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DID A COMET CAUSE THE GREAT FLOOD?

机译：彗星是否造成了大洪水？

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The serpent's tails coil together menacingly. A horn jutsrnsharply from its head. The creature looks as if it might be swimming through a sea of stars. Or is it making its way up a sheer basalt cliff? For Bruce Masse, an environmental archaeologist at Los Alamos National Laboratory, there is no confusion as he looks at this ancient petroglyph, scratched into a rock by a Native American shaman. "You can't tell me that isn't a comet," he says.rnIn Masse's interpretation, the petroglyph commemorates a comet that streaked across the sky just a few years before Europeans came to this area of New Mexico. But that event is a minor blip compared to what he is really after. Masse believes that he has uncovered evidence that a gigantic comet crashed into the Indian Ocean several thousand years ago and nearly wiped out all life on the planet. What's more, he thinks that clues about the catastrophe are hiding in plain sight, embedded in the creation stories of cultural groups around the world. His hypothesis depends on a major reinterpre tation of many different mythologies and raises questions about how frequently major asteroid impacts occur. What scientists know about such collisions is based mainly on a limited survey of craters around the world and on the moon. Only 185 craters on Earth have been identified, and almost all are on dry land, leaving largely unex amined the 70 percent of the planet covered by water. Even among those on dry land, many of the craters have been recognized only recently. It is possible that Earth has been a target of more meteors and comets than scientists have suspected.
机译：蛇的尾巴险恶地盘绕在一起。牛角从其头部突出。该生物看起来好像在星空中游动。还是沿着陡峭的玄武岩悬崖攀登？对于洛斯阿拉莫斯国家实验室的环境考古学家布鲁斯·马斯（Bruce Masse）来说，当他看着这幅古老的岩画时，他很困惑。他说：“你不能告诉我这不是一颗彗星。”按照马斯的解释，刻在岩石上的文字是为了纪念一颗彗星，它在欧洲人来到新墨西哥州的那几年之前就已经升空了。但是与他的实际情况相比，那件事只是个小毛病。马斯（Masse）相信，他已经发现了证据，证明数千年前，一颗巨大的彗星坠入印度洋，几乎摧毁了地球上的所有生命。此外，他认为有关灾难的线索隐藏在众目hiding之下，并嵌入到世界各地文化团体的创作故事中。他的假设取决于对许多不同神话的重大解释，并引发了有关主要小行星撞击发生频率的问题。科学家对这种碰撞的了解主要是基于对全球和月球陨石坑的有限调查。在地球上仅发现了185个陨石坑，几乎所有陨石坑都在干旱的土地上，这使地球上70％的水被淹没了。即使在干旱的土地上，许多火山口直到最近才被发现。地球可能成为比科学家怀疑的更多的流星和彗星的目标。

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