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Detail from Jungle Action featuring the Black Panther #19, by McGregor and Graham, Marvel (1973).
Songs About the Southland: Marvel's Black Panther vs. the Klan
It was a hot Southern summer when the Black Panther came down South to do battle with the Klan.
By Gregory L. Reece / 7 August 2015
"Ain't no change in the weather.
Ain't no changes in me."
— J. J. Cale, "Call Me the Breeze"
It's a hot summer way down South. Hot in Atlanta. Hot in Memphis. Hot in Jackson and Montgomery and New Orleans, too. Hot in Birmingham.
That ain't nothing new.
It's been hot here for as long as I can remember.
It was hot when I was a kid—so hot the crops failed, so hot the bare earth burned our bare feet.
After a long day of play with Matchbox cars that we pushed through dirt roads that had been scratched in the dusty ground in the shade of a mulberry tree, I would go inside, where the window air conditioner hardly stood a chance, and curl up in a chair with a cold bottle of Coca-Cola and a Marvel comic book to help the heat slip away.
In the pages of those comic books I would travel to New York City with the Avengers, to the American Southwest with the Incredible Hulk, to the Blue Area of the moon with the Fantastic Four, and to futuristic Wakanda and the jungles and plains of Africa with Prince T'Challa, the Black Panther.
I didn't know it at the time, but writer Don McGregor and artists Rich Buckler and Billy Graham were producing a masterpiece in the pages of Marvel's Jungle Action. From 1973 through 1976, McGregor unfolded the tale that he called "The Panther's Rage". T'Challa was brought back to Africa from his self-imposed exile in the United States, brought back to resume the duties that went with his crown and to surround himself with friends and family from Wakanda.
From Jungle Action featuring the Black Panther #21 by McGregor and Graham, published by Marvel (1973)
These were not the "white man brings civilization to the jungle" stories that the name of the book might have implied. As a matter of fact, they were anything but. Whole issues went by with hardly a white face to be seen. Black people made the decisions here, drove the action, fell in love, made mistakes, saved the day. It would be a wonder to see such a book in 2015. It was even more wondrous in 1975.
Then, in the January, 1976 issue, McGregor and Graham brought T'Challa and his lover, Monica, to the American South. They brought Monica home to Georgia and home to the summer heat.
The opening pages of their tale about the Southland are burned into my mind to this day.
The Panther crouches on a tree branch, silhouetted against the brilliant yellow moon. Below, Monica stands at her sister's grave. The night is hot. September has brought little change to the Southern summer; it seldom does. She is lost in thoughts. In her memories, Monica and her sister push those model cars through those dirt roads under that mulberry tree.
It's a peaceful moment, peaceful if sad. I imagine that she would stand there forever if she could, lost in those thoughts and memories. I imagine that the walk back in the heat would require too much effort, that it would be better just to stand there in the moonlight, at the grave, on that Georgia clay, on that September summer night, awash in peace—if also in sorrow and sweat.
But the peace does not hold. Violence is in the air. Men in robes and hoods stumble from the shadows. The battle is fought, Panther and Monica against the hooded figures of the night.
There's a mystery to be solved: the death of Monica's sister seems more complicated than the local Sheriff wants to believe. There are two groups of villains: the blue and purple clad Soldiers of the Dragon and the hooded wraiths of the Ku Klux Klan. They both use violence and fear and intimidation to get their way, shattering the peace that the sultry heat would seem to impose, breaking the nighttime silence with sounds that echo in the humid air.
Throughout their tale, McGregor and Graham juxtapose the peace and stillness of the Southern summer with hatred and violence, a juxtaposition that is as familiar to us Southerners as the flash of lighting bugs against the deep blackness of a summer forest. The Panther, he lingers in the treetops in front of the yellow moon—a thing of wonder and beauty and peaceful perfection—while below him the white sheeted cowards gather 'round their burning cross. Then, the blue, green and purple of the swamp frame the body of the Panther after he has escaped, ablaze, from the cross to which he had been tied.
McGregor called his multi-part story "The Panther vs. the Klan". Maybe Marvel editorial was looking the other way when this story went to press. Maybe Jungle Action was just too unimportant a book for anyone to care. Or maybe editor Marv Wolfman was ready to push the envelope, ready to make it real. The fact that the villains in white sheets were called the "Klan" with a "K" on the inside of the book but were called the "Clan" with a "C" on the covers made it seem like there was some second guessing going in. In any event, it sure felt like McGregor and Graham were getting away with something here, straining at the limits of what comic books were supposed to do, of what comic books were allowed to do.
One might think that the character of the Black Panther was always meant to push the limits, and in some respects he was. When Stan Lee and Jack Kirby introduced him in 1966 in the pages of The Fantastic Four #52, he was the first black superhero to be published by either of the big two publishers. Despite the fact that the Marvel character premiered the same year as the founding of the Black Panther Party, there's little evidence that Lee and Kirby had any broader political agenda in mind other than taking a small first step toward diversifying comics. The fact that the Black Panther was originally to be called the "Coal Tiger" is perhaps an indication that radical politics were not on their mind when the character was introduced. And of course, by making T'Challa an African prince rather than an African-American, Marvel was able to sidestep many of the racial issues that were dividing the country at the time.
At the time? Who am I kidding? The issues were equally at the fore ten years later when McGregor and Graham threw the Panther into the hot Southern summer. They are still with us today.
Especially in the South.
