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Re: News: Did Gas Fires Kill Dinosaurs?
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- From: "Bruce D. Yager" <bdyager@mhtc.net>
- Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1999 18:05:56 -0600
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And, just how, one might ask, does escaping methane disrupt compasses in the
area?????????
Bruce Yager
bdyager@mhtc.net
-----Original Message-----
From: Alexander <themelis@albedo.net>
To: Louis Varricchio <varricch@aero.und.edu>
Cc: metlist <meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thursday, November 18, 1999 12:25 PM
Subject: Re: News: Did Gas Fires Kill Dinosaurs?
>Hi Louis,
>
>I think those folks are right when they say that is what lies behind the
>Bermuda Triangle, methane periodically erupts and the bubble arrives under
>a ship, momentarily sinking it, then the surround ocean engulfs it and it
is
>the deep six for everybody.
>
>Also aircraft flying into the gas cloud would lose engines due to lack of
>avaiable O2, resulting in a crash and Davy Jones Locker,(drowning), for all
>concerned again...
>
>The reason why there are never any survivors is because of asphixiation due
>to inhalation of methane.
>
>Case solved!
>
>Some folks think that Atlantis was actually Thira, in the Mediterrean
>.(Santorini today, now part of Greece and one island among the many
>Cyclades.)
>A massive explosion blew away almost the entire island resulting in the
>destruction of the nearby Minoan Empire.(Crete today)
>You gotta see this island! It is like a finger nail of land with a still
>simmering volcanoe in the middle of the huge bay left by the blast.
>In fact it is more bay than land....
>
>
>
>as for the dinosaurs, sounds like a lot of bronto burgers to me, how would
>the furry mamals have avoided becoming crispy critters along with those
>titans?
>
>Alex
>
> alex@superimpactor.com
>
>
>Snail Mail:
>Alex Themelis
>246cWoolwich St, Guelph,
>Ontario, Canada, N1H-3V9
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Louis Varricchio <varricch@aero.und.edu>
>To: <BAALKE@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov>; <meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com>
>Sent: Thursday, November 18, 1999 12:14 PM
>Subject: News: Did Gas Fires Kill Dinosaurs?
>
>
>> BBC News, 11/18/99
>>
>> Fiery end for dinosaurs?
>>
>> Scientists believe the entire atmosphere may have burned
>>
>> The dinosaurs may have been wiped out in a gas-fuelled
>> firestorm, according to a new theory.
>>
>> A "hell on Earth" may have been triggered by vast
>> quantities of trapped methane released from under the
>> ground by a comet.
>>
>>
>> A massive impact in the Gulf of
>> Mexico 65 million years ago is
>> thought to have changed the Earth's
>> climate and driven the dinosaurs to
>> extinction.
>>
>> But a team of American oceanographers believe this is
>> only half the story.
>>
>> They say the dinosaurs' end may have been even more
>> dramatic, as shock waves from the explosion released
>> highly flammable methane from within the Earth.
>>
>>
>> At the end of the Cretaceous
>> period huge amounts of the
>> gas, generated by rotting
>> vegetation, lay trapped in
>> sediments 500 metres below
>> sea level.
>>
>> Bubbling up to the surface,
>> the methane would have
>> escaped into the air and
>> been ignited by lightning
>> bursts in the disturbed
>> atmosphere, say the
>> scientists.
>>
>> Burton Hurdle, of the Naval Research Laboratory in
>> Washington DC, told New Scientist magazine: "The
>> atmosphere itself would have been on fire. This could
>> have contributed to the demise of the dinosaurs."
>>
>> Periodic escapes of gas
>>
>> As evidence, the researchers point to an earlier
>> discovery of disruption in late Cretaceous sediments at
>> Black Ridge, off the coast of Florida, which may have
>> been due to methane release.
>>
>>
>> A smaller "blow-out" is
>> thought to have occurred in
>> the Gulf of Mexico during the
>> late Pleistocene epoch.
>>
>> More recent activity on the
>> ocean floor suggests trapped
>> methane periodically
>> escapes even without
>> asteroid strikes.
>>
>> Some scientists believe the
>> Bermuda Triangle
>> phenomenon could be
>> explained by methane
>> escaping and overwhelming passing ships or planes.
>>
>> Dinosaur expert Dr Angela Milner, from the Natural
>> History Museum in London, said many dinosaurs appear
>> to have been in serious decline even before the impact.
>>
>> But she agreed huge methane fires "could have been the
>> final straw" for some species.
>>
>> LOUIS VARRICCHIO
>> Environmental Information Specialist &
>> Producer/Writer, "Our Changing Planet"
>> (Visit OCP-TV on the Web at: www.umac.org/ocp)
>> Upper Midwest Aerospace Consortium
>> Odegard School of Aerospace Sciences
>> University of North Dakota
>> Grand Forks, N.D. 58202-9007 U.S.A.
>> Phone: 701-777-2482
>> Fax: 701-777-2940
>> E-mail: varricch@umac.org (in N.D.); morbius@together.net (in Vt.)
>>
>> "Behind every man alive stand thirty ghosts, for that is the ratio by
>> which the dead outnumber the living. Since the dawn of time, a hundred
>> billion human beings have walked the planet Earth." -- Arthur C. Clarke
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