Posted on 05/24/2002 7:14:54 AM PDT by blam
Is that also the name of Michael Savage's 'alter ego' from his skits?
Cosmic Winter by Clube and Napier do a very good job with the celestial connection. I really liked, "Exodus To Arthur, by Mike Baillie too. He is a dendrochronologist and noted major events that were recorded in the tree ring data over the last 10k years, he then set out to see what humans had recorded during these same periods. He discovered a lot of chatter about things falling from the sky.
Obviously, the CIA memo orchestrating the impending hurricane was on GW's desk before 1998. AND HE DIDN'T WARN THE GUATEMALAN PEOPLE!!!
Just as obviously, he asked his Enron people to corner the jade market at the appropriate time. Cheney is in on it, I think. (obviously)
I really liked, "Exodus To Arthur, by Mike Baillie too. He is a dendrochronologist and noted major events that were recorded in the tree ring data over the last 10k years, he then set out to see what humans had recorded during these same periods. He discovered a lot of chatter about things falling from the sky.
Shades of Velikovski, who is still called a kook, even though his major premise is now excepted by all scientists.
Catastrophic events did indeed occur in historical times, and things really did fall from the sky.
He based his theories on folklore, myths, and the published oral histories of ancient cultures.
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We managed a trip to Tikal in Guatemala and it was indeed magnificent. The trip from Guatemala back to Belize was dangrous but we managed to get to Belize City without being robbed.
Tikal suprassses anything we have seen in Central America except Teotihuacan outside Mexico city.
Mel Gibson has a whole lot to say about the Mayans this summer:
http://apocalypto.movies.go.com/
One of the things I appreciate about the Western Hemisphere discoveries is that they are usually far less political in nature than Middle Eastern, African, Chinese and European discoveries. In the Eastern hemisphere, history is part of the political axe-grinding stone. In the Americas, there is some politics (voir: Kennewick man), but it is far more straightforward science. To the extent that there is ethnic pride, there is no overlaying religious or political theology that tries to manipulate the result.
Blue jade is really beautiful.
>>Do you live on the site of a Colonial rock farm in New England?
Ugh, I used to do archaeology in New England. We went through so many shovels digging there.
*clang* Crap.
*clang* Crap.
*clang* Crap. My elbow hurts.
Oops, sorry, Zombie thread.
Thanks Civ; I am always fascinated by tales of megalithic-sized semi-precious stones. A few years ago I visited a turquoise deposit and the engineer told me they frequently remove 'refrigerator and pick-up sized chunks'. They mined one single piece that was made into a boardroom meeting table. Nothing like that for my visit, but they did let me fill a couple sample bags, all that would fit in my carry-on. :)
I wonder how much a turquoise refrigerator would weigh? ;') Cool color scheme, that would be.
This link has more info and images of the real blue Olmec jade:
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