{"id":11661,"date":"2021-10-06T14:47:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-06T21:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=11661"},"modified":"2021-10-07T14:50:38","modified_gmt":"2021-10-07T21:50:38","slug":"cosmic-fireball-cool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2021\/10\/06\/cosmic-fireball-cool\/","title":{"rendered":"Cosmic Fireball, cool"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.studyfinds.org\/sodom-gomorrah-fire-brimstone-meteor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from Study Finds<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Fire and brimstone: Sodom and Gomorrah perhaps destroyed by \u2018cosmic fireball,\u2019 evidence shows<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.studyfinds.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/reign-of-fire-s-737309-475x428.jpg\" alt=\"Sodom and Gomorrah meteor\" class=\"wp-image-50458\"\/><figcaption><em>Artist\u2019s impression of cloudburst from meteor at Sodom and Gomorrah site.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>SANTA BARBARA, Calif. \u2014<\/strong>&nbsp;The biblical \u201csin cities\u201d of Sodom and Gomorrah could have been destroyed by a meteor \u201ccloudburst\u201d that incinerated all 8,000 inhabitants, a fascinating new study suggests. The giant space rock exploded over the town 3,650 years ago, creating a fireball. Scientists say the same event might also have given rise to the tale of Jericho\u2019s walls \u201ctumbling down,\u201d as that city was just 20 miles away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the Bible, God was said to have been enraged by the wickedness of the inhabitants of Sodom and Gomorrah, raining \u201cfire and brimstone\u201d upon them. Now there seems to be hard evidence that a \u201cheavenly event\u201d really did happen around that time. The cosmic calamity laid waste to the Jordan River Valley\u2019s northern shore, razing a huge 100-acre city to the ground. It also exterminated other cities and multiple small villages. There would have been no survivors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The epicenter of Jordan is located at what is today known as Tall el-Hammam. An ancient palace was flattened, along with the perimeter walls and other structures. Detonation occurred about 2.5 miles above the ground.&nbsp; Even at that distance, the blast created a 740 mph shock wave. It would have leveled most of the buildings. None of the 8,000 residents would have survived the initial blast or the rock melting temperatures that followed.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.studyfinds.org\/sodom-gomorrah-fire-brimstone-meteor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at Study Finds<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Study Finds Fire and brimstone: Sodom and Gomorrah perhaps destroyed by \u2018cosmic fireball,\u2019 evidence shows SANTA BARBARA, Calif. \u2014&nbsp;The biblical \u201csin cities\u201d of Sodom and Gomorrah could have been destroyed by a meteor \u201ccloudburst\u201d that incinerated all 8,000 inhabitants, a fascinating new study suggests. The giant space rock exploded over the town 3,650 years [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}