I wasn't there in 1966 when the Black Panther and the Black Panthers leapt onto the scene.
But I was there in 1976 when T'Challa and Monica came down South to battle the Klan. I was in Alabama—home of George Wallace and Bull Connor (and Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King). I read comic books to escape from where I was. Now, in the pages of Jungle Action, for the first time the superheroes were coming to me, to a place where the kids scraped roadways in the red clay and pushed model cars around like they were somebody important, somebody with someplace to go.
I knew what this Klan stuff was all about, you bet I did, though I didn't know anyone who was a part of it. Sometimes they would march around the county courthouse and I would see pictures of them in the newspaper. They carried rebel flags like the one my older brother had tacked to the wall of his bedroom. Sometimes I would sneak into his bedroom when he was away and look at the flag while playing one of his Lynyrd Skynyrd albums. I have distinct memories of carefully dropping the needle of his stereo down on those songs about the Southland.
"Sweet Home Alabama", of course, and "Free Bird", too.
"Free Bird" was my brother's favorite song. It was his anthem, his code of life. A few years back I recited the lyrics at his funeral:
If I leave here tomorrow,
Would you still remember me?
For I must be travelin' on now.
There's too many places I got to see.
"Free Bird" told us as much about the South as "Sweet Home Alabama" ever did: "this bird you cannot change". It was the same thing that Skynyrd told us when they sang J.J. Cale's "Call Me the Breeze":
It's a hot summer way down South.
And the rebel flag is flying, if not at the state house then in the back of pickup trucks.
And good people face violence and intimidation.
And the Klan and the Black Panthers clash.
Except that some of us were changed, are changing. For the better, we hope. Though the how and why is sometimes a mystery. Maybe because of Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn or because of Scout's clear voice in To Kill a Mockingbird. Maybe it was the courage of Rosa Parks or the resounding eloquence of Dr. King.
For me I think it started here.
When I was just a boy I came in from the Alabama heat and the Alabama clay; I opened an ice cold bottle of Coca-Cola and read Marvel comics.
I read McGregor's and Graham's tales of the Black Panther. I read about the evils of the Ku Klux Klan. I saw the burning cross of fear and intimidation, this one with the Panther hung on it—a black Jesus, an African Christ. I read about old Caleb Horton, Monica's enslaved ancestor. I saw how he was intimidated and murdered by the men under the hoods. Then I saw Caleb's story with Monica's hopeful eyes, how she imagined things might have been different had the Panther come to the South, not in 1976 but in 1876. I saw justice and injustice in black and white.
Ain't they all.
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Summary: In the summer of 1974, a fourteen-year-old girl in Dolton, Illinois, had a dream. A dream to become an actress, like her idols Ron Howard and Vicki Lawrence. But it was a long way from the South Side of Chicago to Hollywood, and it didn't help that she'd recently dropped out of the school play, The Ugly Duckling. Or that the Hollywood casting directors she wrote to replied that "professional training was a requirement."
But the funny thing is, it all came true. Through a series of Happy Accidents, Jane Lynch created an improbable—and hilarious—path to success. In those early years, despite her dreams, she was also consumed with anxiety, feeling out of place in both her body and her family. To deal with her worries about her sexuality, she escaped in positive ways—such as joining a high school chorus not unlike the one in Glee—but also found destructive outlets. She started drinking almost every night her freshman year of high school and developed a mean and judgmental streak that turned her into a real-life Sue Sylvester.
Then, at thirty-one, she started to get her life together. She was finally able to embrace her sexuality, come out to her parents, and quit drinking for good. Soon after, a Frosted Flakes commercial and a chance meeting in a coffee shop led to a role in the Christopher Guest movie Best in Show, which helped her get cast in The 40-Year-Old Virgin. Similar coincidences and chance meetings led to roles in movies starring Will Ferrell, Paul Rudd, and even Meryl Streep in 2009's Julie & Julia. Then, of course, came the two lucky accidents that truly changed her life. Getting lost in a hotel led to an introduction to her future wife, Lara. Then, a series she'd signed up for abruptly got canceled, making it possible for her to take the role of Sue Sylvester in Glee, which made her a megastar.
Today, Jane Lynch has finally found the contentment she thought she'd never have. Part comic memoir and part inspirational narrative, this is a book equally for the rabid Glee fan and for anyone who needs a new perspective on life, love, and success. -- Hyperion Audio
You might not know this about me, but I am a huge fan of the television series Glee. Although I admit to enjoying the first season episodes much more than the later ones, I still watch the show every week and I love the kids, the music, Mr. Schuester, and of course, Sue Sylvester. So it's no wonder that I was interested in reading (or should I say listening to?) HAPPY ACCIDENTS: A MEMOIR by Jane Lynch, the actress who made Sue Sylvester a household name.
Prior to listening to HAPPY ACCIDENTS, I knew very little about Ms. Lynch's life. Of course, I know her from Glee and her role as Julia Childs' sister in Julie & Julia; and I even remember her appearing as Charlie's therapist on Two and a Half Men as well as roles in the movies The 40 Year Old Virgin and A Mighty Wind. However, most of my knowledge about Ms. Lynch's career has been fairly recent. I was excited that HAPPY ACCIDENTS gave me some insight in the history of her acting career -- the tough road she hoed prior to getting "regular" work. In her early career, she held roles in different comedy and acting troupes and did some commercial and voice over work, but it wasn't until her late 30s/early 40s that her television and movie career really took off.
