The comet of the holocene

I noticed that the circle does seem centered in or near Marshall County in Alabama. That is near the end of the Appalachian mountain chain and Sand Mountain (where most of Marshall County lies) is a big plateau.

In zooming in more, you can probably ignore the large, long lake (Guntersville) because it was man made in the early 1900's by damning up the Tennessee river.

This may not be related at all, but lots of secret government and NASA/military stuff go on about 40 miles from that center :)
 
Well, darned if it doesn't look like something! I've sent the link to Allen West, one of the authors of "The Cycle of Cosmic Catastrophes." He may or may not respond.

It's clear that this site gives slightly different trajectories from the Carolina bays which Firestone et all point out demonstrate "blow back" from an impactor to the North and slightly Westerly direction (Great Lakes area and or Hudson Bay). What would be necessary would be to try to bring some science in here an see if a date can be determined.

In short, we don't know that this is the strike that ended the Holocene and Firestone et al DO have some good dates regarding the Carolina Bays and the NorthWest impactor event. Question is: where did this one - assuming it is an impactor, and it sure looks like one! - come from and WHEN?
 
Possibly of geological interest is that the entire area has a very high amount of sandstone (hence Sand Mountain et. al.) and pressure is a component of its formation. For some reason, lightning also likes sandstone - one storm over North Alabama was measured by the North Alabama Lightning Mapping Array at 800 flashes (instances) per minute!

From Google Earth, it is hard to glean certain aspects of the circle because of image section timing. I did zoom an look at one of the possible radial boundaries forming the most obvious arc and the light coloration is mostly cycling farm land with no radical differences in topology.

I'm probably throwing out a little noise here but I wonder if some of this may be related in "higher" ways. I'm also very familiar with the area :)
 
That's it allright. You can zoom in on it. Marshal Alabama is at the center of the compression waves. It's not merely an "artifact of the software" As a noted scientist at berkeley so glibbly stated to me without even looking. A software artifact doesn't get clearer and more distinct as you zoom in and out. Center on Marshal Alabama. Play with the zoom a little bit. Study those features very carefuly. Try not to think about the scale of the thing. that's the overwhelming part. It's a case of Occams Razor; you can spend months researching scientific papers done before the world saw SL-9 hit Jupiter. At a time when no one knew of those structures because these images didn't even exist, or were only available to the military. And even the most brilliant scientists alive didn't believe in giant impacts. And wouldn't even consider the posibility in any serious research. Or you simply believe your own eyes.

The scary thing is that you can contact to some of the best people in the Geophysical science community. Some grad students will give you the glib artifact of the software line, and point you to 50 and 100 year old reseach on land forms in the Eastern US. But the ones at the top of their fields, who know exactly what they are looking at, and who's opinion you might accept, won't answer at all. Yes no or otherise. Because to acknowledge the thing is there means that all of the geophysical sciences are faceing one of the biggest paradigm shifts in history. The horrible truth is that massive impacts still play as big a role in mountain building and landform creation as ever. Some mountain ranges do spring up overnight. Fire does rain from the sky. whole civilizations do get errased without a trace. And there is such a thing as a lake of fire. Those things aren't just the stuff or reilious myth.

There is another one of those things on it's way. If humanity hasn't set our silly religious differences aside, and put all of our attention into learning how to divert it before it arrives. We're done for. We should at least be thinking of the logistics of evacuation and relocation of a continent.
 
jusdenny, how about reading my comet series linked (starting with the first article at the bottom) on the left of the SOTT page?

http://www.sott.net/
 
Thanks Laura,

I went over there and read a couple of those articles. And I'll read them all before I'm through. I'm only at the beginning of an tough learning curve. You see, six months ago I would have told you that the idea of channeling, or of superluminal communication was just another scifi fad or cult. My life would have best been compared to the end stages of an ongoing train wreck. And at the bottom of the bleakest depression you could possibly imagine, with suicide not an option, and with a hope, like a prayer constantantly running in the background of my thoughts that my creator would just take me home. And if not, then show me why I needed to stay.

But this is more responsibility than I am ready for and I can't go back. I want it proved to me that a comet did not come that day. That I am imagining things, or that it was all a bad dream. Because to be the bearer and messenger of such a thing as an observable fact And all that it implies is a terrible overwhelming burden.

Dennis
 
another P.S.

Once you get a handle on what an impact site looks like here on Earth (pretty round circles are the exception, not the rule) you call tell by the direction the direction the splash, or ejecta curtain, fell which direction the thing came from. Look on the ocean bottom if you have access to the right kinds of maps. The impact structures there are in pretty good shape with no erosion and a thin uniform layer of silt.
Most of the big scary ones seem to point the same place in the southern sky. And the search for NEO's is being done mostly by telescopes in the northern hemisphere.
It won't matter how fat their funding packages are if they're looking the other way when the thing shows up.
 
I've read as far as thirty years of cults and comets, heart racing, a bit breathless. I'll get back to it in a minute.

But first, Laura look behind you in same stream of thought. There in the distance, standing on slippery stones, if you see a little guy in shoes too big, struggling to keep his head above water. That'll be me.
 
Ok Laura,
I've been reading all day. My head is swimming. I just wandered right on in here preachin' to the choir didn't I? If you need someone to pick up the dusty-peddle notes I can sing a mean baritone.

Seriously though,
To have my worst nightmares described and affirmed in such detail by someone else is a bit overwhelming. There's no way out of this but through it. Is there?

I've got to go out of town for a few days. And I won't have access to my computer, or the internet. But when I get back I'll be lookin for someone to lead me around a little more.

Thanks you guys.
Dennis
 
jusdenny said:
Once you get a handle on what an impact site looks like here on Earth (pretty round circles are the exception, not the rule) you call tell by the direction the direction the splash, or ejecta curtain, fell which direction the thing came from. Look on the ocean bottom if you have access to the right kinds of maps. The impact structures there are in pretty good shape with no erosion and a thin uniform layer of silt.
Click to expand...

do you have any good links to share?
 
The road trip is off so I guess I get stay on this.
I was able to access some of the Navy's maps from their Christens Oceanographic Survey Ship before. But now all I can get are news release pages from 2000 when the ship first sailed. So that's another door closed in my face.

USGS has some good maps and satalite data but the Readers you have to download aren't very easy to use.
So I guess the most dependable and user friendly source is still Google earth running in a computer that has enough memory and speed to run it at maximum resulotion.

besides with google earth you don't get the scary warnings about trying to acces classified DOD systems.
 
Come to think of it it's time I found some better images to work from. A perfect 10 would a 10 meter per pixel relief map of the eastern usa. would be nice. Anyone know where I can find one?
 
Here is one. It isn't very high resolution but it is a high level of the whole state:

_http://www.alabama-map.org/relief-map.htm
 
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