[Palter]

Google Earth Images Confirm Mythological Meteor Impact

Gosse's Bluff, Australia This formation was correctly identified as a meteor impact crater by Aborigine mythology. courtesy of Google Maps

[Palter]

Ping.

[Tijeras_Slim]

Interesting

[Young Werther]

So the aborigines had UFO stories!

[Young Werther]

So the aborigines had UFO stories!

[hellbender]

This reminds me of the scene in The Right Stuff where the abos have a fire going which shoots up lots of sparks, while astronauts in space see bright moving spark- or firefly-like things out the window of their vehicle.

Also reminds me of a book which explained that the abo dreamtime stories function as mnemonic devices for remembering routes across the desert.

[who_would_fardels_bear]

I guess this is 100% incontrovertible proof that the earth is only thousands of years old.

These meteors must have been observed falling by the natives, so that means our methods for dating the earth are flawed.

/sarc

[steve0]

Thanks for posting. I love stuff like this, especially with the Bible, ie the hunt to confirm objectively what G_d has written.

[JoeProBono]

[SunkenCiv]

Abstract: More than 85 percent of Australian terrestrial genera with a body mass exceeding 44 kilograms became extinct in the Late Pleistocene. Although most were marsupials, the list includes the large, flightless mihirung Genyornis newtoni. More than 700 dates on Genyornis eggshells from three different climate regions document the continuous presence of Genyornis from more than 100,000 years ago until their sudden disappearance 50,000 years ago, about the same time that humans arrived in Australia. Simultaneous extinction of Genyornis at all sites during an interval of modest climate change implies that human impact, not climate, was responsible. [1/8/99 Pleistocene Extinction of Genyornis newtoni: Human Impact on Australian Megafauna (Gifford H. Miller, John W. Magee, Beverly J. Johnson, Marilyn L. Fogel, Nigel A. Spooner, Malcolm T. McCulloch, Linda K. Ayliffe, Science, Volume 283, Number 5399 Issue of 8 Jan 1999, pp. 205 - 208 )]

In Horus, a journal published by the late David Griffard, vol II no 1 (1985), Barry Fell was interviewed. Alas, DG went down in a private plane after the seventh issue. Among other things:

In the middle of Australia there is a group of three or four meteorite craters called the Henley craters. They're like the Arizona meteorite crater -- not so big, but there are several of them -- and, like in Arizona, the land was scattered with pieces of iron meteorite. I think the [inaudible] dating very slow growing desert plants. They believe that the date is about 5000 years ago -- the formation of the craters. The Aboriginal name for this area is the "Place Where The Sun Walked on the Earth" -- they must have seen it!

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Palter. This link from Fred Nerks is a sidebar to this topic.

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[Moonman62]

Researchers are using Aboriginal dreaming stories and Google Maps to find new meteorite impact craters.

Sounds like an effective con game to get funding.

[twigs]

Fascinating. But I don’t understand the need for secrecy. Any governmental agency that espouses the need for secrecy always send up a red flag for me.