It's kind of a shame though.
It reminds me of the moment, at about ten, when I learned how to read Comic Books. Soon after the text explained what was actually happening, I lost interest in them. My wild eyed imagination concocted wilder more compelling tales from the pictures, at least in my preadolescent mind, and IT WAS INTERACTIVE!
Again that wild eyed imagination had brought "Tail of the Devil" and "Devil's Canyon" together and echoes of aboriginal oral tradition whispered secrets of witnessed falls[or better, shaman reasoned conformities ie. a witnessed fall[can]=a crater ergo a mega crater = a mega fall, a place to AVOID.
Yes I'm aware that there is no chance of homo sapiens being present at Chixalub and even the "Canyon" stretches "know" facts.
But in a larger sense, What the hell do we KNOW? Mr. Barringer may not have been first to deduce an extraterrestrial origin to the Crater that sometimes bears his name. Excuse my momentary unscientific mind set. I realize as I sit at this infernal machine that I owe most everything to modern science.
But the mists of time beckon. Mind is mind, and reaching beyond facts if nothing else invigorates and revitalizes. You know "think" outside the box!
Thanks for your indulgence. And a special thank you to Doug for steering me in a sounder direction.
Jerry Flaherty
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Subject: [meteorite-list] Canyon Diablo & nomenclature...was (Is AmgalaOfficial?/NewBulletin)
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Canyon Diablo, what was the reasoning for that nameTom, Canyon Diablo = Valley of the devil
Tom, Mark, Jeff, List: Canyon Diablo vs. Meteor Crater is an interesting
case in nomenclature. It is sort of a chicken or egg first story because how
could you name a meteorite after the crater it produced is you want to name it
AFTER a topographical feature. If a meteorite wiped out a city, could you
could it Chicago Crater instead of just Chicago? Well maybe the chicken and
egg rules can be bent for finds (like Canyon Diablo) vs. falls...someone must
have debated this a some time in the MetSoc:)
Mark, "Valley of the Devil" may be where they grow your favorite wine, but
Canyon Diablo's name would seem to have a different story (A canyon isn't quite
a valley)...here's the story I pieced together from several interesting
websites (I would say the translation is more true as "Sin City")
The canyon had earlier been given its name by Lt. Whipple during an 1853
army 35th parallel land survey after the Northamericans took the land from
Mexico. Due to the extensive detour to cross it, he first cristened the canyon
"Devil's Canyon".
The railroad had an equally difficult time building a bridge to cross the
canyon in 1880, and it became the de facto railroad terminal. Originally named
for the devil of a canyon to cross, the new town borrowed the railroad's
designation and earned its name and raised it one by translating the word Devil
into the Spanish word "Diablo" the latin-blooded naughtier counterpart of the
meat and potatos Devil. Surpassing Flagstaff in size and somewhat like a
modern day Las Vegas, Canyon Diablo was more dangerous than than the Earps and
Holidays could ever hope to control. Many competing houses of prostitution,
gambling and drinking and other parlors and dance halls offering similar
opportunity lined the (only) street proudly named Hell Street, and business was
brisk around the clock in the town that never slept. There was no law in the
town.
The blissful misery of the town got a cold shower and practically vanished
when the bridge over the canyon was completed in 1890, when there were other
reasons to pass through and have the Army keep it safe...and Arizona was on the
way to becoming a State (which happened in 1912).
Saudos, Doug
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