Lunar Eclipses and Killer Earthquakes

MELBOURNE, Australia, May 30, 2012

Could next week’s lunar eclipse (on June 4) cause a major earthquake? Researcher Robert Bast has uncovered a connection between eclipses and earthquakes, suggesting that the Moon’s gravity affects Earth much more than previously suspected.

It is well understood that the Moon’s gravity is the cause of tidal movements in our largest bodies of water. There are also Earth tides, in which the Earth’s crust can bulge by up to 55 centimeters due to the forces of gravity from the Moon and Sun – those forces are greatest when the three bodies are in alignment. They are at their greatest alignment during an eclipse.

“I listed every earthquake measuring greater than 6.5 in magnitude since 1973 – which is as far back as the USGS records reliably go – and checked them against every lunar and solar eclipse for the same period,” says Bast.

The study found only a slight increase in earthquakes around solar eclipses. But for lunar eclipses – when the Sun and Moon pull on our planet from opposite directions – the odds of a major earthquake are double. Earthquakes of 7.5 magnitude or greater occur on average every 73.8 days. Within one day of a lunar eclipse, the average drops down to just one in every 33 of those days. Lesser earthquakes also occur substantially more frequently.

For a recent example, Bast points out that on the same day as the lunar eclipse on December 21, 2010, there was a 7.4 magnitude earthquake in Japan. The following day there was a 6.5 quake in Iran, killing 11 people.

The full article is at: http://survive2012.com/index.php/eclipses-and-earthquakes.html

New Discovery Helps Solve Noah’s Ark Mystery

Melbourne, Australia, February 16, 2011

Religious zealots have searched high and low for remains of the Biblical ship known as Noah’s Ark, while scientists dismiss the story as a myth. Recent discoveries in Iran provide evidence for a new solution to this ancient mystery.

Numerous pre-Biblical texts describe the story of Noah, with the stories being similar enough for scholars to conclude that the Bible is one of the more recent sources, and likely to be less accurate. By looking at the most popular sources in combination, researcher Robert Bast has uncovered the possibility that Noah’s Ark was not a ship after all.

According to the Babylonian Epic of Gilgamesh, Noah’s ship had very non-nautical dimensions, being 7 stories high, 55 metres wide and 55 metres long.

The Zoroastrianism Avesta did not describe a ship at all, but rather an underground village – while still retaining other elements of the story such as “two of every kind of animal”, and an almighty storm that punishes all humans, with only Noah and his family surviving.

The Bible, rather than calling it Noah’s ship, used the word “ark” – in the original Hebrew this denoted a chest or box.

From the three ancient epics, there is one that describes an underground village, one that describes a chest or box, and one that if you remove the word boat, doesn’t appear to be describing a boat at all.

“We have been searching in the wrong places, primarily high up in mountains like Mt Ararat”, says Mr Bast. “If the flood didn’t cover mountains, perhaps the Ark is not a ship, and not up a mountain. It may have been right under our noses all along.”

When Bast realised that Noah’s Ark might not be a ship, the other pieces of the puzzle fell into place.

• It is physically impossible for mountains (or even hills) to be covered by floods, there simply isn’t enough water.
• In the same sentence (Genesis 7:20), the Bible tells us that the flood that covered the mountains was only 15 cubits (8 metres) deep.
• Without a flood that covered the mountains, a ship is no longer necessary for survival.

Bast says this explains why the pre-Biblical texts suggest either a large square structure above ground (such as a ziggurat), or an underground city. Recent discoveries in Iran may have unwittingly found the underground structure that was the basis for the Noah’s Ark story.

In 2004 archaeologists discovered a three-story underground city, lying beneath the small town of Nushabad near Kashan. The above-ground town covers 170 hectares, while underground the structure could be just as large. Since then several other subterranean complexes have been discovered in Iran, and a new field of study, subterranean or hand-dug architecture, has been established.

Bast says that definitive proof will rely on the exact dimensions of one of the structures matching that of an ark myth, while radiometric dating that shows a structure is of the same era as the myths will convince many.

The full story is at http://survive2012.com/index.php/noahsark.html

Dark Comet in 2012? Researcher Unravels Potential Doomsday Culprit

Melbourne, Australia – October 27, 2009

Comet Caesar, with recorded sightings in 44BC, is the oldest known periodic comet. With Bast’s hypothesis of 5 orbits averaging 1025 years, the 44BC passage fits in well with the 2012 end date, and just as importantly the 3114BC start date, of the Mayan Long Count calendar. This estimated orbital period differs from the 44BC sighting by only 6 years, or 3 years per thousand year orbit. Given that the periodicy of Halley’s comet can vary by 2 years within a 76 year orbit, due to the gravitational influences of the planets, the connection could be precise.

Bast says “Few researchers have paid any importance to the start date of the Long Count calendar. And few have looked into global cataclysms that ancient civilizations were actually capable of predicting”.

If any catastrophe in our era could be accurately predicted by an ancient civilization, comets are the leading candidate. The relevant observational and mathematical skills existed in pre-history, and the coding of information in calendars and myth would enable the information to outlast the culture that provided it.

If Comet Caesar does return in 2012, hopefully it will just be a fleeting visit, and not an impact with Earth. If it is on a collision course, we might see it coming within a year or two, providing us with the opportunity to prepare. Unfortunately there is a possibility it is now a “dark comet”, having lost its reflective ice during its last passage around the Sun. In that scenario, we won’t even see it coming.

The full article is at http://survive2012.com/index.php/comet-caesar.html