Hi Byrd,

I loved the food example. It made things very clear to me. Thank you.
You can send me Italian, Spanish and English, but Portuguese is my native language. I am Brazilian but my greatgrandparents were Italians who immigrated to Brazil. Both sides of my family are from Italians immigrants. When I went to Italy I felt at home.
Your explanation really helped me. I am reading Magicians but America Before is next but I already heard in a podcast Hancock’s comet theory. I can wait to read it.
But I can already speculate that the comet theory doesn’t seems so plausible. Comets are made of dust, rocks and ice. What make a comet to seem very big is when he approaches the sun.
Comets are cosmic snowballs. The devastation of a comet hitting the Earth it is not so terrible as an asteroid hiting Earth. Asteroid are made of metal amongst other materials.
Well, I don’t know, what Hancock say about this so called comet that hit North America? I only know that he is very into the comet theory.

Cintia Panizza
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Byrd Wrote:
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> Cintia Panizza Wrote:
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> > I am sorry, English it is not my native
> language.
> > . When I said continental drift I meant the
> > shifting of the crust.
> > I did not know about continental drift until
> > yesterday. I o
> > always knew about shifting of the crust.
> Yesterday
> > I learned something new. I am sorry for the
> > confusion.
> >
> > Cintia Panizza
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>
> I am sorry that I can't find a good page in
> Italian to refer you to. But the Earth's crust is
> very thick (continents) and only moves very
> slowly. The amount of force to make a big
> continent move a dozen miles or more would
> actually break apart the planet.
>
> Think of the Earth as being a big slice of
> Tiramisu -- the stuff on the bottom is the
> metallic core and the whipped cream and cocoa
> powder on top as the crust. Now take your finger
> and push one corner of that top layer (whipped
> cream and cocoa) to the opposite side.
>
> The "polar slide/shift" theory that
> Hapgood/Hancock uses is insisting that even after
> you took your finger and shoved that edge across
> your tiramisu, that the whole slice still looks
> very nice --but the dessert is turned upside down.
>
> Science (and chefs) say "that's nonsense."
> Tiramisu has a thick, sticky top layer... and so
> does the Earth.
>
> The "comet" theory (turned into tiramisu) says
> that you can turn a plate of tiramisu around 180
> degrees if you throw a bean onto it as hard as you
> can. (science says that no comet is big enough to
> flip the Earth over)
>
> I hope this helps.

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