[tied] Re: IE prefix "*s"

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski
<piotr.gasiorowski@...> wrote:

> 17-12-03 11:54, tgpedersen@... wrote:
>
> > There is a myth that Merope, one of the Pleiades, was

extinguished at

> > the time of the fall of Troy. If that astronomical event happened

at

> > the same time as some disatrous Taurid meteor shower event, you'd
> > have a connection.
> >
> > http://www.meteorobs.org/maillist/msg19578.html
>

> "If", as the Spartans said to Philip of Macedon.

How come you're in linguistics, not math?

>Your reference is OK,
> but where does it mention deadly meteor showers? The Taurids don't

do

> much harm (by sheer luck, I've seen a very spectacular flash from

one of

> them the other night), and until 1869, when their radiants were

pinned

> down, nobody called them "Taurids" or associated them with the
> constellation of Taurus.

From the mists of time until 1869, no one associated them with the
constellation they appear out of? How do you know all those things?
Again you impress me. Does your source also tell you what the
Atlanteans thought of them? ;-)

>
> http://comets.amsmeteors.org/meteors/showers/taurids.html
>
> For real devastation you need a huge meteorite or a small asteroid,

not

> just the ususal small debris from disintegrating comets that forms
> meteor showers. When something like that happens (more or less once

a

> century) there's suddenly a blinding fireball overhead and then a

mighty

> bang. The witnesses wouldn't even know where in the sky it came

from.

>

Or several.

Joseph speculates that the Taurid meteor showers might have been
depleted since then. He connects them with the comet Encke-Oljato.

Torsten