Posted on 02/03/2018 4:13:39 PM PST by BenLurkin
....[A]t this time – roughly 12,800 years ago, according to a new study from the University of Kansas – that a comet struck our planet and triggered massive wildfires. This impact also triggered a short glacial period that temporarily reversed the previous period of warming, which had a drastic affect on wildlife and human development.
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...[T]he team combined data from ice core, forest, pollen and other geochemical and isotopic markers obtained from more than 170 different sites across the world. Based on this data, the team concluded that roughly 12,800 years ago, a global disaster was triggered when a comet measuring about 100 km (62 mi) in diameter exploded in our atmosphere and rained fragments down on the surface.
“The hypothesis is that a large comet fragmented and the chunks impacted the Earth, causing this disaster. A number of different chemical signatures — carbon dioxide, nitrate, ammonia and others — all seem to indicate that an astonishing 10 percent of the Earth’s land surface, or about 10 million square kilometers, was consumed by fires.”
... As fires rushed across much of the planet’s landscape, the smoke and dust clogged the sky and blocked out sunlight. This triggered rapid cooling in the atmosphere, causing plants to die, food sources to dwindle, and ocean levels to drop. Last, but not least, the ice sheets which had been previously retreating began to advance again.
This quasi-ice age, according to the study, lasted about another thousand years. When the climate began to warm again, life began to recover, but was faced with a number of drastic changes. For example, fewer large animals survived, which affected the hunter-gather culture of humans all across North America. This was reflected in the different types of spear points that have been dated to this period.
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(Excerpt) Read more at universetoday.com ...
My grandson believes in Santa Claus and people say that is childish.
Didn’t Velikovsky write about this back in the 50’s and 60’s? Worlds in Collision. Very interesting book.
Of course the professors at Harvard and other ‘centers of excellence’ rejected his ideas but they never came up with better ones.
"It was meant to be a measured, reasonable approach," he said.
How can a law maker say that with a straight face when he is talking about banning a business from giving a customer a drinking straw unless he asks for it?
We are talking about government reaching down from on high to businesses great and small to make a decision that goes down to an interaction between the customer and just about the lowest level employee.
This is beyond ridiculous and brings to mind Big Brother.
https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/03/channeled-scablands/
Ha! Ha! ha!
I think it took more than a year to rebuild the cities of Germany and Japan that were laid to waste by the Allies.
Pure bull sh-t. A 62 mile diameter ice ball would have had most its mass when it hit the earth. This would be a global extinction event. Yes, the outer layers could fracture and explode. Most of that iceball would have made it to earth. THIS DID NOT HAPPEN.
I knew some guys who painted a few chickens red and blue, somehow managed to sneak the birds into KU’s Allen fieldhouse and tossed them onto the basketball court during a KSU-KU game.
The incident set off a firestorm in Lawrence and the natives were restless for weeks. Rock chalk chickenhawk ... !
Not the same thing, but yeah, the commies led by Harlow Shapley were a-holes about it.
Thanks DW!
Flood, Fire, and Famine
in the History of Civilization
by Richard Firestone,
Allen West, and
Simon Warwick-Smith
‘And how were they able to cool down the planet without taxes?’
and how do you know they didn’t raise taxes? article doesn’t say...
Prior to these clowns and their 62 mile comet fragment theory, which, if true, would have done more then just stink up the joint, the prevailing theory was the body was one mile in diameter striking the ice cap, creating the Carolina Bays and other features. This as they say initiated the Younger Dryas - a period of extreme cold. There is also a body of thought which goes: when the comet hit the ice cap, a very very very large chunk slid off and into the Atlantic, blocking the Gulf current which cause the cooling.
Their date of 10,800 BC is about right, corresponding to the date of the end of Atlantis as given by Solon to Plato. And would have ended any world wide civilization at the time (as such an advent to day would do the same). It is also the date when the Sahara climate changed from wet to dry.
1000 years later as the Earth again passed through the torus of comet debris (as it does each year - the Taurids), another one mile rock hit which ended the Younger Dryas and the ice cap began melting in earnest causing the world wide floods as sea level rose hundreds of feet almost over night.
The 62 mile body theorized would have had to entered the Earth’s atmosphere at a very shallow angle to get enough heating to cause it to explode; a body that large might have been captured briefly by the Earth in a disintegrating orbit (helping with the heating problem).
However, the body was large enough to cause an ELE worldwide (as a similar sized rock did for the dinosaurs), but somehow managed to avoid it. A one mile rock would have accomplished the same things - especially as it would not be the only body entering the atmosphere at the same time as we can all see during the periods of meteor showers.
All of this of course does not happen in isolation - the Earth still passes through the same torus, and who is to say that all the large chunks are gone?
12,841 to be exact......
You’re right, of course. Given a sufficiently wide distribution of large-enough fragments, it could even ignite 10% of the world’s land area. It wouldn’t be like a scaled-up version of throwing a big rock into a pond, which was what I was driving at with my earlier post.
cpdiii, you have a point but only because the paper was sorely misreported by Universe Today. From the very first sentence the actual paper maintains that we encountered a 100km comet that had been disintegrating for millennia before we crossed into a particularly lumpy and dangerous portion of the existing debris stream. The pre-existing fragments, large and small, impacted earth and exploded in the atmosphere. As you say, a 62 mile or 100km diameter object would hit the ground and ruin the earth completely before ever disintegrating in the atmosphere. As a (non-credentialed;) co-author of the papers, I have written to Universe and asked they correct this mistake. The same miscommunication on this point has dogged us for years. See the actual papers here on my blog, the Cosmic Tusk, and enjoy the incredible evidence behind our claims: https://cosmictusk.com/9483-2/
George A. Howard, Comet Research Group
PIF, you have a point but only because the paper was sorely misreported by Universe Today. From the very first sentence the actual paper maintains that we encountered a 100km comet that had been disintegrating for millennia before we crossed into a particularly lumpy and dangerous portion of the existing debris stream. The pre-existing fragments, large and small, impacted earth and exploded in the atmosphere. As you say, a 62 mile or 100km diameter object would hit the ground and ruin the earth completely before ever disintegrating in the atmosphere. As a (non-credentialed;) co-author of the papers, I have written to Universe and asked they correct this mistake. The same miscommunication on this point has dogged us for years. See the actual papers here on my blog, the Cosmic Tusk, and enjoy the incredible evidence behind our claims: https://cosmictusk.com/9483-2/
George A. Howard, Comet Research Group
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