Earthquake Survival Kits

4 Comments

1. ronen
   Posted September 18, 2010 at 11:02 pm | Permalink

   wait a min is’nt he 1906? the earthquake movie?

2. cyndie1030
   Posted December 9, 2010 at 1:41 pm | Permalink

   1) The Sound of Music
   2) Defending Your Life
   3) Hoosiers
   4) Camelot
   5) Patton

3. Petrusclavus
   Posted December 10, 2011 at 8:57 am | Permalink

   The History channel has turned into the "hoax/myth/fear mongering perpetuation channel."

   There is NO actual evidence of any visitation by aliens / spacecraft / super beings. NONE.

   Drawings on cave walls, pictographs, figures carved into the deserts and mysterious writings mean nothing as far as proof goes. Really. Nothing. People speculate on those topics because it's fun to imagine it, it gets them attention, and – most importantly – it probably makes money for them.

   Simply because we may not know how some structures were built _does not_ mean that extra-terrestrial beings had to provide help.

   You need to keep in mind that:
   1) many of the ancient civilizations had hundreds of years to build those things, and had _slaves_. 1,000 people pulling on ropes can move a lot of rock. If 100 of them die from malnourishment and injuries every week, so what? More are available. We are accustomed to working on a much shorter time scale.
   and
   2) they all knew about mind altering drugs way, way before so-called modern civilizations did. That might go a long way to explaining the drawings.

   Nothing at all can produce a global flood. Nothing. Think about how high the mountain ranges are – the Rockies, the Andes, Pyrenees, Himalayan mountains and all of the others. Think about the unimaginably large amounts of water you would need to flood the midwest of the the US. Some of those places have been underwater, but not from global floods. Only from tectonic plate movement of over millions of years. All of the water will always reside at the lowest points on the planet. There is no way to get that water out of the oceans an onto the land in some global way.

   Tsunamis can certainly advance some distance inland, but that will not make any difference to the land another mile beyond the farthest penetration. Many coast lines are formed from cliffs, or bordered by mountains or hills within a short distance (a few miles) beyond the beach.

4. Roger K
   Posted December 29, 2011 at 3:59 am | Permalink

   Well… you are flogging that dead horse… and, personally, I would take your inquiry about soil layer analysis more seriously if you omitted the theories about ancient highly advanced civilizations with better than modern technology. I can't take those seriously.

   I believe that the only event causing extreme, worldwide disruption and extinction, on which there is significant and widespread agreement, is the meteorite impact on the Yucatan Peninsula: ). Aside from that, there is no evidence of any worldwide cataclysm capable of wiping out all traces of any advanced civilization.

   I am sure there are people who believe that other such events took place, or who disbelieve the evidence in the K-T boundary layer analysis, but there is no significant agreement with other hypotheses. If sufficient evidence accumulates in the coming decades, then perhaps that will change. That's how science is supposed to work.

   Further, you state:
   "I guess the most realistic question that might serve as the first step for this inquiry of mine is, "Are there pedological (sic) data that say otherwise?" "
   You have put the conclusion in front of the evidence. You state your theory then ask if there is evidence that contradicts that. Wrong way around. You need to look at the evidence and then come up with a theory that explains that available evidence. You have no evidence at all, yet you propose a theory and ask if anyone can disprove it.

   All we can do is point to lack of evidence of any such civilization, of any such massively destructive event and say: there is no support at all for any such theory.