Re: Impact Scenario/New Ref.

[stssram@st.unocal.com (Bob Myers)]

On May 21,  0:43, Willa25743@aol.com wrote:
} Subject: Re: Impact Scenario/New Ref.
>
> >> Moreover, he suggests that about 5,000 years ago the Taurids burst into a 
>  >> period of meteor storms and Tunguska-like explosions that inspired the 
>  >> building of Stonehenge(!) and the pyramids of Egypt.
> 
> >This seems unlikely to me.  Pyramid building in Egypt developed
> >gradually, over a period of a hundred years or more.  And the designs
> >used changed over time....
> 
> I agree that his conclusions seem far-fetched. But in his defense, he does
> contend that such catastrophism was not random but instead in surges 
> that lasted for hundreds (maybe 1,000s) of years. And that the effects 
> may have ranged from displays resembling fireworks, multi-megaton
> blasts or merely glowing pyramid-shaped zodiacal light. 
> 
> Indeed, notes Steel, "disaster" is derived from words meaning "evil star"!
> 
>-- End of excerpt from Willa25743@aol.com

What the heck is "pyramid-shaped zodiacal light"?  I don't understand
how light in the heavens can resemble a three-dimensional shape
(auroras excepted).  Pyramids are a three-dimensional solid shape,
after all.  Is this supposed to mean triangular, or is he really
talking about something pyramid shaped?


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