In addition to learning some very interesting things about Ms. Lynch's professional life, I appreciated getting to know about her personal life as well. The book begins when Ms. Lynch was a young teenage girl, and it's incredibly honest about the problems she had growing up in suburban Chicago. While she always knew she wanted to be an actress, she wasn't as comfortable with her friends, family, school, and sexual orientation. In fact, she goes into details about the difficulty she had in accepting herself and eventually coming out to her family. Furthermore, she is extremely open about the relationship woes and commitment issues that she faced in her adulthood. I don't think you can read HAPPY ACCIDENTS and not be affected by Ms. Lynch's candid nature about the pain she experienced during her lifetime.
And there is more! Ms. Lynch also gave vivid details about her partying days -- and paryting she did! She tells stories about her love of beer and wild times with her co-workers. In addition, she gives specifics about how she realized she had a drinking problem and then her eventual success working the AA program. I found these parts of her story to be wise and inspirational.
I always feel like I'm not the best person to review audio books because I'm still such an audio book novice. However, I really did enjoy listening to HAPPY ACCIDENTS. The main reason for my enjoyment was the narrator who was none other than Jane Lynch herself. I thought she did a fantastic job. Of course, she has done her fair share of voice overs during her career and she has an excellent speaking voice, so it wasn't quite a surprise to me. I just felt as if her voices (both the reading and writing one) were very authentic.
If you are a fan of Sue Sylvester's or Jane Lynch's, then I definitely recommend listening to HAPPY ACCIDENTS.
Thanks to the publisher for sending a copy of this audio book.
Labels: Audio Book, Memoir, Nonfiction, Review
Serena said...
I remember Lynch on Two and A Half Men...I thought she was good as Charlie's therapist. I'm not into glee, but this memoir sounds like it was a good fit for you.
I'm not that familiar with Lynch's work - I remember her in the 40 Year Old Virgin but not in Julie and Julia. It sounds like she's had her share of sorrow in life, and that her success is well deserved.
rhapsodyinbooks said...
I only watched Glee a couple of times, so I'm probably not a good audience for this book!
It's always interesting to read the memoir of an actress we admire. I'm not much of a TV viewer and therefore not familiar with this actress.
Billy Burgess said...
Great review.
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Kenya warns that Al Shabaab has stepped up its infiltration into Somalia to launch a coup
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The Al Shabaab terrorist group is increasingly intermingling with Somalia's security forces with the aim of launching a large-scale attack that will enable them to seize political power in the African country through a coup d'état in Kenya.
The attacks by the Somalia-based terrorist group are part of the campaign to force Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta to withdraw the Kenyan army from Somalia, where they are fighting the terrorist group to pacify the troubled nation.
The Kenyan government also reported this Sunday that it has thwarted a series of attacks and kidnappings that the terrorist organization had planned in the holy month of Ramadan. This emerges from confidential reports of the newspaper "The Nation".
The interruption of these attacks was possible thanks to the cooperation between the Kenyan army and the intelligence services of the African country, which nevertheless warn that the group has apparently strengthened its operational structure.
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Q: python import function picking wrong file with same name I have 3 files with same names in different directory. I want to run all of the files in the loop so what i do is like  I am changing the sys.path = new_path in every iteration and then do the import of the file but i donot know what's wrong with the import its always running the last file. Thanks in advance.
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The Last Legion opens with a young boy following a Roman soldier into his tent and admiring his sword. The Roman, who is actually not just a soldier, but the commander of the Roman army, thinks the boy is a thief and threatens to cut his hand off as penalty for his sneakiness. If only he had cut the boy's hand off, we could have been spared the two hours that followed.
Instead, the boy is revealed to be Romulus Augustus (Thomas Sangster), the last in the line of Julius Caesar and the new Roman Empire. Unfortunately this is right as the empire is crumbling and young Romulus is soon on the run from the Goths and some other guy in a golden mask named Vortgyn. We know old Vort is evil since he wears a golden mask. With the aid of the Roman Commander Aurelius (Colin Firth) and an old mystical philosopher (Ben Kingsley), Romulus seeks out the powerful sword of Caesar and makes a stand against the forces against him. Let's see… child ruler… golden mask… wise old sage character… and a powerful sword… where have I heard this before?
That's right – the premise of the movie is that the sword of Julius Caesar is also the sword that would reveal the once and future king of England. The movie tries its best to make sure the audience is aware of that concept by directly referring to Excalibur with the bookend open and close of the movie, as well as using a similar framework for its story. It's an idea that could have been rather slyly executed, but all the references are so overt all possible cleverness is quickly removed.
The film has trouble finding a genre to fit into. For an action flick, there's an awful lot of time spent talking about politics and attempting to set the stage for a vast setting around the movie. There's so much talking at times, you wish everyone would just shut up and fight. Then the fighting begins and the fight choreography is so horrid you wish everyone would go back to the talking again. At least with the talking you can take a nap. At the same time, from cringeworthy fighting styles to fantastical weapons such as the rocket launcher style multiple arrow launcher, the environment is too outlandish for this to be historical fiction, which could have saved the story from the need for building the setting so much. It's just a wash. The movie tries to fit into several genres and winds up not belonging anywhere.
