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Just before 9.30am on Sunday 11 November, a series of unusual seismic pulses rippled around the world almost undetected.
The waves rang for over 20 minutes, emanating about 15 miles off the shores of Mayotte - a tiny island in the Indian Ocean between Madagascar and Africa.
From here, they reverberated across Africa, setting off geological sensors in Zambia, Kenya, and Ethiopia.
They crossed the Atlantic, and were picked up in Chile, New Zealand, Canada, and even Hawaii nearly 11,000 miles away, the National Geographic reports.
Despite their huge range, the waves were apparently not felt by anybody. However, one person monitoring the US Geological Survey's live stream of seismogram displays did notice the unusual waveform and posted it to Twitter, sparking the interest of other geologists and earthquake enthusiasts.
[...] The bizarre waveform is what scientists call "monochromatic". Earthquakes normally produce waves of so many different frequencies, the wave readings appear more jumbled.
But the mystery waveform from Mayotte was a crisp zigzag, which repeated after steady 17-second intervals.
"They're too nice. They're too perfect to be nature," joked the University of Glasgow's Helen Robinson, who is study[ing] for a PhD in applied volcanology.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday December 05 2018, @08:31PM
That is at least 80% true, maybe more than 90%. But . . . Christianity had some infinitesimal influences at least. If I may . . .
Islam was very much independent of either Judaism or Christianity, until Mohammed needed, or wanted, some allies. He appealed to the Jews. He even modified his beliefs, to be more apealling to those Jews he was courting. It was only then that he talked about the "Children of the Book". The Jews were the physical, geneological descendants of Abraham, and the Christians were sort of the spiritual descendants. Or, something like that.
But, it all comes back to Mohammed's need for allies.
Mohammed more or less said that Jews and Christians, each, in turn, turned away from Yahweh, or Allah. Islam was supposed to show both the righteous path. I've never dug to the bottom of the reasons that Mohammed included Christians in his acceptance of the Jews. Somehow, Christians influenced him. If not, he would have simply rejected Christianity as a complete heresy.
Knowing human nature, I suspect that he was also courting favor with the Christian Church authorities, and, in fact, won some favor with them. The Church, much later in history, took an official stance that it was better for Islam to rule any part of Europe that escaped the Church's rule, than to allow the protestants to rule.
It's a tangled web, to be sure, but it seems pretty obvious that the Christians influenced Mohammed somehow.
Maybe it was an attitude they shared. "Kill them all. God will know his own." More popularly misquoted as, "Kill them all, let God sort them out."