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119 pages of results. 951. Mulholland: "A Celestial Mechanician Whose Name is Almost Synonymous with High Precision" [Journals] [Kronos]
... tried to answer for himself. MULHOLLAND: I would like to reply to the last question. I think, [laughter] I think two examples that can be brought to answer that question are the discovery of mass concentrations on the Moon and the internal heat in the Moon, which have both thrown the discussions of the history, the evolution of the Moon, into a state of extreme excitement, and [have] totally rejuvenated the entire subject. [applause] After a final question to Storer and Storer's answer, Velikovsky was recognized. VELIKOVSKY: I wish to ask Professor Mulholland whether he knows who was the first to claim, in time, a steep thermal gradient ...
952. Thoth Vol V, No 9: August 15, 2001 [Journals] [Thoth]
... , Bruce's model of the cell seems to be analogous to his model of the brain, which in turn appear to be analogous to the Gaia hypothesis of the Earth [see also "The Same at Every Level" at http://www.flatrock.org.nz/resources/science_and_geography/fractal_evolution.htm ] 3. Evidence I'm sure many people have found the Saturn Model compelling (the mythological evidence is overwhelming), but aspects of it difficult to reconcile. The collinear nature of the Earth-Mars- Venus-Saturn system being a case in point; the system appears to be inherently unstable, so how could it possibly have existed in ...
953. Cataclysms of the Earth [Books]
... epochs. We uncover animal and plant fossils and by their depth and placement can construct a chronology of prehistoric life. The movement of the rivers carving out new beds and the pounding of the oceans on their shores all remind us of the endless motion of the land and seas. These, however, are but the surface phenomena of the evolution of our globe. Rarely do we speculate on the forces constantly reforming the planet as a whole; rarely do we speculate on the nature and the effects of major upheavals and cataclysms that, on a larger scale, have characterized the history of the earth. We are all aware of the great stone book that is our earth, ...
954. Cosmology And PsychologyY [Journals] [Kronos]
... 27) Further, Jung declared that "the unconscious is older than . . . consciousness. It is the primal datum' out of which consciousness ever arises afresh [and] the unconscious manifests itself as though it were outside space and time."(28) Moreover, "the collective unconscious contains the whole spiritual heritage of mankind's evolution born anew in the brain structure of every individual."(29) Finally, "the collective unconscious is made up of contents which, regardless of historic era or social or ethnic group, are the deposit of mankind's typical reactions since primordial times to universal human situations such as fear, danger, the struggle against superior power . ...
955. Catastrophism and the Compulsion to Meaning [Articles]
... our species by sheer accident. "We are descendants of survivors, themselves descendants of survivors," he states laconically in the last paragraph of "Earth in Upheavel". And yet the same last pages of that book provide the notion by which this appearance of randomness might be controverted. It concludes by proposing the possibility of "cataclysmic evolution", that is, the massive generation of new species through mutation under catastrophic circumstances. From this hint it is difficult not to extrapolate the possibility that man himself was "created", i.e . differentiated as a species, by such mutation. It then requires only an appeal to the natural narcissism of our species to ...
956. The Determinants of Scientific Behaviour [Journals] [SIS Review]
... behave according to a set of social norms. These include such things as disinterestedness, emotional neutrality, and organised scepticism (Merton, 1942; Barber, 1952; Storer, 1966). These norms, it is said, are the precondition for the efficient operation of science as we know it, and are also the result of the evolution of scientific practice in those societies in which this practice has best been able to flourish. The explanation using norms has become more difficult to maintain in recent years, as studies have shown more and more convincingly that scientists just do not behave in practice anything like they are supposed to in theory. The challenge to the functionalist description of ...
957. Comets in Perspective: What the Comet Halley probes tell us [Journals] [Horus]
... own century, the Tunguska meteor impact was caused by a volatile body whose pre-impact orbit was consistent with its having been a piece of Comet Encke. Comets have been observed falling into the Sun as well, as recently as 1979. The frequency with which comets and large meteors have impacted the Earth is an important question for theories of biological evolution and perhaps human psychosocial development. Historically, people have feared comets intensely. What reason, dim in human history, is responsible for this seemingly irrational response? This space-probe photograph of Halley's comet was taken on March 14, 1986 at 00:06 UTC from a distance of about 18,000 km. the Sun illuminates the comet ...
958. Venus and Sirius: Some Unexpected Similarities [Journals] [Kronos]
... to back up this claim: "Ancient references to the color of Sirius [abound] . Explicit namings of red span a millennium, from a Babylonian cuneiform text to the Greek astronomer Ptolemy. All seem agreed that the Dog Star is red, but this is distressing, for the star is blue-white today, and modern theories of stellar evolution cannot account for it being a different color in historical times."(15) SIRIUS AS DOG Sirius, the brightest star in the sky, and Venus, the brightest planet; both are referred to as "red", contrary to what might be expected, and both share another attribute, linkage to the dog. Sirius ...
959. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... conclusion that 11 such major eruptions during the last 250 Myrs coincided with mass extinctions and clusters of impact craters. Hot spots' are sites of impacts where the crust has been thinned. Their conclusion makes interesting reading: - "geological changes are triggered by extra-terrestrial impacts .. . [which] may constitute one of the driving forces of evolution. The conventional pressures of Darwinian selection are temporarily overridden by species that have, by chance, survived the crises. " We catastrophists been saying similar things for years! c). Yet another terminal Cretaceous catastrophe' is presented by Peter Schultz of Brown University. His idea is that the dinosaurs could have been killed off over hundreds ...
960. Thoth Vol IV, No 11: July 15, 2000 [Journals] [Thoth]
... of Ireland. If this is true, they are not two separate traditions. On the other hand, I cannot think of a similar "labyrinthic" symbol in Scandinavia before that time. If this is also correct, why did the symbol only turn up so many millennia after the event? Dave Talbott responds: That kind of erratic evolution is typical of the fragmentation and diffusion of symbols. And where particular symbolic styles emerge in later times as if from nowhere, it is usually the case that they were imported. Symbolic knotwork design is probably as good an example as any. But here it's crucial to distinguish between the symbol (knotwork in this case) and the ...
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