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Posted on 04/04/2008 5:49:18 AM PDT by Red Badger
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I read somewhere that this is what lead people to think that dragons actually existed. The fireball, low angle and burning of people’s hair and clothes, it makes perfect sense.
It seems that, if there was no visible crater, or the remains of one, then there could not be a meteor. So, these two sets of scientists have been throwing rocks at each other for some time.
The new evidence on this tablet indicates that the meteor came in at a very flat angle, 6 degrees off of horizontal, clipped a peak, and shattered, causing a landslide as half the mountain sheared into the valley, and breaking the meteor into small enough bits to not leave a major crater.
"but the other half of the tablet records an object large enough for its shape to be noted even though it is still in space.
"the asteroid is over a kilometre in diameter
"The giant landslide centred at Köfels in Austria is 500m thick and five kilometres in diameter "
""The ground heating though very short would be enough to ignite any flammable material - including human hair and clothes. It is probable more people died under the plume than in the Alps due to the impact blast."
This sounds pretty farfetched to me. What do you guys think?
alas:
Clay tablet holds clue to asteroid mystery
The Telegraph | 3/31/2008 | Nic Fleming
Posted on 03/30/2008 11:33:39 PM EDT by bruinbirdman
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1994235/posts
Researchers: Asteroid Destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah
Fox News | March 31,2008 | Lewis Smith
Posted on 03/31/2008 4:48:42 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1994735/posts
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Cf. Free Republic, Clay tablet holds clue to asteroid mystery, posted by bruinbirdman 03/31/2008.
If thou dost not recognize a hoax as foolish as this one, go reap moonbeames.
A hoax is only a hoax if someone purposefully tries to deceive someone through trickery or fraudulent means. The tablet story may be untrue, but the people advocating the theory are sincere.................
Didst thou personally ax them meticulously concerning their level of sumeriology?
Red Badger, perhaps you would have recognized the hoax if the following lines in introduction of the article of The Telegraph had been kept there: “A historian from Azerbaijan, who believes humans originally came to Earth from another planet, has interpreted it as a description of the arrival of a spaceship. More mainstream academics have failed to decipher its meaning.” You would have been warned not to take it too seriously I guess.
From the physorg.com website article I posted, the source is listed as:
Source: University of Bristol
Which is a real university..........I have no idea about The Telegraph article ...........
http://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2008/212017945233.html
http://www.bristol.ac.uk/aerospace/research/dynamicsandsystems/kofels/kofelsdownloads.html
http://www.rocketeers.co.uk/?q=node/116
Mark Hempsell certainly seems like a legitimate engineer in aeronautics...............
Do you really believe that Sumerian of that date is easily translated and understood by non-Sumeriologists, non-Akkadiologist, as are Alan Bond and Mark Hempsell? Explain first of all the deadly silence of those who do possess an understanding of the languages and the culture or Sumer û Akkadê (this is Akkadian and means Shumer and Akkad, I have no means here to reproduce the s with the v on it). Do you have any idea of Sumerian?
My Hawaiian nick means “The Celestial Voice”. A bit funny, here, I deem.
BUMP!
Lacking arguments?
Great Comets, Great FloodsAuthors Edith Kristan-Tollmann and Alexander Tollmann, both of the University of Vienna's Geological Institute in Austria, suggest that a cometary crash is the cause of the flood we usually associate with Noah... By combining historical record with geological clues, the Tollmanns picture several cometary fragments -- probably seven of them -- smacking into the earth about ten thousand years ago. The great splashdown took place near the autumnal equinox in the Northern Hemisphere, spring in the Southern, with the major fragments hitting the oceans over a span of days at most. (Oddly, the Tollmanns are less certain of the year than of the time of year; because of the many internal clues in the tales and commentaries worldwide, Mesopotamian and Scandinavian sources agree on the season.) ...The geologic evidence is--or should be--less arguable. The Tollmanns think they've found described in the scientific literature a worldwide array of tektites of the right age, for example. Tektites are rocks melted by an impact and splashed away as molten drops that then solidify again as they cool. Because they are inorganic, they are usually dated by stratigraphy -- the age of the layers within which they lie -- and that is an admittedly imperfect science.
by Carla Helfferich
Alaska Science Forum
July 13, 1994
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