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To: mj81; winoneforthegipper
I took a look closer at your slides. As I said, there is good work here but much you need to run past someone familiar with astrophysics (i.e., your ideas on the asteroid belt formation, lunar/earth cycles resulting from a simultaneous impact on earth need more thought - not to say earth day couldn't have been somewhat affected in some way by the impacts evidence you point to.).

IMO, don't rule out plate tectonics as part of the answer. It would be nice if your theory addressed the contributing effects of other impacts in earth's history. Also, you should consider what may be causing rhythmic ice age cycles/CO2 spikes every 100K years or so. As the gipper pointed out, mountain formation occuring at different epochs needs accounting for.

Certainly you've pointed to a number of interesting facts/clues that need serious considerations!

Thanks for sharing!!

66 posted on 12/09/2012 7:14:45 PM PST by Errant
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To: Errant

I have spoken with astrophycists. Not much help as no one had considered this work before.

I speculate that asymmetries in the impacts energies and directions induced the periodicities found in Milankovitch cycles. No one is sure whether or not they cause the glacial periods.

Regarding the plates - the simultaneous impacts created the plates! They are not drifting; rather, they shift and settle as forces act upon them.

Regarding other impacts on the Earth: there is another event described at the following link, and in my estimation it’s the more fascinating of the two events (though, arguably, explaining the planet’s tilt is really nice): http://www.threeimpacts-twoevents.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/COMET-IMPACT14.pdf

Bottom line: most of human history is buried under more than two miles of water. [Obviously, this holds for Earth history - geologists don’t even realize yet that they are working with a reduced sample space.]


68 posted on 12/09/2012 7:40:21 PM PST by mj81
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