From: Adriana Kamenetsky
Message: 2953
Date: 2000-08-03
----- Original Message -----From: Adriana KamenetskySent: Thursday, August 03, 2000 11:55 AMSubject: originsMount Toba blew 800 cubic kilomenetrs of ash 71,000 years ago. Most of India was buried under it. But the worst was yet to come when it ensued the global volcanic winter for 6 years, which probably killed 75% of plants in the Northern Hemisphere. The constant reflection of the heat from the snow back into the space pushed the Earth into a thousand-year ice age.I believe that humans survived in isolated pockets through out the continents. The Urals are a good possibility - a very old mountain with good fertilizing sediment exposed, with a lot of protection, and wildlife. And the same can be persued through other continents.From time to time, Earth does her cataclismic tricks. 540 millions ago, the buildup of continents at South pole flipped her to the current 23 degree tilt.What if Earth is much much older? Big mistakes were often made at estimating cosmos. What if we lived much longer than is known? Many times humanity was wiped out by disasters almost to the last one of us.(Even the Book tells us so). But we kept on multiplying, developing particular traits, and then we meet at the crossroads, and argue who was there first.Sincerely,Adriana K.