[meteorite-list] More golden showers

From: LITIG8NSHARK at aol.com <LITIG8NSHARK_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2008 08:46:58 EDT
Message-ID: <c8b.2e5bae8f.35a4bbc2_at_aol.com>

Good day Folks,

Sounds to me like a modern day version of 'Chicken Little': Amusing and
something to perhaps keep a 4 year old's interest at bedtime; but hardly
believable.

Best Regards,

Paul Martyn
Savannah, GA




In a message dated 7/8/2008 2:09:56 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
sterling_k_webb at sbcglobal.net writes:
Hi, Darren, List,

Please note that the first press release said
that the discovery disproved the "now discredited"
theory of glacial transport. A few days later, they say:
"diamonds, gold and silver could have been ejected
into the air during the blasts, West said, or they could
have been carried south by rivers formed from the
meltwater of liquified glaciers."

Change your tune much?

Note also that they specify a magnitude for the
blast of 300,000 megatons. This would require an
impactor of 1000 to 1300 meters in diameter (more
for a comet) and would produce a 20-kilometer crater.
They say a 5000 meter comet, for good measure.

Even better is this assertion: "For several months
following the comet strike, the skies rained precious
stone and metals, the researchers speculate. Diamonds
drizzled down by the tons."

FOR MONTHS? Diamonds and gold rained from
the sky for MONTHS? As dust, they explain -- diamond
dust and presumably gold dust. I wonder how many tens
of thousands of tons of diamonds they think were laying
around on the Canadian tundra?

One easily testable assertion of their scheme is these
massive floods of glacial meltwaters at precisely 12,900
years ago EVERYWHERE in the northern tier of states,
entirely at the same instant, from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
Since glacial melt chronology has been worked out in
great detail over a century, there should be some sign
of this massive melt they speak of. (PS: they're isn't any.)

While in one place, they speak of a "three-mile comet,"
elsewhere in the press release, they speak of "the multiple
airbursts..." Always good to have a couple of different
stories going, I guess.

This just gets more entertaining by the day...


Sterling K. Webb
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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,377449,00.html

Diamonds May Have Rained Down From Space During Ice Age






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