Posted on 02/15/2004 11:18:28 AM PST by blam
I've read some speculation that state that the BAsque, the Chechens, the Dravidians and the Ainu were all relted. But it seems mostly speculation to me as the distances and time spans are too great.
Where did you get this information? I have never heard such a thing.
"Before 50 million years ago, Earth had no regular ice ages, but when we did have them they tended to be colossal. A massive freezing occurred abut 2.2 billion years ago, followed by a billion years or so of warmth. Then there was another ice age even larger than the first - so large that some scientists are now referring to the age in which it occurred as the Cryogenian, or super ice age. The condition is more popularly known as Snowball Earth.
" 'Snowball,' however, barely captures the murderousness of conditions. The theory is that because of a fall in solar radiation of about 6 percent and a dropoff in the production (or retention) of greenhouse gases, Earth essentially lost its ability to hold on to its heart. It became a kind of all-over Antarctica. Temperatures plunged by as much as 80 degrees Fahrenheit. The entire surface of the planet may have frozen solid, with ocean ice up to half a mile thick at higher latitudes and tens of yards thick even in the tropics."
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As late as 1890 rocks did not fall from the sky, and it didn't matter how many French farmers showed up at the Institute with burnt rocks they picked out of their fields after seeing them fall out of the sky.
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:') There are some who still don't think it's true. I think the first thaw in that cognitive freeze occurred when a stone fell out of a clear sky as witnessed by the Holy Roman Emperor and his rather large entourage. But resistance to the idea of impact (large, serious ones, striking after the so-called Late Heavy Bombardment) remained until 1994, when the bits of SL-9 smashed into Jupiter. (':
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The climate record in ancient Mesopotamia and around the world shows an abrupt climate change event in 6400 B.C., about 8,200 radiocarbon years before present. A period of immense cooling and drought persisted for the next 200 to 300 years.
14 year old thread.
Yes I’ve been looking for it for ages. Finally found it. Thanks so much.
This topic was posted , thanks blam, ping message update.
Flood, Fire, and Famine
in the History of Civilization
by Richard Firestone,
Allen West, and
Simon Warwick-Smith
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