Cosmography 101 Class 32 segment 3/3 with Randall Carlson, from November 2008. (Excerpt from this segment previously released) Classes in sequential order here: [ Ссылка ] Summary notes/topics:
Sphinx and quarrying methods, pick marks
Block removal and stepped walls
Erosion of Sphinx quarry walls
Profile of quarry wall cross-section
Paul suggests it’s either much older, or there’s been a lot of water
Rates of limestone erosion – highly soluble
When met Schoch, he had not gone into relative erosion studies
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Erosion from pounding waves in intertidal zone on limestone cliff in Australia
From “Annals of Geomorphology” 1964 paper concludes 1mm per year
JG Goodchild studies on rain/weathering rates on tombstone “Geological Magazine” 1890
Adjusted to 2 feet in about 12,500 years
Limestone boulders in Tennessee River exposed below Watts Bar Dam after 27 years
Adjusted to 24 inches in 12,000 years
Whole lot more water flowed, or Sphinx is incredibly old
Concluding that Sphinx is 20,000+ years old, which allows for multiple flood events
Sapropel studies in Eastern Mediterranean from article in “Nature” 1982
Nile River flooding from article in “Nature” form 1980
Extraordinary floods at 12,500 years ago
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Summation: Catastrophism is real, scientifically verifiable and revealing a tempo
10-12 catastrophes that would reset civilization in the time of modern humans
Durability of civilization?
Megalithic markers persist
Why would “farmers” decide to quarry, move and build with megalithic stones?
Amazing appetites of early Americans to kill off 12 million mammoths
Forms of great catastrophes – exogenic
Extant through legends and tales passing down stream of knowledge from one ultimate source
Pyramids evidence of great advanced and sophisticated ancient sciences
Knowledge was somehow preserved even though almost no one survived
Two types of survivors: by chance or by intention
Gothic Cathedrals are detailed blueprints on what we do next
Message of the Hendaye Stone and the X-factor tie-in; connects to this stratum of knowledge
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