The blind man who feels a leg says the elephant is like a pillar; the one who feels the tail says the elephant is like a rope; the one who feels the trunk says the elephant is like a tree branch; the one who feels the ear says the elephant is like a hand fan; the one who feels the belly says the elephant is like a wall; and the one who feels the tusk says the elephant is like a solid pipe. And then someone explained to them:
All of you are right. The reason every one of you is telling it differently is because each one of you touched a different part of the elephant. So, actually the elephant has all the features you mentioned.
You see, all of this time we've all been like the fleas on the elephants back, who, when asked what they were standing on, replied; "Why, this is our ever unchanging world of course!"
If you want a flea to give you a good description of an elephant first you should lift him up off of the butt of the beast and let him take a good long look.
In the upper right corner is a compass. The view is looking to the southwest. A hyperthermal, barely subsonic, wind blowing out of the southeast from left to right melted the terrain we see here. The heat and turbulent pressure that melted these thousand foot tall mountains tops and blew them over like waves in an angry sea came out of the sky. This violence did not come from below at all. And, contrary to standard theory, these blasted, and melted, mountains aren't the work of a volcanic eruptions millions of years ago.
In fact, they are some of the results of a multiple fragment, thermal impact, firestorm that killed 80% of the life on this continent. They are but a small, almost insignificant, corner of the damage. It was the single most violent, and deadly, extra terrestrial encounter since humans first came down out of the trees, and walked upright. And It happened only a few thousand tears ago.
Sometimes something wicked this way comes; right out of the sky. And volcanoes aren't the only things that can melt the surface of the earth.
