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... only in one continent, were formerly common to both. The question is what circumstances combined to cause the musk-ox and Irish elk to become extinct in Europe, the mammoth on both sides, "the simultaneous disappearance over vast areas of whole communities," to quote Suess? The frozen body of an antelope has been found within the arctic circle and death had been so sudden that the food in its stomach was not digested.* * Major J. Samuels, V.0 ., in Chambers's Journal, February, 1918. 156. This visitation was sudden as the evidence of the antelope suggests. It was not only sudden in the sense that the animal had not ...
272. Did Jupiter Give Birth to Uranus & Neptune? [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... highly chaotic orbits for a few hundred thousand years after which they settled down and gradually migrated to their present, nearly circular orbits. Stable orbits Another group of scientists, also writing in Nature, from the University of Toronto, have simulated how planets such as Jupiter may have formed in the first place. They found that gas and dust circling the early Sun that starts to accumulate to form a proto-Jupiter creates a spiral density pattern in the surrounding disk material. The proto-planet accretes mass rapidly through the spiral arms but when the planetary mass reaches four-to-five-times Jupiter's mass, the disk rapidly fragments into smaller proto-planets. Over hundreds of thousands, or millions of years the proto-Uranus and proto-Neptune would ...
273. How the Gods Fly [Books] [de Grazia books]
... to the reality, of vision of bodies in outer space, remains to be seen. Although the best of ancient astronomers struggled to actuate the apparent frame in their observations and calculations, still the Phaeacians may have carried an astronomical sense from extremely ancient times. That the Earth is round has been discovered and forgotten several times. The measured circle of the dance and the Coda Dance of the Purple Ball are suggestive of many early theories of the vault and dome of heaven. The problem is that of translating apparent motion into acceptable and probable real motions. If one cannot offer an explanation of the movement of the scenario that is respectable, even if controversial, as a working ...
274. Heinsohn, Velikovsky and the Revised Chronology [Journals] [Aeon]
... , and a blatant one, considering it came from a psychoanalyst. Some aspect of his revised chronology was plainly troubling Velikovsky. The hostile reception given to Ramses II deepened my doubts that he'd untied the knot of history. The issue would be decided by volume four, The Assyrian Conquest. Then we'd see if he'd succeed in closing the circle. Velikovsky died in 1979. The final volume was never published. The circle remained unclosed. In the years that followed, I devoted most of my energy to research in the "dark age" of Greece, and to keeping track of all the latest re-re-re-re-revisions of the revised chronology. From England to California, kings and dynasties ...
275. Arctic Muck [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... : "Frozen soil, as diametrically opposed to ice on the one hand, and rock on the other, constitutes one of the greatest mysteries on our Earth's surface. What is more, it covers no less than one seventh of the land surface of the earth, and all of it encircles the Arctic Ocean and lies within the Arctic Circle at what we consider the top side of our planet .. .. When this frozen soil melts, it results in an appalling and often stinking sort of soup composed of goo with silt, sand, pebbles, and boulders, often with masses of preserved, semi-decayed, or fully decayed vegetable and animal matter. This is what ...
276. Orbital Changes [Books]
... an axis, is the angle run over by a radius in a plane perpendicular to the axis of rotation in a given time. The unit of angular velocity is the radian per second: it corresponds to the angle, subtending an arc equal to the length of the radius, run over in one second. As the length of the circle measures 2.Pi.R (R = radius), there are 2Pi radians in a circle and 1 radian = 57 17' 44". The angular velocity of a body is often also measured in revolutions per second. 7. The study of the shift has been the subject of a communication published by the present author ...
277. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... 82; The Mail on Sanday 11.7 .82 We have been sent these various cuttings of book reviews of Clube & Napier's The Cosmic Serpent, and, in all respects, these are "rave" reviews. This may seem somewhat surprising because this is a book about full-blooded catastrophism, and although catastrophism is currently fashionable in scientific circles, nobody has taken it quite to this extent recently. But, then, you know, Worlds in Collision was a best seller. This book, at first sight, appears to have many of the ingredients of Worlds in Collision and Ages in Chaos, so perhaps it was expected to be a best seller, too. Disappointingly ...
278. Newton And Historical Science [Journals] [Kronos]
... textbook of history points out that Newton's astronomy precipitated a religious revolution. Newton was perfectly aware that he had expounded the religious view that was called "natural religion agreeing with revealed". The new religion was called theism and its Nicene Creed was the General Scholium of the Principia: "The six primary planets are revolved about the Sun in circles concentric with the Sun, and with motions directed towards the same parts, and almost in the same plane. Ten moons are revolved about the earth, Jupiter, and Saturn, in circles concentric with them, with the same direction of motion, and nearly in the planes of orbits of those planets; but it is not to ...
279. O-Kee-Pa: Catastrophe Myths and Rituals of the North American Mandan Indians [Journals] [SIS Review]
... surrounded his mouth, and white rings surrounded his eyes. This monster was called O-Ke-hee-de, the Evil Spirit. According to Maximilian [17], he was painted black, with white teeth painted around his mouth; a red disk on his stomach represented the sun; a red crescent on his back represented the moon; dozens of white circles on the body, limbs, and head represented the stars'. The cosmic demon carried a sort of wand or rod with a red ball at the end of it which he slid upon the ground as he ran. Small children had been told that this terrible creature ate people, since he came from the sun, so they ...
280. Racial Memory and Instinct: The Case of the Honeyguide [Journals] [Aeon]
... their arrival at the colony." (4 ) Upon arriving at the site of the bees' nest, the honeyguide perches near it and emits a very characteristic "indication" call. By all accounts, this call differs markedly from the guiding call. Should the Boran experience difficulty in locating the colony, the bird swoops down and circles it as if to further clarify the precise location of the nest. (5 ) Once the nest is found and its thick walls breached, the Boran plunder the honeycombs, always leaving a few select morsels behind for the honeyguide. (6 ) Although countless examples of cooperative behavior are known from the annals of naturalists and nature lovers ...
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