reply to post by coolottie
Your write up is a bit off in places. Some of the issues are:
There are still trees on this planet over 5,000 years old.
The oldest living tree is a bristlecone pine at 4600 years. The oldest I've personally seen was 4300 years old.
Tree rings also tell when there are mass extiction periods, drought, floods etc.
I am well aware of dendrochronology. I know that complete sequences go back 10k years in Europe and in the US. That time frame does not cover mass
extinctions unless you want to consider the cichlid extinction in Africa.
Star Thurban
The star in Draco is Thuban. I'm well aware of it.
even the Pyramids are aligned to Thruban in the Draconous Constellation.
That's no longer true. They are now aligned with Polaris.
the Pole Star Polairis was suddenly the New Pole star in a matter of just 4 years.
That's completely false. It has been a slow process and took thousands of years, like 5000 years to happen.
Many Ancient sites aligned to this north star are now 23.2 degrees off of their alignment
That's really misleading. The places are still aligned with North. The problem is that the point in the sky appears to change due to precession of the
axes. This is a wobble of the Earth.
The idea of precession was noticed in ancient times. The ancients noticed that over the course of a century their star coordinates were off just a
bit. This was noticed from Sumer to the Mayan culture to China and everywhere astronomers recorded the heavens. The cause was not always worked out by
the ancients. For example, the Maya did not figure out why over time their records were wrong.
Nothing I pointed out has been answered:
1. Are you seriously claiming that the ancients knew about asteroids?
2. Are you also claiming that the impacts altered the Earth's rotational axis?
3. What sort of evidence are tree rings going to tell you about the orientation of the Earth?
edit on 3-4-2011 by stereologist because: (no reason given)