last updated 2003 June 14

 
• ASTRONOMY
iridium



Approximately 50 million years ago an asteroid, some 10km in diameter slammed into what is now  Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula near the town of  Chicxulub. The resulting dust cloud destroyed most   living things and ended the dinosaurs reign on  earth. The evidence for this has been known for  some time, with the deposits of Iridium-rich clay  found at the boundary of Cretaceous and Tertiary  deposits (known as the K/T Boundary) all over the  world.

Iridium www.densoiridium.com/originofiridium.htm Iridium is found all over the world in the K/T layer and is not an unknown metal (commodity), however; its ability to be used in a manufacture type environment is  unique. The current products that use Iridium are cellular telephones (Motorola), sunglasses (Oakley), and now spark plugs (DENSO). The reason for only a few companies using this precious metal is its difficulty to be manipulated in a  cost-effective manner.

• Physics
• Light
• light - speed of light is is calculated in light years
• light travels 9.5 trillion kilometres in one year,
• or 5.93 trillion miles in one year, or 677 million mph
• The speed of light in a vacuum is defined to be exactly 299,792,458 meters per second
• At this velocity, a light beam can circle the earth 7 1/2 times in one second  www.tpub.com/neets/book10/39h.htm
• a laser pointed at a mirror on the moon reflects back on Earth in a round trip that takes about 2.5 seconds

5.93 trillion miles	one year
16.246 billion miles	one day
676.9 million miles	one hour
11.2 million miles	one minute
300,000 kilometers 186,000 miles	one second

• Ancient Encoded Numbers: The Speed of Light  http://www.earthmatrix.com/essay124.html
• The numbers related to the maya long-count

• Druids, Vikings, Romans

• Egypt, Mesoamerica, Aztecs, Inca, Mayans, Toltecs

• Pleistocene Megafauna, ie. cave bears, mammoths, saber tooth tiger (smilodon), giant birds and flying reptiles
• Neanderthal Man  www.witiger.com/hobbies/history3homonoids.htm

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