In the past, I had read of a meteor impact well before the Gulf event that did in the dinos. I think 250 MY ago fits the profile.
At the time, an object MUCH bigger than the gulf event struck somewhere in central Canada. It was SO LARGE, it actually flipped part of the crust over, like a pancake on a frying pan.
Not sure if it’s related or how much they know about it.
You are onto something.
Actually, the shock waves from the huge meteor impact went clean around the globe, and when they all got to the other side together they once again amplified and cracked the crust there bad enough to let that huge volcanic event begin. If I’m not mistaken, that big one is down by Mexico or in the gulf there. If my memory serves me, it left a 10 mile wide crater.
No kidding.
You have been watching WAAAAAAY TOOOOOO MUCH Stargate, Startrek, etc. My prognosis... No soup for you.
DUDE, R U into Mara-T-Wanna?
This may sound far out but Raup and Stepkowski(sp?) some years ago theorized that the extinctions on earth(250M and 65M years ago)were caused by comets kicking asteroids out of orbit, which then impacted the earth. The question then was : what kicked the oort cloud comets out of stable orbits in the first place?
3 possibilities were mentioned: nemesis, a dark companion star to the sun on a very elliptical orbit; the solar system passing thru the galactic plane; or some other still unknown factor. My shot : two globular clouds of comets on nearly parallel orbits passing through each other every 65 million years and throwing comets out by wave forces rather than direct collisions : Outer X and Inner X or Ox/Ix.
Brian Marsden thought it an unorthodOX/unorthodIX idea but hey....You could possibly find them by sending out pulsed laser shots and waiting DAYS for an ever so faint pulse to return, lasar wavelengths matched to known(strongly guessed anyway)surface chemicals.
But now we’ve discovered the Kuiper Belt Objects and the outer solar sysytem picture has changed once again, no longer just random comets in the oort cloud. What other strange beasts are lurking out there in the darkness?