[vannrox]

An old read. But fun and interesting never the less.

[Pistias]

but most LDG exists in smaller, angular pieces--looking like shards left when a giant green bottle was smashed by colossal forces.

Barfight of the Titans!

[TonyInOhio]

The byproduct of the first atomic bomb is the original man-made mineral: Trinitite, named for the Trinity blast.

[swarthyguy]

Kinda dovetails with Zecharia Sitchin's theories.....

[Don Myers]

bttt

[pabianice]

Obviously formed when a Gao'uld mother ship attacked Earth 10,500 years ago...

[dead]

Rather than evidence of an atomic past, I think it may be evidence of a time-traveling future, which means we now have a time-traveling past and present, which is all very confusing.

[Pistias]

an incredible heat output of ninety-three degrees Celsius. This is five times the previous hottest temperature for a contained gas and is twice the minimum heat needed for fusion, but it was held only for one fifty-millionth of a second instead of the one full second which would be required.

A whole 93C...wow. Whoops, gotta go--the fusion torch on my stove is doing a number on my soup...

[11B3]

Hey, vannrox - heve you been to Nexus Magazine? Although they have some rather tinfoil articles in there, I saw this there some time ago. I'd like it if you would check out this article as well. Your opinion on it would be welcome - as would any others willing to read through all three parts.....

[sharktrager]

I don't know if this theory is true, but if it is they'll find some way to blame it on the Republicans.

[Icthus]

Fantastic reading....thanks for the post.

[MattinNJ]

Bump for a later read. Thanks.

[Looking for Diogenes]

Meteor Clue To End Of Middle East Civilisations Found
The Telegraph of London
11-4-01

Scientists have found the first evidence that a devastating meteor impact in the Middle East might have triggered the mysterious collapse of civilisations more than 4,000 years ago.

Studies of satellite images of southern Iraq have revealed a two-mile-wide circular depression which scientists say bears all the hallmarks of an impact crater. If confirmed, it would point to the Middle East being struck by a meteor with the violence equivalent to hundreds of nuclear bombs.

Today's crater lies on what would have been shallow sea 4,000 years ago, and any impact would have caused devastating fires and flooding.

The catastrophic effect of these could explain the mystery of why so many early cultures went into sudden decline around 2300 BC.

...snip...

The crater also appears to be, in geological terms, very recent. Dr Master said: "The sediments in this region are very young, so whatever caused the crater-like structure, it must have happened within the past 6,000 years."

Reporting his finding in the latest issue of the journal Meteoritics & Planetary Science, Dr Master suggests that a recent meteor impact is the most plausible explanation for the structure.

A survey of the crater itself could reveal tell-tale melted rock. "If we could find fragments of impact glass, we could date them using radioactive dating techniques," he said.
Rense

[aSkeptic]

its a cool sci-fi premise :) But really.. trinitite contains radioactivity.. even if the radioactivity had faded away, there would still be traces of the heavy isotopes locked within the glass.. Unless perhaps, it was an ultra clean blast like that of tsar bomba..

[genefromjersey]

Ivan Sanderson alert !!

Get your vitrified helmet liners out of storage , and don ( Donna for you ladies ) them immediately !!!

COPROLITE ALERT !!

[aruanan]

This was written pretty much in the pre "asteroid impact wiped out the dinosaurs" era, wasn't it? Velikovsky didn't publish his Worlds in Collision until 1950. After that there was a backlash against the idea of worldwide catastrophe. It appears that such folks as Baille have come up with a better explanation of these physical and legendary data.

[Cool Guy]

BUMP!

[MissAmericanPie]

It be dragons, fire breathing dragons Matey.

[Centurion2000]

What the article doesn't mention are the radioactive (yes radioactive) skeletons that have been found at Pakistan and Scottish archaeological sites.

[Paulus Invictus]

A noted scientist analysed the glass and found it to be melted Coca Cola bottles, circa 1956, hence the green color.

[LRS]

"I'm not Capt. Walker. I'm the guy who keeps Mr. Dead in his
pocket."