Archaeologica.org

The devastating Black Death which killed hundreds of millions of people in the 14th century may have been triggered by an asteroid impact.

The shocking revelation threatens to debunk one of the biggest chunks of British history and turn the world of science and academia on its head. And experts warn another collision with Earth could happen "at any moment" sparking an outbreak of disease capable of wiping out entire populations.

The Apophis asteroid will pass the planet on in April 2029 and possibly again ten years later when a collision could occur.

Professor Wickramasinghe said: "If as it passed the earth it happens to pass through a certain narrow window in space then in 2036 it will return and hit the Earth.

"This narrow window is a point where the earth's gravity would deflect the orbit of Apophis just enough to ensure an impact in 2036.

"If Apophis hits the Earth the impact will be in the 3000-megaton class, it is entirely reasonable to state that such an impact would collapse our current civilisation and return the survivors, metaphorically speaking, to the Dark Ages.

"Baillie has the scientific evidence to support his theory and his evidence supports what the people of the time were saying: earthquakes, comets, rains of death and fire, corrupted atmosphere, and death on a scale that is almost unimaginable."

Professor Baille, author of the book 'New Light on The Black Death' added: "Something happened to change the atmosphere and the environment and killed a lot of people.

His book, Exodus to Arthur: Catastrophic Encounters with Comets (Batsford, 1999), relates the findings of his tree-ring studies to a series of global environmental traumas over the past 4400 years that may mark events such as the biblical Exodus, the disasters which befell Egypt, collapses of Chinese dynasties, and the onset of the European Dark Ages.

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His book, Exodus to Arthur: Catastrophic Encounters with Comets (Batsford, 1999), relates the findings of his tree-ring studies to a series of global environmental traumas over the past 4400 years that may mark events such as the biblical Exodus, the disasters which befell Egypt, collapses of Chinese dynasties, and the onset of the European Dark Ages.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Baillie


He sounds like a kook, uni.

uniface wrote:Serious question : Did you ever read Velikovsky's correlation of celestial events with pestilences ca. 0-600AD with an open mind ?

Every model of reality that contradicts a prevailing assumption is "crazy" until it finally turns out to have been pretty much obvious all along. Case in point, Continental Drift.

"Science advances one funeral at a time"

Serious question : Did you ever read Velikovsky's correlation of celestial events with pestilences ca. 0-600AD with an open mind ?

Serious question : Did you ever read Velikovsky's correlation of celestial events with pestilences ca. 0-600AD with an open mind ?

uniface wrote:What discussion forum gives a chair on stage & a microphone to someone who has not only never read the material being discussed, but laughs at the idea that being informed should be a prerequisite ? (Outside of politics and corporate "public opinion creation").

uniface wrote:The fact that you do not like either the ideas involved or the people who advocate them has no bearing whatsoever on them.

You continually treat us to your personal opinions as if these were somehow or other reasoned responses.

Very female, that "thinking" pattern.

But IT'S NOT ABOUT YOU.

And another 15 yards and loss of down for attempts to divert the discussion with a red herring.