Posted on 05/21/2007 10:16:48 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
What kind of relish? Pickle?
I'll bet a nice slab of cheese and onion slice and sesame seed bun would have helped!
Only small things can heat up sufficiently in the atmosphere to do this.
A much smaller object burst in the air over Siberia in 1908...
Maybe Plato was right about Atlanteans' civilization's being the forerunner of the Egyptians'--Atlantis sunk by tsunamis splashed by the comet--and all but wiped out by the comet catastrophe!
And maybe there's more to this Phaeton myth than we realized!
I tell you...!
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I take it you have a problem with people who formulate theories based on existing evidence but don’t state them as absolute fact.
Do you, then, support the notion that people should look at evidence and immediately (and arrogantly) claim that they have all of the answers? That doesn’t seem to leave any room for refining the theory based on new evidence, and that would be bad science.
Did comet start deadly cold snap?
Canada.com | Monday, May 14, 2007 | Margaret Munro
Posted on 05/16/2007 6:00:33 PM EDT by Mike Darancette
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1834769/posts
Diamonds tell tale of comet that killed off the cavemen
Guardian | 5-20-07 | Robin McKie
Posted on 05/20/2007 7:50:33 PM EDT by Renfield
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1836898/posts
The Cycle of Cosmic Catastrophes:
Flood, Fire, and Famine in
the History of Civilization
by Richard Firestone,
Allen West,
Simon Warwick-Smith
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Sounds reasonable to me (if I were a liberal)
Even an airburst should leave its mark, so the scientists think the Laurentide Ice Sheet absorbed much of the impact.
Once put out, the fires would have left a barren landscape devoid of food for any remaining animals.
I wonder who did that?
But 3 miles? Nope.
WRITE! WRITE! WRITE! WRITE! TILL YOU RUN OUT OF INK IN YOUR PEN!
Bombard the Democrats as well, especially the ones that ran on an anti immigration plank and the ones in marginal districts who could be vulnerable. keep pounding on them.
yes, about the same time.
A little confusing isn’t it. I kinda got the impression that the comet impacted a ice field near the great lakes, even thou the article stated exploded in the atmosphere. Maybe he/sho considers ice a mile or more high atmosphere? LOL.
I have a problem with people who formulate theories with SO MANY guesses and assumptions, each one built upon the next.
(Re-read the article.)
True, but a comet isn't solid like an asteroid, so if it hit at a shallow angle much of it could have burned away in the atmosphere and ground impacts could have been limited to much smaller fragments.
Assumptions and guesses are the beginning of inquiry. Without them, all we would have would be stumbling about attributing everything to "spirits" or "humours" without the first attempt to explain them. We would simply be saying, "it just is".
As for your exhortation to "re-read the article", please do not talk down to me. I read the article several times, and I am quite clear on the implications of the wording that was used. If I have no ironclad evidence of what happened, I will form a hypothesis and attempt to prove or disprove it. Either way, I've made progress, as long as I do not assume that I have the final answer.
OMG, that's funny! You get credit for posting it first!
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