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102 pages of results. 141. Aster and Disaster: The Golden Age - I [Journals] [Kronos]
... beings, elephants, and other higher animals were far more aquatic in their adaptation than they now are. 6. Since Earth had no axial tilt and no rotation independent of Aster, its Asterian face was never dark or cold. Its climate was therefore uniformly moist and warm. 7. Vegetation was lush. There were no seasonally deciduous trees. Nor were there plants adapted, by toughening or stunting, to extremely dry or frigid habitats. 8. Most animals exhibited the kind of closely synchronized and coordinated group behavior that we now know as "flocking" among birds and "schooling" among fish. As a result, each group - human as well as non-human - ...
142. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Review]
... to find the light regime of 6 months darkness a problem!) One of the fossils includes a relative of the Chilean Araucarian pine standing upright in its fossil bed. 34 Myrs ago an ice sheet apparently developed at long last, indicated by a lack of fossils, but 25 Myrs ago fossils reappeared in the form of leaves of temperate trees. 15 Myrs ago Antarctica is supposed to have achieved its final glaciation, but fossil wood and leaves have been dated to 3 Myrs ago. If the ice sheet collapsed at this time there should be evidence of higher sea levels and in nearby New Zealand there is indeed an area with successive layers of mudstone and yellow sand indicating it ...
143. Paradigm Lost? [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... priority of a journalist is to write something which will catch and hold the attention of the reader, with meticulous attention to detail being a lesser consideration. Conversely, articles and books written by scientists are often, with justification, regarded as being boring, ignoring the overall pattern of the wood to concentrate on detailed descriptions of a few individual trees. The scientist is likely to express opinions with great caution, particularly if they run counter to orthodox beliefs, whereas the journalist may well find it easier to take a detached view and challenge prevailing assumptions. From the point of view of the interested layperson, either approach can be acceptable (sometimes one complementing the other), provided ...
144. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Review]
... Sept. 96, pp. 60-71, Science Frontiers 102, Nov-Dec 95, pp. 1 and 3 The latest discoveries from the area of the mysterious event in Tunguska reinforce the theory that it was caused by a body from space which exploded several miles up. Tiny particles with an extraterrestrial signature have been found embedded in resin in nearby trees. They appear to have been melted and are likely to have come directly from the parent body. There is still no consensus as to whether this was a stony meteorite, a chondritic meteorite or even a comet. The date of the explosion being June, there is a strong possibility that it was material from the Taurid shower of ...
145. Recent Finds In Geology. Ch.17 Supplement (Earth In Upheaval) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Earth in Upheaval]
... very long, I shall refer here only briefly to some of this material. A little over a decade ago it was observed that the gold digging hydraulic giants in the Fairbanks District in Alaska, sluicing out miles-long cuts, opened great hecatombs of animals. "Their numbers are appalling. They lie frozen in tangled masses, interspersed with uprooted trees. They seem to have been torn apart and dismembered and then consolidated under catastrophic conditions. Skin, ligament, hair, flesh, can still be seen."1 Then human artifacts were found under the mass of torn animals and splintered trees. These artifacts do not differ much from those used only recently by the Indians of the ...
... ," and the retention of the name in many other places as "vineyard" or "vinery, ' infers a considerable cultivation of the vine in the past as stated by William of Malmesbury in the twelfth century. If the vine were cultivated outdoors for the purpose of wine in the early Middle Ages, how much more may the tree not have flourished centuries earlier before the coming of the Romans and after? There may be a close connection between what is called the lynchet system of agriculture pursued by the Celts, before the invasion of the Saxons, and the cultivation of the vine. Within recent years, by means of air survey, a great deal has been ...
147. An Unexplained Arctic Catastrophe [Journals] [SIS Review]
... ]. These facts have now been known about for several decades, studied, remarked upon and mapped but what actually caused the formation of permafrost seems to be indeterminate. A modern assessment of this deposit shows that it is layered. at some localities. At the lowest level, the beds consist of sandy loams containing remains of temperate climate trees such as chestnut, ginkgo and lime. These are succeeded by a 150m-200m thick layer enclosing the remains of such non-Arctic animals as camel, beaver and bison, mixed with those of reindeer. The final (upper) layer, 35m-49m thick, contains the remains of the woolly rhinoceros, mammoth, horse, and bison [3l] ...
148. The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes edited by Iona and Peter Opie [Journals] [SIS Review]
... and local rituals. Over the years some writers have attempted far fetched interpretations of nursery rhymes, many not acceptable. The theory that Ring-a-ring o'roses was about the plague is unlikely to be true as it appears to be of recent origin and the fall was previously a curtsey from which the child rose again. Hush a bye baby on the tree top has been suggested as referring to the child Horus, and it is tempting to read into it cosmic catastrophe to do with the world tree, but it is more likely to be an indication that babies were sometimes rocked in their cradles by the wind. Ancient myth has also been associated with Jack and Jill went up the hill ...
149. SERVANT OF THE SUN GOD [Journals] [Aeon]
... the form of a lotus bud, papyrus bud or plant of life;. Man or god who hides in a gourd, or is born or reborn from a gourd. God whose identity is inseparable from his foot; foot of the creator-king. God identified as a root; root of the plant of life; root of the world tree. Man or god who vanquishes chaos fiends, monsters, creatures of sea or desert; man or god who clears or excavates sacred territory. Voice of the creator, the visibly manifest sound of creation, roarer, trumpeter, drummer, screecher, god who is the thunder. Externalised power, strength, "glory" of the ...
150. The Pitfalls of Radiocarbon Dating [Journals] [Pensee]
... of the work of G. Folghereiter done at the turn of the century on Attic and Etruscan pottery: he found that the polarity was reversed in the eighth century before the present era. To determine the extent of correction necessary to render the radiocarbon method reliable, dendrochronologists devised a plan to control the radiocarbon dates by building a chronology of tree rings of the white bristlecone pine, the longest living tree. The method caught the fancy of the radiocarbon researchers. However, three or four rings formed in one year is not uncommon, especially if the tree grows on a slope with the ground several times in a year turning wet and dry because of rapid outflow of water ( ...
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