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82 pages of results. 461. The Rise and Fall of the Third Chimpanzee [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... examples reach a nadir and never resurrect. However, it is as a first rate biologist that he excells and it is very difficult to fault his arguments in that line. The book is only marred by its uniformitarian flavour which does not allow of much in the way of external catastrophe to have shaped our history, not even the odd earthquake or two. Diamond attempts to be optimistic about the future of mankind in his final two pages but the threat of a traumatised desire to relive cosmic catastrophe, as envisaged by Velikovsky, seems to me to be far easier to deal with than the culmination of our entire evolutionary history into the environmental facts we see around us today which ...
462. The Reality of Extinctions [Journals] [Aeon]
... Earth. This is a wobble which has absolutely no effect on our daily lives. Therefore, by extrapolation, we must assume that a very large wobble would cause a correspondingly larger change in the shape of the Earth. Any altered Earth geometry must, in turn, impose stress changes in the Earth's crust. (Stress changes manifest as earthquake activity, possible escape of methane.) Certainly, some drastic alteration to the weather patterns is to be expected, but way beyond all of these would be the effect of wobble on the oceans. During Earth wobble, the oceans would be redistributed; global sea levels would rise and fall in an unpredictable manner. The Giza pyramids ...
463. Catastrophe: An Investigation Into The Origins Of The Modern World (Book Review) [Journals] [Aeon]
... fruits that withered on the vines. All bemoaned the distress of the times. The Javanese author and poet, Ranggawarsita III, from a familial legacy of generations of authors and poets, compiled The Book of Ancient Kings in the nineteenth century, the 1869 manuscript portion of which describes an event in the Shaka calendar of tremendous thunder, furious earthquakes, tornadic winds, and torrential rain that ripped apart the once integral island of Java-Sumatra, the mountains and plains of which sank into the sea. A later version written in the 1880s is descriptively colored by the 1883 modern eruption of Krakatoa. Chinese annals of the earlier period also speak of distant thunder and, in following years, ...
464. Geology and God [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... weather, but the shape of the Earth would also change, for even the most innocuous present-day wobbles alter the shape of a measurable degree. Thus a major wobble of the past would mean that the brittle crust of the Earth would need to adjust to the changes in shape and, to do so, it would suffer distress patterns: earthquakes for example, perhaps escape of methane and fires shooting up from the ground.[...] Peter James is a geologist who works in Brisbane (Fax: + 61 7 340 30691). ...
465. The Palaetiology of Fear and Memory [Books]
... observed in animals, whether infant or adult. When we say of a person "she jumped like a startled doe" we begin metaphorically what could be a minute comparison of all respects in which mammals respond to events with fearful behavior. We go to accounts of disasters, which may be read into fossil palaeontology or come from histories of earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and floods. We note such facts as, or see that, animal and humans flee alike and together into caves to avoid flood and fire. Mammals, like people, become desperate with hunger, become aggressive and seductive with sexual lust, and learn to exploit their environments. But now we come to that ...
466. Some Comments on "Still Facing Many Problems" (Vox Populi) [Journals] [Kronos]
... with tail interacting with the magnetic field could cause many strange sightings that would leave powerful religious impressions on ancient civilizations. And of course, it is possible that a Tunguska-type impact event could have wiped out one or more ancient armies that happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. Add a Minoan-type volcanic explosion and some Richter-9 earthquakes in a tectonically active region such as the Mediterranean and Euphrates basins, and one can have grist for further legends. . . . Robert W. Carroll, Jr. Potsdam, NY To the Editor of KRONOS: Regarding C. Leroy Ellenberger's, "Still Facing Many Problems", KRONOS X: 1, "Worzel Ash" ...
467. Andrew Collins: The Truth of the Past - Finding Historical Reality in the Alternative Field of Research [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... of Atlantean kings ruling over a series of Atlantic islands focused around a central metropolis. All the indications are that the description Plato gives of his Atlantean island matches very well the topography of Cuba, the largest and most fertile of the Caribbean islands. I also concluded that Plato's claim that Atlantis' destruction in one single night and day through earthquakes and floods was based on catastrophe legends told to Phoenician and Carthaginian mariners by the indigenous peoples of the Bahamas and Caribbean. They were retold to the first Spanish explorers to reach the islands, and speak of a catastrophic event involving a period of darkness, as well as an all-encompassing flood which engulfed a former great landmass, leaving behind ...
468. Puzzles of Prehistory [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... by the electrochemical conditions that surround it. When these conditions are constant, so is the rate of change. When these conditions are not constant, neither is the rate of change. The rate of change is, in all probability, dependent on the amount of energy being injected into a bielemental system. A disturbance as slight as an earthquake, or a volcanic eruption, might accelerate the conversion process. A disturbance as gross as an asteroid impact, or a close encounter with another planet, would almost certainly do so. In the latter case, the radiological "clocks" could run wild, registering a year in an hour or a millennium in a year. My ...
469. Rupert Sheldrake: An overview [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... Supposedly hormones did this, but different plants just contain different amounts of the same hormone, and the same plant would have the hormone in its leaves and stem, yet these parts of the plant were different in shape. Later Rupert became interested in other non-mainstream aspects of biology, such as ESP in animals, or how animals could predict earthquakes, or tell when their owners are coming home. ...
470. The End of a World (Built Before the Flood) [Books]
... debris felt the resistance of the interplanetary medium very strongly and approached the Earth rapidly on spiral paths. Hidden in the caves of the safe eastern side of the highest ridges of the Andes the refugees watched, fear-stricken, the breakdown of the Satellite, with its wind storms, rain deluges, hail catastrophes, mud falls, core-block bombardment, earthquake throes, and volcanic paroxysms. This was the beginning of the great Age of Darkness, Chamak Pacha, when the Sun was lost, of which the mythology of the Urus tells, and of which they say that it happened after the rise, and the loss, of Tiahuanaco. In spite of the violence of the cataclysm many ...
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