The Apocalypse: Comets, Asteroids and Cyclical Catastrophes

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For untold millennia, comets and asteroids have struck fear into the hearts of humankind. Their stark radiance was observed everywhere with a sense of impending doom, interpreted as signs of the gods’ judgment, omens of plague, mass destruction and the end of time. Astronomers recorded their appearance the world over, building large scale observatories to track their movements and predict their ominous arrival. What was it about these majestic wonders of the heavens that inspired such dread? Was it simply a product of mere superstition and social hysteria?



The latest scientific analysis and historical analysis strongly suggest otherwise. Our ancestors knew something we have since forgotten, their secrets deeply embedded in the archaeological record and the myths passed on throughout generations. And we have only begun to unravel their mysteries …

Spurred on by the discovery of a little known letter of warning to the European Office of Aerospace Research and Development by astrophysicist Victor Clube, author Laura Knight-Jadczyk began an in-depth research project to get to the bottom of the very real threat to humanity posed by these celestial visitors. In The Apocalypse: Comets, Asteroids, and Cyclical Catastrophes, Knight-Jadczyk shares what she found: historical evidence for mass destructions, comet-borne plagues, and repeated cover ups littering our past, as well as clues that a similar fate may be fast approaching.and repeated cover ups littering our past, as well as clues that a similar fate may be fast approaching.



THE APOCALYPSE

Comets, Asteroids and Cyclical Catastrophes



Laura Knight-Jadczyk

Red Pill Press



Copyright © Laura Knight-Jadczyk Quantum Future Group Inc.



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Portions of this book were published 2010-2011 in The Dot Connector Magazine - www.thedotconnector.org and in selected articles by the author on www.Sott.net

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Table of Contents

Introduction

Part I: A History of Comets and Catastrophe

Chapter 1: Victor Clube and the Cosmic Turkey Shoot

Chapter 2: Mike Baillie and the Cosmic Pestilència

Chapter 3: Halloween and Ancient Techno-Spirituality

Chapter 4: A Hundred Years of War, Witches, and the Inquisition

Chapter 5: Thirty Years of Cults and Comets

Chapter 6: Comet Biela and Mrs. O’Leary’s Cow

Chapter 7: Tunguska, the Horns of the Moon and Evolution

Part II: The List

Chapter 8: Meteorites, Asteroids, and Comets: Damages, Disasters, Injuries, Deaths, and Very Close Calls

Part III: The Golden Age, Psychopathy and the Sixth Extinction

Chapter 9: Creationism, Evolution and the Corruption of Science

Chapter 10: The Cycle of Ages

Chapter 11: The Cro-Magnon Mystery, Neanderthal Man and Psychopathy

Chapter 12: As It Was In The Days Of Noë

Bibliography

Other Books by Laura Knight Jadczyk

INTRODUCTION

In this book, I will argue that there is a lot of evidence that our planet undergoes cataclysmic bombardment by comets and their fragments a lot more often than most scientists, scholars and the general public think or believe. As John Lewis, Professor of Planetary Sciences at the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, Co-director of the NASA/University of Arizona Space Engineering Research Center, and Commissioner of the Arizona State Space Commission wrote in his book, Comet and Asteroid Impact Hazards on a Populated Earth: Awareness of the possibility of large impact events on Earth, although long present among a handful of the most imaginative thinkers, has come of age in this century as a result of studies of Arizona’s Meteor Crater and the Tunguska fireball of June 30, 1908, in Siberia, spacecraft observations of cratering on Earth and other rocky bodies, and astronomical surveys of the near-Earth asteroid and comet populations. Appreciation of the effects of large impacts has developed in response to these studies and to the unclassified literature on the effects of large nuclear weapons. … [T]he most intensively studied impact phenomenon, impact cratering, is of limited importance, due to the rarity and large mean time between events for crater-forming impacts. Almost all events causing property damage and lethality are due to bodies less than 100 meters in diameter, almost all of which, except for the very largest and strongest, are fated to explode in the atmosphere. … Since explosions greater than 1 gigaton TNT are rare on this short of a time scale, we are forced to conclude that the complex behavior of smaller bodies is closely relevant to the threat actually experienced by contemporary civilization.