The sword-and-sandal genre hasn't had much success recently. Troy and Kingdom of Heaven may have been off course, but at least with those movies there was some eye candy for the audience. Here you have Colin Firth, who looks as rugged as Commander Aurelius as you might hope for the Bridget Jones actor, but he doesn't carry the part with the feeling of any experience for the character. The guys get a bit of a visual treat with Mira (Aishwarya Rai), a warrior maiden who has a forced romantic relationship with Firth. The problem is that every time she shows up it's an instant reminder of how far fetched the story goes. Given her character's ridiculous combat moves and equally absurd weapons, it should come as no surprise that director Doug Leftler's previous experience highlights include "Hercules: The Legendary Journeys" and "Xena: Warrior Princess." While we're speaking about the cast, would someone please tell Ben Kingsley to hang it up and retire? His appearance in a movie is rapidly becoming a sign of avoidance rather than the audience draw he used to be.
The Last Legion isn't a step in the right direction for sword-and-sandal flicks. In fact, this is probably the worst entry in the genre in recent memory, competing with Pathfinder for worst sword flick this year. Follow in the footsteps of The Last Legion and make this movie your last pick.
2 / 10 stars
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[ARCHIVED] Ken Mitchell Open Space officially opens to the public
After years in the making, Ken Mitchell Open Space in West Brighton has officially opened to the public. The opening marks the completion of the section of the Colorado Front Range Trail that runs through the 600-acre open space and regional park, completing the 3.5-mile section of trail from Highway 7 south to E-470. Visitors will be able to enjoy the new soft and concrete trails that span the open space, alongside the natural landscape and abundant wildlife that call the area home. This now completes the Front Range Trail connecting Brighton to Denver.
The Colorado Front Range Trail is part of short and long-term improvements to the open space. For years, Ken Mitchell Open Space has played an essential role in the area by preserving the natural resources and wildlife of the South Platte River corridor. It has also provided trails, open space, and parks for the residents of Brighton and Adams County. In 1988, the City of Brighton purchased a majority of Ken Mitchell Open Space that consisted of three gravel mining cells and an operator's quarry yard from the local company, Ready Mix Concrete. An agreement between the company and the City led to the creation of 4,000 acre-feet of water augmentation storage and public open space.
Open space rules (i.e. no firearms, hunting, camping, swimming, boating, etc.) will apply, so please look for posted signage. Pets will be restricted from some trails. Fishing is permitted on the entire lake where there is currently a fishing dock. At this time, other lakes in the area are not open to the public for fishing or recreation. Click here for map. Visitor hours are from dawn until dusk.
Vehicle parking is available at four trail access points: Ken Mitchell parking lot (899 Kinglet Ct.), Veterans Park (405 West Bridge St.), Colorado Park (254 Miller Ave.), and the parking lot off of Southern St. west of Miller Ave.
Future plans for Ken Mitchell Open Space include converting the historic Aichelman Farmhouse into a visitor and nature center. In addition, the City's Open Space division is pursuing grant funding to build a parking lot for the Aichelman House property that will be turned into a main entry point, and is expected to be completed in the next couple of years.
Opportunities for a Volunteer Ranger Program will soon be available. If you are interested in signing up or have any questions, please contact Kyle Sylvester, Open Space Manager, at ksylvester@brightonco.gov or 303-655-2089.
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"I started work in my new job as Technical Manager full of enthusiasm, only to be thwarted by a flabbergasting array of absurd working practices imposed by the despotic dinosaur of a Development Manager I have to report to," Amanda L. writes.
"this list is not a collection of experiences or anecdotes picked up from different sources.
"this list is not an embellishment of any existing practices at this company.
"this list is a genuine and accurate description of the real working practices currently being practiced at this company — nothing here is invented, it is all true.
"Viruses can be picked up via networks.
Hackers hack in to computers via networks.
"QED: networks are bad. It's obvious when you really think about it! Therefore, there is no company network.
"The company diary is on the Diary PC. We all have to log on to the PC to look at the diary. This means having to walk to another office and hope no one else is using the aforementioned Diary PC. Remember: there is no network.
"There's also an Email PC! This is another walk to a different office: all email addresses are in the same Outlook session. No one is allowed to have email access on their own PC (someone might download something from a hacker). If you are waiting for an important email from a client you have to lurk around the PC or keep having to walk back and forth between your office and the Email PC Office. The DM's recommended practice is to ask the person sending the email to call us when they've sent it.
"There is no file server, as that would encourage network usage. Files are transferred using USB drives (each member of staff has a USB stick or drive).
Me: "Oh. How often is the notebook backed up?"
Dev: "I think it was backed up about 3 months ago."
Me: "Riiiight... ok... and how is it backed up?"
Dev: "I think you have to run a script."
Me: "Any idea which one?"
Dev: "I think it's on the desktop."
"Source code control: heh, yeah, right... they have this 'source code notebook' on which all the source code is held (no servers — networks are dangerous, remember?). They use VSS for their web product but... they don't ever put comments in so it's impossible to roll back to a previous released version. They don't know about 'branching' so if they need to do an urgent fix they will apply the fix to the current in-development code base and attempt to patch up anything that hasn't been finished and deliver that as the fix.
"Because of (1) and (2) it is impossible to reproduce versions of compatible database and web software versions.
"Dev1: This is the version number of any software that is currently in development.
"Dev2: This the version number of any software that has been 'finished' but not yet installed anywhere. So, when you finish work on 'Dev1' it automatically becomes 'Dev2' by virtue of the fact that you've finished work on it.
