Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 12/18/2008 11:35:27 AM PST by BGHater
If you look VERY closely at the black lines you’ll see it says Dec. 30, 2:41 a.m. GMT.
2008 AD minus 11,711 years means the last Ice Age ended in 9703 BC.
Just about when agriculture began in the Middle East. Hmmmm....
Very good! Actually, the end of the last glacial period is the start of the Younger Dryas, which was an abrupt period of cooling that followed the gradual warming. The Younger Dryas initiation event was very likely the release of a flood of glacial meltwater into the North Atlantic, where the low-salinity water stopped the deep water formation process "cold". This meant that the cold which was normally transferred into the ocean stayed in the atmosphere. The Younger Dryas lasted about 1,000 years, and it terminated abruptly too, when the deep water formation restarted. Temperatures rose more than 5 C in a decade.
The Younger Dryas is one of the great examples of abrupt climate change triggers.
Two examples of abrupt climate change
Sorry about that. Always check references before posting, I keep telling myself...
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“No word on the exact day or month.”
I have always wondered how Bishop Ussher was able to calculate the earth was created Oct. 23, 4004 BC. I guess they had more precise guesses then.
See blam’s Comment 4, which posits the idea that a large boloid event in the north, threw us into a thousand year regression back into the Ice Age. If, in fact the Ice Age really started to end about 18 to 20 thousand years ago, then we are about due for another one. However, I wonder if some extraterrestrial periodic catastrophe has been the start of each of the great Ice Ages of the past? If so, our current troubles, are very little ones. Nothing like a bit of perspective to cheer one up these days.
A.M. or P.M.?
See blam's Comment 4, which posits the idea that a large boloid event in the north, threw us into a thousand year regression back into the Ice Age. If, in fact the Ice Age really started to end about 18 to 20 thousand years ago, then we are about due for another one. However, I wonder if some extraterrestrial periodic catastrophe has been the start of each of the great Ice Ages of the past? If so, our current troubles, are very little ones. Nothing like a bit of perspective to cheer one up these days.If there's a bolide involved, there's nothing to worry about, e.g., there is no "cycle" of ice ages. Of course, if another bolide happens along... :')
And just about the age of the supposed underwater city in the gulf of Cambray in India...
LOL
Danish Arctic Reasearch can be lonely, you must make the most of your dates
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Danish Arctic Research can be lonely, you must make the most of your dates
I would surmise that bolides do happen along in cycles. Could not a comet be a bolide, or a stray meteor from, say, a cyclical Geminid shower?
Perhaps a “swarm” of meteors is now approaching earth for a regular 11,720 yearly visit to our solar system.
We seem to be experiencing that lately. :’) In recent years the concensus has become that annual meteor showers (the Perseids, Geminids, etc) are chunks of crap moving along the former trajectory of one or the other periodic comet. When the chunks are larger, then they show up in the news. Today I stumbled across (again) a story from October regarding a 3 meter rock that was discovered the day before it crashed through atmosphere and into the Sudan. A few days later (or maybe it was earlier) a big one came down over Oklahoma.
Insert obligatory SUV Joke.
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