
might've even hurt if they hit you."
The larger diamonds were visible to the naked eye and dropped like hail 
stones
within seconds of the blasts, West said.
The smallest diamonds, the "size of cold viruses," would have lingered
in 
the
atmosphere for weeks or months, eventually wafting down to Earth like 
expensive
snowflakes.
Killed man and beast
Flaming fragments of the comet crashing to Earth sparked forests fires 
around
the globe, West contends.
The intense heat from the blasts set the very air on fire. North
America's
grassland, the furs of animals, the hair and clothing of humans - all
would 
have
been set ablaze.
West and his colleagues have proposed that the comet strike contributed
to 
the
extinction of several species of North American megafauna, including 
mammoths
and mastodons, and led to the early demise of the Clovis culture, a
Stone 
Age
people who had only recently immigrated to the continent.
The multiple airbursts might have also caused large amounts of fresh
water 
to be
dumped into the Atlantic Ocean, temporarily disrupting currents and 
prompting a
sudden global cold snap called the Younger Dryas period.
"The kind of evidence we are finding does suggest that climate change at
the 
end
of the last Ice Age was the result of a catastrophic event," said study
team
member Ken Tankersley, an anthropologist at the University of
Cincinnati.
While the discoveries in Ohio and Indiana are consistent with the theory
of 
a
comet colliding with Earth during the last Ice Age, West cautions that
it is 
not
a "smoking gun."
"We're a long way from saying categorically that these things got here 
because
of this event," West said. "They're consistent, but we've got a lot more
work to
do to show there's a direct connection."
The researchers are preparing to submit their research to a scientific 
journal.
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