[meteorite-list] More golden showers

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Good day Folks,

Sounds to me like a modern day version of 'Chicken Little':  Amusing  and 
something to perhaps keep a 4 year old's interest at bedtime; but hardly  
believable.

Best Regards,

Paul Martyn
Savannah,  GA




In a message dated 7/8/2008 2:09:56 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
sterling_k_webb at sbcglobal.net writes:
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
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From: "Darren Garrison"  <cynapse at charter.net>
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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






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