Re: AIG comment on the Ice Age

The longitudinal movement of the aircraft is pretty easily explained by
simple glacier flow downstream. I have not seen a specific explanation
for any embedding (downward) movement of these aircraft (that I recall),
but it is pretty well known that there is a certain plasticity in ice,
in particular glacial ice near the melting point. The clear datum is
that the center of glacier flow advances more rapidly than those regions
nearer the stationary supporting terrain. Regardless of the specific
mechanism for this differential behavior, in the presence of plastic
movement, it would not be at all surprising that a heavier metal object
would influence the local plastic flow (in the immediate vicinity of the
metal), resulting in a certain small displacement as well (all very
slow), which would allow the metal object to work its way downward in
the ice mass as the mass itself advances. According to what I read,
part of the ice flow in glaciers is also characterized by viscous flow.
That seems to be deep in the glacier, but if a factor would more easily
account for the descent of the aircraft in the ice pack. This all
assumes that the depth of the aircraft in the ice cannot be accounted
for by simple accumulation of snows following the crash. JimA

Fivefree@aol.com wrote:

> Has anyone seen an explanation for the P-38 fighters that crash landed
> in Greenland in 1943 and were found about 150 feet under the surface
> and several miles from their crash point?
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Jack Jackson
>
> In a message dated 5/4/2006 3:13:02 P.M. Mountain Daylight Time,
> dickfischer@verizon.net writes:
>
> Gordon wrote:
>
> For example, ice cores from Greenland and
>
> Antarctica reveal hundreds of thousands of annual layers, not just
> the few
>
> thousand that YEC would imply. The explanation that I have seen
> them give
>
> is that there were huge temperature swings several times in a
> year. This
>
> would contradict God's promise that there would be no disruption
> of the
>
> seasons (Gen. 8:22).
>
>
>
Received on Fri May 5 01:10:12 2006