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35 pages of results. 201. Thoth Vol I, No. 1: January 25, 1997 [Journals] [Thoth]
... . Robert Bass unveiled new orbital dynamic material produced by his own orery program and showed himself to be a one-man library of references to current applicable research, keeping the other speakers busy taking notes during the day-after meeting. And Ted Holden, our curmudgeon cum laude, presented an update of his compelling material on the impossibility of sauropod (big dinosaurs) scaling in earth's present gravity. Paleontologist Robert Dunlap showed clips from 4 of his video productions about extinctions and meteor craters and after some some prompting & cajoling, managed to get a handle on Ted Holden's compelling sauropod scaling argument. C. J. Ransom provided much needed comic relief with his witticisms and ironies regarding basic resistance to ...
202. Saturn's Flare-ups [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... at least three disruptions and not just two.(16) I mention this here because if ancient man remembers three Saturnian catastrophes, there is a possibility that further Saturnian disasters had occurred prior to the advent of humankind itself. And therein might lie the answer to the great extinctions of life at the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary and the annihilation of the dinosaurs with which the pages of Workshop have rightly been concerned these many past issues. It is heartening to see that Eggleton has discarded the notion that the planet Jupiter was ejected from Saturn, a supposition that was accepted by Tresman and O'Gheoghan,(17) and one that is still unfortunately adhered to by Alfred de Grazia.(18 ...
203. Global Catastrophes: New Evidence from Astronomy, Biology and Archaeology [Journals] [SIS Review]
... impact catastrophes could not only directly produce extinctions but also trigger the kind of rapid tectonic events that would be likely to disturb ecosystems. Dr Palmer indicated that the records of replacements showed that the gradualistic view of inferior types being replaced by ever more complex and superior species was erroneous. At the time of the Cretaceous/Tertiary extinctions, the dinosaurs were at the peak of their adaptive radiation and it took millions of years for the few primitive animals which replaced them to equal their development. The mammals which replaced them appear to have survived simply because they were small, and mass extinctions are important for opening gaps into which chance survivors can radiate. He finished with a coup de ...
204. Sir Fred Hoyle Vindicated After 60 Years [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... and the vast interstellar medium of space, which should help the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) prepare Voyager 1. The battery-operated vehicle is running out of power, Zank notes. To make the most of its instruments, NASA researchers must conserve energy, by switching systems on and off. Did a rogue cloud wipe out the dinosaurs? In 1939, British cosmologist Sir Fred Hoyle suggested that cosmic collisions with clouds may obliterate the heliosphere every now and then. Zank agrees. "The protective solar wind would be extinguished, and cosmic radiation might lead to gene mutations," he says. "Hydrogen would bombard Earth, producing increased cloud cover, leading perhaps to ...
205. Comets, Meteorites and Earth History [Journals] [SIS Review]
... simpler structures by natural selection, there had been very little time for this to happen between the ending of the bombardment and the appearance of living cells. Possibly he underestimates the ability of complex structures, including partially-formed cells, to have existed on Earth during the period of heavy bombardment - after all, bacteria can thrive in conditions where neither dinosaurs nor humans would stand a chance - but that is supposition. So, Wickramasinghe could well have been right when he said that living organisms were arriving constantly from space, and they colonised Earth as soon as conditions permitted. That, when all is said and done, would be consistent with Pasteur's dictum that life can only come from ...
206. Annotated Bibliography for Catastrophism [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... formerly an independent planet, was captured by the earth around 11,500 years ago as Luna spiralled in towards the sun. Kelly, Allan O. and Dachille, Frank. Target: earth: the role of large meteors in earth science. Pensacola Engraving Co., Pensacola, FLorida, 1953. Kelly and Dachille suggest that the dinosaurs were wiped out by the environmental consequences of a major impact event, predating the famous 1980 Alvarez et al paper by twenty-seven years. Radlof, Johann Gottlieb. Zertrummerung der grossen Planeten Hesperus und Phaethon und die darauf folgenden Zerstorungen und Ueberflutungen auf der Erde; nebst neuen Aufschlussen uber die Mythensprache der alten Volker. G. Reimer, Berlin ...
207. Velikovsky: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow [Journals] [SIS Review]
... the list of theories about recent catastrophes grows longer (When the Earth Nearly Died [3 ] compiles an impressive array of data.) 2. The idea that global catastrophes can be caused by extraterrestrial agents' received a mighty boost from Luis Alvarez, who showed that the impact of an asteroid was largely responsible for the extinction of the dinosaurs. Such ideas are now acceptable, provided they deal with extraterrestrial agents' and catastrophes in the distant past. 3. Can these agents really be identified? This is the weakest of Velikovsky's cornerstones. Was it Venus? Mars? Saturn? None of the above? We may never figure out which planet or comet did what to ...
208. The Lately Tortured Earth [Books] [de Grazia books]
... This will become quite clear as the panorama of scientific materials and methods begins to unfold in the following pages. I hope to be regarded as an honest amateur, although I am professionally aware of the tricks that the unconscious underground mind can play upon an otherwise sincere scientist. There is no Piltdown Man fraud here, probably no wrong-headed Yale dinosaur, perhaps just plain errors, inadvertent omissions and foolhardiness, which I hope will be promptly discovered and publicized. Isaac Newton, says a careful student of his work, fudged the members of one equation to improve its numbers for his proposition on the precession of the equinoxes; he manipulated averages in using the Moon's distance from the Earth ...
209. The Science of Catastrophism [Articles]
... psychological past. Victor Clube and Tom Van Flandern on astronomy, Roger Wescott on anthropology and linguistics, Bill Mullen on classical language and literature, Nancy Owen on ancient Mesoamerican cosmology, Eric Miller on ancient Chinese cosmology, Henry Bauer on the history of science, Richard Heinberg on folklore, Vine Deloria on Amerindian myth, Ted Holden on the dinosaurs, Lynn Rose on calendrics, Gunnar Heinsohn on ancient history and stratigraphy, Ev Cochrane and David Talbott and Dwardu Cardona on myth, Robert Grubaugh and Wallace Thornhill and Charles Ginenthal and Donald Patten on the physical sciences, Duane Vorhees on cultural history and myself on literature and ideology, will give you some idea of how many different disciplines ...
210. Remarks from the Portland Symposium 3-5 Jan 1997 [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... and after some prompting and cajoling, managed to get a handle on Ted Holden's sauropod scaling argument. C. J. Ransom provided much needed comic relief with his witticisms and ironies regarding basic resistance to Velikovskian catastrophism. And it was generally agreed at the Monday meeting that Roger Wescott's suggestion that the term "catastrophism" is itself an oversized dinosaur and should be replaced with "catastrophics" was a good one, as we should conceive ourselves less as an ideology and more as a discipline. 7 Jan 1997, Walter Alter It occurred to me that the electrical scarring issue is the ideal focal point of a catastrophist challenge to traditional theories of planetary evolution. I proposed to a ...
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