Scientist: Comets Blasted Early Americans

ap on Yahoo ^ | 10/28/05 | Meg Kinnard - ap

[RightWhale]

he estimates that comets struck the solar system during the Clovis period, which was roughly 13,000 years ago. These comets would have hit the Earth at 1,000 kilometers an hour

Comets are already inside the solar system, and they move much faster.

[RightWhale]

He wrote some other stuff of a hypothetical nature. Probably not as interesting.

[de Buillion]

I was reading Vielikovsky in the '70's, and then Carl Sagan and the "nuclear winter " crowd put out all their propaganda, then I found out about how sagan, et al tried to silence Vielikovsky from even publishing, that sort of told me what sort of idiot sagan was. Tongue-tied turkey.

[RightWhale]

A good thing Velikovsky did was research out a lot of archaeological information. He might have put some of it together in creative ways, but the data remains. There are parts of shredded mammoths, sabertooth tigers and musk ox in the frozen muck around Fairbanks, Alaska. I have seen some of these. Whatever happened wasn't all that long ago in geological terms.

Mars is central to Velikovsky's chain of events, and while it doesn't appear likely that Mars came close by earth recently, still Mars looks like something catastrophic happened. Half the crust appears to be missing, just as half of earth's crust is missing. Earth has a moon to explain the missing crust, but Mars has nothing but some questionable asteroids that don't come close to Mars now if they ever did.

[SunkenCiv]

just an update.

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The Cycle of Cosmic Catastrophes: Flood, Fire, and Famine in the History of Civilization by Richard Firestone, Allen West, and Simon Warwick-Smith

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[budwiesest]

There are too many references to car tires for me to take this seriously.

[OldNavyVet]

“Isn’t “1,000 KPH” (625 MPH or ~0.25 KPS) pretty slow for a cometary inpact?”

You’re right. The Earth itself is barrelling around the Sun at 66,705 MPH; and Earth-incoming meteorites, comets, etc. can be expected to enter Earth’s space at incredible velocities ... especially in head-on situations.

One for-instance is Chesapeake Bay; it was apparently carved out by a comet strike about 36 million years ago.