[blam]

Ping. You'll like this.

[Malesherbes]

END OF THE WORLD!

WOMEN AND MINORITIES ADVERSELY IMPACTED!

[KayEyeDoubleDee]

very cool bttt

[Mike Darancette]

The minimal growth of trees around 2350 BC has been associated in the past with the eruption of a volcano in Iceland. Yet, the period in question is also associated with floods, the creation of new lakes, and even the start of Chinese history. Furthermore, Marie-Agnes Courty, an archaeologist from France, has claimed new data regarding a catastrophe said to have occurred in the Middle East. Samples from three separate regions all appear to contain a calcite material found only in meteorites, and analysis of debris show what seems to be a combination of "a burnt surface horizon and air blast."

Is this the Iraqi Meteor strike?

[RandyRep]

Fascinating article.

If this was written in 1999, why did they make the Y2K comment? Or did someone else insert it?

[Eustace]

As far as " Dark Ages " spiritually speaking , I don't think any have been any darker than now.

I'd have to say they are just as stagnant today as they were then or ever.

Man somehow despite technical advances has remained just as ignorant as they were thousands of years ago.

That doesn't necessarily say as much bad about man as it compliments the control of man. Which I guess does nothing for the definition of man.

Has man ever really stood upright? Without another man telling him how to do it.....

Why are we so afraid to listen to God????????

[Mike Darancette]

Friday, 8 September, 2000

Tree rings challenge history

By BBC News Online's Jonathan Amos

Could a comet hitting the Earth 1,500 years
ago have triggered a global disaster in which
millions of people lost their lives?

It is an old claim that historians say has little
evidence in written records to support it, but
now a tree ring expert has said the idea must
be re-examined.

Mike Baillie, professor of palaeoecology at
Queen's University in Belfast, UK, said it was
very clear from the narrowness of growth rings
in bog oaks and archaeological timbers that a
great catastrophe struck the Earth in AD 540.

"The trees are unequivocal that something
quite terrible happened," he told the British
Association's Festival of Science. "Not only in
Northern Ireland and Britain, but right across
northern Siberia, North and South America - it
is a global event of some kind."

Dark Ages

Professor Baillie favours the idea that cometary
fragments smashed into the atmosphere
throwing up dust and gas that blocked out the
Sun. This, in turn, led to crop failures, famine
and even plague among the weakened peoples
of the world.

Professor Baillie said astronomers from Armagh
Observatory in Northern Ireland had published
research 10 years ago in which they said the
Earth would have been at risk from cometary
bombardment between the years AD 400 and
AD 600.

"This event is in AD 540, so it fits very nicely
into the window," he said.

"We know from the tree rings to the year
exactly when this event happened. And some
archaeologists and historians are beginning to
come round to the opinion that this was the
date when the Dark Ages began in Northern
Europe. It wasn't just when the Romans left."

Oral tradition

However, there are many more historians who
believe that if such a major event had
occurred there would be much clearer
references to the disaster in written texts. But
Professor Baillie urged them to go back and
look again - "to read between the lines".

He said mythical stories certainly seemed to
point to a comet striking the Earth at about
the right time. He said King Arthur died in this
period and some stories talk about long arms in
the sky delivering mighty blows.

"Mythology tells you and history doesn't and
that raises some very interesting questions
because the implication is that you could
suppress the written word but you couldn't
suppress the oral tradition."

Professor Baillie said chemical analysis would
be carried out on the tree rings to investigate
the comet idea further. He hopes also to get
access to ice cores to see if they record any
interesting data that might support the comet
theory.

[farmfriend]

bttt

[nopardons]

BTT

[mil-vet]

Does this mean my SUV isn't the cause of all the world's ills, since SUV's didn't exist at these times in history?

Hmmmm! Bet the enviro-terrorists don't like this article!

Great post! Thanks!!

[Consort]

It was probably the Moors.

[The Iguana]

Time for Project Spaceguard.

[Billthedrill]

Well, it looks like 700-900 year intervals, so we're about 500 years overdue, assuming it or they have some sort of regular periodicity. Guess I gotta start sleeping in the basement and carrying a baseball glove around when I go outside. Can't be too careful...

[DoctorMichael]

Interesting! Bump.

This hypothesis makes a hell of a lot more sense than the whole Planet X tinfoil-hype does.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Interesting...

[Light Speed]

Comet Hale-Bopp [1997] is a recent reminder that comets of long duration with no recorded history by man can appear suddenly.
Hale-Bopps duration estimated at 4,210 yrs...with previous passage in 2210 BC.
Calculating the return of prriod comets was markedly changed when comet Swift Tuttle did not return as expected..Brian Marsden of Cape Observatory South Africa discovering Comet Swift Tuttles 'Out gassing' as it rocketed away from the Sun.
The 'Cape effect' was also detected in Halley's comet by the Giotto space probe..the gas jetting exerted a force of about 5 million pounds..or nearly as much as all the space shuttle engines volume on lift off from the pad..the jetting of the comet continuing hour after hour..day after day.

Outgassing comets..altering their trajectories..some previous crossings near earth so may days short of a month in proximity..but what of the next passing on ellipse?
In Marsdens 1997 catalogue lists 1,548 comets with sufficient data to compute orbits,-91 from fragment data prior to the 17th Century.
What science really knows about comets ,in other words ,derives from data on an incredibly narrow sample of cometary behaviour as observed from our tiny corner of the universein three insignificant centuries.
Comet Encke,with the shortest of all known periods,at 3 1/3 yrs has become increasingly erratic in keeping its appointments in our skies.
Other comets which previously candessed and outgassed..have become inert ..approaching with no reflectivity..and exiting..a giant dark rock..tens of kilometers wide.

As Hale Bopp appeared suddenly..so could other comets of long duration..with orbits of 15,20 and 90,000 yrs.
Appear suddenly..and be in magnitudes of hundreds of kilometers wide...and inert;
Jet black Missiles...mirved into multiple warheads from gravametrics.

[Aric2000]

PING!!

Hey guys, check this out!!

PH and Junior, wanna do a big PING?

[Mamzelle]

These days, climate is of interest mostly for science frauds to exploit to get grant money--but it is of momentous interest historically.

Read about the "year without a summer", 1816, the firestorms in London in 1666, ...

Re: a relevant book--"The Little Ice Age"--how climate made history 1300-1850, author Brian Fagan.

[Centurion2000]

Interesting ... according to the article we're moving into the Taurid metoer cluster as time goes by (every 2500 years and we're on the outer edge of it.) This was written in 1999 and stated that the meteor swarm would be back in 2000 with a period of 3.3 years ... so it looks like they may be back again in late 2003 early 2004 ?

Interesting.

[537 Votes]

The Italian historian Flavius Cassiodorus wrote about conditions that he experienced during the year AD 536 :

"The Sun...seems to have lost its wonted light, and appears of a bluish colour. We marvel to see no shadows of our bodies at noon, to feel the mighty vigour of the Sun's heat wasted into feebleness, and the phenomena which accompany an eclipse prolonged through almost a whole year.

Almost-the-magic-number bump!