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144 pages of results. 691. The Avebury Cycle by Michael Dames [Journals] [SIS Review]
... sighted towards Spica in the constellation of Virgo (the Virgin) and to the Pleiades. According to Professor North, prehistoric Europeans aligned their monuments towards the stars but towards the end of the third millennium BC the focus shifted towards alignments that involved the sun and the moon. This curious fact coincides remarkably with the estimated disappearance of the goddess comet. From around this time, meteoric material, the remains of a defunct god (or comet), arrived abruptly and unexpectedly as there was no visible apparition to mark its periodic forays. In Clube & Napier's theory, the Taurid meteor streams impinged upon the atmosphere annually in June and in November. Alignments of sites towards samhain and ...
692. Letters [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... D. MacKinnon, Glastonbury Re: "Lifecloud" by Sir Fred Hoyle & N. C. Wickramasinghe Dear Sir, I write as a layman seeking enlightenment. Leaving aside the points brought out by T. Palmer (Bookshelf, SISR IV:4 ), I found myself stumbling over the following: (p . 19) "Comets are probably derived from a reservoir of bodies which surround the whole of our planetary system out to a distance of one tenth of a light year." Question: What evidence is there of this? (H & W give none.) "Kilometre-sized cometary nuclei with an icy composition are thought to plunge from time to time into ...
... in the past that deserves attention; rather, Boulanger's distinction lies in his contemplating the consequences of such upheavals for the human race. The idea of catastrophic events in the past was already to be found in the writings of William Whiston, successor to Isaac Newton in Trinity College, Cambridge, who claimed that the Deluge was caused by a comet that returned in his own time, in 1680; again, Georges Louis de Buffon, Boulanger's contemporary, thought that a massive comet hit the Sun and caused the origin of the planetary family; and after Boulanger's time the scientific thought of the eighteenth century and the first half of the nineteenth again and again sought the cause of the ...
694. Problems of Electricity in Astronomy [Journals] [SIS Review]
... ice lump may fall to the ground There are many such cases reported and even stones may have been formed when the lightning is in clouds of volcanic or other dust. (2 ) A similar process to (1 ) may cause much larger bodies to form in the extensive atmosphere of Jupiter and these could be ejected into solar orbit as comets. (3 ) If a charged body B (such as a large comet) approaches a planet A which has an atmosphere, opposite charges are induced and the atmosphere will be pulled out towards B. This increases the voltage gradient between B and the extended atmosphere very rapidly and violent discharges may take place even though the two bodies ...
695. The Threat. File II (Stargazers and Gravediggers) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Stargazers]
... as described in my book was fulfilled with a speed I had not expected. Only four months later, in the October 1950 issue of the Astronomical Journal, appeared a paper by Dr. Whipple in which he, on the basis of computations, postulated worlds in collision only 1,500 and 4,700 years ago, when a comet collided with and disrupted the planetoids that revolve by the thousands between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. Cosmic catastrophes in the neighborhood of the earth disrupting the cosmic order in historical times were solemnly characterized as rubbish; recent changes in the constitution of the solar system, as nonsense. But Whipple calculated from the orbits of the planetoids and ...
696. Sea Level Changes [Journals] [SIS Review]
... - but why? What is or was the force exerted on the crust to cause the plates to slide apart and tear the land asunder? This is catastrophism captured in a broken mould, mute testimony of paroxysms in nature - but is it evidence of internal pressures in the earth, or is there a cosmic dimension? A piece of comet hitting one part of the earth could have caused volcanism and earthquakes in other parts and possibly even crustal movements. In other words, worms and dragons (comets and meteors) may have influenced plate movements as recently as the 6th century AD. Rising sea level in the North Sea, originally the flood plain of the river Rhine and ...
697. The AAAS Is Alerted To Act. File II (Stargazers and Gravediggers) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Stargazers]
... and negative, and what all this means. We should explain that it takes energy to separate ordinary matter into its constituent charges, and that, unless there is a continued flow of adequate energy or isolation in space, these constituents will recombine. As a result large electrostatic charges are possible in highly dispersed matter such as galactic nebulae, comets' tails, coronae, and stellar prominences; and a smaller electrostatic charge is reasonable for massive hot bodies such as the sun, but large cold bodies will necessarily be close to electrostatic neutrality. In this passage are two of the most amazing statements I have come across during the entire controversy. If it is admitted that comets' ...
698. Bookshelf [Journals] [SIS Review]
... end of the section on "The Law of Conservation of Energy" we surprisingly find a Velikovskian problem. Less surprisingly, we find that it embodies yet more total misrepresentation of Velikovsky's theories. It is stated: ". . . Immanuel Velikovsky maintains that at about 1500 BC the planet Jupiter ejected material which, in the form of a comet, passed close to the earth; that the subsequent shower of meteorites falling on the earth stopped its rotation, at least for a short time; that the comet itself eventually turned into the planet Venus; and that later, in 747 BC and again in 687 BC, Mars caused a repetition of the earlier catastrophes on a smaller ...
699. Venus and Mars [Books] [de Grazia books]
... venture close enough to Earth to endanger it and cause electrical damage. Until then, it may have threatened the Earth about every 52 years. During a seven hundred year period both the Jews and the Meso-Americans observed a great "Jubilee year" on those occasions; the inference from the holiday is that the proto-planet, still behaving as a comet and undergoing continuous electrical transaction, was due to arrive in the vicinity of Earth but prayerfully would design not to destroy the world. It is significant, as one of numerous details in the Venus mosaic, that the American Pawnee Indians until a century ago celebrated a Venus festival on each occasion of the reappearance of Venus, sacrificing a ...
700. Pyramids of Tucume, The quest for Peru's forgotten city, by Thor Heyerdahl, Daniel H. Sandweiss and Alfredo Narvaez [Journals] [SIS Review]
... the benefits of civilisation to the Americas many years before them, assumed they had been visited by a white man, a great teacher. However, humans are not white. They might be pale in comparison with the skin colouring of other peoples but they are not white. Light is WHITE .. .. . at night, and comets are invariably white (as Comet Hale Bopp has shown). Phillip Clapham \cdrom\pubs\journals\review\v1997n1\49peru.htm ...
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