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114 pages of results. 371. On Saturn At the North Pole [Journals] [Aeon]
... based upon them is therefore worthless. If we're going to test the model, let's test the model, not something else. * * * Ashton makes some other unsupported claims, such as that my "Philolaos" model (actually, I have not yet even been named!) requires that Earth's orbit should be "an absolutely perfect circle." The model seems to me not to require any "absolutely perfect circle," but Ashton, with no calculation whatsoever, repeatedly claims otherwise. Is even the orbit of Io "an absolutely perfect circle"? To raise just one difficulty here, has Ashton never heard of mass concentrations (" mascons") and their ...
372. KA [Books]
... of Daedalus, put on a linen tunic tied with ribbon, and wore heavy boots. The oracle was on the hillside above a sacred wood. It was surrounded by a circular platform of white stone, the size of a small threshing-floor, about four feet six inches in height. There were bronze posts joined by chains. Inside the circle was a chasm, like a kiln ten feet in diameter, twenty feet deep. The inquirer descended a ladder to a hole at the bottom, and took honey cakes. He was snatched down feet first as though by a river. Inside, some heard sounds, others saw things. He returned feet first, and was put ...
373. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Review]
... diamond surroundings and some halos arise from material with a half-life of only 138 days. Problem fossils Science Frontiers 101 Sep-Oct 95, p. 6, 104 Mar-Apr 96, p. 6 and 105 May-Jun 96, p. 6, New Scientist 29.6 .96, p. 21 Polar bear bones dug up north of the Arctic Circle were carbon dated as at least 42,000 years old. An associated wolf's jaw was not much younger. However the area is supposed to have been buried under ice in the last Ice Age and polar bears are only supposed to have evolved 10,000 years ago. The fossil of a whale standing on its tail has been ...
374. Metals, Salt and Oil [Books] [de Grazia books]
... , about 4200 B.C ., and may be connected to a cosmic explosion that I have in Chaos and Creation assigned to a planet with the legendary traits of Apollo. It is noteworthy that the ancient metal mines of Attica had two favorite names, Artemisiakon and Hermaikon, both siblings of Apollo [20]. John Saul drew circles corresponding to rounded features, possibly ancient exploded craters, on a topographic map of a portion of Arizona. He independently marked the location of mineral deposits on a similar map. When one overlaid the other, there appeared a significant relationship between craters and mines, with the deposits generally occurring on the rims of the circles. One circle ...
375. Ages in Chaos in the Light of C14 Archaeometry [Journals] [Pensee]
... discussed by Professor Libby in his article. For an instructive comparison of the Suess and Pennsylvania laboratory treering calibrations, see the recent article by Gary A. Wright, "Bristlecone Pine Calibrations of Radiocarbon Dates: Some Examples from the Near, East, " American Journal of Archaeology, 77 (1973), 197. - Ed. Solid circles on the chart represent analyses of samples derived from material having a relatively brief (short-lived) growing span, i.e ., reeds, straw, seeds, nut shells, cloth, etc. Normally, these should provide dates that are closer to the true historical age than samples obtained from material having a comparatively long-growing lifespan, ...
376. Making Moonshine with Hard Science [Books] [de Grazia books]
... presupposes precise knowledge of the length of the lunar month as well as of the solar (tropical) year of 365.2421988 days, to the second-decimal accuracy at least." He then claimed that such evolved knowledge would have taken observation of so long a period of regular celestial motions that no catastrophe could have occurred, as the Velikovsky circle believed, in the seventh or eighth centuries. The present writer addressed an ironical reply to these ideas in a related journal. A comment on Irving Michelson's column "Scientifically Speaking..." With all due respect to Professor Michelson, I cannot understand the rationale behind Pensée's having allowed him (or anyone else for that matter) ...
377. Cataclysms of the Earth [Books]
... . As the prehistoric ice caps grew larger, they tended to throw the rotating planet off balance because of the wobble of the earth, causing the earth to roll around sideways to its direction of rotation. Another analogy will make this clear. When you place a weight at the end of a string and then rotate the string in a circle, the weighted end of the string rises to a horizontal plane. Now, imagine yourself and the string as the earth, the weight at the end of the string as the weight of a growing ice cap, and imagine that, instead of intentionally swinging the weighted string, the rotational motion encompasses you, the string and the ...
378. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... against it and had their Cardiff Manifesto' published in Nature. Another astronomer, Robert Kurucz, says that cosmologists are too conservative and should be more open to non-standard ideas about the Universe .. .the standard big bang model is based on a circular argument, and difficulties with that model stem from a failure to break out of the circle. ' Meanwhile scientists trying to shore up the theory are now resorting to ideas of variable gravity to explain some of their many problems. Or Black Holes?New Scientist 16.3 .91, pp. 33 and 43-47 Astronomers still cannot explain quasar jets and the enormous power which forms them. Although so much of the language ...
379. Letters [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... on one topic. I still don't know what Mr Andrew thinks of the observations I made in my Protest'. Harry E Mongold, Manhattan, Illinois, USA Ball Lightning Dear Sir, Dr Yoshi-Hiko Ohtsuki (Waseda University, Tokyo) has made ball lightning in a plasma-creation chamber, using strong microwave radiation. As reported in Mutant Ninja Circles' (The Economist, 17th Aug. 1991, pp. 74-5), these plasma balls: - "show some of natural ball lightning's curious quantum gymnastics: movement into wind, a tendency to hover near electrical conductors, and ghostlike passage through non-conducting solids. .. when the balls touch down on a tray of aluminium powder ...
... have even nearly approached the truth. Another effect was the alteration of the earth's axis, for the bulk of the deposit other than water (which in due course found its true level) fell upon a limited area in the north and shifted the axis, accordingly the Poles, to its present somewhat acute angle, thus bringing the Arctic Circle to 23o 28' from the Poles, whereas previous to the catastrophe there is reason to believe it extended not much beyond 10o. The climatic effects, as regards the permanent lessening of warmth, doubtless took time to be felt, but the alteration in axis was felt most acutely in those lands which now lie within or near the ...
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