"AlphaTest: If you copy a piece of 'Dev2' software on to a live server it becomes 'AlphaTest' version (but only if you copy it into the directory 'D:\AlphaTest'). Note: this is not referring to the installation of the software, merely the copying of the software into the aforementioned directory.
"BetaTest: If you install something from AlphaTest into a customer site (and it works) you then copy back from the customer site to the BetaTest area (D:\BetaTest), overwriting the old BetaTest version. From then on all sites are installed from BetaTest — unless of course there's a newer AlphaTest version (indicated by more recent timestamps on the files in the AlphaTest directory).
"As there is no email all communication is via word of mouth or you have to write a memo, print it out, and then walk around handing out copies or leaving copies on desks and hoping people will see them and read them. I tried to argue for internal email using the argument that if I need to notify my team of something then it's a lot easier. He took me to one side, and in a fatherly way, told me the way to do that was to get everyone in to the conference room so I can tell them. I was tempted to tell him that having so many people in the same room was bound to help spread any viruses that might be going around but I thought the irony might be lost on him. Or that he'd sack me.
Amanda has been on the job for a few months now, and already feels that her retirement is overdue. Perhaps she should email her official resignation — once the email PC is free, that is.
I have the same situation. Only when I want to print a memo, I have to make my own paper.
If you're gonna do something, at least go all the way..
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Turkmen President Pardons Iranian Prisoners
Turkmenistan's President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow has granted an amnesty for 37 Iranian nationals who were imprisoned in the Central Asian country over undisclosed charges, the deputy foreign minister for consular affairs told IRNA on Sunday.
Hassan Qashqavi said following efforts by the foreign ministry and the Iranian Embassy in Ashkhabad, the Turkmen president agreed to grant the amnesty on the occasion of the Neutrality Day of Turkmenistan, which is celebrated annually on December 12 as the second most important state holiday in Turkmenistan.
The released prisoners will come back to country over the next few days.
A number of Iranian and Turkmen nationals who were imprisoned in the two countries have been transferred to their own countries over the past few months as a result of close consultations between consular officials of the two neighbors.
According to Ambassador to Ashkhabad Mohammad Mousavi Golpayegani, 230 Iranian nationals are currently held in Turkmenistan's prisons.
An agreement on the repatriation of prisoners between Iran and Turkmenistan is currently under discussion and is expected to be signed in the near future.
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Earth Infancy
Thread: Earth Infancy
25th May 2015 00:58 Link to Post #1
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Asteroids boiled young Earth's oceans, remnant rocks suggest
Early evolution may have been altered by high temperatures
By Thomas Sumner 7:00am, May 15, 2015
BOILING SEAS Huge asteroid impacts around 3.3 billion years ago boiled Earth's oceans, new research suggests. Condensing rock vapor from the impacts left spherical bits of rock the size of BB pellets in the rock record, shown. (Picture: D. Lowe)
Asteroid impacts around 3.3 billion years ago may have created hell on Earth.
Rocks left over from Earth's adolescence suggest that giant impacts boiled the oceans billions of years ago, lowering the global sea level by tens of meters. The huge amounts of energy released during the impacts increased air temperatures to more than 500° Celsius for weeks and above water's boiling point for more than a year, researchers report online May 7 in Geology. These dramatic events would have shaped the evolution of early life on Earth, says geologist Donald Lowe of Stanford University.
"These impacts would have a profound influence on any life trying to evolve into more complex, low-temperature organisms," says Lowe, the study's lead author. "They'd keep getting whacked by these giant impactors and driven to extinction or near extinction."
Geologic record of partial ocean evaporation triggered by giant asteroid impacts, 3.29–3.23 billion years ago
Donald R. Lowe1 and Gary R. Byerly2
Although lunar studies suggest that large asteroid impact rates in the inner solar system declined to their present low levels at 3.8–3.7 Ga, recent studies in greenstone belts indicate that asteroids 20 km to 70+ km in diameter were still striking the Earth as late as 3.2 Ga at rates significantly greater than the values estimated from lunar studies. We here present geologic evidence that two of these terrestrial impacts, at 3.29 Ga and 3.23 Ga, caused heating of Earth's atmosphere, ocean-surface boiling, and evaporation of tens of meters to perhaps 100 m of seawater. Rapid ocean evaporation resulted in abrupt sea-level drops, erosion of the exposed sea floor, and precipitation of distinctive layers of laminated silica representing marine siliceous sinter. Such events would have severely affected microbial communities, especially among shallow-water and photosynthetic organisms. These large impacts profoundly affected Archean crustal development, surface environment, and biological evolution until 3.2 Ga, or even later.
Received 29 January 2015.
Revision received 31 March 2015.
Accepted 1 April 2015.
1-Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
2-Department of Geology and Geophysics, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803, USA
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This Ancient Asteroid Strike Was More Insane Than We Realized
By George Dvorsky
Around 3.26 billion years ago — long before the dinosaurs — a massive asteroid measuring nearly 36 miles (58 km) across smashed into the Earth. Geologists have now reconstructed this cataclysmic event, and it was far, far bigger than we thought. Here's how things went down on that fateful day.
Thanks to geophysicists Norm Sleep and Don Lowe, here's what we now know.
The Earth Shook for a Half Hour
The impactor itself was somewhere between between 37 and 58 kilometers (23 to 36 miles) wide. That's about the width of Rhode Island and about three to five times larger than the asteroid thought to have wiped out the dinosaurs. When it struck the Earth, it was moving at 20 kilometers per second (12 miles per second).
