[FPSPACE] Was Velikovsky Right for all the Wrong Reasons?

[Alex Michael Bonnici]

Hello Gang,
     I never really believed in Velikovsky's idea that plasma
proto-planets were ejected by Jupiter and wreck havoc with the Solar
System. But I always suspected that a very rich meteor shower may
account for many of the myths and legends that spoke of the wrath of the
Gods and fire raining from the sky. The legend of Gilgamesh,  talks of
"the Seven Judges of Hell", who raised their torches, lighting the land
with flame, and a storm that turned day into night, "smashed the land
like a cup", and flooded the area. Four  years ago an article in the
Sunday Telegraph entitled "METEOR CLUE TO END OF MIDDLE EAST
CIVILISATIONS By Robert Matthews, Science Correspondent dated 4 November
2001  mentioned that scientists have found the first evidence that a
devastating meteor impact in the Middle East might have triggered the
mysterious collapse of civilisations more than 4,000 years ago.


http://www.portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/11/04/wmet04.xml&sSheet=/news/2001/11/04/ixhomef.html



"Quoting from the article: Studies of satellite images of southern Iraq
have revealed a two-mile-wide circular depression which scientists say
bears all the hallmarks of an impact crater. If confirmed, it would
point to the Middle East being struck by a meteor with the violence
equivalent to hundreds of nuclear bombs."


In an early postingf I mentioned that in the June 2005 issue of the
British Science Magazine BBC Focus there was a very interesting article
about a possible between  the Tunguska event of June 30th, 1908 to the
Beta Taurid Meteor Shower, the event recounted in the Chronicle of
Gervase, and the ancient stone circle of Stonehenge. And that Duncan
Steel postulated that Stonehenge may have
been an early warning system for the ancients that warned of an
impending celestial bombardment. So did Velikovsky had it right  in a
sense but had the mechanism that caused the cataclysms figure out all
wrong?

Further background information can be found via the links below:



http://www.stonepages.com/news/archives/000425.html

http://www.morien-institute.org/taurid.html


Alex Michael Bonnici