Posted on 10/06/2009 2:04:19 PM PDT by wolfcreek
In February 2008, global dignitaries gathered to inaugurate the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, a repository for plant life designed to withstand nuclear war so survivors could restart civilization with healthy seeds. Magnus Bredeli-Tveiten, who oversaw construction of the vault, told the Associated Press that he expected it to last as long as the 4,500-year-old pyramids of Egypt. However, for a certain percentage of the public, ancient civilizations like Egypt are just one key to a nuclear war that already happened-thousands of years ago.
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Ping!
hhhhmmmmmmmm...
My thoughts exactly.
I didn’t realize God needed atomic weapons. (sarc)
Dino-Nukes!
Dino-Nuclear Warfare brings up some strange images of dinosaurs in fatigues...
Well, that explains the dinosaur extinctions.
Maybe they were asteroids or comets, there are at least 180 known craters around the earth
Maybe not *quite* that far back.
I have seen other explanations...
And also, there is this:
So how did nuclear reactions occur in nature?
Deep under African soil, about 1.7 billion years ago, natural conditions prompted underground nuclear reactions. Scientists from around the world, including American scientists have studied the rocks at Oklo. These scientists believe that water filtering down through crevices in the rock played a key role. Without water, it would have been nearly impossible for natural reactors to sustain chain reactions.
The water slowed the subatomic particles or neutrons that were cast out from the uranium so that they could hit-and split-other atoms. Without the water, the neutrons would move so fast that they would just bounce off, like skipping a rock across the water, and not produce nuclear chain reactions. When the heat from the reactions became too great, the water turned to steam and stopped slowing the neutrons. The reactions then slowed until the water cooled. Then the process could begin again.7
Scientists think these natural reactors could have functioned intermittently for a million years or more. Natural chain reactions stopped when the uranium isotopes became too sparse to keep the reactions going.
Yeah...sure...right. And little green people live under ground in caves near the center of the Earth!! Give me a freakin' break. NUTCASES!!!
This one as well.
Prehistoric is prehistoric.
;^)
I seem to recall Dixie Lee Ray wrote about this in “Trashing the Planet”.
That just sounds so impossble..... I like my Dino-Nuclear War better. =o)
There is something in India’s Mahabharata that sounds a lot like a nuclear weapon. The Greek legend of Phaeton driving the chariot of the sun into the earth also comes to mind.
E.E. “Doc” Smith’s Lensman science fiction includes a war between Atlantis and another civilization in which nuclear weapons destroyed both sides.
The truth is, of course, that our evolutionary ancestors (e.g. Lucy) did not have the brainpower to develop weapons of this nature, so it’s pretty unlikely that we bombed ourselves into the Stone Age.
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