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63 pages of results. 561. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... is, always presenting the same face to Mars. This is taken as proof that the scars on Phobos & Deimos cannot be recent, for impacts would have set these bodies spinning about their axes. A number of things are still unexplained. One is the matter of how loose stuff, such as regolith, is retained by the weak gravity of these two bodies. Another is how some of the larger scars did not shatter these moons utterly: the largest crater of Phobos, Stickney, has a diameter about 45% of the whole body! Viking Orbiter 1 obtained even higher-resolution pictures of Phobos, and certainly the most intriguing feature discovered was that of grooves on its surface ...
562. Thundergods and Thunderbolts [Journals] [Aeon]
... understanding of the recent history of the Solar System. It also offers important insights for understanding the physico-dynamical conditions that prevailed during the time of the Saturnian polar configuration. In Thornhill's view, the polar configuration consisted of a number of planets moving together in a plasma sheath, [2 ] the latter providing a balancing electrical force that acted with gravity to keep the planets in alignment but also to buffer the planets against catastrophic collision. A distinguishing characteristic of plasmas is the generation of Birkeland currents, named after Kristian Birkeland, who discovered the phenomenon in 1905 [3 ] (see Figure 1). As experiments have shown, plasma sheaths are regions of strong electric fields and therefore ...
563. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... that an animal as large as Quetzalcoatlus "would probably have been at or beyond the engineering limits for a flying machine made out of muscles, tendons and delicate hollow bones". This is extremely interesting in relation to the similar improbability of the size of many of the contemporary dinosaurs such as Brontosaurus and Brachiosaurus. The suggestion by Velikovsky that gravity was formerly less would certainly resolve the dilemma of how Brontosaurus could walk or even run on dry ground and, equally, how Quetzalcoatlus could fly. Subconscious Cooling source: New Scientist 5/11/81 In his review of the book Earthlike Planets, Dr Robert Muir Wood stated that Venus "has surface temperatures approaching 400 C. ...
564. Letters [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... to assess the nature of the forces causing an inversion, but compare the relative values of the force required to invert shells of various thicknesses with that required to invert a solid sphere. Electric forces can act on insulators, as is demonstrated when a plastic comb is rubbed and picks up pieces of paper. Compare this with the force of gravity between comb and paper! A moving charged body will produce drag on an external electrical insulator by induction. This is additional to other tidal and magnetic forces. A gyroscopically stable rotating core would tend to restore a shell displacement to its original axis or one displaced by 180 . David Slater's letter is useful in that it points out a ...
565. Jupiter in Collision: in Search of Velikovsky's Comet [Articles]
... display its nucleus-shrouding tail, is not convincing. As has been stated earlier, there is no direct evidence of the presence of either the head or the visible tail of a comet, let alone a viable model or physical theory to explain the exotic motions necessary to justify this sophisticated cosmic scenario. A train of asteroids captured by the Earth's gravity a la Shoemaker-Levy 9, which took place over a five-day period, or an angled passage through a single or multiple train of meteoric showers, is a simpler and familiar explanation. This in no way excludes Venus, Mars nor Super Encke from the parental role. Creating the Great Aurora Bringing the pillar of smoke and fire into its ...
566. Cosmic Catastrophes and the Origin of Megalithic Cultures [Journals] [SIS Review]
... felled by lightning. The megalith builders developed a specialty in those longed-for peace times: they balanced their stone tables' so precisely that they became masterpieces of equilibrium. In some cases, the touch of a hand is sufficient to rock the covering stone. Yet the whole set-up looks as though the miraculous positioning was no accident, as though gravity was being tested. In view of such constructions we need to ask again whether all the dolmens were covered by large mounds or whether there were also free-standing constructions. Should such dolmens, by remaining intact, provide a daily signal that the celestial peace continued to hold? Were they intended as shelters which, by their continued existence, ...
567. Letters [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... of miles/years, still has enough mass to tail after itself sufficient matter to leave behind, after a close encounter with Earth, one thousand million tonnes of dust. Imagine: this dust, once wrapped around the Earth in a totally Sun-excluding blanket, enduring for "months" without the heavier particles settling out under the influence of gravity. On the other hand (to hedge all bets), should the heavier dust settle - Imagine: an increased albedo that, while letting through "some" solar energy, (presumably the longer wavelengths), has exactly the opposite effect to that claimed by Sagan for the obscuring clouds of Venus! (The "Enhanced Icebox ...
... his real presence, on account of the great desires they had to see him, and because the good-will they bore him was entirely free and unconstrained; for it was, desirable thing to the senate, who well remembered the calamities they had undergone in the late changes of their governors, to receive a governor who was adorned with the gravity of old age, and with the highest skill in the actions of war, whose advancement would be, as they knew, for nothing else but for the preservation of those that were to be governed. Moreover, the people had been so harassed by their civil miseries, that they were still more earnest for his coming immediately, ...
569. Thoth Vol I, No. 18: July 3, 1997 [Journals] [Thoth]
... asteroids, etc. are the remnants of a planet which exploded some millions of years ago. Tom had to resort to nuclear energy and some ill-defined and improbable event to cause the explosion. However, electrical discharges can provide a mechanism for lofting huge quantities of planetary material into space (arc welders routinely transfer molten metal against the force of gravity) and modifying it precisely in the way captured and frozen into the complex structure of meteorites, without destroying the whole planet. Such a mechanism has the added virtue of eyewitness support if we have the wit to accept what the ancients have been trying to tell us. There are a number of asteroid "families" which indicates that ...
570. Man's Divine Mirror [Books] [de Grazia books]
... expressions - not the fountainhead of the social problem or of the problem of man against god. The obverse to "how the gods could be believed to do evil to people" is, "how the gods could be believed to do good." The efforts of humans to justify the evils visited upon themselves are extraordinary, considering the gravity of those evils. Some profound reason must prevent them from declaring that gods and devils are one and the same - a disaster. Why do they not recognize the animated high-energy forces of the world as the open enemies of the human race? Indeed, this did become finally the feeling of a great many people in modern times, ...
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