Posted on 05/20/2007 4:50:33 PM PDT by Renfield
Fireballs set half the planet ablaze, wiping out the mammoth and America's Stone Age hunters
Scientists will outline dramatic evidence this week that suggests a comet exploded over the Earth nearly 13,000 years ago, creating a hail of fireballs that set fire to most of the northern hemisphere.
Primitive Stone Age cultures were destroyed and populations of mammoths and other large land animals, such as the mastodon, were wiped out. The blast also caused a major bout of climatic cooling that lasted 1,000 years and seriously disrupted the development of the early human civilisations that were emerging in Europe and Asia......
(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...
Even meteors routinely explode - it’s been actually observed.
I’d like some advanced notice, too.
(Silicon Valley)
Since then, they seem to be getting uglier.
Caused, ironically enough, by something called feminism...
I've seen it. Once.
One in a bazillion, will be a Kablooey! Most break apart from heat.
And of course...”...women and children hit hardest...”
You forgot minorities...
YEC INTREP
Damn little info about the diamonds. I was going on a hunt.
Jerry Lee Lewis is old enough to have been there to witness it.
Meteor Crater in Arizona is approx. 50,000 years old.
The theory goes that a medium sized ocean impact would put so much water in the air that it would rain for a long time, on top of waves hundreds of feet high. It would be cloudy for a very long time, too.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1738251/posts
God warned Noah that this was coming and had him prepare for it, which is a good thing for us.
Got a link to any info on it?
I’d like to see the article..
Close. It was Diamonds that killed off the caveman.
Cavewoman discovered that diamonds make pretty jewelry and in no time at all they had to have bigger and prettier ones that the cavewoman next cave over. Result - caveman had to find a job and end his leisurely life of sitting around the cave.
“araona crater” “iturralde structure”
crater bolivia jungle
It was originally called Iturralde, then a preliminary expedition found that the Araona Tribe lived there, so they named the crater after them.
Dating is not exact yet, though there have been two expeditions, it’s very remote and heavily vegetated and there is not much land data to play with.
I'd go myself but I'm not sure I want to start dating again.
I don't believe that the impact you describe would be relevant to the theory put forth in the article, as interesting as it may be.
Fact is, it's in Bolivia, well south of the equator.
While there is some cross-over of weather patterns over the equatorial zone, the majority of any weather effects of a Bolivian impact would show up in the southern hemisphere, not the north...
Additionally, the science writer of the article I read from Space.com tries to imply that a bus-sized meteor resulted in an explosion of several Mega-tons..
Bus sized ? Kilotons, maybe.. Definitely not megatons.
I'm guessing this impact crater is not big enough to have caused the sort of damage and effect the "diamond dust" article proposes, even if it had actually been in North America.
It will be interesting to see what info they come up with, however, and what theories may be advanced as to how it effected the flora and fauna of South America or it's Pacific coast.
In my own opinion, even 30,000 years is not too early for possible human occupation of the South American continent.
That would not be too early for the Australian aborigine travelers believed to have inhabited South America well before the Bering Straits migrations.
There may well be some rock paintings of some sort at the far range of that impact. ( 500 miles or more )
That would also explain for the type of erosion seen at the Sphinx.
If populations of creatures were destroyed “by fire”, how do we know they were there?
Before the last ones were killed by fire, there were plenty that died of other causes.
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