The
following is a snip giving an overview of a (series of) events which
terminated much earthly life forms on several different occasions.... It
provides some insight as to why we may be looking soon at a new and
uncontrollable problem.
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snip>> In other words, 12000 years ago, a
time we have met before and will come across again and again, something
terrible happened - so terrible that life on earth was nearly wiped out
in a single day.
Harold P. Lippman admits that the magnitude of
fossils and tusks encased in the Siberian permafrost present an
"insuperable difficulty" to the theory of uniformitarianism, since no
gradual process can result in the preservation of tens of thousands of
tusks and whole individuals, "even if they died in winter." [Lippman,
Harold E., "Frozen Mammoths", Physical Geology, (New York 1969)] This is
true especially when many of these individuals have undigested grasses
and leaves in their belly. Pleistocene geologist William R. Farrand of
the Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory, who is opposed to
catastrophism in any form, states: "Sudden death is indicated by the
robust condition of the animals and their full stomachs ... the animals
were robust and healthy when they died." [Farrand, William R., "Frozen
Mammoths and Modern Geology", Science, Vol.133, No. 3455, March 17,
1961] Unfortunately, in spite of this admission, this poor guy seems to
have been incapable of facing the reality of worldwide catastrophe
represented by the millions of bones deposited all over this planet
right at the end of the Pleistocene. Hibben sums up the situation in a
single statement: "The Pleistocene period ended in death. This was no
ordinary extinction of a vague geological period, which fizzled to an
uncertain end. This death was catastrophic and all inclusive." [Hibben,
op. cit.]
The conclusion is, again, that the end of the
Ice Age, the Pleistocene extinction, the end of the Upper Paleolithic,
Magdalenian, Perigordian, and so on, and the end of the "reign of the
gods," all came to a global, catastrophic end about 12,000 years ago.
[The Secret History of the World]
This is the event that Firestone, West and
Warwick-Smith discuss in their book, The Cycle of Cosmic Catastrophes:
Flood, Fire, and Famine in the History of Civilization, mentioned above.
But if the above accounts are the result of such
a catastrophe, what might the catastrophe itself be like? The following
is condensed and adapted from Chapter 11 of Firestone, West, and
Warwick-Smith's book:
It begins with meteors failing like raindrops, a
few here and there. Perhaps a few hit the sun, provoking large solar
flares. The solar flares provoke colourful auroras even in the daytime
sky. Then the day of the comets arrive. From horizon to horizon, growing
larger every second, they streaked into the atmosphere, lighting up
brighter than the sun.
Heated to immense temperatures by its passage
through the atmosphere, the lethal swarm exploded into thousands of
mountain-sized chunks and clouds of streaming icy dust. The smaller
pieces blew up high in the atmosphere, creating multiple detonations
that turned the sky orange and red.
Then the largest comet smashed through the sheet
of ice covering part of the northern hemisphere in what is now Hudson
Bay. Other comets struck in Lake Michigan, Canada, Siberia and Europe.
Then the ground shock waves hit, shaking the earth violently for ten
minutes in great rolling waves and shudders. Fissures opened, trees
shook and fell, and rivers and streams disappeared into the cracked
earth.
Within seconds of the impact, the blast of
superheated air expanded outward at more than 1,000 miles an hour,
racing across the landscape, tearing trees from the ground and tossing
them into the air, ripping rocks from mountainsides, and flash-scorching
plants, animals, the earth, as well as any humans in its way. The only
living things to survive would have been those who had sought shelter
underground or underwater.
Across the upper part of North America and
Europe, the immense energy from the multiple impacts blew a series of
ever-widening, giant, overlapping bubbles that pushed aside the
atmosphere to create a near vacuum inside. As the bubble passed by, the
air pressure dropped making it difficult to breathe. Behind the
expanding edge of the bubble, the Earth was stripped of the protective
shield of the atmosphere. The blast had ejected tiny, fast-moving grains
in all directions through the thin air. Some lodged into trees, plants
and animals, while others went up only to fall back again at incredible
speeds as there was no atmosphere to break
their fall. At the same instant, high speed cosmic rays bombarded the
area with radiation. Animals and humans dropped dead on the spot from
the bombardment. Inanimate objects appeared to come to life and shiver and quake on the ground from the barrage.