The collision instigated a planetary-wide earthquake measuring more than 10.8 on the Richter Scale. It propelled seismic waves hundreds of miles through the Earth, breaking rocks and setting off other large earthquakes. This earthquake shook the earth for a half hour — about six times longer than the one that struck Japan in 2011.
The event also rebooted parts of the Earth's tectonic system. According to Lowe, who's studying geological features in a South African region known as the Barberton greenstone belt, the impact initiated the modern plate tectonic system that's now seen in the region. This is the first study to model an impact that occurred more than 3 billion years ago.
Massive Tsunamis
It also triggered tsunamis thousands of meters deep — far bigger than anything that could be generated by conventional earthquakes. These tsunamis swept across the oceans that covered most of the Earth at the time.
The resulting crater was 300 miles across (500 km) — about the distance from Washington, D.C. to New York City.
The Sky Burned and the Oceans Boiled
The Earth's surface was completely fried. The sky became red hot, the atmosphere was filled with dust and debris — and the tops of the oceans boiled. Vaporized rock was shot up into the atmosphere where it circled the globe and condensed into liquid droplets before solidifying and falling back to the surface.
The scientists say the event could have been one of dozens that struck the Earth during the tail end of the Late Heavy Bombardment period. Since that time, many of the impact sites have been covered as a result of erosion and other natural processes. But the geologists have found a number of areas in South Africa and Western Australia that contain evidence of the impact. Their best guess is that the asteroid struck an area thousands of kilometers away from the Barberton Greenstone Belt.
Read the entire study at Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems: "Physics of crustal fracturing and chert dike formation triggered by asteroid impact, ~3.26 Ga, Barberton greenstone belt, South Africa." Additional information via Stanford University.
Images: Johan Swanepoel/Shutterstock | Stanford/Lowe&Sleep.
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29th January 2016 20:28 Link to Post #3
Earth's twin?
Was the Moon born in a head-on collision?
By Belinda Smith, deputy editor of Cosmos, 29 Jan 2016
The high-speed crash that scientists think formed the Moon may have been less a side-swipe and more a head-on, Belinda Smith reports.
A close-up of lunar rock from the Apollo 17 mission. Its oxygen 'fingerprint' matches that of Earth rocks.Credit: Paul Warren/UCLA
As births go, they don't come much more violent than the Moon's.
Some 4.5 billion years ago, the young Earth collided with a developing planet, Theia. But instead of dealing each other a glancing blow, chemical analysis shows the collision was head-on, disintegrating Theia and part of Earth into a hot swirling disk of water and dust surrounding what was left of Earth.
This mix eventually clumped together to become the Moon, a new study suggests.
The key to the findings is the unique oxygen "fingerprint" that is found in all the planets, moons, comets and asteroids in our Solar System, including the Earth and the Moon.
More than 99.9% of Earth's oxygen is "normal", with each atom containing eight protons and eight neutrons. But there are small quantities of slightly heavier oxygen – molecules with an extra neutron jammed in.
While this "fingerprint" is a reliable identifier, it has traditionally been very hard to detect. So the University of California Los Angeles-led team used new, super-sensitive equipment to analyse seven lunar rocks brought back by the Apollo 12, 15 and 17 missions, as well as a lunar meteorite, and compared them to six volcanic rocks from the Earth's mantle. They found their heavy oxygen levels to be almost identical – within five parts per million.
To have that level of similarity, the planetary objects must have crashed into each other straight on. A side blow couldn't account for that degree of mixing.
"Theia was thoroughly mixed into both the Earth and the Moon, and evenly dispersed between them," says study lead author and UCLA geochemist Edward Young, whose work is published in Science.
"This explains why we don't see a different signature of Theia in the Moon versus the Earth."
Had Theia side-swiped Earth instead, and become hooked into Earth's orbit, most of the Moon would be made from Theia. It should, then, have a completely different oxygen fingerprint to Earth.
But there is still one enduring question – just how big was Theia?
Some, including Young, believe it was around the same size as Earth. Others think it was smaller, around the size of Mars. But had it not been wiped out in the Earth smash, Young says, it would probably have grown to become a planet.
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29th April 2016 00:57 Link to Post #4
Scientists reveal origin of Earth's oldest crystals
Phys.org April 28, 2016
Scanning electron microscope picture of a zircon crystal from the Sudbury crater. Credit: Gavin Kenny, Trinity College Dublin.
New research suggests that the very oldest pieces of rock on Earth—zircon crystals—are likely to have formed in the craters left by violent asteroid impacts that peppered our nascent planet, rather than via plate tectonics as was previously believed.
Rocks that formed over the course of Earth's history allow geologists to infer things such as when water first appeared on the planet, how our climate has varied, and even where life came from. However, we can only go back in time so far, as the only material we have from the very early Earth comes in the form of tiny, naturally occurring zircon crystals.
Naturally then, the origin of these crystals, which are approximately the width of a human hair and more than four billion years old (the Earth being just over four and a half billion years old), has become a matter of major debate. Fifteen years ago these crystals first made headlines when they revealed the presence of water on the surface of the Earth (thought to be a key ingredient for the origin of life) when they were forming.
Ten years ago, a team of researchers in the US1 argued that the ancient zircon crystals probably formed when tectonic plates moving around on the Earth's surface collided with each other in a similar fashion to the disruption taking place in the Andes Mountains today, where the ocean floor under the Pacific Ocean is plunging under South America.
