The Dark Ages: Were They Darker Than We Imagined?

The Universe ^ | 9-1999 | Greg Bryant

[blam]

"Is this the Iraqi Meteor strike?"

Yes. I also think this incident probably provided the imagery outlined in Revelations, the end of the world.

[WoofDog123]

"Is this the Iraqi Meteor strike?"

I think that was around 150 years after? It would still fit into the time band of a couple of centuries proposed here.

I assume Hekla did erupt in 2350 (I cannot recall now but it is too simple to verify for scientists, given the studies done in iceland, so it must have), but presents of extra-terrerstrial-type compounds in sediment layers in the ME is another story entirely.

[Centurion2000]

Interesting ... according to the article we're moving into the Taurid metoer cluster as time goes by (every 2500 years and we're on the outer edge of it.) This was written in 1999 and stated that the meteor swarm would be back in 2000 with a period of 3.3 years ... so it looks like they may be back again in late 2003 early 2004 ?

Interesting.

[blam]

"Interesting ... according to the article we're moving into the Taurid metoer cluster as time goes by (every 2500 years and we're on the outer edge of it.) "

Implies trouble if we start going through the center of the stream, huh?

[537 Votes]

The Italian historian Flavius Cassiodorus wrote about conditions that he experienced during the year AD 536 :

"The Sun...seems to have lost its wonted light, and appears of a bluish colour. We marvel to see no shadows of our bodies at noon, to feel the mighty vigour of the Sun's heat wasted into feebleness, and the phenomena which accompany an eclipse prolonged through almost a whole year.

Almost-the-magic-number bump!

[headsonpikes]

Chances are that an Ice Age will get us before a meteorite or comet.

Of course, glaciers are easier to outrun.

[MARTIAL MONK]

I also believe that one of the reasons for ancient interest in the heavens was that they KNEW from experience that violent death from above was always a threat

I have a different take on the reason for the ancient's interest in the skies. Nights for the primatives were boring; mind-numbingly, starkly, excruciatiatingly boring. If you have ever spent a few weeks in a primative setting without lights, radios or other diversions you know what I mean.

There were always the skies: Sparkling, moving, mysterious. It's no wonder that all ancient cultures focused so much on the night skies.

[Centurion2000]

Implies trouble if we start going through the center of the stream, huh?

So long as we don't cross the streams .... that would be bad.

[FreedomCalls]

[blam]

"Maybe the atmosphere caught fire and melted them?"

Maybe a Tunguska type explosion, huh?

[DPB101]

" . . . a phantom period of approximately 300 years has been inserted between 600 AD to 900 AD, either by accident, by misinterpretation of documents or by deliberate falsification. . ."

[f.Christian]

I read 90 % of the article and 10 % of the comments ... wtim ---

Someone posted on an evolution - creation thread ... that so many times over the billions and millions of years ---evolution would have been interrupted that the possibilty it could keep starting again isn't very high !

The fossil record and the geologic column contradicts evolution --- entropy does too !

There are no pre cambrian fossils and everythings begins to appear pretty much already fully formed and developed !

The pre cambrian layers and most of the protruding earth's features formed from below at the same time layering from above happened ... erosian - flooding -- volcanic formed them - more from above --- rather quickly too --- not enough time for all this complicated life to form magically !

Where are the short necked giraffe fossils ... for something supposedly as ubiquitous (( everywhere - everything )) as evolution --- the evidence is scant -- non existant -- fabricated -- imagined !

Why does this insane belief continue ... lifestyle -- politics !

Evo obituary ... designeduniverse.com !

[blam]

It took about 300 years to recover from the Dark Ages. A lot of people died and very little happened in that 300 years.

[Light Speed]

Velikovsky...a Genius.

A freind sat in on a lecture from Velikovsky shortly before he passed away during a symposium at his University.

Velikovsky was talking about Interdimentional realites and Temporal Causality...

Blowing people away.!!

After Velikovsky...the park for a Toke..then beers.

shift:

The Earth transits thru the fragmented train of a supercomet that broke up under tidal influence 50,000 yrs ago.[ Clube ,Napier, Hoyle .ETC]

Now its 4 independent streams...the Earth takes a full 4 months to transit thru them each year.
The Northern Taurids have broken away from Comet Encke.
The Stohl streams
And the Hephaistos group..with Hep weighing in at roughly 10 Kilometeres.

The projection is Hundreds of thousands of Tunguskas scale bodies...This is way more MIRV'S than the Chi Coms dream of : )

Velikovsky might comment.."Who knows..maybe Nostradamus is correct"

How big will Frances surrender Flag be for that!