[meteorite-list] More golden showers

From: Pete Shugar <pshugar_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2008 10:11:06 -0500
Message-ID: <002c01c8e10c$db64e9a0$0201a8c0_at_laptop>

It seems the only thing not mentioned wassome hillbilly trying to
shoot a possum, missinng and then up from the ground came
bubbling crude, black gold, oil, that is.
Taking a clue from Darren, I better hush up.
Pete


----- Original Message -----
From: "Sterling K. Webb" <sterling_k_webb at sbcglobal.net>
To: <cynapse at charter.net>; <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2008 12:57 AM
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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