Reply #11: Thanks, Greenman 3610 and Progressive Cancer, I didn't realize that snowball periods came before

[breadandwine]

multi-cellular and animal life on earth.

(Monckton is irrelevant to me. He's obviously a quack, hack and corporate tool.)

Now I have another question, though this is really off topic. There's a scientific group called the Holocene Impact Working Group, which has studied evidence that asteroids and comets striking the earth especially out at sea produced huge tsunamis that covered much of the world, such as Burckle Crater in the Indian Ocean.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_Impact_Working_Group

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burckle_crater

I've read a good bit about this. There are many web pages on it. An asteroid hitting the Indian Ocean of this size would have created both tsunamis AND huge vaporizations of sea water due to heat, creating torrential rains and storms around the planet, inundating even areas above the tsunami level with water flooding from the torrential rains. The tsunami itself would have been something like 600 feet high but tsunamis at the shore tend to rise up so at the shore the sea level could have been literally miles high.

This is also a similar species-affecting event. Since Burckle impact happened only in recent thousands of years, it would surely have threatened animal life. There seems no question that Burckle Crater is a recent huge asteroid impact and that it did indeed inundate the earth with flooding nearly all over the planet, temporarily. Yet I do not understand how all the diverse animal life we see today survived. There are unique ecosystems with animal species distinct from elsewhere on the earth in specific locations and for those to exist today it is hard to understand how such worldwide flooding could have taken place. There is, of course record in the myths of many cultures of great floods but that is still folklore and the fact remains that there is indeed evidence of huge oceanic impacts of asteroids and comets in the relatively recent geologic past, which would indeed have inundated ecosystems with extinction-causing floods.

So what protected all that life or much of it?

Anybody know about this?