Shatter cones (pyramid-like structures) formed from the shock wave of the impact, and can be seen as that wave migrated through the rock from the bottom up. Credit: Gavin Kenny, Trinity College Dublin.
However, current evidence suggests that plate tectonics—as we know it today—was not occurring on the early Earth. So, the question remained: Where did the crystals come from?
Recently, geologists suggested these grains may have formed in huge impact craters produced as chunks of rock from space, up to several kilometres in diameter, slammed into a young Earth. To test this idea, researchers from Trinity College Dublin decided to study a much younger impact crater to see if zircon crystals similar to the very old ones could possibly have formed in these violent settings.
In the summer of 2014, with the support of the Irish Reseach Council (IRC) and Science Foundation Ireland (SFI), the team collected thousands of zircons from the Sudbury impact crater, Ontario, Canada - the best preserved large impact crater on Earth and the planet's second oldest confirmed crater at almost two billion years old.
After analysing these crystals at the Swedish Museum of Natural History in Stockholm, they discovered that the crystal compositions were indistinguishable from the ancient set.
PhD Researcher in Trinity's School of Natural Sciences, Gavin Kenny, is first author of the article which explains these findings, and which has just been published in leading international journal, Geology.
"What we found was quite surprising. Many people thought the very ancient zircon crystals couldn't have formed in impact craters, but we now know they could have. There's a lot we still don't fully understand about these little guys but it looks like we may now be able to form a more coherent story of Earth's early years—one which fits with the idea that our planet suffered far more frequent bombardment from asteroids early on than it has in relatively recent times."
Gavin Kenny recently travelled to the annual Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC) in Houston, Texas, to present these findings to the space science community.
"There was a lot of enthusiasm for our findings. Just two years ago a group2 had studied the likely timing of impacts on the early Earth and they suggested that these impacts might explain the ages of the ancient zircons. They were understandably very happy to see that the chemistry of the zircons from the Canadian impact crater matched the oldest crystals known to man."
Explore further: Zircon crystals reveal onset of plate tectonics
More information: Kenny GG, Whitehouse MJ, Kamber BS. Differentiated impact melt sheets may be a potential source of Hadean detrital zircon. Geology. 2016; DOI: 10.1130/G37898.1
1: Watson EB, Harrison TM. Zircon thermometer reveals minimum melting conditions on earliest Earth. Science. 2005; 308:841-844. DOI: 10.1126/science.1110873
2: Marchi S, Bottke WF, Elkins-Tanton LT, Bierhaus M, Wuennemann K, Mordibelli A, Kring DA. Widespread mixing and burial of Earth's Hadean crust by asteroid impacts. Nature. 2014; 511:578-582. DOI: 10.1038/nature13539
Journal reference: Geology Science Nature
Provided by: Trinity College Dublin
Oldest bit of crust firms up idea of a cool early Earth
Study of isotopes shows recycling of Earth's crust began 3 billion years ago
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Clues to ancient giant asteroid found in Australia
Date:May 16, 2016
Source:Australian National University
Scientists have found evidence of a huge asteroid that struck the Earth early in its life with an impact larger than anything humans have experienced. Tiny glass beads called spherules, found in north-western Australia were formed from vaporized material from the asteroid impact, 3.46 billion years ago.
Marble Bar sediments, a microcrystalline silicone-rich chert. Credit: A. Glikson
Scientists have found evidence of a huge asteroid that struck the Earth early in its life with an impact larger than anything humans have experienced.
Tiny glass beads called spherules, found in north-western Australia were formed from vaporised material from the asteroid impact, said Dr Andrew Glikson from The Australian National University (ANU).
"The impact would have triggered earthquakes orders of magnitude greater than terrestrial earthquakes, it would have caused huge tsunamis and would have made cliffs crumble," said Dr Glikson, from the ANU Planetary Institute.
"Material from the impact would have spread worldwide. These spherules were found in sea floor sediments that date from 3.46 billion years ago."
The asteroid is the second oldest known to have hit the Earth and one of the largest.
Dr Glikson said the asteroid would have been 20 to 30 kilometres across and would have created a crater hundreds of kilometres wide.
About 3.8 to 3.9 billion years ago the moon was struck by numerous asteroids, which formed the craters, called mare, that are still visible from Earth.
"Exactly where this asteroid struck the earth remains a mystery," Dr Glikson said.
"Any craters from this time on Earth's surface have been obliterated by volcanic activity and tectonic movements."
Dr Glikson and Dr Arthur Hickman from Geological Survey of Western Australia found the glass beads in a drill core from Marble Bar, in north-western Australia, in some of the oldest known sediments on Earth.
The sediment layer, which was originally on the ocean floor, was preserved between two volcanic layers, which enabled very precise dating of its origin.
Dr Glikson has been searching for evidence of ancient impacts for more than 20 years and immediately suspected the glass beads originated from an asteroid strike.
Subsequent testing found the levels of elements such as platinum, nickel and chromium matched those in asteroids.
There may have been many more similar impacts, for which the evidence has not been found, said Dr Glikson.
"This is just the tip of the iceberg. We've only found evidence for 17 impacts older than 2.5 billion years, but there could have been hundreds"
"Asteroid strikes this big result in major tectonic shifts and extensive magma flows. They could have significantly affected the way the Earth evolved."
The research is published in the journal Precambrian Research.
