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... the spin is retrograde rather than pro-grade; Venus spins "backwards". After this latter discovery, many attempts at an explanation, some of a catastrophic nature, were published. Sagan blamed tidal friction, but without offering any supporting evidence.29 Singer suggested that a retrogradely orbiting moon nearly collided with Venus and reversed its spin from the normal spin it must have had originally (under uniformitarian theories). 30 Retrograde satellite orbits are known in the Solar System, but they, are Planets too, are difficult to explain by accepted theories. Sagan leaves the origin of the retrograde moon to people interested in retrograde moon problems. He seeks to explain only the retrograde rotation of ...
532. The Electric Saturnian System [Journals] [Aeon]
... David Talbott, on the other hand, has been insisting from day one that Jupiter was part and parcel of the Saturnian system. To which of these two divergent theories do you subscribe, and why? Thornhill: There isn't a short answer to this question. And because the events we are attempting to make sense of are outside our normal experience, a fully satisfying answer will likely elude and torment us for many years. But here is my best guess. The principle of parsimony of hypotheses suggests that we don't introduce another massive body into the system if there are no reports of it during the transition of the proto-Saturn system from a primordial configuration into a polar configuration. ...
533. The Age of Moses [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... there would have been considerable inter-breeding, especially during the 430 years during which they lived in the Nile Delta. The Israelites were Canaanites and Egyptians with the unique characteristic of being segregated by an overpowering faith in a single deity. Heredity in those times (probably even up to the time of Mendel) was thought to be determined by the male and genealogies were traced through the male line. Thus, while Moses says that his parents, Amram and Hochebed, were both Levites, he traces the lineage back to Levi only through Kohath. This dominance of the male in heredity permeated the language (seed, semen etc.) and all social institutions of the day. At ...
534. The Prodigal Archive [Books] [de Grazia books]
... was mere basic social psychology. The scientists and their coterie of publicists were behaving very much as might be expected in the face of disturbing theories, like politicians, like administrators, bishops, and all other elites of organized networks. He decided to take upon himself the most difficult task, the theoretical analysis of the system that exuded injustice normally. The historical section would go to Stecchini and deal with scientific precedents to V. s catastrophism, an approach quite new to the discussions of a decade earlier, and one which Stecchini, using the principle of contradictions, executed beautifully, calling up Whiston, Boulanger, La Place and Kugler as unexpected witnesses on behalf of the defendant ...
535. Astronomical Theories and Ice Ages [Articles]
... getting lots of sunlight, and the South Pole isn't getting any, and that of course changes round from year to year. Over and above that basic motion round the Sun, with the tilt more or less in one direction all the time, there is a precession occurring, the precession of the equinoxes, which is due to the normal sort of gyroscopic precession of a rotating body. In fact, the Earth is gradually tilting round in that fashion, so that after about 20. 000 years, with the Sun on this side now, we're tilted that way, and as it moves round, we're now tilted that way. Now, if you combine that effect ...
536. Catastrophic Theory of Mountain Uplifts (A Crustal Deformation Theory) [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... the Sun. First, during a close flyby the opposite hemisphere would be pulled generally in the direction of the Earth's core by both the Earth and the visiting Mars on the other side. The crust directly opposite, away from Mars, would be pulled (downward) to the Earth's core at a force of 100.1047 percent of normal gravitational pull, according to our calculations. Thus the Earth's bottom side would flatten while its sides would bulge somewhat, much like the pear. On the other hand, the sun-lit "Facing Hemisphere," facing both Mars and the Sun, would be pulled inward toward the center of the Earth minus the effect of the gravity of ...
537. The 'Unconscious' as a Literary Revolt Against Science [Books] [de Grazia books]
... , but also to supply the author's need for more pages to develop stories, to embrace time, to attend to the once "insignificant." The poets, significantly, went "mad," like Baudelaire, and art and poetry went "bohemian." And we would point out that here was an escape route from the intolerable normality and statistical quality of the uniformitarian historical and world vision. But meanwhile a major "normal" substitute formation for the dying catastrophism was occurring. It would be consonant, even if uncomfortable, with the Uniformitarian consensus. Psychiatry began its long march. Indications of "the Unconscious" began to appear. Henri Ellenberger's excellent (1970) ...
538. Catastrophism and Evolution [Articles]
... drive) which enables a mutation in one member of a family to be copied by all other members of the same family within an individual, whether on the same or a different chromosome. Then, because of chromosome mixing during sexual reproduction, the mutation could spread quickly through a population, far more quickly than a mutation could spread by normal Mendelian inheritance. Further, the spread of the mutation through the population would be an internal mechanism, and thus owe nothing to natural selection. Although still a controversial idea and requiring further documentation (50), molecular drive could be an important factor in speciation. Lamarckism, the theory that characteristics acquired by an individual in response to ...
539. Solar System Studies (Part 2) [Journals] [Aeon]
... Earth. Surface temperatures on the Moon range from 374 K at the subsolar point, to 213 K along the terminator, to 120 K at the center of the dark side, but temperature swings are slow due to its slow spin rate of 27.322 sidereal days or 29.531 synodic days per revolution. These temperature swings are normally too slow to cause exfoliation of rock. The Moon surface materials do slowly weather due to direct impingement of Solar Wind protons against exposed surface materials, creating a shallow, easily compressed regolith of gritty, glass-like particles. The Moon is nearly spherical due to its slow spin rate, although it has a 2 km shift away from Earth ...
540. Catastrophism and Evolution [Journals] [SIS Review]
... drive) which enables a mutation in one member of a family to be copied by all other members of the same family within an individual, whether on the same or a different chromosome. Then, because of chromosome mixing during sexual reproduction, the mutation could spread quickly through a population, far more quickly than a mutation could spread by normal Mendelian inheritance. Further, the spread of the mutation through the population would be by an internal mechanism, and thus owe nothing to natural selection. Although still a controversial idea and requiring further documentation [51], molecular drive could be an important factor in speciation. Lamarckism, the theory that characteristics acquired by an individual in response ...
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