… [T]he large majority of lethal events (not of the number of fatalities) are caused by bodies that are so small, so faint, and so numerous that the cost of the effort required to find, track, predict, and intercept them exceeds the cost of the damage incurred by ignoring them. (Lewis 1999, xi, xiii-xiv)

Lewis’ statement above pretty much sums up the conclusions of all the research into comet and asteroid hazards that has been going on in a somewhat frenzied way for the past 14 years or so. The ones we really have to worry about, the ones that will kill people on the planet in random, unforeseen disasters, probably can’t be seen and are too numerous for it to be cost effective to try to find and deal with them. In other words, the public is abandoned to their fate. Not only abandoned, but a deliberate policy of concealment of the facts is clearly in place, as we’ll see.

Thumbing through Comet/Asteroid Impacts and Human Society (edited by Peter T. Bobrowsky and Hans Rickman), a collection of scientific papers presented at a workshop under the aegis of the International Council for Science and published by the eminent scientific publishing house, Springer, we read in the introduction: “The International Council for Science recently recognized that the societal implications (social, cultural, political and economic) of a comet/asteroid impact on Earth warrants an immediate consideration by all countries in the world.” Pardon the sarcasm, but wow! You think? It seems that it’s not just yours truly (and a few others on the Net) who are keeping track of the increasing number of fireballs and meteorites that suggest we are passing through rather dangerous areas of space, or that maybe ‘something wicked this way comes’.

In the chapter entitled ‘Social Perspectives on Comet/Asteroid Impact (CAI) Hazards: Technocratic Authority and the Geography of Social Vulnerability’ from the above-cited book by Kenneth Hewitt, we read:

Until quite recently, research into comet and asteroid hazards was focused on establishing the scale and scope of past impacts, credible estimates of their recurrence, and models for physical impact scenarios. … CAI hazards have moved well beyond the realm of ungrounded speculation and apocalyptic visions. The results represent more than just new findings. They revolutionize, or are about to revolutionize, some basic understandings about the Earth, its history, biological evolution and future. Although human life has had a tiny place in the story so far, our longer term fate seems to be challenged by these forces and may be decided by them. (Bobrowsky & Rickman 2007, 399)

No kidding. Then, in a chapter entitled ‘Social Science and NearEarth Objects: an Inventory of Issues’ by Lee Clarke, we read: It would have been ridiculous, not too long ago, to admit openly that you were thinking about asteroids and comets slamming into the Earth. Such events could mean the end of the world as we know it – TEOTWAWKI as millenialists call it – and that kind of talk is often ridiculed. … Respectable people are pondering the issues. For example, S. Pete Worden, who is a Brigadier General in the US Air Force and Deputy Director for Command and Control Headquarters at the Pentagon, has said that he believes “we should pay more attention to the ‘Tunguskaclass’ objects – 100 meter or so objects which can strike up to several times per century with the destructiveness of a nuclear weapon” … (Bobrowsky & Rickman 2007, 355)

I located the general’s comments and it seems that the above is not all the general said. In fact, he states quite unequivocally: I can show people evidence of real strikes inflicting local and regional damage less than a century ago. Even more compelling are the frequent kiloton-level detonations our early warning satellites see in the earth’s atmosphere. … Within the United States space community there is a growing concern over “space situational awareness.”