When the outward push of the shock wave ceased,
the vacuum began to draw back the air. As the expanded atmosphere rushed
back toward the impact site, the bubbles collapsed, sucking white-hot
gases and dust inwards at tornado speeds and then channelling them up
and away from the ground. Some of the dust escaped from the Earth's
atmosphere while the rest flowed out as a red mushroom cloud that
flattened out for thousands of miles across the upper atmosphere,
blocking the sun and engulfing the Earth in darkness.
The dust and debris that was too heavy began
crashing back down to earth. Still super hot from the blast, it gave off
a powerful lava-like glow. The pieces landed on the continental ice
sheet, instantly melting untold gallons of water that coursed off the
ice sheet in all directions causing flooding.
The raging updraft through the hollow bubbles
created an equally powerful downdraft of frigid, high-altitude air,
travelling at hundreds of miles per hour. With temperatures exceeding
150 degrees F below zero, the downward stream of air hit the ground and
radiated out from the many blast sites in all directions, flash-freezing
within seconds everything it touched. The howling, frigid blast turned
trees and plants into brittle ice statues and flash froze mastodons and
mammoths with food in their mouths that we have uncovered still frozen
in Siberia.
The rapid temperature fluctuations meant the end of millions of plants and animals.... but the destruction was only beginning.
The impacts and shock waves triggered enormous
earthquakes along existing fault lines from the Carolinas to California
while shaking awake dormant volcanoes from Iceland across to the
Pacific. Erupting with furious activity, they spewed hot lava across the
landscape and noxious chemicals into the air, adding to the already
heavy cloud cover.
The impacts, the blast waves, and the eruptions
started thousands of ground fires wherever there was fuel to feed them,
some of which continued to burn for days. Fast-moving, wind-driven
wildfires formed spiralling tongues of raging flames that twisted for
thousands of feet into the air and the inferno raced through forests
faster than birds and animals could flee. The roar of the fire shook the
ground, and the fierce heat blew apart trees like bombs, exploded rocks
like shrapnel grenades, and set off steam explosions wherever the
fast-moving fire-front jumped across frozen ponds and streams. When the
fires had finally burned themselves out, there was little left besides
smoldering stumps and telltale charcoal strewn across the continents.
The noxious chemicals in the atmosphere fell
back to earth as poisoned rain. In some places, the air was too toxic
and oxygen-depleted to support life.
The impact in Hudson Bay sent up 200,000 cubic
miles of the glacier, throwing off the icy debris that followed the
pieces of the comet out across the continent. A rain of incandescent
debris and chunks of steaming ice showered down across most of North
America, Europe and Asia. Within minutes, the massive, low-flying clumps
crashed into the Carolinas and the eastern seaboard, exploding into
fireballs and gouging out the Carolina Bays, over 500,000 of them. Other
lumps exploded across the plains from Nebraska and Kansas to Arizona.
© Fairchild Aerial Surveys for the Ocean Forest Company
Aerial view of some of the Carolina Bays taken in 1930
Pieces of flying ice and debris, large and
small, fell from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from the Gulf of Mexico to
the Arctic, from Europe over to Asia and even down to Africa. More than
one-quarter of the planet was under siege.
But even that was not all.
The impact through the glacier at Hudson Bay
sent high velocity melt-water surging under the ice sheet.The surges
lifted and floated large sections of ice, causing monolithic ice blocks
to slide southward along hundreds of miles of the ice front. Moving
nearly as quickly as a horse is able to run, the blocks plowed over
forests, shearing off the trees.
The oceans, too, were targets. Thousands of ice
chunks and clouds of slushy water hit the Atlantic, exploding with
colossal detonations. The multiple concussions triggered immense
underwater landslides off the Carolinas and Virginia, releasing
thousands of cubic miles of mud. In turn, the mud unleashed a 1,000 foot
high tidal wave that raced away towards Europe and Africa at 500 miles
an hour.
