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I like the symbolism, but I always wondered what the first proper sunrise after the demise of the dinosaurs looked like when the sun finally broke through the clouds of death (the dust clouds that would've been kicked up by the momentum and energy transfers of the asteroid strike and that darkened the earth for months or even years).
If one has seen the power of bullet fired from a gun than power of that asteroid must have been something else. And, it wasn't the only one that hit the earth, or the biggest...
Up until recently the largest known impact site was in Vredefort in South Africa...
I'm a bit outdated on the facts behind craters at this moment in time...
No place on the surface of the planet experienced any warmth of the sun during that period directly after the Era of the Dinosaurs....
The pure power and resilience of life that enabled it to overcame such disasters is mind boggling...
And humanity is part of that 'life'...as well as civilisation, which had its fair share of natural challenges.
I don't know really what symbolism I would've used...
The sun breaking the death clouds, or the phoenix that came forth from the ashes of destruction... -- I don't know.
Civilisation followed these same patterns. Birth, growth, maturity and eventually death...
Amazing the process of publishing a book, eh? I've done two. Your cover is perfect. The Greek Mythology Course is such a fantastic idea and yes I did register. Thank you so much for being you, for continuing to shed light on a dark world, to being one of those great lights!! Never stop writing!!
Hallo there:
I like the symbolism, but I always wondered what the first proper sunrise after the demise of the dinosaurs looked like when the sun finally broke through the clouds of death (the dust clouds that would've been kicked up by the momentum and energy transfers of the asteroid strike and that darkened the earth for months or even years).
If one has seen the power of bullet fired from a gun than power of that asteroid must have been something else. And, it wasn't the only one that hit the earth, or the biggest...
Up until recently the largest known impact site was in Vredefort in South Africa...
I'm a bit outdated on the facts behind craters at this moment in time...
No place on the surface of the planet experienced any warmth of the sun during that period directly after the Era of the Dinosaurs....
The pure power and resilience of life that enabled it to overcame such disasters is mind boggling...
And humanity is part of that 'life'...as well as civilisation, which had its fair share of natural challenges.
I don't know really what symbolism I would've used...
The sun breaking the death clouds, or the phoenix that came forth from the ashes of destruction... -- I don't know.
Civilisation followed these same patterns. Birth, growth, maturity and eventually death...
This is an interesting topic...
Yours sincere,
Pieter J (PJ)
One cannot really
Amazing the process of publishing a book, eh? I've done two. Your cover is perfect. The Greek Mythology Course is such a fantastic idea and yes I did register. Thank you so much for being you, for continuing to shed light on a dark world, to being one of those great lights!! Never stop writing!!