[meteorite-list] More golden showers

From: lebofsky at lpl.arizona.edu <lebofsky_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2008 09:17:43 -0700 (MST)
Message-ID: <49229.71.226.60.25.1215533863.squirrel_at_timber.lpl.arizona.edu>

You forgot Texas Tea!

Larry

On Tue, July 8, 2008 8:11 am, Pete Shugar wrote:
> 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
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>>
>>
>> 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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