no. she's proposing that all those meteors etc hit in a period of 41 days. that's sheer insanifty. if that many things hit all at once... jesus, how many are there? there are 172 on that website that jar linked way back on the first page. so 172 in 41 days is 4 every day.
I haven't heard taken into account for the impact of this bombardment of meteors, such as the effect of preexisting atmospheric conditions, wind, rain, heat, cold, and so far the idea that the effect would be worldwide is simply not convincing.
does anyone recall the volcano that erupted near/in india that covered the whole world with dust and stuff and clouded the sky for some number of years?
mildly off-topic but think of it this way.
you know all those crazy scenes in movies with starships crashing? like in riddick when that one lands and it sens up a huge cloud of dust that then engulfs the whole are. now, noting two things. first, that's a planet with what looks like a fossilized dessert something like the southwest united states. so the particulates that would enter the air are bound to be very small and thus float longer. and two that it is a movie... generally they do this big fantastic things in movies as only a slight exaggeration of reality.
stay with me.
what happens when you're riding a bike and wou fishtail in the dirt? it builds a one sided crater and sprays particulates into the air. imagine if your tire was instead a big hunk of flaming rock. like really big. like big like half the moon big. hell even a tenth of the moon big. big like australia rolled into a ball. that's a really big piece of rock. and it's flaming. like big gay al flaming. we have an atmosphere on this planet to try to protect us from this stuff... friction is amazing. anyways. so yeah big gay australia-in-a-ball. it's gonna hit earth and go way past the soil level. there's only squishy organic stuff for what 10 maybe 100 feet was it? yeah, our little pet rock is way bigger than 100 feet. it's prolly going to whack into the planet and make a whole a few miles deep at LEAST. then it builds up this big ring from the gunk it's pushing out from under it and the rest is thrown into the air. the bigger chunks of now displaced earth are going to bounce way up then fall and make their own little craters and displace their own earth. ever see an avalanche? think of it that way only horizontal. if there's hills around god help us all.
i know this was long and meandering, but you really can't pass this off as throwing a little ock at the earth and having it squish around in the mud. you seem to have no concept of the enormity of these things.
http://www.nature.nps.gov/...tates/Arizona/NNL/BMC/index.cfm
go there. it's an amazing place. there's a big F hole in the ground. i know someone already mentioned it... i've been there. it's unfathomable.
The Barringer Meteorite Crater (also known as "Meteor Crater") is a gigantic hole in the middle of the arid sandstone of the Arizona desert. A rim of smashed and jumbled boulders, some of them the size of small houses, rises 150 feet above the level of the surrounding plain. The crater itself is nearly a mile wide, and 570 feet deep.
When Europeans first discovered the crater, the plain around it was covered with chunks of meteoritic iron - over 30 tons of it, scattered over an area 8 to 10 miles in diameter.
yeah. a mile wide. had there been any water around to "slow it down" or "absorb the force" as you suggest, and it hadn't completely evaporated before the thing even hit, it would have to be way more water than your worldwide flood to even begin to displace that size of a rock.
that's a really big rock. think of how fast it would have to be going. first, it was probably travelling along in space minding it's own big Fing rock business when oh crap there's a planet. anyone know how fast stuff generally travels in space? at any rate (pun intended), it then met up with this big crazy blue squish we live on which has a nice little thing called cgravity. 32 feet per second squared accelleration. that's not speed, that's crap getting faster and faster. that big old rock is not gonna hit terminal velocity before it hits us, there's no way there's enough reistance to relift. it's just gonna keep getting faster and faster until it punches a huge hole in the middle of arizona. just like it did. a mile may not seem like a lot. but think about a mile big hole in the ground. that's really big. like four times as big as the biggest football arena you can imagine. holy crap.
and this wasn't even a really big one. the crater in the yucatan is 112 miles wide. that's really big.
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tsunamis of only 100 meters. only.
editted to fix some typos and to remove the calculations. i left the exaggerations which were intentional as such.
This message has been edited by brennakimi, 05-25-2005 02:48 PM
arithmetic is fucking hard.
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