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119 pages of results. 431. The Etruscans and their Language [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... a sceptre, and appears on an Egyptian sceptre, a scotch for what looked like a monster snake in the sky [1 ]. The Greek pelekus is a sacrificial double axe, and if a link could be established between this and the name Pelasgi', Etruscan history might be headed with the words The axeman cometh'. The electrical fire, or lightning, is in Etruscan ar. It appears in the Etruscan arse verse, an incantation to avert lightning. Latin vertere and severtere mean turn', and turn aside', respectively. At Cortona, this appeal is made to Sethlans, the Etruscan equivalent of Hephaestus, the Greek god of fire. Latin ara ...
432. Death of a Comet: Shoemaker-Levy 9 Hits Jupiter [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... August 1927 by T.E .R . Phillips (British Astronomical Association) and also a 1948 drawing showing two rather nice black spots' on Jupiter. Marsden thinks that comets may hit Jupiter more often than the once in a thousand years estimated by Eugene Shoemaker (New Scientist, 30th July 1994). Then there were some interesting electrical phenomena. Northern lights' were seen by Renée Prange of the French Institute Astrophysique Spatiale, who is a member of the Hubble upper atmosphere imaging team. Ultraviolet images showed glowing streaks in Jupiter's northern hemisphere which appeared as almost mirror images of glows from the impact site of fragment G' in the southern hemisphere. According to Dr Prange ...
... have looked back to it as to an abode of unearthly and preternatural effulgence, a home fit for the occupancy of gods and holy immortals. 7. Finally, assuming the prevalence of an equable tropical temperature, we find the biological conditions of the region such as the extraordinary prevalence of daylight, the intenser terrestrial magnetism, and the unparalleled electric forces which feed the Northern Lights all combining to raise a high probability that if ever such a land as we have supposed existed, it must have presented forms of life surpassing those with which we are familiar; a flora and fauna of almost unimagined vigor and luxuriance of development. Under such conditions men themselves may well have had a ...
434. Letters [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... fierce and terrible, though at a distance, and but just perceivable' (I assume that it is the comet which is only just perceivable). Laurence deduces from this that, for sound to be heard, part of the comet must have intersected the atmosphere. Could there be another explanation? Laurence does not consider the possibility of electrical interactions of Earth with any passing bodies; Earth's auroras are a phenomenon which requires no actual, physical connection with a passing body, but their electrical nature often causes them to be audible. Is it possible that approaching comets, asteroids or meteorites are electrically charged and can interact with Earth's field to cause aurora-like phenomena? Jill Abery, ...
435. Catastrophism and the Mammoths - I (Vox Populi) [Journals] [Kronos]
... pp. 13-31). The hypothesis is offered as an alternative to my own hypothesis of circularization by aerodynamic drag (KRONOS VII:2 , pp. 3-28). Crew has developed a very interesting computer program. Unfortunately, several objections can be raised against the input data he has used to support his hypothesis. When estimating the Sun's electric charge, Crew refers to two of his own works, one from 1977, the other from 1981. In the paper from 1977, the only one available to me at the moment, he proves that radiation pressure can yield a maximum voltage gradient of 1.67 x 105 V/m (a value reached if all particles ...
436. Megaliths, Moon Cycles, and Movements of the Earth [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... prior to an earthquake have been described by Tributsch.(13) There is a case for supposing that various unexplained light phenomena, such as UFOs, may be productions of such geological stress conditions and that stone circles were built on particularly vulnerable areas.(14) The catastrophic effects of earthquakes or the frightening inexplicability of lights or other electrical effects would certainly merit concerted efforts of prediction and propitiation. This always supposes that at the time of building, generally estimated at between about 2000-1500 BC, the lunar cycle was as now - which does not fit in with Velikovskian catastrophism. However, there is a strong possibility that the Earth suffered a cosmic catastrophe immediately before the building ...
437. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Review]
... .98 The three faint rings round Jupiter are now thought to consist of dust from its moons, which slowly spirals down into the gas giant's atmosphere. Domes on the icy surface of Europa are thought to form where warmer ice rises from a deep liquid ocean below and Callisto may also have an underground ocean, as indicated by an induced electric field from Jupiter itself which could only form in a conducting layer such as seawater. Pictures of Ganymede show what appears to be a chain of 13 craters. A wet or a dry Moon?Scientific American May 98, pp. 15-16, New Scientist 29.8 .98, p. 21, 12.9 .98 ...
438. The Celestial Ship of North Vol II [Books]
... his symbols are upon the earth," and "This is the divine light that none may look upon in the flesh and live, Immortal, Invisible, Intolerable to mental eye." "The Spirit beyond manifested Nature is the fiery breath in its absolute Unity. In the manifested Universe, it is the Central Spiritual Sun, the electric Fire of all Life. In our System it is the visible Sun, the Spirit of nature, the terrestrial god. And in, on, and around the Earth, the fiery Spirit there of-air, fluidic fire; water, liquid fire; Earth, solid fire. All is Fire."2 Fire is the fundamental source ...
439. Ashton's Bedrock of Myth (Forum) [Journals] [Aeon]
... north pole, that "it is not possible that a simply-stated theory could predict all mythical archetypes but be false." To the contrary, systems of thought can be internally consistent yet bear no resemblance to physical reality. Coherence is no guarantor of truth. Since conventional physics preclude any such arrangement, Velikovskians have adopted the plasma theoretic "electric universe" model, propounded in the 1970s by Ralph Juergens, as a deus ex machina. Supposedly, the Sun is an electric discharge powered by an influx of electrons. Based largely on various analogies, this "theory" has no quantitative basis and, despite all the hand waving, is disproved by everything known about the Sun's ...
440. More on the Thermal Aspects of Venus [Journals] [Kronos]
... strains the bounds of credulity to suggest (as do Keister and Hamilton) that a Jovian close encounter, by an ice-encrusted wanderer, could initiate the physical processes necessary to sustain the kind of fiery display seen and reported by the ancients so many centuries, even millennia, after Venus' birth; (b ) In their speculations about the electric field generating potential for a proto-Venus/Jovian encounter Keister and Hamilton neglected the fact that a body moving past Jupiter toward the Sun, at their posited 50 km/sec, would be traveling at hyperbolic velocity. As such, it would escape the Solar System because, at Jupiter's orbit, escape velocity from the Sun is only about ...
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