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Andrew Glikson, Arthur Hickman, Noreen J. Evans, Christopher L. Kirkland, Jung-Woo Park, Robert Rapp, Sandra Romano. A new ∼3.46Ga asteroid impact ejecta unit at Marble Bar, Pilbara Craton, Western Australia: A petrological, microprobe and laser ablation ICPMS study. Precambrian Research, 2016; 279: 103 DOI: 10.1016/j.precamres.2016.04.003
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16th August 2018 21:06 Link to Post #6
Earth's oldest rocks likely to have been created by meteorite bombardment
Thu, 16 Aug 2018 18:08 UTC
An example of rock from the Acasta River region of the NWT. © Pedroalexandrade/Wikimedia
Scientists have found that 4.02 billion year old silica-rich felsic rocks from the Acasta River, Canada-the oldest rock formation known on Earth-probably formed at high temperatures and at a surprisingly shallow depth of the planet's nascent crust. The high temperatures needed to melt the shallow crust were likely caused by a meteorite bombardment around half a billion years after the planet formed. This melted the iron-rich crust and formed the granites we see today. These results are presented for the first time at the Goldschmidt conference in Boston tomorrow (14 August), following publication in the peer-reviewed journal Nature Geoscience.
The felsic rocks (rocks rich in silica/quartz) found at the Acasta River in Canada, are the Earth's oldest rocks, although there are older mineral crystals. Scientists have long known that the Acasta rocks are different to the majority of felsic rocks we see today, such as the granites widely used as a building or decorative material. Now a group of scientists from Australia and China have modelled the formation of the oldest Acasta felsic rocks and found that they could only have been formed at low pressures and very high temperatures.
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Scientists believe that the primitive crust largely comprised dark, silica-poor mafic rocks, so there has been a question over how the Acasta River felsic rocks could have formed.
"Our modelling shows that the Acasta River rocks derived from the melting of pre-existing iron-rich basaltic rock, which formed the uppermost layers of crust on the primitive Earth", said team leader Tim Johnson, from Curtin University, Perth.
"We used phase equilibria and trace element modelling to show that the Acasta River rocks were produced by partial melting of the original mafic rocks at very low pressures. It would have needed something special to produce the 900°C temperatures needed to generate these early felsic rocks at such low pressures, and that probably means a drastic event, most likely the intense heating caused by meteorite bombardment.
"We estimate that rocks within the uppermost 3km of mafic crust would have been melted in producing the rocks we see today. We think that these ancient felsic rocks would have been very common, but the passage of 4 billion years, and the development of plate tectonics, means that almost nothing remains.
"We believe that these rocks may be the only surviving remnants of a barrage of extraterrestial impacts which characterized the first 600 million years of Earth History".
The Acasta River is part of the Slave Craton formation in Northern Canada, north of Yellowknife and the Great Slave Lake. The area is the homeland of the Tlicho people, which led to the geologists who discovered the rocks giving them the name "Idiwhaa", derived from the Tlicho word for ancient.
Commenting, Dr. Balz Kamber (Trinity College Dublin) said that
"The idea of making felsic melts by large or giant impacts seems plausible considering the high-energy nature of these events and the pockmarked ancient surfaces of other inner Solar System planets and moons. However, the implied pressure-temperature regime might also permit melting of shallow crust below a super-heated impact melt sea. In other words, an indirect consequence of the impact itself".
Tim E. Johnson, Nicholas J. Gardiner, Katarina Miljković, Christopher J. Spencer, Christopher L. Kirkland, Phil A. Bland & Hugh Smithies , An impact melt origin for Earth's oldest known evolved rocks, Nature Geoscience (2018). DOI: 10.1038/s41561-018-0206-5
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Unbound: Worlds Apart – Creative Puzzle Platformer Takes Kickstarter by Storm, Comes to PC and Switch
Pavlo Radchenko | May 28, 2019 May 28, 2019 | Gaming, News, Nintendo Switch, PC
Update: The developers just added a new stretch goal – extra creatures if and when the campaign reaches $35K.
Unbound: Worlds Apart, an upcoming puzzle platformer developed by Alien Pixel Studios, is taking Kickstarter by storm. Having just achieved its goal of $25,000 on 27 May 2019, the game continued to gain supporters on Kickstarter. The campaign reached $30,000 the very next day, meaning that the first stretch goal was met and the game will eventually be ported to Switch. Currently, the developers have not informed its backers about further stretch goals.
The developers of Unbound: Worlds Apart shared their hopes for the bright future of the game in a recent update and thanked all of their backers. Sergiu Craitoiu and Olga Ciob, the people behind the game, expressed their wish to bring Unbound to Nintendo Switch, which is now just a matter of time. The release of Unbound is planned for Spring 2020.
Unbound: Worlds Apart Overview
The Romanian visionaries behind Unbound: Worlds Apart created a dark fairytale world. Players will take on the role of Soli, a mage capable of conjuring magical portals to other worlds where nothing is the same. Smart players can utilize those magical capabilities of the protagonist to solve different puzzles and to learn about the corruption that ravaged Soli's magical world. Players have to be careful because not all portals contain friendly creatures. In fact, some puzzles seem to require the player to enter more dangerous realities to solve them. If you want to learn more about the game, be sure to check out our previous article about it.
Unbound: Worlds Apart currently has a demo version available for its backers, so if you want to try the game in its early stages – you can do so by supporting the developers. The campaign will go on for 8 more days. According to the developers of Unbound, the game is only 50% finished so it still has a long way before release.
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