And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Saturday, January 11, 2020
Something happened 21 thousand years ago that we might hope never happens again. Or, that's the spot where the eskimos dumped their fireplace ashes. One of the two.
Once Antarctica was a tropical forest. I don't know if it ended up where it is now by tectonic movement or some other massive Earth changes but for there to be that much ash, it must have been a DOOZY of an event.
a funny thing happened on the way to the forum in 12,400BC. a really interesting thing. what ever it was, it cleaned everybodies clock and removed all traces of their civilization. we have no clue what was happening before that time. gone. a guy could suppose that is when the joke about chicken little and the sky is falling came about.
You are probably correct Beans, though it does not have to be localized. Really harge erruptions can spread ash workdwide. This is one of the reasons I doubt the killer comet/dead dinosaur theory. The fossil record shows a layer of ash at some point in time coincided with dinosaur age, but the megafauna (dinosaurs) had already died off with the exception of 12 or 13 species.
There was one eruption in the 19th century that made Krakatoa look small by comparison and there were times when they were more frequent. A thick ash layer could be the result of a year or two of multiple large eruptions.
One of the causes of the French Revolution was the loss of crops, especially wheat, from an Icelandic volcano blowing up. A mid-sized volcano. Iceland has 4 or more much larger volcanoes that have been getting spicy lately.
Eskimos in the Antarctic? Yikes, I think we're down to one possibility ;>}
ReplyDeleteYup, it was the Somikse peoples.
DeleteOnce Antarctica was a tropical forest. I don't know if it ended up where it is now by tectonic movement or some other massive Earth changes but for there to be that much ash, it must have been a DOOZY of an event.
ReplyDeletea funny thing happened on the way to the forum in 12,400BC. a really interesting thing. what ever it was, it cleaned everybodies clock and removed all traces of their civilization. we have no clue what was happening before that time. gone. a guy could suppose that is when the joke about chicken little and the sky is falling came about.
ReplyDeleteGiant volcanic blow?
ReplyDeleteFew people are aware that some of Antarctica's volcanoes are still active under all that ice.
You are probably correct Beans, though it does not have to be localized.
DeleteReally harge erruptions can spread ash workdwide. This is one of the
reasons I doubt the killer comet/dead dinosaur theory. The fossil record
shows a layer of ash at some point in time coincided with dinosaur age,
but the megafauna (dinosaurs) had already died off with the exception
of 12 or 13 species.
There was one eruption in the 19th century that made Krakatoa look
small by comparison and there were times when they were more frequent.
A thick ash layer could be the result of a year or two of multiple
large eruptions.
One of the causes of the French Revolution was the loss of crops, especially wheat, from an Icelandic volcano blowing up. A mid-sized volcano. Iceland has 4 or more much larger volcanoes that have been getting spicy lately.
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