Posted on 10/07/2007 10:07:52 PM PDT by blam
Yup...I was 'holding-out' for Michelin.
A connection? Or are we overdue for the next 6,000 year hit?
Blam I have seen posted in one place or another reports from the late 1700s to early 1800’s from explorers in Siberia and Alaska. They told of finding huge pile of ancient bones. They didn’t know what kind of bones they were but the enormity of the deposits were such as to make them think something truely catestrophic caused them all to die at once.
Have you seen those articles.
...highly permineralized human bones found embedded in the travertine rock of Calaveras County caves--once thought to be of Pliocene age and later estimated to be 12,000 years old--are, on present evidence, no more than 3000 to 4000 years old. ...The most controversial discovery was the "Calaveras skull," a partial cranium found in 1866 at a depth of 40 m in a mine shaft penetrating Eocene gravels and lava beds on Bald Hill near Angels Camp, Calaveras County. The bones were fossilized and heavily encrusted with calcareous material, supporting the notion of great antiquity. The appelation of "Auriferous Gravel Man" persisted through 4 decades, until Ales Hrdlicka showed conclusively that the Calaveras skull was that of a recent Indian, and Sinclair discredited the story of its discovery.
In 1880 the respected geologist J. D. Whitney published a report culminating a long study of Sierran gold-bearing strata as related to Early Man. Whitney admitted the Calaveras skull, oral testimony from miners, and affidavits from "expert witnesses" as evidence that the remains of humans and extinct fauna were coeval with Tertiary gravels. Artifacts often identical to those made by historic Indians, reportedly found in auriferous deposits, were taken to support Whitney's belief that little or no cultural change had occurred in California since Pliocene times.
Reaction to Whitney's case for "Eocene Man" tended to be negative. Critical reviews by Holmes and Sinclair exposed the problems of using testimony and the like as scientific evidence; they offered no support for the idea of Tertiary archaeology. Nonetheless, Whitney's contentions and the reactions to them were important milestones. As Warren has observed, they mark the emergence of California archaeology [references omitted].
There is He3 in extraterrestrial buckyballs for those who think going to the moon for He3 is reason enough for going to the moon.
Nope, Here's one I got a chuckle out of that I had overlooked until I went back and reread some posts:
Yup, I mislabeled the pdf file with the wrong tire maker; it should be Firestone et al. (2007), not Goodyear.
The event was WORLDWIDE?
Yikes, it looks like we are getting hit fairly frequently by these earth shaking things.
Over due.
A cosmic trail with destruction in its wake
"There is sufficient evidence, he says, to indicate that collisions happen within centuries and millenniums rather than millions and billions of years, with multiple encounters more likely than sceptics claim."
Don't recall those.
Does anyone think this may be related:
http://www.creationscience.com/onlinebook/FrozenMammoths6.html
Didn’t mention my theory of avalanche followed by climate change. There have been herds of animals apparently buried in snowstorms and then frozen for subsequent millennium. Bones of the larger, mature animals have been found piled underneath bones of the lighter young animals. Snow, at least many tens of feet deep, seems a good explanation.
Have you even read the pages connected to the link, or did you just read the first and then make your own conclusion? I stopped somewhere around the 65th e-page, and what I read had nothing to do with an avalance. It had quite a bit more to do with ‘The Day After Tomorrow’ and your near futeur.
What, you don’t think my theory is plausible? I said I hadn’t seen it mentioned, as you have also found.
In the article, most of the instances of suffocated, crushed, animals happened in the wide open plains of Arctic Circle.
From the organic matter in the soil in which it lies. All that shows, though, is the time when it arrived at that location. Not an exact science by any means.
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