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Meteor May Have Wiped Out Middle East Civilization

Posted by Hemos on from the interesting-nugget-of-thought dept.

GFD writes "The Telegraph has a story about how a recently discovered impact crater in Iraq could have wiped out several civilizations that 'collapsed mysteriously' about 4000 years ago. This is the first find, AFAIK, of a meteor impact affecting human civilization directly. Very thought provoking."

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  1. Velikovsky said this all those years ago. by os2fan · · Score: 2, Flamebait
    Velikovsky said that a lot of civilisations came to greif as a result of Venus coming close to Earth around 1500BC. Because of some errors in the calendars (the "Dark Ages" of the ancient time), this could also mean 2000BC.

    The relevant books are things like Ages in Chaos, Worlds in Collision and Earth in Upheval.

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  2. Holy War by Knunov · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Perhaps we should drop leaflets explaining this to the Muslims, after which they'll declare jihad on the "unbelievers from space." Then they'll like us, because we can give them a ride to war.

    Knunov

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