From: bseymour@encore.com (Burch Seymour)
Subject: Why Ted was ALMOST right! Proof!
Organization: Encore Computer Corporation
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 16:11:08 GMT
Summary: Here's the final bits that make Ted's theory watertight!



Well gang, you know, The Tedster (tm) may just be correct after all!  I
went home last night, and without thinking, I took two aspirin and
drank a Coke really quick. Pretty soon my head was a-buzzing, and I saw
a clear image of what really happened 5000 years ago. Bear with me,
this gets pretty technical.

About 5000 years ago, things were real different! The Earth was in a
small system (call it system A), not in any way related to Sol and it's
planets that we know today. Earth was a part of a 4 body system. Two
small stars, a black hole of about 1/3 the current mass of the Earth,
and the Earth. That version of Earth was also about 1/3 its present
mass. More on that later.

As bad luck would have it, this small system happened upon a larger
one.  A system with a larger star and 7 planets (call it system B). Our
current "solar system", before the catastrophe!

Orbiting in B, at about the same location as our asteroid belt, was a
very large planet. This planet consisted of a rocky core, surrounded by
a large layer of water (liquid and gas), and helium. Again due to bad
luck, system A was on a direct collision course with this body. As the
twin stars approached, the water all boiled off and formed a huge cloud
of water vapor and helium gas in space.  Soon the stars ran through
this cloud. The helium "poisoned" the nuclear reactions that maintained
the stars (See the book "Sum of All Fears" by Tom Clancy for a
discussion of how helium affects nuclear fusion reactions).  So the two
stars of the A group were extinguished. The large planet of B, passing
between the two stars did several things.

1) It altered the path of A so that the two stars, and the Earth, were 
   forced into orbit around SOL. Their differing masses causing them
   to end up in their current positions.

2) The original planet of B was shattered. Parts of it became the asteroid
   belt. Some of the material was picked up by the stars (now the planets
   Jupiter and Saturn) to become their moons and rings.

3) The Earth, trailing behind, sucked up the vapor cloud, and became a huge
   flood ravaged place. It also picked up a chunk of the shattered planet
   which is now our moon.

This leaves the small black hole. Being free of its tri-body
system, it ran into the Earth. Since the Earth was covered completely
in water, its first action was to start slurping up the water. As it
did so, it also tried to achieve gravitic stability, so it moved toward
the center of the earth, sucking in more and more water into as it
went. The result was a massive outpouring of radiation as the water
molecules were torn asunder. This of course resulted in the mutation of
the species. Finally the black hole reached the center of the Earth,
where it is today. After a small amount of time, the matter surrounding
the black hole was swallowed, leaving a spherical void with the black
hole suspended in the middle, out of reach of the remaining matter of
the Earth. That's why we are still here, and not part of the singularity.

So now with the black hole at 2/3 the present mass of the earth due to
its original mass, plus that of the water it ingested, we find that
Earth's gravity has tripled. Older forms of life could no longer walk so
they died out.

This theory doesn't have all the details worked out, but it fits all
the data Ted presented quite well. Note that the two stars of A could
have been different colors than Sol. That would explain the green
light in all the myths.

We also can now explain where the water came from, where it went, and
how the gravity changed. We can also see where all the radiation, which
caused the post-flood mutations came from.

So, all you T.O. regulars, just try to refute this one! Or in the words
of Joel Robinson, "What do you think sirs?".

-Burch Seymour-