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63 pages of results. 521. Thoth Vol III, No. 1: Jan 15, 1999 [Journals] [Thoth]
... OF EJECTION AND TRANSPORT If it is generally agreed that the SNCs are indeed from Mars, the means of their ejection off our red neighbor and transport to Earth has been a subject of much speculation and controversy. As noted earlier, leading authorities question whether it is possible for an impact to dislodge appropriate-sized rocks with enough force to overcome the gravity of the planet. Here Wasson offered the following observation: "The key unresolved question is whether an impact could eject 10-m blocks from Mars with velocities in excess of the escape velocity of 5 km times s^ -1." McSween, similarly, with reference to the prevailing view that the SNCs originated from Mars, observes that ...
522. Catastrophes and the History of Life on Earth [Journals] [SIS Review]
... hypothetical electrostatic interactions, in line with Velikovsky's suggestion on the penultimate page of Worlds in Collision, could reconcile the current orbit of Venus with the Velikovskian scenario [6 ] According to Thornhill, writing in C&CR 1998:2 , pp. 11-15, the only way out was to argue that our present understanding of the nature of gravity must be wrong. He continued, It is time to re-examine those "laws" or long-held beliefs that have diverted scientific curiosity away from uncomfortable questions about the safety of our spaceship Earth. We can no longer afford to deny the possibility that global myths and images of the planetary gods may refer to a frighteningly close-up view of the ...
523. Pterodactyls in the Mesozoic: A Flap in Time [Journals] [Aeon]
... Earth itself. It's been speculated that during the late Paleozoic and early Mesozoic Eras, the Earth was rotating much more rapidly on its axis than it is at present. George Darwin, son of the illustrious Charles, had this happy thought over a century ago. This rapid rotation would have the effect of collecting landmasses of a lighter specific gravity than the underlying magma into a single somewhat equatorial Pangaean continent, if not distributing the continent along the equatorial belt due to centrifugal forces. In effect, the continents are something of a slag floating on the more molten underlying asthenosphere. If most of this expanse was to be exposed above sea level, it would act as a nuclear ...
524. Thoth Vol II, No. 10: June 15, 1998 [Journals] [Thoth]
... re-organize the clutter of ad-hoc explanations in the Establishment Store onto shelves of predictable phenomena. It replaces an empty, lifeless universe with a historical, lightning-filled one. There are things to do: The physics and astronomy of isolated, static particles need to be exchanged for a science of interconnected bodies adapting to a changing, energy-driven environment. (Gravity needs to be replaced.) A new mathematics will be needed to describe the new phenomena. The facts of geology need to be reassembled as ruins instead of as a record. New procedures, equipment, and experiments need to be invented. New applications-new toys-need to be engineered. The story of the past-not only mythology, but history ...
525. Puzzles of Prehistory [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... locomotory viability is ecological. Environmental conditions during the later Mesozoic Era must have been such as to permit gigantic batlike animals to fly. As a catastrophist, it seems to me that there are only two plausible ecological situations which would allow for flight on this scale. One of these is an atmosphere substantially denser than ours; the other is gravity substantially weaker than ours. While it is difficult to choose between these alternatives, it is clear that neither can readily be fitted into a uniformitarian model of gradualistic planetary development. The chief argument used by uniformitarians against the preceding interpretation of strata, fossils and topographic irregularity is chronological. Radiometric dating, they say, shows that the Earth ...
526. Before the Day Breaks(1) -- A Perspective [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... atmosphere spectroscopically for hydrocarbons. This, ultimately, led him to Harlow Shapley, so that Shapley would conduct this experiment. He sent his views on celestial mechanics, into which he had incorporated electromagnetism, to be examined by a small group of experts, to get their criticisms. That paper, "Cosmos Without Gravitation," suggests that gravity and electromagnetism were different expressions of the same underlying power and not separate forces. In his manuscript, Velikovsky states that "[ n ]o copies were designated for sale, and only a limited number were sent to some scientists and to selected university libraries around the country. Einstein was among the recipients."(14) Einstein ...
527. Thoth Vol I, No. 25: November 3, 1997 [Journals] [Thoth]
... the case of Vesta, at the low relative speeds of objects in the asteroid belt we should not expect to find neatly circular craters resulting from impacts. (High resolution images of asteroids Gaspra and Ida show that practically all craters on them are circular too). The report goes on: "Because of the asteroid's small diameter and low gravity, the crater resembles smaller craters on the Moon that have a distinctive central peak. Towering eight miles, this cone-shaped feature formed when molten rock "sloshed" back to the bull's-eye center after the impact." This notion that central peaks in craters are caused by "sloshing" rock is total nonsense. There is a profound incompatibility ...
528. Circling the Rings [Journals] [Aeon]
... (Table 1) and, as noted before, their orbits do not lie in a plane. Surprisingly, the region of the ecliptic, which is where one might expect to find the highest concentration of asteroids, contains few asteroids (Table 1). The Missing Asteroids The standard history of the Solar System maintains that the force of gravity has pulled the orbits of the planets close to a single plane- the ecliptic. This is defined, in our Earth-centered ways, as the plane in which the Earth moves around the Sun. If a body strays away from the ecliptic, it experiences a gravitational force drawing it toward this plane and, after billions of years, ...
529. The Age Of Man In America [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... has dated them at 50,000 B.P .- a date mainstream archeologists cannot swallow. .. . "How are the Pedra Furada chipped stoned explained by the mainstream archaeologists? They are geofacts, not artifacts. They were created when quartzite rocks were released by erosion and fell off cliffs to be smashed upon impact below. Gravity and not the human hand broke the quartz into pieces that just happen to look like prehistoric tools. F. Parenti, a coworker of Guidon, has tried to exorcise the geofact argument, which is used whenever tools are too old' by showing that the 595 pieces of quartz have characteristics quite unlike those created by natural flaking. ...
530. Thoth Vol I, No. 2: February 5, 1997 [Journals] [Thoth]
... recent space exploration. The new catastrophist profile of the planet Venus, resulting from the Magellan probe. Those improbable meteorites from Mars. The mystery of former oceans and rivers of Mars. ^À Evidence of massive electrical scarring on the Moon, Venus, Mars, and (most recently) Jupiter's moon Europa. Unified approaches to electricity and gravity. ^À From chaos to order. Dynamical issues arising from new "catastrophist" hypotheses. Principles affecting the present stability of the solar system and the circularization of orbits within geologically brief spans of time. This is, of course, only a preliminary listing of key theoretical issues, and the list will doubtless be expanded as our ...
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