Posted on 12/05/2003 6:43:33 PM PST by Mike Darancette
With respect to the tree ring data, it may be that a deep ocean impact does not inject enough dust into the upper atmosphere to cause the climate changes that would show up in the tree ring data.
It could be that when the impact occurs under water, the ejecta mixes with the water (slowing the ejecta and accelerating the water) and fails to produce the very fine dry dust that could stay aloft long enough to change the climate.
Take a look at the round images underwater around the Bahamas. I've got some ideas about those that I'll tell you sometime
"With respect to the tree ring data, it may be that a deep ocean impact does not inject enough dust into the upper atmosphere to cause the climate changes that would show up in the tree ring data."
Exactly. The water will keep rushing back in creating more steam...no sun blocking dust veil. The steam will quickly rain out.
A few years ago I read an article about some peculiar sand dunes in an isolated region of Australia. The guy working on the project said that they could have only been formed by a wind that was in excess of 200 mph and speculated that typhoons may have been more powerful in ancient times.
I now wonder if the wind could have come from Tunguska type impacts.
AD 1501 : (EUROPE : LUTHER ATTENDS UNIVERSITY OF ERFURT, EXPERIENCES CONVERSION AFTER 'LIGHTING' STRIKES MORTAL FEAR INTO HIM) Martin Luther attended the University of Erfurt. While studying law at the University of Erfurt in Germany experiences a spiritual conversion.
(As the story goes, he was caught in a lightning storm and in his fear he cried out to God to save him, promising to become a monk... needless to say, his father wasn't thrilled. Looking at the meteoric incident which some believe to have occured around 1500 in the Pacific off of New Zealand... one wonders if the frightened Luther saw mere lightning or perhaps saw a meteor associated with this, something more unusual than just a severe thunderstorm - enough to make a lawyer change his life and become a monk. )
I'm convinced some of the bibical descriptions are describing asteroid/comet 'flybys' and impacts. I expect it could make anyone religious.
Note: this topic was posted 12/5/2003. Thanks Mike Darancette.
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