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Thread ID: 7500 | Posts: 3 | Started: 2003-06-20
2003-06-20 08:22 | User Profile
See the following thread: [url=http://groups.google.com/groups?dq=&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&frame=right&th=cc6fe9acf8f208b4&seekm=4VE89.350445%24XH.7831264%40twister.tampabay.rr.com#link1]http://groups.google.com/groups?dq=&hl=en&...ay.rr.com#link1[/url]
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Ares
2003-06-20 11:58 | User Profile
The picture still isn't good enough for me to raise an eyebrow at.
2003-06-20 13:28 | User Profile
Zachariah Sitchin has some interesting books on the subject too. I suspect he is a a fraud but he does give an interesting account of how humans after millions of years of hunter gathering and using crude tools suddenly started cultivating cereals and grains, smelting ore etc like RIGHT NOW.
There is a pre history that we are ignorant of and Sitchin conjures up a fairly plausible one. If it is plausible to suggest that space aliens visited Earth and used their own genes to jump start the DNA of Earth's pre human aborigines, thereby bypassing in one generation the next 10,000 or so generations needed for Mother Nauture to accomplish the same task.
Sitchin's theory is that Earth, the moon and the asteroid belt are the remains of a planet that was struck by a rogue planet. A planet known to the ancients that orbits Earth every 5000 years or so and, moreover, orbits in the opposite direction,thus the collision. Oddly, this sounds a lot like the modern Dark Star theory. But Sitchin says he got it from ancient Babylonian writing that he reads in the original language. This is where he begins to fail the smell test, IMHO. But the proof will come in the not too distant future because, if he is right, this mysterious planet is due soon to make another pass, and the results are usually, if not always, cataclysmic. And I think it is reasonable to categorize the north and south poles exchanging positions as cataclysmic, don't you?
Funny thing is, the planet Earth does look like something that has been cleaved, if you drain the oceans to get a better look. Or so Sitchin says. And the moon and the asteroid belt are the other remains of the colossal collision that obliterated one planet and created ours.
As for Mars, Richard Hoagland has been beating this horse for a decade or so. I went from a believer to a non believer on his theories.