Playing the role of protester, Danny is still trying to lay out arguments.
Danny’s eyes are shifting from side to side as he rapidly searches for
rational explanations. Danny is chewing his lower lip slightly but is clearly
running out of arguments. Finally, he says, weakly.
Well, the ice formed over France because, uh, um ..
Isaac keeps up the pressure.
Makes no sense! Potsdam University documented that the
axis of the world shifted, pulling Germany South,
during the Jewish Exodus. The crust moved. The crust
moved! Pull that back and you’ve got Greenland over
where the N Pole is now. Got it? The crust moves, and
during that last Ice Age, France was the N Pole,
that’s why it was frozen! We don’t have wandering
poles, we’ve got a wandering crust.
Isaac flips his line out into the river again, easing back against the tree
trunk, knowing the argument has been won. Danny, now almost relaxed as he
realizes he has lost the argument, is giving in, but is reluctant to admit
defeat to someone in his father's generation. He says,
Is that why the weather's gone nuts and the compasses
don't ever seem to work right anymore?
Isaac is still not done laying out his evidence, and has no intention of
laying off.
And then there's the tidal waves, whale bones found on
hills 400-500 feet above sea level in Ontario. In
Sicily there's bone piles in the rock crevices that
include just about every animal in Europe and Africa,
all broken into bits as though the waves carried them
there and smashed them into bits against the rocks.
Danny protests. Surely there is another explanation for tidal waves in our
past.
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So maybe a meteor fell, like what killed the
dinosaurs, fell in the ocean and caused a giant tidal
wave.
But Isaac has more.
Chief Mountain in Montana took an 8 mile trip over the
plains, and the Alps have moved hundreds of miles
overland. We're talking about slabs of rock thousand
of feet thick. What force is moving those mountains?
Danny tries proferring the standard explanation for massive geological changes
in the Earth's past.
Oh, that happened millions of years ago.
But as with all the other protestations, Isaac has the trump card.
Niagra Falls is running in a channel that's less than
4,000 years old, son, and several lakes on the West
Coast have existed for only about 3,500 years. Sound
familiar? Scientists have known for some time that
the ocean level dropped 20 feet world wide,
simultaneously, guess when - 3,000-4,000 years ago.
Finally, Danny submits.
Holy cow! This is big! Why wouldn’t they let this out?
They warn people about floods, about hurricanes, stock
up for the storm, and all. How is this any different?
Having reached the end of the game, the contest between generations put aside,
Isaac admits his own weakness, shows his softer side to Danny, as the argument
is dropped and has become a discussion. He says,
Put yourself in the shoes of the people in charge,
Danny, and look at the list of your worries. One,
there’s no way after the crust moves and all the
cities are dust to house and feed the citizens. So
they get into thinking about saving a select few, and
the few always includes them, of course. They’ve built
bunkers, you can be sure, and stocked them well, and
the heck with the taxpayer. This is why that story
gets resisted. You can believe they’ve got their
guards at the newspapers watching for it. Gets shot
down every time.
The light goes on for Danny, who realizes Maya’s reaction is not
the first.
You mean, you’ve tried this before?
Isaac says,
I was asked to contact your paper, give it another
shot. A group of us have been trying to find an
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outlet. So far, no one’s gotten past the guard. They
tell these editors that it’s national security or
something, can’t have panic. God knows what they tell
them, but one thing is clear, this is a story that the
public is not allowed to hear.
Danny is new to the cover-up, and is searching for a route around
it.
Someone could go to an observatory. I mean, our
observatory has a public night, you can go there,
point the scope anywhere you want, they help you ..
Isaac, older and wiser, knows what encountering a serious cover-up means.
You can try it. We did, when it was still able to be
seen in the night sky. Got the runaround. It’s not
just the editors, it’s the observatories, the
astronomers you can’t believe. You think the American
