Maybe Southern Iraq.
Posted on 04/30/2007 4:38:09 PM PDT by blam
Most geologists have thought they were from a massive meteor or comet bombardment where the meteor(s) or comet(s) broke up into thousands of pieces like a scattergun shot.
Yer quick with those. LOL
Maybe Southern Iraq.
Yeah. And we knew you were going to say that, too.
Of course it had to be a catastrophic event — we’re all into Hollywood special-effect type explanations.
We know Roman civilization (empire, really) just kind of peetered out & ultimately succumbed to barbarian invasions. Why can’t this have happened elsewhere and in other eras? At a lower state of technological development, civilization & pastoral lifestyles (advanced herdsman) lived in a kind of delicate balance. A population explosion among the herdsman followed by a drought, and entire ‘nations’ are set in motion. It’s like a game of billiards (or dominoes falling).
I don’t think these timelines really sync the way they are suggesting they do, so I’ll stick with the more mundane theories.
The 5,000-year-old way of life of the Marsh Arabs, celebrated by Wilfred Thesiger among others, has long been under threat. Its final disappearance is documented in “The Iraqi Marshlands” edited by Emma Nicholson and Peter Clark, and published this week by Politico's. As the accompanying map suggests, Saddam Hussein's aggressive drainage programme in the 1990s, which had the dual purpose or reclaiming land and pursuing rebels hiding in the waterways, turned much of the marshland into desert, depopulating the area. Some 200,000 of the inhabitants fled, many of them to refugee camps in Iran. The damage is probably irretrievable.
Is that the hole they pulled Saddam out of?
Whoa, deja vu....
Problem is, the Sumerians, Akkadians and Chaldeans who inhabited that area for 2000 years were not arabs. The arabs were later inhabitants who came after Muhammed set them on the march of conquest.
science ping
The Conversion of Constantine
He said that about noon, when the day was already beginning to decline, he saw with his own eyes the trophy of a cross of light in the heavens, above the sun, and bearing the inscription, Conquer by this. At this sight he himself was struck with amazement, and his whole army also, which followed him on this expedition, and witnessed the miracle. (source: Eusebius, Life of the Emperor Constantine). An impact of the Sirente size can be seen at big distance as a strip of fire turning into a fireball and then generating a pyrotechnic show. There may be a proximity in space and time between the proposed Sirente impact and the vision that the emperor Constantine had before the famous Battle of Milvian Bridge. A possibile coincidence between these two events has been widely discussed in the popular press.
There are quite a few likely suspects. Arizona Crater is a famous example. Upheaval Dome might be another, in Utah.
blam should check for them in China.
According to the environazi's, that alone should be reason enough for invading Iraq and getting rid of Saddam.
Well, I’m sure that it will be president Bush’s fault when it happens because he didn’t do anything to prevent it.
An event of that magnitude, leaving a crater of that size would have been an incredible explosion, one which certainly would have been recorded by the historians of the day, of which in AD300-AD-325 were considerable.
Thanks.
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