Absolutely, kb. But you're talking about great floods. Incredible amounts of water. On earth. Not about great impacts. With visual, celestial phenomena like meteors in the sky.kbs2244 wrote:Here we go:
http://discovermagazine.com/2007/nov/di ... t=1&utm_c=
And this is from a NY Times story:
About 900 miles southeast from the Madagascar chevrons, in deep ocean, is Burckle crater, which Dr. Abbott discovered last year. Although its sediments have not been directly sampled, cores from the area contain high levels of nickel and magnetic components associated with impact ejecta.
Burckle crater has not been dated, but Dr. Abbott estimates that it is 4,500 to 5,000 years old.
After all, if there was an impact, dosn't it have a 3 to 1 chanch of hitting water?
It would be a great help to the cause if the National Science Foundation sent a ship equipped with modern acoustic equipment to take a closer look at Burckle, Dr. Ryan said. “If it had clear impact features, the nonbelievers would believe,” he said.
But they might have more trouble believing one of the scientists, Bruce Masse, an environmental archaeologist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. He thinks he can say precisely when the comet fell: on the morning of May 10, 2807 B.C.
Dr. Masse analyzed 175 flood myths from around the world, and tried to relate them to known and accurately dated natural events like solar eclipses and volcanic eruptions. Among other evidence, he said, 14 flood myths specifically mention a full solar eclipse, which could have been the one that occurred in May 2807 B.C.
Half the myths talk of a torrential downpour, Dr. Masse said. A third talk of a tsunami. Worldwide they describe hurricane force winds and darkness during the storm. All of these could come from a mega-tsunami.
I'm not contesting there were large impacts. I think there probably were hundreds. Over the aeons! If we didn't have a dynamic atmosphere, tectonics, volcanism, climates, currents, and the benefit of billions of years for those factors to do their thing the earth would look as pockmarked as the moon does.
There are small meteor impacts everyday still today! Across the globe. The size of sand grains. You can see thousands of them as shooting stars. Meteorites burning up in the atmosphere. But large, Armageddon type impacts, on the ground (or sea), witnessed by people, that dramatically changed human history, don't figure in human (oral) history at all, afaik. While large floods do. Prominently.
From that I conclude that people did go through the one phenomenon, and not the other. Not because they didn't/don't happen, they do, but because the frequency with which they happen is so extra-ordinarily low, like once every 200.000 years or less, statistically, that it simply never happened 'in living memory'. HSS is not 200.000 years old, as far as we know...
Of course two big ones can hit Earth tomorrow within 5 minutes of eachother!
While the last one before tomorrow's event could have been a few million years ago. Man simply wasn't yet around to witness it. But a few million years is nothing significant in the grand scheme of things (fifteen thousand four hundred million years, at last count!).