The Cosmic Winter

by Victor Clube, Bill Napier

During five days in late June 1975, a swarm of boulders the size of motor cars struck the moon at a speed of 67,000 miles per hour. On 30 June 1908 an object crashed on Siberia with the force of a large hydrogen bomb. The moon was also struck on 25 June 1178 struck, this time by a missile whose energy was ten times that of the combined nuclear arsenals of the world. Why late June? What is the nature of such events? And what threat do they pose to mankind? The authors aim to reveal the answers in this book. They argue that rains of fire visit the earth from time to time, destroying civilizations and plunging mankind into Dark Ages. They uncover a lost tradition of celestial catastrophe, and underpin these claims with foundations based on the latest discoveries in space. They produce a risk assessment which reveals that civilization could well come to an abrupt end, destroyed by a rain of fire followed by an icy, cosmic winter.

Genres: Science, History, Astronomy

320 pages, Hardcover

First published May 1, 1990

Reviews

[Brent Cope · Rating 5 out of 5]

The Cosmic Winter gives us a quick glimpse back and history and a comparison across the various scientific fields yielding a thesis that is so stunning and real that it shakes the reader to the core.

He covers a lot of history and myth, which may bore the more hardcore scientist or casual reader, but it is necessary to comprehend all that follows. It also makes for a great review of some ancient history that I had otherwise been only marginally exposed to.

After covering the history and mythology he moves forward and gives us hard data, tons of it, regarding actual impact events. He brings three forth that have happened in the last thousand years that demonstrate these cosmic missiles can have the destructive equivalent of a multi-megaton nuclear explosion.

He then moves back in time and gives us more history, that of actual impacts and the records left by ancient societies. When you add up all the research done, all the data in this book, it's hypothesis becomes almost undeniable. It's amazing that so much evidence can be gathered and yet the mainstream scientific community is still in doubt, still perpetuating a theory that has been disproved over and over.

It's almost as if we're still in the age of Gallileo, and decrying the planet as round and revolving around the sun is treason against god and humanity! Seriously, if you want a solid education on the phenomenon and realistic ideas based on solid facts check out this book. It rocked, no pun intended.

[Florian Egerer · Rating 5 out of 5]

Simply an amazing, mindblowing book. One of the most interesting I have ever read.

[Suraj Sharma · Rating 3 out of 5]

this was a tepid affair, could not keep my interest beyyond the first few pages