Magnetic Reversals
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Evolutionary Leaps

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Magnetic Reversals and Evolutionary Leaps

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Oceans of oil

"I know a world midway in size between the Moon and Mars,” said Carl Sagan, “where the upper air is crackling with electricity; where the perpetual brown overcast is tinged an odd burnt orange; and where the stuff of life falls out of the skies like manna from heaven onto the unknown surface below."

And what is that "stuff of life" that Sagan is talking about? That "manna from heaven"?

Hydrocarbons and nitriles constantly fall from Titan's skies, said Sagan. Titan - the big moon of Saturn - is socked in as a haze of organic solids formed high in its skies slowly fall and accumulate on its surface. Oceans of water are impossible on Titan (it's too cold), but "vast oceans of liquid hydrocarbons are expected." (pp 133,134)

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Raining bitumen

Suddenly, the old Mexican myths about bitumen raining from the sky (The Manuscript Quiché, Brasseur, Histoire des nations civilisées du Mexique, I., 55), or the old Syrian tales about oil raining from the sky (Ras-Shamra [Ugarit], C. H. Gordon, The Loves and Wars of Baal and Anat, 1943), don't seem quite so mythical.

Nor do the Midrashim texts that speak of naphtha (petroleum) falling from the sky (Midrash Tanhuma, Midrash Psikta Raboti, and Midrash Wa-Yosha).

Immanuel Velikovsky told of these myths in his book Worlds in Collision, pp. 69-71 and 149. (p 135)

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Rivers of oil

Photographs taken by the European Space Agency’s Huygens probe, which landed on Saturn’s largest moon on January 14, 2005, show images of streams, springs and deltas that look eerily similar to river networks on earth, except that these networks were carved into the landscape by rivers of oil or liquid methane. Other images from the Cassini mission show hydrocarbon lakes, replete with shorelines, bays and channels.1 One lake, as big as North America’s Lake Ontario, has been dubbed Ontario Lacus. (p 134)

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Buckyballs

Nanodiamonds are not the only form of carbon found at the mammoth extinction. Firestone also describes the discovery of fullerenes, tiny soccer ball-like carbon cages. Also called buckyballs—after architect Buckminster Fuller, the inventor of the geodesic dome—fullerenes are created only occasionally “from intense natural forces such as lightning strikes (italics added), and rarely, inside some lava flows.”

The buckyballs and radioactivity mark the occasion so well, said Firestone, that “armed with only a magnet and a geiger counter we found the magnetic particles in the well-dated Clovis layer all over North America where no one had looked before.”(p 150)

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