[Mike Darancette]

Have at it.

[swarthyguy]

The Earth Farts.

[staytrue]

At 9:30 p.m. on August 12, 1986, a cloudy mixture of carbon dioxide (CO2) and water droplets rose violently from Lake Nyos, Cameroon. As the lethal mist swept down adjacent valleys, it killed over 1700 people, thousands of cattle, and many more birds and animals. Local villagers attributed the catastrophe to the wrath of a spirit woman of local folklore who inhabits the lakes and rivers. Scientists, on the other hand, were initially puzzled by the root cause, and by the abrupt onset, of this mysterious and tragic event.

[Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)]

A tad imaginative.

[smith288]

I dont see why God wouldnt use natural phenomena to do his work.

Just like brimstone could be an asteroid.

[finnman69]

Armageddon Level Fart.

[dirtboy]

There is evidence that the oceans stagnated at the end of the Permian period. And the chemical signature in fossils of the time hints there was a massive change in the amount of atmospheric carbon dioxide. Carbon dioxide would have been produced as methane broke down or exploded in the atmosphere.

Oh, bullbiscuits. Everyone knows that all the Dimetrodons got big honkin' SUVs and that led to the increase in CO2 and eventually the Permian extinction.

Seriously, there has been concern for some time about the possibility of a sudden, rapid release of methane from hydrates. However, recall that in the Bible it rained for 40 days and 40 nights to trigger the flood, there is no mention of the largest cosmic flatulence of all time.

[El Laton Caliente]

A new mining opportunity?

[BlueLancer]

A very informative and thought-provoking book on the Permian Extinction and possible causes.

[B Knotts]

He who smelt it, dealt it.

[I still care]

It sounds consistant with the bible to me.

"In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened."

[BlueLancer]

A Clive Cussler novel wherein the villain has a plan to use methane hydrates off the coast of the North America to destroy the United States.

[ClearCase_guy]

Just one disturbance - a small meteorite impact or even a fast moving mammal - could then have brought the gas-saturated water closer to the surface.

So, the mass extinction could have been caused by a mammal. Fish are NOT implicated, everyone! No need to panic! No fish, no reptiles are responsible for this catastophe! It's either an asteroid, or a mammal, and we're betting it's a mammal -- they always mess up the environment.

[50sDad]

Up to 95% of Earth's marine species disapeared at the end of the Permian period.

And it is all Bush Fault!

[ido_now]

If there was such a flood, where did all the water come from and where did it go?

Figure it out: Volume = Pi Times Radius Of The Earth To The Third Power. The radius of the earth at the equator is 3,963 miles. The volume of the earth [ignoring flatening] is 195.5 billion cm [cubic miles]. The current total amount of water on the planet is 326 million cm.

To raise the radius of the earth, with water by 100 feet, would require 2.8 million cm of water, which is more than all the non-ocean and icecap water combined. To raise the radius of the earth by 400 feet would take more than all the water on earth except for the oceans.

To raise the radius of the earth by say 12,500 feet, enough to cover mountains, would require more water than currently exists on the entire planet.

Where did it come from and where did it go?

[aShepard]

It sounds like God didn't like what He had created many, many times.

First the fishes get wiped out, then the dinosaurs, then He gets Noah to help pick and choose which species to populate the new earth after the flood.

[hattend]

"It's a wacky idea," says geologist Paul Wignall of the University of Leeds, UK, "but not so wild that it shouldn't be taken seriously."

Translation: "It's a wacky idea but give us some research money."

[hattend]

Other sluggish seas might still be accumulating methane at their depths and could represent a future hazard, Ryskin adds. "Even if there's only a small probability that I am right, we should start looking for areas of the ocean where this might be happening," he argues.

Translation: "C'mon give me some research money, I need to eat"

[LiteKeeper]

INTREP

[Light Speed]

Well..here we go again...

Long ago...MMMMMMMillions of yrs ago : )..this and that happened...[I'm a scientist..trust me].

There is a reality abstract known as the 'Electric Universe' model.

Wal Thornhill and company for those interested in going google for a bit.

The accretion planet formation thingy is really lame when it goes in the ring with Electric Universe.

Back to MMMMMMillions of yrs;

Great..Isotope margin values...decay rates.
They did a test on MT ST Helens ash and blew it huge...off by biggy time value rates.
Of course the scientist will say the K/T boundry has been tested by so many radio formats to come out over 98% accurate and consistant.

But radio dating has been shown to be flawed...and many of these claims to what went on so long ago..could be principly flawed by huge time intervals.

Why?

Well...planets may not form under the accretion format..but by the Electric Universe model.

This means planets are **Mangled to the core..by electrical activty in Space.

Plasma sheaths of planets..comets..asteroids...Electrical energy ribbons with values that would begger the imagination.

Currents of varied form streaming thru space...magnetic fields of huge magnitude.

All out there..just waiting to touch a little Blue sphere like ours..and send the inner core into convection like a microwave set on high.

Little Blue Sphere see's enertial movement in its core...energy values transit outward...crust buckles...gas forms..gases escape.

Rock undergoes transforamtion at the atomic level..reconfigures.

All manner of atomic particles dispensed into the outlaying regions above the spheres crust.

particles combining..reconfiguring.

Magnetic signatures changing in the rock layers of the planet...atomic values of the rocks imprinted anew.

oh well....slow tortoise accretion..mmmmmillions of yrs thingy...

or the Electric Universe..and biggy change..sudden like.

A methane Burp obliterates a planets life continuity?

Intersting article...except the Methane would have a hard time "Staying put with the Tidal forces of the **Moon..and other passing bodies.

Or are they suggesting that 250 Million yrs ago..there was no Moon?

course too...they are right if they suggest that..as Mythology states that their was a period in mans ancient recollection..when there was no moon.

Infact..the Ancient city on **The seashore..of Tiahuanaco
also know as 'The City of the Falling Moon' supports such said abstract.

Tiahuanaco in the Andes..thrust upward in a cataclysm that beggers the imagination...20,000..Posnanski 12,000...pick a date.

Major Energy and gravametric distortion values at work...in the time of man record keeping.

Pangea..Gondwana...good by MU Lemura..etc.

This may really be true..and sure it runs offset to ..MMMMillions of years.

but it only does..if our Universe is the accretion model,

and that projection could be wrong....very wrong : )

[MonroeDNA]

MOAF?