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Clay tablet holds clue to asteroid mystery
The Telegraph ^
| 3/31/2008
| Nic Fleming
Posted on 03/30/2008 8:33:39 PM PDT by bruinbirdman
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To: bruinbirdman
A “mile-wide asteroid” would have done a lot more damage than this article accounts for.
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posted on
03/30/2008 8:38:26 PM PDT
by
AZLiberty
(Wipe the national hard drive and reinstall the Constitution.)
To: blam; SunkenCiv
To: bruinbirdman
This is the first I’ve heard of an impact in Europe at this time.
Hard to believe a major impact in such a gorgeous area; this is no Tunguska. ;->
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posted on
03/30/2008 8:43:21 PM PDT
by
Wiseghy
("You want to break this army? Then break your word to it.")
To: AZLiberty
Same here. I had read in numerous scientific journals that even a one-mile wide asteroid would cause cataclysmic damage.
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posted on
03/30/2008 8:44:11 PM PDT
by
Army Air Corps
(Four fried chickens and a coke)
To: AZLiberty
Now researchers say their translation of symbols on a star map from an ancient civilisation includes notes on a mile-wide asteroid...The ancient Sumerians were able to determine the size of an asteroid??? I don't think so.
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posted on
03/30/2008 8:46:14 PM PDT
by
Onelifetogive
(This is an Obama-nation!)
To: bruinbirdman
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posted on
03/30/2008 8:46:27 PM PDT
by
mamelukesabre
(Quantum materiae materietur marmota monax si marmota monax materiam possit materiari?)
To: AZLiberty
Maybe it was a mile wide and a foot long and a foot tall.
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posted on
03/30/2008 8:51:11 PM PDT
by
coloradan
(The US is becoming a banana republic, except without the bananas - or the republic.)
To: AZLiberty
"A “mile-wide asteroid” would have done a lot more damage " "A Sumerian Observation of the Köfels Impact Event, suggests that the asteroid left no crater because it clipped a mountain and turned into a fireball."
yitbos
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posted on
03/30/2008 8:53:17 PM PDT
by
bruinbirdman
("Those who control language control minds." - Ayn Rand)
To: AZLiberty
A mile-wide asteroid impact would effectively snuff out all life within a few thousand miles' radius of the impact, thanks to the "rain" of superheated ash from the impact site. If it impacted in Europe it would have pretty much wiped out all animal and human life there.
To: bruinbirdman
3123 BC is too long before any known form of writing. Cuneiform included.
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posted on
03/30/2008 8:54:54 PM PDT
by
sinanju
To: sinanju
"3123 BC is too long before any known form of writing. Cuneiform included."Wow, FR proves the scientist wrong again. It's so easy.
yitbos
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posted on
03/30/2008 9:02:58 PM PDT
by
bruinbirdman
("Those who control language control minds." - Ayn Rand)
To: bruinbirdman
Coast to Coast will surely be covering this soon.
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posted on
03/30/2008 9:16:41 PM PDT
by
Ciexyz
To: bruinbirdman
Actually..........there is a portion of Germany that was an impact zone for a meteor...............Evidence?.....In the very stones used to erect a cathedral.
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posted on
03/30/2008 9:17:41 PM PDT
by
Puckster
To: bruinbirdman
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posted on
03/30/2008 9:34:41 PM PDT
by
Judith Anne
(I have no idea what to put here. Not a clue.)
To: Puckster
“In the very stones used to erect a cathedral.”
Shocked quartz.
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posted on
03/30/2008 10:03:08 PM PDT
by
JSteff
( This election is about the 4 or 5 Supreme Court Justices who will retire . Vote Accordingly!)
To: AZLiberty
Depends upon the composition of the object.
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posted on
03/30/2008 10:07:50 PM PDT
by
MHGinTN
(Believing they cannot be deceived, they cannot be convinced when they are deceived.)
To: bruinbirdman
Wow, FR proves the scientist wrong again. It's so easy. . . .yes, who knew?
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posted on
03/30/2008 10:08:37 PM PDT
by
cricket
(Damn Political Correctness; before it irretrievably, damns us all. . .)
To: bruinbirdman
I wonder how much of their ‘reconstruction’ was to the missing contents of the stone itself.
It appears that several large sections are missing and were filled in with playdough.
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posted on
03/30/2008 10:11:08 PM PDT
by
UCANSEE2
(Just saying what 'they' won't.)
To: bruinbirdman
Wow, FR proves the scientist wrong again. It's so easy. It's so easy to prove that many don't read the friggin' article before they post.
"They believe their calculations prove the tablet - a copy made by an Assyrian scribe around 700 BC - is a Sumerian astronomer's notebook recording events in the sky on June 29, 3123 BC. "
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posted on
03/30/2008 10:29:10 PM PDT
by
uglybiker
(I do not suffer from mental illness. I quite enjoy it, actually.)
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