Alaskan Wolves - Wiped Out 12,000 Years Ago

They can now be added to the list of mammals that became extinct for some unknown reason (but me thinks the last cataclysm) 12,000 years ago in North America.

"Wolves were generally thought to have survived the end-Pleistocene extinction relatively unscathed. But this previously unrecognized type of wolf appears to have vanished without a trace some 12,000 years ago.

...The result implies that the Alaskan wolves died out completely, leaving no modern descendents. After the extinction, the Alaskan habitat was probably recolonized by wolves that survived south of the ice sheet in the continental United States, Leonard said."

Quake a-coming?

Their previous prediction proved to be nothing, but that doesn't mean there is any deficiencies in their methodology. According to HalfPastHuman (found via the 2012 forum) a recent Gamma Ray Burst "with very extreme characteristics" could trigger a mega quake...

Another 2012 documentary

Pre-empting the 2008 release of Time of the Sixth Sun, "The Shift of the Ages" will be released on June 23, 2007. It has been commissioned by Don Alejandro Cirilo Perez Oxlaj, a 13th Generation Mayan Elder and present head of the Guatemalan Council of 440 Elders.

This chap seems to be the real deal (I found him on a non-2012 website), lending a lot of credibility to this doco being representative of the thoughts & feelings of the present-day Mayan people. Read about the film here.

Magnetic PoleShift mentioned in the Economist

Flips have happened as close together as 50,000 years, though the last one was 780,000 years ago. But, as discussed at the Greenland Space Science Symposium, held in Kangerlussuaq this week, the signs are that another flip is coming soon.

One of those signs is that the strength of the field has been falling by 5% a century recently. A similar (though more rapid) diminution accompanies the reversing of the sun's magnetic field, which happens every 11 years or so. Other evidence comes from old navigation records. Researchers such as Nils Olsen, of the Danish National Space Centre, have used such records to chart the growth of patches of abnormal magnetism. They are able to do so because these records use both compass bearings and astronomical observations to locate a vessel. The changing relationship between the two shows that patches of abnormal magnetism have been growing off south-east Africa and in the South Atlantic.

Just when the magnetic field will flip is impossible to predict from what is known at the moment; the best guess is that there are still several centuries to go. Nor is it clear how long its protective shield will be down. (The record in the rocks is little help, since a geological eyeblink represents many human lifetimes.) But understanding how the magnetosphere works now should help to deal with the consequences if and when it vanishes.

I'm wondering if all the recent exposure (Economist, USA Today, History Channel, Hollywood movies) is a good thing, because some people with money or influence might be convinced to do something, or bad because it is over-popularizing, dumbing-down and making it all sound a bit crackpot.

Time will tell.

Patrick Geryl Interview Video

Patrick explains his theories on the Coast To Coast AM show (via telephone from Belgium). His part begins at the 14 minute mark, and runs for 30 minutes.

Also can be found here, and by searching for "geryl" at Google Video

Another silly theory regarding the demise of mammoths

Palaeontologists have long assumed that massive hunting by humans led to the extinction of woolly mammoths about 12,000 years ago, but new genetic analysis indicates that inbreeding and loss of genetic variability was the real cause.

This theory completely ignores the abrupt nature of their demise (with buttercup flowers in their mouth), that happened at the same time as all the large mammals becoming extinct in North America.

Yes, they may have eventually died out due to inbreeding, but that wasn't the case in this instance.

Many universes - All formed inside black holes

Just an idea I had after a few bored beers last Saturday at the Elephant & Wheelbarrow, whilst reading about Einstein and black holes...

According to Wikipedia:

"As an infalling object approaches the singularity, tidal forces acting on it approach infinity. All components of the object, including atoms and subatomic particles, are torn away from each other before striking the singularity. At the singularity itself, effects are unknown; a theory of quantum gravity is needed to accurately describe events near it. Regardless, as soon as an object passes within the hole's event horizon, it is lost to the outside world."

To me, this opens up the possibility of a new universe opening up within a black hole, consisting of the information provided from objects that fell into it. From within the black hole, the creation of the new universe would appear to be a "big bang". This would mean that:

- if every universe can spawn black holes, the number of universes is infinite
- because our universe was created via a big bang, we are inside a black hole
- new objects being sucked into the black hole are the cause of expansion of our universe

I totally expect this to have been thought of, and much debated, already, but after a bottle of Shiraz and 5 minutes of Googleing I am unable to find this anywhere...

OK, I searched for 2 minutes more, and found this:

For example, matter that falls into a black hole in our universe could emerge as a Big Bang, starting another universe. However, all such ideas are currently untestable and cannot be regarded as anything more than speculation.

Due to the nature of the theory, there's not a lot more to say, and no proof able to be supplied. Still, it's my best bet as to part of the story of why we are here.

Someone has gone and built an ark!

Although it is only half the length of the biblical ark, it is otherwise as correct as it can be, including life-size models of giraffes, elephants, lions, crocodiles, zebras and bison. Amazingly it took one man less than 2 years to build - I guess the locals would be calling him "Noah".

Did a comet wipe out North American mammals?

I read this New Scientist article with great interest, as I have always maintained that the most likely cause of the 10,000BC North American cataclysm was a pole shift. To me that was far more likely than "the Indians killed 22 million animals for food" theory.

New evidence shows that the cause may have been a comet:

Citing several lines of evidence, the team suggests that a wayward comet hurtled into Earth's atmosphere around 12,900 years ago, fractured into pieces and exploded in giant fireballs.

...immense wildfires scorched North America in the aftermath, killing large populations of mammals and bringing an abrupt end to the Clovis culture. "The entire continent was on fire,"

... the evidence lies in a narrow 12,900-year-old carbon-rich layer of sediment found at eight well-dated Clovis-era sites and a peppering of sediment cores across North America, as well as one site in Belgium.

In this layer the team detected several different types of extraterrestrial debris, including nanodiamonds that are only ever found on Earth in meteorites; tiny carbon spherules that form when molten droplets cool rapidly in air; and cage-like carbon molecules containing the rare isotope helium-3, far more abundant in the cosmos than on Earth.

According to one website, nanodiamonds can be found "in meteorites, protoplanetary nebulae, and interplanetary dust." Other hints that it may not necessary arrive on earth via a comet are:

"it is unclear what fraction of the nanodiamond population is actually associated with supernovae" (found here)

"An astrophysicist from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's Institute for Geophysics and Planetary Physics has found that some nanodiamonds, the most famous and exotic form of stardust, may instead have formed within the inner solar system." (found here)

Interestingly, the same scientists were previously promoting a supernova as the orginal cause (see my blog entry), and this is not mentioned at all in the New Scientist article! Could it be a conspiracy.....

William Burroughs on 2012

Way back in 1965 William Burroughs was knowledgable about the Mayan calendar and the doom it represented:

the Mayan
calendar starts from
the date & Ahau88 Cumh
u and rools on to the
end of the world also
a definite future date
('/Great Atlantic Acc-
ident.Need a peg to ha
-ng it on.Name address
hotel quite right?/'

More...

Canibus: A 2012 Rapper

For example his track Doomsday News:

"I kick the illest shit, spray-paintin my name across the pyramids"
"Cause doomsday is near, faggot niggaz is scared"
"sun bakin in gamma ray radiation"
"Electromagnetic cassettes melt tape decks"

And this video called Canibus Beyond 2012:

"I spit at a thousand chips, kilotons of pressure
every letter is measured in such a way you will remember
December 21st, 2012 is the code
it was placed on the Mayan sun stone to puzzle them"

(more lyrics at http://forum.albumbase.com/printthread.php?tid=20800 )

And, his about to be released album has this cover: