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... his own concoctions of the historical and physical evidence. M. RowanRobinson, after reading Sagan's chapter on manna, wrote in Nature that he found it to be "a red herring." 11 A red herring is a journalistic term for "baloney". Now one begins to recognize what stinks. Sagan has all along seemed to say ... , a widely known popularizer of astronomy, raised the possibility that the cyanogen gas would impregnate the atmosphere (of the Earth) and possibly snuff out all life on the planet. ' .. .it is not surprising that statements like Flammarion's helped to produce a worldwide comet frenzy. "In fact, it was not even clear that ...
412. The Saturn Thesis (Part 2) [Journals] [Aeon]
... rays of the celebrated Aten as extended arms bringing the gift of life. Now the Aten, usually interpreted as the disk of the Sun, is generally represented as a red circle or orb surrounded by a turquoise or gold band, which band is frequently interpreted as either an enclosing serpent (Uraeus) or an enclosing rope (the Shen ... frequently rejected mythical traditions that didn't accord with natural experience in his own time. There was an ancient tradition, for example, that the hair of the comet flowed between planets. Well, actually, the tradition as cited by Aristotle was more specific: it said that a comet stretched between planets in conjunction- exactly what we are claiming ...
413. Still Facing Many Problems (Part II) [Journals] [Kronos]
... not rule out the existence of large-scale order as Juergens thought. Simple reflection on such phenomena as a hurricane viewed from above, an atomic bomb's mushroom cloud, or Jupiter's Red Spot reveals large scale order in the presence of turbulence. The point is that mathematically chaos does not refer to the geometrical order in a system but instead refers to ... land far from ice caps are now understood as a result of global isostatic adjustment to changes in crustal loading [W . R. Peltier, Ann. Rev. Earth Planet. Sci. 9, 1981, pp. 199225] . Recent advances in climatic modelling show that no pole shift or axial tilt is required to explain the location ...
414. Thoth Vol III, No. 9: June 15, 1999 [Journals] [Thoth]
... . . . . . . . . . . . .by Mel Acheson SATURNIAN STUDIES . . . . . . . . by Dave Talbott and Kronians _Seeing Red: Redshifts, Cosmology and Academic Science_ By Halton Arp . . . . . . . . . . Book Review by Wal Thornhill. ELECTRIC UNIVERSE QUESTIONS . ... this. I've been waiting to say it myself but still hadn't worked up the courage! Dave Talbott answers: But keep in mind that the original question related to unstable planets causing terrestrial disturbances within the past 3,000 years. A near approach of planets in the past 3,000 years would have generated a large volume of eyewitness ...
415. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Review]
... (mistakenly described as the first such attempt) has been described by two medics. It starts with a blood-red alga which releases neurotoxins, killing fish and colouring the water red. Frogs, in increased numbers due to lack of predation by fish, abandoned the toxic waters. Flies were multiplying stable flies and a tiny gnat could have been ... of a knowledge aristocracy' and how the less temperate reactions to The Golem reveal how deeply embedded that attitude is among an important and vocal group of scientists'. ASTRONOMY Planets and polar configurations New Scientist 4.7 .98, p. 25, 6.6 .98, p. 4 Despite the doubts of some, researchers ...
416. Snapshots of the Gods? [Journals] [SIS Review]
... ancient art appear in more modern and realistic settings and backgrounds. The most striking example is fig. 35, a broadsheet from Nuremberg that reports on April 14, 1561 red, blue, and black balls or crosses the colour of blood .. . and huge tubes appeared near the Sun at sunrise .. . they all began to ... have arisen not in the mind or underneath the earth but in the bottom flare of a magnetic field. I leave open the question of whether this configuration also involved specific planets. 7. A Chorus Line Fig. 31 Greek Archaic bell-shaped goddess Fig. 32 Lightning strokes Fig. 30 shows the Scandinavian gods Odin, Thor and Freyr holding ...
417. F. X. Kugler -- Almost a Catastrophist [Journals] [SIS Review]
... the sunset . Thus Robert Herm , 18, 440: "Each evening the sun-god dives into the west, and each evening the firmament and the heavens shine with a red glow, as though the world were about to go up in flames. All that was needed was that this regularly recurring sequence be captured as a unique event, ... eyes of the profane. In undertaking this prosaic work, we need above all the aid of astronomical calculations. Only these can give us certainty regarding the position of the planets and moon, as well as their times of rising and setting and the reciprocal relationships between the sun and the fixed stars, in a period two thousand years into ...
418. Nova of Super Uranus and Ejection of the Moon [Books] [de Grazia books]
... by subsequent torques of the crust, as in the case of the San Andreas fault, which was buried in the "westward" movement of North America, or the Red Sea-Adriatic-Rhine Valley rift, which was partially overridden by the Alps. It will be noted, too, how the Atlantic Ocean crack probably shot out from an Arctic base ... that they defined the limit of the body's influence upon nearby matter and charges. Vestiges of the electrospheres are found today in the electric sheaths surrounding the Sun and the various planets; the transition occurred mostly in the time of Jupiter (see ahead to Chapter Fifteen and Note B, fn.117). The resorption of erupted pieces occurs ...
419. My Challenge to Conventional Views in Science [Journals] [Kronos]
... found. I based my expectation on the realization that in the eighth century before the present era Mars and the Moon repeatedly came into near-contacts. I would speculate that the red color of Mars, due mainly to the ferruginous material acquired from Venus when the latter displaced it from its orbit (in the theomachy described in great detail in the ... of the Romans, Zeus of the Greeks, Ormuzd of the Iranians, Marduk of the Babylonians, Shiva of the Hindus, Ammon of the Egyptians? Why did the planet Venus - Ishtar, Athene, Kukulcan of the Mayas or Quetzalcohuatl of the Toltecs- become the feared deity, as I saw it omnipresent in Yucatan, where I savored ...
420. San Francisco, February 25, 1974 [Journals] [Pensee]
... a long record of taking pot shots at Worlds in Collision, delighting in his own colorful descriptions of a comet which "approached the Earth, by accident just at the Red Sea," and which then returned "to help Joshua, who needed two miracles," and so on. Sagan's recent book, The Cosmic Connection, contains ... were observations and determinations rather than theoretical suggestions. PETER HUBER, Professor of Mathematical Statistics, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland: Early Cuneiform Evidence for the Planet Venus. Professor Huber's objections to Worlds in Collision centered on three primary arguments: 1) "Venus was known shortly after -3000 and was in an orbit between the ...
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