[meteorite-list] More golden showers

Tue Jul 8 07:43:07 EDT 2008

All the postings to this thread ended up in my spam folder.  Don't you think a better choice for a subject line would have been better.  GOLDEN SHOWERS?   LOL

Don Rawlings

--- On Tue, 7/8/08, Sterling K. Webb <sterling_k_webb at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> From: Sterling K. Webb <sterling_k_webb at sbcglobal.net>
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] More golden showers
> To: cynapse at charter.net, meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> Date: Tuesday, July 8, 2008, 1:57 AM
> Hi, Darren, List,
> 
>     Please note that the first press release said
> that the discovery disproved the "now
> discredited"
> theory of glacial transport. A few days later, they say:
> "diamonds, gold and silver could have been ejected
> into the air during the blasts, West said, or they could
> have been carried south by rivers formed from the
> meltwater of liquified glaciers."
> 
>     Change your tune much?
> 
>     Note also that they specify a magnitude for the
> blast of 300,000 megatons. This would require an
> impactor of 1000 to 1300 meters in diameter (more
> for a comet) and would produce a 20-kilometer crater.
> They say a 5000 meter comet, for good measure.
> 
>     Even better is this assertion: "For several months
> following the comet strike, the skies rained precious
> stone and metals, the researchers speculate. Diamonds
> drizzled down by the tons."
> 
>     FOR MONTHS? Diamonds and gold rained from
> the sky for MONTHS? As dust, they explain -- diamond
> dust and presumably gold dust. I wonder how many tens
> of thousands of tons of diamonds they think were laying
> around on the Canadian tundra?
> 
>     One easily testable assertion of their scheme is these
> massive floods of glacial meltwaters at precisely 12,900
> years ago EVERYWHERE in the northern tier of states,
> entirely at the same instant, from the Atlantic to the
> Pacific.
> Since glacial melt chronology has been worked out in
> great detail over a century, there should be some sign
> of this massive melt they speak of. (PS: they're
> isn't any.)
> 
>     While in one place, they speak of a "three-mile
> comet,"
> elsewhere in the press release, they speak of "the
> multiple
> airbursts..." Always good to have a couple of
> different
> stories going, I guess.
> 
>     This just gets more entertaining by the day...
> 
> 
> Sterling K. Webb
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Darren Garrison"
> <cynapse at charter.net>
> To: <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
> Sent: Monday, July 07, 2008 11:36 PM
> Subject: [meteorite-list] More golden showers
> 
> 
> http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,377449,00.html
> 
> Diamonds May Have Rained Down From Space During Ice Age
> 
> Monday , July 07, 2008
> By Ker Than
> 
> LS
> ADVERTISEMENT
> 
> Diamonds and precious metals found in the eastern United
> States might have
> rained down during the last Ice Age after a comet shattered
> over Canada and 
> set
> North America ablaze, all leading to a mass die-off of
> animals and humans.
> 
> New chemical analyses of diamond, gold and silver found in
> Ohio and Indiana
> reveal the minerals were transported there from Canada
> several thousand 
> years
> ago. The question is, how?
> 
> "There are no gold mines or silver mines in Ohio that
> anyone knows of, but 
> there
> are plenty of them in Canada," said retired
> geophysicist Allen West, who was
> involved in the study.
> 
> The discovery is consistent with a theory proposed by West
> and colleagues 
> that a
> 3-mile-wide comet splintered over glaciers and ice sheets
> in eastern Canada
> about 12,900 years ago and wiped out man and beast.
> 
> "These would have been like ten thousand Tunguskas
> going off at once," said
> West, referring to a mid-air explosion over Siberia a
> century ago possibly
> caused by a fragmenting meteor.
> 
> Precious rain
> 
> The diamonds, gold and silver could have been ejected into
> the air during 
> the
> blasts, West said, or they could have been carried south by
> rivers formed 
> from
> the meltwater of liquified glaciers.
> 
> For several months following the comet strike, the skies
> rained precious 
> stone
> and metals, the researchers speculate. Diamonds drizzled
> down by the tons.
> 
> "Some of them you couldn't see, and animals
> would've been breathing them 
> in,"
> West told LiveScience. "But other ones would clearly
> have been visible. They
> might've even hurt if they hit you."
> 
> The larger diamonds were visible to the naked eye and
> dropped like hail 
> stones
> within seconds of the blasts, West said.
> 
> The smallest diamonds, the "size of cold
> viruses," would have lingered in 
> the
> atmosphere for weeks or months, eventually wafting down to
> Earth like 
> expensive
> snowflakes.
> 
> Killed man and beast
> 
> Flaming fragments of the comet crashing to Earth sparked
> forests fires 
> around
> the globe, West contends.
> 
> The intense heat from the blasts set the very air on fire.
> North America's
> grassland, the furs of animals, the hair and clothing of
> humans - all would 
> have
> been set ablaze.
> 
> West and his colleagues have proposed that the comet strike
> contributed to 
> the
> extinction of several species of North American megafauna,
> including 
> mammoths
> and mastodons, and led to the early demise of the Clovis
> culture, a Stone 
> Age
> people who had only recently immigrated to the continent.
> 
> The multiple airbursts might have also caused large amounts
> of fresh water 
> to be
> dumped into the Atlantic Ocean, temporarily disrupting
> currents and 
> prompting a
> sudden global cold snap called the Younger Dryas period.
> 
> "The kind of evidence we are finding does suggest that
> climate change at the 
> end
> of the last Ice Age was the result of a catastrophic
> event," said study team
> member Ken Tankersley, an anthropologist at the University
> of Cincinnati.
> 
> While the discoveries in Ohio and Indiana are consistent
> with the theory of 
> a
> comet colliding with Earth during the last Ice Age, West
> cautions that it is 
> not
> a "smoking gun."
> 
> "We're a long way from saying categorically that
> these things got here 
> because
> of this event," West said. "They're
> consistent, but we've got a lot more 
> work to
> do to show there's a direct connection."
> 
> The researchers are preparing to submit their research to a
> scientific 
> journal.
> 
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