The general was writing back in 2000. “Less than a century ago.” That would be after 1900. In other words, he is saying that there were “real strikes inflicting local and regional damage” since 1900! Did I miss something? Did all of us miss something? It seems so. Several of my research helpers did a little digging on the question after reading the above quote and came up with some very interesting finds. It seems that there were two events in the 1930s that equaled the Tunguska event (described in detail in a later chapter). An article, ‘Two “Tunguskas” in South America in the 1930’s?’ was printed in International Meteor Organization’s December 1995 edition of the WGN journal. [1] It was written by Duncan Steel of the AngloAustralian Observatory, who writes: There is evidence that there were two massive bolide explosions which occurred over South America in the 1930’s. One seems to have occurred over Amazonia, near the Brazil-Peru border, on August 13, 1930, whilst the other was over British Guyana on December 11, 1935. It is noted that these dates coincide with the peaks of the Perseids and the Geminids, although any association with those meteor showers is very tentative. The identification of such events is significant in particular in that they point to the need for re-assessment of the frequency of Tunguska-type atmospheric detonations.

Then there is the article ‘A rain of around 70 tons of Iron’ by George Zay of Sky Publishing Corporation, who publish Sky and Telescope Magazine. Zay writes: This week marks the golden anniversary of what is arguably the most spectacular meteorite fall ever seen. At 10:40 a.m. on February 12, 1947, a incredibly bright fireball seared its way across the sky of eastern Siberia and rained around 70 tons of iron meteorites onto the rugged landscape. Because it was so well documented, the SikhoteAlin fall proved a great boon to meteorite science. The 1947 Siberian event is considered in most literature as one of the two most significant events this century where the earth has

encountered objects from space. It was an iron meteorite that broke up only about 5 miles above the earth. It produced over 100 craters with the largest being around 85 feet in diameter. The strewn field covered an area of about 1 mile by a half mile. There were no fires or similar destruction like that found at Tunguska. Shredded trees and broken branches mostly. A total of 23 tons of meteorites were recovered and it’s been estimated its total mass was around 70 tons when it broke up. [2]

There are more, of course, but this just tells us that there are many things going on here on the Big Blue Marble that we aren’t aware of. That’s exactly what Victor Clube was saying in his narrative report to the USAF and Oxford that sent me off on this topic in the first place. So let’s get right to it and take a look at what Clube had to say that was so interesting.

FOOTNOTES [1]: http://www.xtec.cat/~aparra1/astronom/craters/amazonase.htm

[2]: http://www.xtec.cat/~aparra1/astronom/craters/anecdotese.htm



PART I: A HISTORY OF COMETS AND CATASTROPHE

CHAPTER 1

Victor Clube and the Cosmic Turkey Shoot

Before I began the research on this book, a friend of mine who is a climate scientist at a major U.S. research facility made an interesting find: a letter addressed to the Chief, Physics and BMD Coordinator of the European Office of Aerospace Research and Development, dated 4 June 1996, entitled ‘The Hazard to Civilization from Fireballs and Comets’ [1] by S.V.M. Clube. For the uninitiated, Clube is an astrophysicist at the University of Oxford. In this short, four-page letter and summary statement, Clube writes (emphases in the original): (A) Asteroids which pass close to the Earth have been fully recognized by mankind for only about 20 years. Previously, the idea that substantial unobserved objects might be close enough to be a potential hazard to the Earth was treated with as much derision as the unobserved aether. Scientists of course are in business to establish broad principles (e.g. relativity) and the Earth’s supposedly uneventful, uniformitarian environment was already very much in place. The result was that scientists who paid more than lip service to objects close enough to encounter the Earth did so in an atmosphere of barely disguised contempt. Even now, it is difficult for laymen to appreciate the enormity of the intellectual blow with which most of the Body Scientific has recently been struck and from which it is now seeking to recover.

What intellectual blow might Clube be talking about here? After a bit of thought, it occurred to me that he must be talking about the Comet Shoemaker-Levy fragment impacts on Jupiter which produced a huge amount of excitement at the time which was just two years before the date of this letter. To return to Clube’s report, he continues: The present report, then, is concerned with those other celestial

bodies recorded by mankind since the dawn of civilization which either miss or impinge upon the Earth and which have also been despised. Now known respectively as comets (>1 kilometre in size) and meteoroids (100 kilometres in size which substantially break up in the short term into objects