--- In cybalist@..., "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...> wrote:
> BTW I thought of a date for this contact! How about 4000 BCE? That
> would coincide with the appearance of the Sumerians (who were
taught
> by sages from the east, according to themselves), and the start of
> the calendar at a time when the sun at spring equinox was standing
> beween the horns of Taurus (whence all the bull symbolism). I'd
have
> to do without a flood, though, Oppenheimer sets the last flood at
> 6000 BCE.
>
But maybe I can have my flood after all.
New Scientist, 14th Sept 22, p.15
Get Ready for a Killer Wavw
"
...
[of signs of giant tsunamis found by Ted Bryant of University of
Wollongong in New South Wales]
...his includes boulders jammed into crevices far above the high tide
mark, car-size blocks of rock lifted over 100-metre-high cliffs, and
seashells deposited up to 35 kilometres inland.
...
But his computer models show that they [tsunamis] could have been
produced by a body 6 kilometers across falling into the middle of the
Pacific, or a much smaller rock landing closer to Australia's coast.
By carbon dating some of the shells found inland, Bryant and his team
say they have found evidence for at least six tsunami events. Two of
the largest, one about 4000 BC and another in the 16th century AD,
were powerful enough to swamp headlands 130 metres above sea level.
...
"
> > Torsten