British scientists say large bombardments of meteorites four billion years ago might have made early Earth and Mars more habitable for life.
Imperial College London researchers said millions of meteor strikes during what's called the Late Heavy Bombardment approximately 3.9 billion years pelted Earth and Mars during a period of about 20 million years, possibly modifying the atmosphere on both planets.
Researchers explained that when a meteor enters a planet's atmosphere, extreme heat causes some of its outer crust minerals and organic matter to be released as water and carbon dioxide before it breaks up and hits the ground.
The researchers suggest the delivery of that water could have made Earth's and Mars' atmospheres wetter, while the release of the CO2 could have trapped more energy from sunlight to make both planets warm enough to sustain liquid oceans.
Using published models of meteoritic impact rates during the LHB, the researchers calculated 10 billion tons of carbon dioxide and 10 billion tons of water vapor could have been delivered to the atmospheres of Earth and Mars each year, for millions of years.
The study is detailed in the journal Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta.
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Since there was not very much carbon present on the earth, life could not flourish in early Earth's environment.
The comet/meteorites brought carbon to the earth (fell from heaven) so that life could develop using the vehicle which carbon provides, carbon life forms. So, yes, the Earth become more habitable, but the jury is out as to whether carbon life forms are beneficial to the planet. Don't forget, Adam and Eve were banished to Earth, with reproduction their curse. Satan was banished from Heaven, fell to earth, and was given dominion over the Earth.
The "beast" or the animal nature of humankind is this uneasy relationship with Carbon/Satan, and with the eternal spiritual nature of life. The beast's number is 6-6-6, and for those who have the knowledge, he who can count, the number is 6 protons, 6 neutrons, and 6 electrons; this is carbon. The actual wisdom contained in the writings which have been adopted by the "Christian Church" really does have much timeless information in it. Primarily, it is proof that the knowledge far surpasses any human on Earth 2,000 years ago could have possessed. Humans forgot that life is eternal, and thus, the purpose of the Christ story which demonstrated the illusion of physical limitation of an individual's life. Unfortunately, again the world has lost sight.