Posted on 07/16/2008 11:35:55 AM PDT by decimon
PARIS (AFP) - Ninety-three million years ago, Earth was a reshuffled jigsaw of continents, a hothouse where the average temperature was nearly twice that of today.
Palm trees grew in what would be Alaska, large reptiles roamed in northern Canada and the ice-free Arctic Ocean warmed to the equivalent of a tepid swimming pool.
So our planet was balmy -- but hardly a biological paradise, for it was whacked by a mass die-out. The depths of the ocean suddenly became starved of oxygen, wiping out swathes of marine life.
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And you.
Pole flip? What is that?
A pole flip is when you find you are suddenly in the Arctic one morning, or if you were in the Arctic, then you find you are suddenly in the Tropics. You may find your language to be freshly tropical as well.
I think you’ve confused the axis of the earth with it’s magnetic poles. They are not the same. The earth has not “flipped” on it’s axis has it?
It has, many times. Einstein was in contact with Hapgood about this in the 50s. Nothing can be done about it except to allow global warming. LOL
> I think the volcanoes came in on giant asteroids.
:’D Good one. :’) :’)
Northern Crater Shows Prehistoric Deep Impact
[23 million years ago]
Alaska Science Forum | July 7, 1998 | Ned Rozell
Posted on 08/28/2004 11:49:33 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1201791/posts
I could have sworn we just had a topic about pole shift / magnetic pole shift, but maybe I’d just recently visited one of these:
North By Northwest
Science News | 12-21-2007 | Sid Perkins
Posted on 12/21/2007 3:13:32 PM PST by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1943002/posts
The Day The Earth Fell Over
Live Science.com | August 25, 2006 | By Sara Goudarzi, LiveScience Staff Writer
Posted on 08/26/2006 4:20:53 AM PDT by aculeus
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1690330/posts
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