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... From: The Mysterious Comet by Comyns Beaumont CD Home | Contents Part Three: Volcanic Powers And Limitations VII - The "drift" Mystery Cleared IN everything that has gone before I have endeavoured to prove by actual examples and the ensuing deductions the enormous debt our world owes to comets and meteors, themselves particles of comets great or small. When I use the word "debt" I am not thinking necessarily of the convenience of our crowded humanity in the world of to-day. To us the effect of these bodies great or small leads to tragic sufferings, to enormous financial losses, and to inclement weather. Yet, if this inter-planetary contact were to be non-existent there can ...
322. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... movements over the last 3500 years will have disturbed the original inclination in this seismically active region. Demise of Nemesis?source: NATURE 311, p.635 We reported in WORKSHOP 6:1 , pp.3-5 on the theoretical "death star" Nemesis, a postulated companion to our Sun, whose interaction with the Oort cloud of comets might cause periodic havoc in the Solar System. Now NATURE seems to have backed down on the idea. New calculations show that the orbit of Nemesis would not be stable, the cometary orbits do not fit, and the palaeontological record of major extinctions does not show the right periodicity! Another Iridium Extinction source: SCIENCE 226, p ...
323. Letters [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... 20th Dynasty. Might 30 year generations be a more appropriate calculation: viz., the reigns of kings as opposed to generations connected with tenures in high office such as High Priest etc., in which a figure nearer 20 years may be postulated? Perhaps David will comment on this. Phillip Clapham, High Wycombe, Bucks. Halley's Comet Predictions Dear Sir, In the October 1985 issue of Southern Cross, the journal of the Canberra Astronomical Society, I had an article published dealing with the electrical nature of cometary phenomena, with Ralph Juergens's ideas firmly in mind but unmentioned. Instead I drew attention to an article in the Scientific American for July 27, 1872, entitled ...
324. Enheduanna and the Goddess Inanna [Journals] [SIS Review]
... be related phenomena: the venom caused the vegetation to cease' and the blood caused the waters to become undrinkable. They can be explained in terms of a sky-borne pollutant with a red colour. This is not an unreasonable assumption: high concentrations of rare earth metals are to be found in geological strata associated with presumed impacts of meteorites or comets [39]. The vivid nature of Enheduanna's description is most readily explained by the cosmic missile hypothesis'. A number of significant details are accounted for, including why Enheduanna complains that the moon god Nanna is indifferent and ineffective in coming to her aid, and why she prefers the more active' astral body, Inanna. Figure ...
325. Letters [Journals] [SIS Review]
... for it that is wrong. It remains to be seen whether the 0.1 itself is wrong. Presumably it is but that will have to be decided on other grounds and in some other context. Lynn E. Rose, Solana Beach, California Configuratively speaking I have written before about the inadequacy of interpreting myths only in terms of comets and meteors ( 'Comets or Configuration', C&CR 1996:1 , p. 64). In the same issue (p . 33), Phillip Clapham had a short item entitled The Eloquent Talking Head of Bran', where he presents much interesting myth about heads. He interprets these as cometary heads, despite ...
326. On the Circularization of the Orbit of Venus [Journals] [Kronos]
... orbit of Venus substantially in a period of a few hundred years. This is demonstrated by numerical calculations, using a theoretical model for the gas cloud. The effects of the gas on electric and magnetic fields in space are also discussed. Velikovsky's reconstruction of ancient astronomical events requires that the orbit of Venus, originally elliptic like that of a comet of the Jovian family, became circular in a period of a few thousand years. Most astronomers refuse to believe that such a thing is possible. For a bibliography of works dealing with the problem (1977 and older), see Ref. 1. A more recent contribution to the discussion was written by Sherrerd.(2 ) ...
327. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... "I know that the available scientific evidence points inexorably to wanton extinctions, but I can't say that in my position." His final intriguing hunch is that: "once freed from the conventional view that extinction is a gradual, impossibly complex process, we will find other mechanisms as good as, or better than, the impact of comets and asteroids." What mechanism can he have in mind? Has he been reading (re-reading) Earth in Upheaval? Symonds on "A fitter theory of evolution" is less speculative. He summarises the results of experiments with the bacterium E. coli which show it mutating in both a random and also a seemingly non-random (hence ...
328. Physics, Astronomy and Chronology [Journals] [SIS Review]
... of the general revision of ancient history advocated by Dr Velikovsky. There was a general feeling, however, that a more rigorous re-examination of the other synchronisms in Ages in Chaos was in order in the light of Dr Bimson's conclusions. Dr Victor Clube: "Velikovsky, it seems to me, is utterly right in emphasising the menace that comets carried. .. . the idea of the Bronze Age as a world where danger was ever present in the sky I find exceedingly consistent with the kind of evidence that Velikovsky in particular has put before us, as present in mythology." The second speaker, Dr Victor Clube, is a Senior Principal Scientific Officer (formerly Assistant ...
329. Focus [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... of Israel 40 years in the wilderness. Immediately we are provided with a piece of disinformation in Sagan's claim that the manna fall lasted for 2000 years according to Velikovsky. But assuming that a layer one inch thick fell over the entire earth every day for 40 years, a body whose mass exceeded that of Jupiter (out of which the comet was supposed to have been formed) would have been required. Poor Gribbin - taken in by the Sagan method! First he concentrates on the field in which he is not an expert, then he provides some disinformation, then he makes some dubious assumptions, then he presents the calculations (Sagan is no expert at calculations, as ...
330. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Review]
... collision. The only one to be forecast as a danger at the moment is asteroid 1950DA which has a 1 in 300 chance of hitting Earth in 2800! On the other hand, on the 18th March, an asteroid gave Earth a near-miss when it passed within one tenth of the distance to the Moon. The large number of short-period comets present a mystery as they cannot, apparently, come from the Oort Cloud at the far fringes of the solar system, and a recent survey of the nearer Kuiper Belt region has found only 4% of the number of objects there should be if the comets originate from there. Are some large objects comets or planets? 2004DW, ...
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