Posted on 04/02/2010 4:06:27 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Hour-long hailstorm may have caused 1,000-year freeze, say scientists
An hour-long hailstorm from space may have changed the climate of the Earth in 11,000 BC, leading to a freeze lasting more than 1,000 years, scientists say.
Published: 8:00AM BST 02 Apr 2010
An hour-long hailstorm from space may have changed the climate of the Earth in 11,000 BC, leading to a freeze lasting more than 1,000 years, scientists say.
A comet may well have caused the earth to freeze for over 1,000 years Photo: GETTY
The catastrophe, caused by a disintegrating comet, wiped out large numbers of animal species and disrupted human cultures.
A new theory put forward by according to Professor Bill Napier, from the Cardiff University Astrobiology Centre suggests it occurred when the Earth strayed into a dense trail of fragments shed by a large comet.
Thousands of chunks of material from the comet would have rained down on Earth, each one releasing the energy of a one megaton nuclear bomb.
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The break-up of the comet was probably caused by a collision with a prototype SUV lost in space.
We need an immediate summit to reduce the universe's stockpile of comet fragments. You can't hug your children with densely packed frozen particle arms.
More likely the fallout from the Obama/Farrakkan Mother Ship.
So maybe global warming is real, we’ve just had a lot more comets lately! Whew. I was starting to lose my trust in liberal (aka phony) scientists.
Oh. The major climate events which accompanied the end of the last Ice Age at that time had nothing to do with it then. OK. Saturn’s rings are considered to be mostly ice...so maybe it was an attack by the Saturnians.
The Napier Stray Earth Theory, which no doubt formed the base function of the Capsizing Guam Theory. It is a monumental time, in the advancement of human intellect. The hypnotic idiotic will soon be ...... .... ........ ....
People reading these things emanating from academic centers need to become familiar with the phrase, “Publish or perish”.
Idiot congressman didn't even know that all islands are heavily packed with styrofoam on the underside to make sure they don't sink.
It IS interesting though, and as likely as any other theory. More likely than some.
Some Cro-Magnon looking at the ruins of his hut probably thought up “homeowners insurance”.
Then again, it may not have.
It is never good when mother strays.
It is interesting and the biblical flood story could be inferring a similar event.
A hailstorm causes wildfires?
You learn something new every day.
In summary, it goes like this: the sea levels rise due to melting ice, which puts so much water vapor into the atmosphere that the resulting dense cloud cover blocks sunlight, causing Nuclear Winter and resulting in Instant Ice Age, as seen in the accompanying D- disaster movie, The Day After Tomorrow, which was "based on real science".
LLS
“Back when I was young, around 11,000 or 13,000 BC — I forget which — we were coming out of an Ice Age, and we were going into a 1000 year freeze! We had floods! And hailstorms! Comets were whizzing paat us! You kids today have it easy!” [/very old codger]
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