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Figure 1 The year is 1999, and East Antarctica is covered with over three miles of ice whose mass centre is offset a dangerous 400 miles east of the geographic pole. It is poised to shift, and chaos is awaiting the signal that the RB-Effect has broken the last of the crustal ties. Figure 2 With the failure of the last crustal tie, the crust will slip across the inner mantle, car- tying the frigid ice of the polar regions into the lower latitudes, and the following waters will swallow the land and all that inhabits it. Figure 3 When the air clears and the waters have settled, the dawn will awaken to find a new world! In my own book on this subject, 5/5/2000, Ice: The Ultimate wanting to face the horrifying truth of surging waters, chosen Disaster, 1 sought to answer the many questions that were before instead, like the Lotus-Eaters of Greek mythology who ate of the me by inviting other professionals to share their thoughts through fruit of the lotus, to forget our past and live now in blissful indo- interviews that I replicate for the reader. The beautiful thing lence? Whichever the case, whether it's arrogance or indolence, about interviews is that they solicit spontaneous responses that the cause has eluded identification and has solicited silence. But often express a deeper meaning than if the words had been pre- silence, as the universal refuge, has become insufficient because pared in advance for publication. Some of the interviews were so _ the question of what could cause these hideous calamities thun- thoroughly thought-provoking that I felt exhilarated by the experi- ders forth, demanding an answer. In the paragraphs ahead, we ence, and would sit quietly for long periods afterwards, just won- will seek an answer to this geological mystery. We will seek the darina: Kram whara did tha marualo af thio Rarth of thie ineradi panca In my own book on this subject, 5/5/2000, Ice: The Ultimate wanting to face the horrifying truth of surging waters, chosen Disaster, 1 sought to answer the many questions that were before instead, like the Lotus-Eaters of Greek mythology who ate of the me by inviting other professionals to share their thoughts through _fruit of the lotus, to forget our past and live now in blissful indo- interviews that I replicate for the reader. The beautiful thing lence? Whichever the case, whether it's arrogance or indolence, about interviews is that they solicit spontaneous responses that the cause has eluded identification and has solicited silence. But often express a deeper meaning than if the words had been pre- _ silence, as the universal refuge, has become insufficient because pared in advance for publication. Some of the interviews were so _ the question of what could cause these hideous calamities thun- thoroughly thought-provoking that I felt exhilarated by the experi- ders forth, demanding an answer. In the paragraphs ahead, we ence, and would sit quietly for long periods afterwards, just won- will seek an answer to this geological mystery. We will seek the dering: From where did the marvels of this Earth, of this incredi- cause. ble world, originate? Reflecting on this, one ques- ach year through the mail tions: How accurate are we in | Gear Reduction: Fron a 1725 1705 RPA E: receive many books by our belief that one continent, | RPiA electric motor, through tea electric motor new authors wanting me Pangaea, broke up and dispersed | on inch diameter pulleys; and te 7 " to review their work or give a its part? And how accurate are | 1? inch diameter bicycle wheels ) cover endorsement. These we in our belief, though there is | uals 299:1. The pig turmed at 1 arrive usually unsolicited, no modern analogue, that 17,000 | 4 ttle than & Red years ago, glacial ice began to form in the temperate climates of the mid-latitudes as an onset to because 5/5/2000 has had the effect of typecasting me as one who has openly sought answers and as one who is open to this the ice ages? And how accurate == | type of inquiry. And genuinely are we in our belief that a 5,000- ,% j Iam, so I read them all, seeking mile front of ice could retreat i pW the cause of the shift. In many thousands of miles northward respects, as their vogue is cata- with no other Earth changes strophic Earth changes, I find being apparent? There is no Figure 4 them much alike; yet, on another modern analogue for events of | The Spit Mechanism (reprinted with permission of James Bowles) scale, each is as varied as the sea this magnitude! Do mountains is from the land. form and rivers run, again, for reasons that have no modern ana- This maintained an element of curiosity with me until a sug- logue? gested answer came, strangely enough, from one of these unso- How is it that every natural phenomenon that we are witness to _licited books, The Gods, Gemini, and the Great Pyramid by today has no analogue known to science? Nothing seems to be James Bowles.' In addressing these very same wonders, he wrote caused by anything that we are the least bit familiar with! Why is (p. 89): this the case? Why, when we're confronted with the overwhelm- There have always been differing views about the origin of ing geological evidence that this insidious calamity has destroyed life and land. Some authors, following a course of evolution, our ancestral civilisations on more than one occasion, haven't we have found evidence of slow movements of the continents and learned the cause? Have we become so sophisticated, so arrogant the gradual evolution of life forms. Others, differing from in our thinking, that we feel immune? Or have we, mankind, not this course, formulated a role for catastrophic intervention diameter pulleys; and revo liameter bicyche wheels 39:1. The pig tured at a#é than 6 fora AL 44 = NEXUS FEBRUARY — MARCH 1999