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Astronomers unravel a mystery of the Dark Ages
EurekAlert ^
| 3-Feb-2004
| Dr Derek Ward-Thompson
Posted on 02/03/2004 2:54:24 PM PST by ckilmer
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posted on
02/03/2004 2:54:28 PM PST
by
ckilmer
To: blam
I think you have referenced this, haven't you, blam?
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posted on
02/03/2004 2:57:26 PM PST
by
Sam Cree
(Democrats are herd animals)
To: lepton; kayak; Dog
Have you seen this theory?
To: Sam Cree; blam
I thought it was a massive volcano eruption.
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posted on
02/03/2004 3:01:03 PM PST
by
farmfriend
( Isaiah 55:10,11)
To: ckilmer
Big deal. Anyone who watches "Stargate SG-1" knows this.
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posted on
02/03/2004 3:02:10 PM PST
by
pabianice
To: ckilmer
The book "Catastophe" by David Keys is quite interesting. He blames it on a volcano. Whatever, it sure seems like something effected the climate and civilizations around the globe at around 536 AD.
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posted on
02/03/2004 3:02:16 PM PST
by
ClearCase_guy
(I'm having an apotheosis of freaking desuetude)
To: ckilmer
If there was this much dust in the atmosphere and it settled out there should be a soil layer that can be analyzed. Problem is where is the best place to look.
To: farmfriend
I thought a large, alcohol-filled Kennedy relative fell into a bog and cased a massive release of swamp gas.
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posted on
02/03/2004 3:04:43 PM PST
by
WayneM
(Cut the KRAP (Karl Rove Amnesty Plan). Call your elected officials and say "NO!!")
To: ckilmer
Without evidence of deposition from the comet's ash that corresponds to the timing of the Dark Ages, it seems like a huge leap in logic to go from evidence of cool summers, crop losses, and plague to a comet exploding in the earth's atmosphere.
Muleteam1
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posted on
02/03/2004 3:05:36 PM PST
by
Muleteam1
To: Molly Pitcher
Thanks ...very interesting.
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posted on
02/03/2004 3:06:51 PM PST
by
Dog
To: WayneM
I like that one.
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posted on
02/03/2004 3:07:34 PM PST
by
farmfriend
( Isaiah 55:10,11)
To: farmfriend; Sam Cree; RightWhale
It was a comet that plunged into the Celtic Sea. Mike Baillie should be credited with this discovery.
The Dark Ages, Were Thay Darker Than We Imagined?
"Concluding Thoughts Ben Rudder, an anthropologist who reviewed in New Scientist magazine a recently published book by Baillie on the subject, wrote :"
"If Baillie is right, history has overlooked probably the single most important explanation for the intermittent progress of civilisation."
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posted on
02/03/2004 3:09:02 PM PST
by
blam
To: ckilmer
No, no it was Republicans and SUV's that caused this climate disaster--Al Gore told me so.
To: Muleteam1; Sam Cree; farmfriend
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posted on
02/03/2004 3:12:27 PM PST
by
blam
To: Muleteam1
Here's an interesting post that explains some of that logic. In some cases, ancient scribes wrote about the effects they witnessed firsthand. And the tree ring data testifies to how widespread the effects were.
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posted on
02/03/2004 3:14:02 PM PST
by
LibWhacker
(<a href="http://www.michaelmoore.com/">Miserable Failure</a>)
To: Fitzcarraldo
My kids' bedroom.
To: ClearCase_guy
"The book "Catastophe" by David Keys is quite interesting. He blames it on a volcano. Whatever, it sure seems like something effected the climate and civilizations around the globe at around 536 AD."I read that book. I think a better book on the subject is Mike Baillie's, Exodus To Arthur
Baillie has captured a number of worldwide events in the 10,000 year tree ring record.
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posted on
02/03/2004 3:19:07 PM PST
by
blam
To: LibWhacker
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posted on
02/03/2004 3:22:27 PM PST
by
blam
To: ckilmer; *Gods, Graves, Glyphs; A.J.Armitage; abner; adam_az; AdmSmith; Alas Babylon!; ...
Gods, Graves, Glyphs List for articles regarding early civilizations , life of all forms, - dinosaurs - etc.
Let me know if you wish to be added or removed from this ping list.
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posted on
02/03/2004 3:26:34 PM PST
by
farmfriend
( Isaiah 55:10,11)
To: blam
You have to wonder how well modern civilization would stand up to something like that today. If the bollide were large enough, then obviously, no. But would we cave under exactly the same pressure that did in the ancients? Personally, I think not. We would understand what was happening to us and if we could maintain our infrastructure, we could weather the famine and plague. But let's not test it, okay? :-) Earth probably really does need a space shield.
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posted on
02/03/2004 3:42:11 PM PST
by
LibWhacker
(<a href="http://www.michaelmoore.com/">Miserable Failure</a>)
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