Posted on 07/24/2006 12:03:03 AM PDT by ForGod'sSake
ALL YOUR BAYS ARE BELONG TO US.
maybe this one?
Scientific maverick's theory on Earth's core up for a test
SF Chronicle | Monday, November 29, 2004 | Keay Davidson
Posted on 12/05/2004 2:17:28 PM EST by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1294934/posts
"a supernova...is primarily responsible for melting us out of the last ice age."
While there is evidence for the supernova, it seems that either separately or in conjunction, some kind of boloid event also took place. I wonder if it could have been Tungusku-like in nature?
To quote from the article: "...large quentities of micrometeorite-like particles appear to be concentrated near the boundary between the B and C sediment horizons. They can be separated with a magnet and are identified by the presence of chondrules and by visual evidence of sintering and partial melting. These particles, dissimilar to common magnetites, are found in association with a high frequency of 'spherules.'"
Also, "Microscopic examination of chert artifacts from several widely separated Paleoindian locations in North America revealed a high density of entrance wounds and particles at depths that are evidence of high-velocity particle bombardment. Chondrules were identified visually; their presence necessarily indicates heating during high-speed entry into the atmosphere. The depth of penetration into the artifacts implies that the particles entered with substantial energy. Field simulations with control cherts for large particles (100-200 microns) suggest an entrance velocity greater than 0.4 km/second....Similar features are not observed in later-period prehistoric artifacts or in bedrock chert sources."
In summary, "Track and particle date...suggest that the total track volume...is highest at the Michigan, Illinois, and Indiana sites and decreases in all directions from this region, consistent with a widespread catastrophe concentrated over the Great Lakes region. The nearly verticle direction of the tracks left by particle impacts at most sites suggests they came from a distant source."
If the timing is right, this might explain findings of great masses of shredded animals in the far northern hemisphere, and flash frozen mammoths with undigested buttercups in their stomacks in Siberia.
Perhaps someone with a better dictionary than mine could define words like chondrule, sintering, spherules. I think these might refer to shocked quartz which is specific to boloid events.
Nah. It's one I posted. It was somewhere in Africa, I believe.
"Explanation: The remnants of nuclear reactors nearly two billion years old were found in the 1970s in Africa. These reactors are thought to have occurred naturally. No natural reactors exist today, as the relative density of fissile uranium has now decayed below that needed for a sustainable reaction. Pictured above is Fossil Reactor 15, located in Oklo, Gabon. Uranium oxide remains are visible as the yellowish rock. Oklo by-products are being used today to probe the stability of the fundamental constants over cosmological time-scales and to develop more effective means for disposing of human-manufactured nuclear waste."
Info fer the geology class.
I'm sure you heard the joke where the museum guide says "This dinosaur bone is 65 million and 4 years old". One of the tourists says that's amazing how he knows it so precisely. The guide says "Yep - when I started the museum director told me it was 65 million years old - and that was 4 years ago."
Maybe the spaceship argument?
Serious how would they explain the existence of Mega Fauna (though seriously downsized) on Wrangell Is. and the California Channel Is. many Milena after they had disappeared on the continents?
I think that's the same guy though. In Gabon, there's what's left of a naturally occurring nuclear fission reactor (so to speak), and Herndon thinks there's a similar nuclear reactor at the Earth's core.
Click on the link in post #45.
"(/joke)"
Is that mustache real?
British Petroleum.
I have just begun to do some snooping around some of his writings and at this point I don't know what to believe about the man. Was he psychic or psycho??? At first blush it would seem many of his theories have merit, but I'll need to read a lot more to make up my mind. The thing that even got me interested in his theories was the notion that the "scientific community" had all but tarred and feathered the man. I feel about the scientific community like I do academia; they seem to have an agenda at work.
FGS
B.P has its "zero" point set at 1950 for several good reasons having to do with nuclear testing and C14 dating. C.E. and B.C.E are still set to what we actually used as the zero point, where B.C.E (Before Current Epoch, or Before Current Era) has its zero at the birth of Christ, just like B.C. (Before Christ). They just changed the initials and definition to be politically correct.
In the words of one of my history professors, it was "total chickensh*t", and her having to explain it in every class is a "total pain in the a$$", and "an asinine waste of my lecture time".
If they were going to change the zero point for some valid scientific reason, and then rename it accordingly, fine, but just changing the name of it was, well, exactly what the good professor called it.
could this have also caused the formation of the Grand Canyon? I have heard theories that the canyon did not form slowly over time, but in one or two large-scale events.
are these "spherules" similar to the ones they've identified on Mars?
I'll cast my vote for the latter. I especially liked where Venus made a close flyby of Earth, and the hydrocarbons in the upper atmosphere of Venus got trapped in our atmosphere, and fell on the Israelis as carbohydrates (manna from heaven, Exodus).
Jawohl.
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