Posted on 03/12/2019 6:47:12 PM PDT by BenLurkin
An intense blast of high-energy protons from the Sun pummelled the Earth in about 660 BC and left a distinct record of cosmogenic nuclei in the Greenland ice sheet. The discovery was made by an international team of scientists who say the event was one most powerful solar storms known to have struck Earth.
The team calculates that the storm was about ten times more intense than any event that has occurred in the past 70 years. “If that solar storm had occurred today, it could have had severe effects on our hi-tech society”, says Raimund Muscheler of Sweden’s University of Lund, who designed the study.
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n 2017, some of the team members discovered a peak of carbon-14 at about 660 BC in oak tree rings. Similar peaks are associated with intense solar storms believed to have occurred more recently in the years 775 and 994. However, the carbon-14 peak at 660 BC is not as distinct as peaks associated with the later events and could be the result of an increase in cosmic rays entering the atmosphere rather than solar protons.
To clarify the situation, Muscheler and colleagues looked at beryllium-10 abundance in ice cores and found peaks at around 660 BC in ice from both the North Greenland Ice Core Project (NGRIP) and the Greenland Ice Core Project (GRIP). A peak in the abundance of chlorine-36 – another isotope produced by solar protons – was also spotted in the GRIP data.
According to the team, the storm in 660 BC was comparable to the 775 event, which is the strongest solar storm known to date. Furthermore, the ancient storm was ten times more intense than any solar storm that has occurred over the past 70 years – including storms that have disrupted electricity grids and telecommunications.
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One can imagine the lightning created on earth. Huge strikes carving out the Grand Canyon?
Minorities were affected the most by the 660 BC storm.
Where a Planetary Bolt Struck the Ground
https://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/ciencia/velikovsky/bolts.htm
Bump for later.
If Al Gore was right, there would be no ice to get these core samples from.
Thanks BenLurkin. You laugh, but the mortality rate is still 100%. :^) For related topics, see the keywords "cme" or "coronalmassejection", or even "carringtonevent".
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Thanks BenLurkin.
Probably knocked out the entire power grid...........................
The 774 AD keyword:
Everyone ran into their underground cities!
Their cell phones quit working too I bet.................
How costly would it be to EMP shield all electronics during the manufacturing process? If it’s less than 10% it should be a given.
Oh...wait...then they don’t get to sell us all new stuff when disaster strikes.
In that era all they had was the Blackberry.
During the solar event, they found that no one was receiving their text messages.
Of course, it was an actual blackberry.
Judah (where we get the word “Jew”), the southern kingdom of the Hebrews, fell to the Babylonians in 586 BC, So I don’t think so.
The northern Hebrew kingdom, what the bible called “Israel” (the so called 10 “lost” tribes) was taken over by Assyria in 722. Assyria’s strategy was to send settlers into a conquered kingdom and intermarry with the people....this hopelessly compromised the Hebrews ethnically/religiously (though they’d been going bad for 300 years by that point), hence the tribes were “lost” by assimilation.
Sadly, I bet some of the Syrian Muslims today are probably descendant from some of the “lost” Hebrew tribes. So some of modern Israel’s worst enemies....are likely blood relatives.
Looks like the Sauds got hit with a big one.
Amazing. Then at some point water stat=rted to erode alomg the original fracture.
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