The great insurmountable mystery for the science community has been: What mechanism causes ice ages? Why does a polar reversal immediately precede an ice age? How do they relate? What caused the mass extinction of species and the creation of similar new species? What caused the ice field 4,000 to 10,000 feet thick in less than 40 years? What caused the increase in earthquakes and volcanic activity at the time of the polar reversal? What formed the deep-sea canyons off of every large river around the world? Why are isotopes of heavy metals found in sediments associated with the ice ages and polar reversals? Finally, what caused the instant freezing of the mammoths in Siberia, northeastern Russia?
Douglas Vogt, God’s Day of Judgment (Vector Associates, 2007, p. 234-235).
At the last nova, 450 feet of the oceans worldwide were instantaneously evaporated. And then later, they dropped another 250 feet, probably from the evaporation caused by a sustained period of submarinal volcanic action. We believe this because the continental shelves were exposed and were later occupied by land creatures, including man.
Some of that moisture was lost in space and perhaps to this day returns to us in icy comets. Most of the moisture, however, was suspended in Earth’s atmosphere in a scalding, toxic steam which eventually enveloped the entire planet.
There is the alternative view held by Robert Felix of a longer and more uniformitarian process involving the submarinal volcanoes, centuries-long evaporation, and gradual accumulation of snow and ice. We should be so lucky! Unfortunately, the geological record suggests Vogt’s catastrophic theory is the correct one.
In the post-nova scenario, Earth will have lost its principal source of heat: the infra-red energy of the Sun. The Sun will still be producing ultra-violet light, but there will not be heat generated until it re-forms its crustal shell, which Vogt suggests might take “several solar cycles.”
With the almost instant cooling of Earth’s atmosphere after the initial incineration, the moisture will begin to condense and fall as a scalding rain. This process will begin on the second day after the nova and will last several days or weeks. Then, it will fall in the form of snow. It will be a continuous snow blitz that will result in many hundreds if not thousands of feet of snow which will be compressed from the weight into the icy glaciers of the new ice age. As Vogt puts it,
Within a day of the nova and polar reversal, it will start raining scalding hot rain, which will turn to downpours of cooler and finally cold rain. Within 8 days it should start snowing worldwide because the Sun will not be giving off enough visible light and heat to warm the Earth. It will continue to snow until all the clouds and moisture are out of the atmosphere. This process may take 11 or more years. When it is done snowing the Earth will be mostly covered with snow and thick ice in the higher latitudes and or elevations. . .
p. 240-241
Most, if not all of the Earth will get snowed on, some areas much less than others. The Earth will be in the grips of a full ice age. It should be colder than the last ice age because we will be a little further out.
How far out? No one really knows, but after the last nova, Earth’s 360-day orbit around the Sun became 365 1/4, almost a 2% change. If the next nova knocks us out another 2% – this depends, of course, on how much of the crustal shell actually hits Earth as opposed to just being blown around it – imagine a distance of 95 million miles instead of the current 93. Experts in orbital mechanics might be able to give us a better calculation.
For those who have survived the first 24 hours of a solar nova catastrophe, the gauntlet will have just begun. Earth and its weather will continue to be turbulent. Immense tidal waves will slosh back and forth over the coastal regions of the continents trying to find a state of rest. Earth shocks (not merely earthquakes) will continue to rock the globe along with massive volcanic action both above and below sea level. Large portions of the Earth will be toxic with depleted oxygen and concentrated levels of deadly gases. It will be a pollution event so massive that the current alarm over “global warming” and “greenhouse gases” will fade into a comical silhouette.
For those not entombed under the sediment of the crustal displacement or continental-sized tsunamis, the next great cataclysm will be the inundation from the sky. We have argued from Donald Patten’s research that the last ice age may have been partially the result of ice from space, perhaps a large icy comet or moon. We felt a scenario like this was necessary to explain the sudden death of creatures like the wooly mammoths of Siberia. In the next ice age, the atmosphere, thick with water vapor from the oceans, will condense and begin descending as a scalding rain, as just mentioned above, and then as snow in a mega-blizzard with violent winds and lightning bolts that will last for many months, perhaps years.
Imagine all of the disaster movies you have ever watched, and then combine them into one, single event. It is difficult for the mind to grasp because you must prepare for every one of them – for fire and flood, for wind and suffocation, for heat and for cold.
I favor survival using a bobber-shaped escape capsule with walls six-feet thick and no windows. If you want to get a visual, use a camera and a monitor. You will want radar and sonar capabilities.
The hull should be made of a fiber reinforced geopolymer. The fiber will create the counter-ballast to make it float. Geopolymers are made from special clays. They are fire-proof, heat-proof, cold-proof, impact-proof, water-proof, radiation-proof and easy to hermetically seal. Read everything you can find written by Dr. Joseph Davidovits such as The Pyramids, an Enigma Solved (Dorset Press, 1988) and Geopolymer: Chemistry & Applications (Geopolymer Institute, 2008) or go to www.geopolymer.org and www.davidovits.info .
Hollywood wants us to believe that the pyramids were constructed by the captive Israelites by dragging big rocks over rolling logs. They were not. The pyramids survived because they were made with a poured, geopolymer cement. More on this another time.
Be prepared to be sea-sick. The G-forces of the turbulent waves will be extremely violent. The capsule should probably be equipped with a mechanism to right itself using a gyroscope-type apparatus (Ballast may not be enough, and may be undesirable). The inside walls will need thick padding to protect you from the shock waves. You will need a life-support system comparable to what is needed for astronauts in space: recycling water, oxygen, and human wastes. Buckle-up!
The pod would still be needed for a long period after the initial catastrophe as a source of shelter and provision. It will need to be capable of navigation. At first, navigation will be impossible. Steering in a 500 mph current seems impossible. But later, tractor tread if on land (battery-powered, of course) and a rudder, if at sea, could be useful, even life-saving.
Vogt does not believe a boat is a good idea, as he thinks it will collide with a mountain and be destroyed. He favors high-altitude caves. He thinks submarines out in the Pacific might have a chance. The wall of an oceanic surge would be so high and so fast that any flotation pod would be crushed by the leading edge of the debris or by the sheer weight of the wave before it ever could float to the surface. Only if it started from a mountaintop or out in the ocean would there be a chance of survival, assuming a west to east direction of the surge. If there is a longitudinal orientation to the surge, flotation pods on the eastern foothills of the Rockies, for example, might have a chance. But be prepared to speak Russian or Mandarin, because that is where your journey will likely take you.
What are your chances? Maybe one in a thousand. That’s better than one in a billion if you do nothing.
Noah inferred that the Flood cleared the mountains by “15 cubits” or 22 1/2 feet because he floated for over seven months without the hull scraping bottom (Genesis 7). But a flotation device is not all that you need. As has been said already, an epoch of recurring and random catastrophes, along with an ice age, awaits you. Let us hope the governments of the world have laid down their swords long enough to manufacture these pods by the millions: some to contain the supplies you will need in the aftermath and the rebuilding of civilization.
More to come.
–JWS, January 15, 2022
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