The Pleistocene Extinction

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[null and void]

Humans have more endurance than any mammal alive.

Only because we sweat...

[I got the rope]

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[RightWhale]

Velikovsky started one of his books with a tour of the carcass fields of Fairbanks, Alaska. I happen to live in Fairbanks, and if Siberia is anything like this, they, too, are walking on wooly mammoth bones and saber-tooth tiger hides everywhere they set foot. The valleys are filled with frozen muck 100 feet thick, and the muck is filled with mostly clay-like frozen dust and these carcasses. We call it muck, but when it dries it is just dust. It's not solid with carcasses, you see, but there plenty of them. When they cleared the muck overburden with steam and water points and water giants, tons of these carcasses came to light. The top levels of the muck are layed down in thin layers, probably as annual deposits of wind-blown loess, but I don't know that when you go deeper there are any layers at all but it all came in at once like in a huge storm. Something happened, but we just build our cabins on top and live happily ignorant of prehistoric events.

[RadioAstronomer]

Yes, there is a mid ocean ridge and rift valleys as well as other surface structures that may be interpreted as evidence for "plate tectonics," but these crustal features also can be explained as as consequence of the earth expanding.

Ever hear of subduction zones?

[MrsEmmaPeel]

Paleontologists the world over know that something catastrophic happened to the large mammals roaming the world during the Pleistocene Epoch. Woolly mammoths, mastodons, toxodons, sabre-toothed tigers, woolly rhinos, giant ground sloths, and many other large Pleistocene animals are simply no longer with us.

But the Moose is. The Moose is the last of the Pleistocene creatures. And the Moose is still very much alive.

[djf]

I've read about some of these debris fields. They find entire, intact skeletons right next to crushed bones and critters that were literally torn apart, ripped to shreds. Whatever happened, no way was it just a bunch of animals decided this would be a nice place to lay down and die and spend their last few hours. Entire forests have been found, under layers of muck, looking like they went thru some sort of cosmic blender.

[null and void]

Entire forests have been found, under layers of muck, looking like they went thru some sort of cosmic blender.

Sounds like a tsunami driven turbidite deposit. I wonder if there is a crater in the arctic sea?

[djf]

Don't know. I know they have found coral reefs off of Norway, which is odd, since coral won't grow unless the water temp is 87 or so. Haven't heard if they dated the coral or how old it is.

[djf]

Anotherinteresting thing is that a while back, Discovery had something about the Pyramids. The Great Pyramid has a shaft that goes from the center, to the edge, and the sky is plainly visible looking up the shaft.
According to texts, the shaft is supposed to point towards "The dark spot in the sky that never moves". The final destination of the soul of whoever got entombed in the pyramid.

Trouble is, in the northern hemisphere, there's only one point in the sky that never moves. But it ain't dark. A very bright star called Polaris sits there.

[kAcknor]

kAcknor Sez:

I remember a book I read very many years ago called "The HAB Theory". I don't remember the author's name. Fiction, long winded and not enough action for the teenager I was.. ;)  

However, its main plot was that the earth's poles would periodically become so heavy with ice that the planetary wobble increased in a rapid fashion resulting in the poles swapping out with the equator.

Don't know enough to say that makes any sense in this thread, but it sure would explain tsunamis, massive bone piles, frozen mammoth with buttercups in their mouths and a 4000-mile walkabout in the direction of the magnetic pole. ;)

"bIlujlaHbe'chugh bIQaplaHbe'" (If you cannot fail, you cannot succeed.)

Have you checked the *bang_list today?

[kAcknor]

Da*m, how did you do that?? ;)

Hapgood was the one!

[djf]

It was written by Alan Eckert. I have it on one of my bookshelfs.

[kAcknor]

It was written by Alan Eckert. I have it on one of my bookshelfs.

kAcknor Sez:

OK, Thanks.

I must be confusing the memories of the book and the actual theory I've also read about.

Old brain, long day.

"rut yIHmey ghom Hoch." (Everyone meets tribbles)

Have you checked the *bang_list today?

[djf]

No, you're not. Eckert admits his hero in the book "Howard A. Boardman" is based at least in part on the work of Hugh Auchincloss Brown.

[Bernard Marx]

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