Nine hours later the wave hit [Europe], 1,000
feet tall at 400 miles per hour, probably taking with it some of the
survivors of the first explosions. The wave broke over hundreds of miles
inland, devastating everything in its path. Anything living on the
coast was killed instantly.
Its momentum spent, the churning water paused
briefly and then began its rush backwards to the coast, pulling with it
the battered remains of plants and animals under its tow. The surge
provoked, in turn, offshore landslides in Europe and Africa, sending a
second round of mega-waves back towards North and South America. Miles
of coast land was hit by the 100 foot waves that triggered yet another
wave of tsunamis that hit Europe and Africa once again. But little was
left to damage.
Within minutes of the impacts, the subzero air
and rising water vapour combined to produce heavy snow and sleet that
reached as far south as Mexico, the Caribbean, and Northern Africa. In
the south, the snow turned to rain and the northern hemisphere was under
a steady downpour for months, a downpour of noxious water contaminated
and deadly. Anyone lucky enough to survive was now a potential victim of
acid, toxic metals, cyanide, formaldehyde, and arsenic, a combination
that would kill many and render the rest gravelly ill.
The melted water of the glaciers had another
effect: flooding into the North Atlantic, it turned off the ocean
conveyor that brought warm water to the northern climes. Once shut off,
coupled with the clouds of dust blocking the sun, the temperature fell
drastically. Within days or weeks after the impacts, continental
temperatures fell well below freezing, and a brutal ice age chill once
again spread across the land, remaining in place for another thousand
years.
And all of this in an instant, in less time than it takes to cook a meal or write an email.
You will, of course, notice that "12,000 years
ago" is just a rough estimate because some of the dates of their data
come back as old as 14 KYA and as recent as 10 KYA. When considering a
3600 year Comet Cluster Cycle, this range could cover more than one
event. But what is important is that the main event did, apparently,
happen in a single day and based on the scientific data collected by
Firestone et al, it was one of the most horrifying events ever to happen
on planet earth since modern Homo-Sapiens appeared.
Why do I keep referring to a 3600 year cycle?
Well, in addition to having been explicated within the context of the
Cassiopaean experiment, it seems that this 3600 year period was
important enough to certain ancient peoples that it was the basis of
their mathematics.
Around 3,200 BC, the Sumerians devised their
numerical notation system, giving special graphical symbols to the units
1, 10, 60, 600, 3,600. That is to say, we find that the Sumerians did
not count in tens, hundreds and thousands, but rather adopted base 60,
grouping things into sixties, and multiplying by powers of sixty.
Our own civilization utilizes vestiges of base
60 in the ways we count time in hours, minutes and seconds, and in the
degrees of the circle.
Sixty is a large number to use as a base for a
numbering system. It is taxing to the memory because it necessitates
knowing sixty different signs (words) that stand for the numbers from 1
to 60. The Sumerians handled this by using 10 as an intermediary between
the different sexagesimal orders of magnitude: 1, 60, 602, 603, etc.
The word for 60, geš;, is the same as the word for unity. The number 60
represented a certain level, above which, multiples of 60 up to 600 were
expressed by using 60 as a new unit. When they reached 600, the next
level was treated as still another unit, with multiples up to 3,000. The
number 3,600, or sixty sixties, was given a new name: šár, and this, in
turn, became yet another new unit.
So, the mystery is: why did the Sumerians enshrine the number 60 - and its multiple 60 X 60 - in their numbering system?
Zecariah Sitchin believed that it was because
there was a 10th planet in the solar system that had an orbit 3600 years
long, and that they based their numbering system on the cycle of this
event. But the evidence for the 10 planet - as a planet - and his
related ideas, is rather skimpy, while the evidence for bombardment of
the earth by masses of cometary debris is growing every day. Examining
the hard data, it doesn't take a genius to figure out that if there is
something that returns every 3600 years, it is more likely to be a
cluster of cosmic bodies than a 10th planet.
And that is bad news. ,, end snip
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