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Well, at least we know now that it wasn't Fred Flintstone and his new invention, fire................
1 posted on 01/02/2009 7:44:26 AM PST by Red Badger
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I for one am getting a bit tired of “scientists say”. Lets face it, Al Gore says we have global warming and is backed up by “scientists” and I am still shoveling Gore’s global warming in the form of the heaviest snowfall for many years.

Old honest Al is making a monetary killing on the ignorant citizens of the world.


49 posted on 01/02/2009 8:28:34 AM PST by hgro (Jerry Riversd)
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Comet.
It will make your teeth turn green.

Comet.
It tastes like gasoline.

Comet.
It will make you vomit.

So try some Comet and vomit today.


52 posted on 01/02/2009 8:32:01 AM PST by dfwgator (I hate Illinois Marxists)
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A comet that wipes out all the big mammals but one, humans?

Of course.

“The idea that a comet may have caused catastrophic climate change and extinction relatively recently in Earth’s long history suggests scientists shouldn’t dismiss the possibility of it happening again, Wolbach said.”

The History Channel has it covered.....over and overandover....


55 posted on 01/02/2009 8:34:07 AM PST by count-your-change (You don't have be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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Mexico gets it 65 mil years ago, Chicago gets it 13k years ago... Geez, God has the New World in his crosshairs! Why us??


58 posted on 01/02/2009 8:36:27 AM PST by Cheesel (The Ark was built by amateurs, the Titanic by professionals.)
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This article is vague on how a comet could cause continent-wide fires. The answer is that air heats dramatically when compressed. The overpressure shock wave from such an event would have incinerated people, animals and vegetation over a huge area. That would explain why the Pliestocene extinction rate was much higher among land animals than for those that lived in the water.
64 posted on 01/02/2009 9:03:47 AM PST by Interesting Times (For the truth about "swift boating" see ToSetTheRecordStraight.com)
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One of these days, the "scientific community" is going to have to admit that Immanuel Velikovsky was correct and that within historical times (he said approximately 1500BC) Venus was a comet that a) interacted with Mars and b) made a "swipe" at the earth that nearly destroyed civilization.

Next time you see a Chinese Dragon look for the ball close to it. It is usually red or gold and smoking. That would be Mars.

Velikovsky's books are out of print, but you can still find used copies. I liked "Earth in Upheaval" best. He talked about the three meters of "muck" which was jumbled tropical plant and animal remains that had to be dug through to get to the gold in Alaska. Funny how I haven't heard about that anywhere else.

And Herodotus said that the Egyptians said that during their history the sun had changed its direction of travel three times. He wrote is if he didn't believe them. But why would someone lie about something like that?

What is interesting about all of this is that if catastrophies occur on a regular basis, then mankind is NOT IN CONTROL OF ITS DESTINY. This is anathema to liberals, socialists, communists and that ilk.

68 posted on 01/02/2009 9:19:28 AM PST by Lafayette (You would think that Patrick Henry said, "Give me DEMOCRACY or give me death!")
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Was that the year the Blackhawks beat the Canadians?
76 posted on 01/02/2009 10:01:24 AM PST by PSYCHO-FREEP (WHAT? Where did my tag line go?)
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See post #40 on this thread.
78 posted on 01/02/2009 10:53:54 AM PST by blam
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Scientists find signs of 13,000-year-old extinction event
Chicago Tribune | January 2, 2009 | Robert Mitchum
Posted on 01/01/2009 2:09:17 PM PST by neverdem
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80 posted on 01/02/2009 11:24:51 AM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_______Profile finally updated Saturday, December 6, 2008 !!!)
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The Cycle of Cosmic Catastrophes: Flood, Fire, and Famine in the History of Civilization The Cycle of Cosmic Catastrophes:
Flood, Fire, and Famine
in the History of Civilization

by Richard Firestone,
Allen West, and
Simon Warwick-Smith


81 posted on 01/02/2009 11:27:07 AM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_______Profile finally updated Saturday, December 6, 2008 !!!)
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82 posted on 01/02/2009 11:29:51 AM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_______Profile finally updated Saturday, December 6, 2008 !!!)
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Wow, looks like a lot of the same wheels turning in the same ruts, again.

Some raging nimrod added “piltdownman” to the keywords.

If it makes anyone feel any better, this scenario — which involves bombardment of the Earth by various waves of particles and objects, different sizes and energies, with the waves separated by either hundreds or thousands of years, and originating in a relatively nearby star which went kaboom — is catching on some, but, as with the Alvarez model for dino extinction via an impact at the K-T boundary, has met with furious resistance.


84 posted on 01/02/2009 11:49:13 AM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_______Profile finally updated Saturday, December 6, 2008 !!!)
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Nothing good comes out of Chicago, even then.


97 posted on 01/02/2009 1:26:37 PM PST by School of Rational Thought (Sarah Palin - High ideals on high heels)
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I don't know if this particular theory is Junk Science or not.

But I do think it's reasonable to believe a collision between a comet or meteor, and Earth, would cause a great catastrophe. And that we shouldn't bury our heads in the sand and pretend it can't happen.

Seems to me we constitutionalists could see a sort of weapons program -targeting comets- as a constitutionally correct use of taxpayers money !

Sadly, our tax money that used to be directed into such programs (sneeringly called "Star Wars" by the Left) will diverted by Obama into idiotic anti-"Climate Change" boondoggles.

103 posted on 01/02/2009 2:32:58 PM PST by shhrubbery! (Dear media: Palin is pure as Alaska snow - it's OBAMA who was "NEVER VETTED" !)
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