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In article <5bc9qd$529@morgoth.sfu.ca>, Neil Grant <grantj@sfu.ca> wrote:
>eileen@super.win.or.jp (Akiko Eileen Arakawa) writes:
>
>>Large Flood at 7:00 a.m. (Greenwich Standard Time), on Wednesday, 
>>July 7, 1999 will happen as like Noah's. 
>
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>
>>However, the phenomena that the entire earth is covered with water 
>>is a natural one according to the change of the earth's axis and it 
>>is only at the cycle of about once per 12,000 years.  So then, on the 
>>earth of the present age, according to the Prophecies of Prophet 
>>Nostradams, the downpour will fall by the change of the earth's axis 
>>in July, 1999, and a large flood will happen.  I wonder whether the 
>>entire earth will be covered with water at 7:00 a.m. (Greenwich 
>>Standard Time), on Wednesday, July 7, 1999.  We should completely 
>>prepare to evacuate and survive from the large flood from now on.
>
>	Good sir, I respect your belief.  However, I feel it is    
>necessary to ask the question:
>
>	Where the hell do you think all this water is *coming* from?

What is being discussed is the dynamic effects of a sudden (over a few hours
or days) slide of the whole lithosphere (crust) of the Earth from its present
position to one dramatically different - probably with the polar ice caps or
other heavy spots moved down to the equator where the spin is about a more
stable axis.

I believe there is a guy at the U of Vt or some such school who has worked out
a serious explanation of how this can happen and may have happened cyclically
in the past.

Anyway...  if it *DID* happen, the water of all the oceans, which represent
7/8 of the planet's surface area, would have no particular reason to follow
suit, and instead would tend to continue spinning around the current polar
axis.  Thus, relative motion between the crust and the ocean water would
tend to cause said water to wash up over all the continents that disagreed
with its intended path of rotation.  From the point of view of all us little
ants infesting the continents, this would be perceived as a very devastating
flood of our little ant-hills.  Not to mention a whole lot of quaking and
shaking and volcanism (fire and brimstone?).

There's a neat little book ("Home of the Gods" or some such name, by Andreas
Tobias, if memory serves) which points out that all of the legends of various
peoples of the planet are consistent with a worldwide catastrophe involving
earthquakes, volcanism, a shifting of the positions of all the heavenly
bodies, and a great Flood.  Except for China, where the legends run toward
the waters of the ocean rushing AWAY from the land (had to happen SOMEWHERE
on the planet, under this scenario, after all), leaving a dry sea bed, only
to return a day or so later.

All of which sounds like an eerily believable explanation of how the ubiquitous
Flood legend, along with the other legends about heavenly bodies shifting 
about, fire and brimstone, etc. could have in fact arisen in our deep
antiquity.  Certainly worth getting a few more geologists and dynamicists
to look into the maths a bit more.

Have a nice day!     /:^)\    <------  Mars Face smiley!

-John Sangster
 Wellesley Hills, MA  USA