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60 pages of results. 481. On Morrison: Some Further Remarks [Journals] [Kronos]
... idea. Morrison (p . 169): ". . . The great age of the [lunar] crust can also be inferred, qualitatively, from the presence of a regolith of shattered and broken rock many meters thick. It requires a very long time since the crust was last molten to crush and stir that much rock by meteoric impacts . . ." Once again we find the exclusive assumption: Only impacts by meteorites may be credited with altering planetary surfaces in the absence of weathering and erosion. No consideration is given to the possibility that most or all of the rocky debris on the moon might have rained upon that body from the outside. Yet the moon's ...
482. Discussion Questions From the Floor [Journals] [Aeon]
... the electric current generated by an icy body orbiting in a strong-enough magnetic field, e.g ., certain moons of Jupiter and Saturn, electrolyses water-ice into hydrogen and oxygen which builds up in the icy mantle. Eventually the mixture reaches a critical point at which time it may detonate or be detonated, as by the impact of a meteor. According to Drobyshevski, the Galilean moons have all experienced at least one such explosion, as have some Saturnian moons, especially Titan. He correlates many recently-observed facts about the Saturn system and comets with a postulated explosion on Titan between 3500 and 10,000 years ago. Debris would have formed or replenished the rings, contributed to ...
483. Mars in Upheaval [Journals] [Aeon]
... could be observed on the desert floor. Scientists were astonished by this fact for another reason- there is no way in which Hellas could have been sheltered from impact by meteorites. ' The only acceptable conclusion to explain the featureless surface, of course, is that some process is at work on Mars to erase fairly rapidly the effects of meteoric impacts in the area of Hellas. Scientists admit that higher resolution cameras might well show small craters on the floor of Hellas, but that isn't the point. Large craters should be in evidence and they aren't. So the scientists are left with the most likely conclusion which is that the material making up the floor of Hellas responds more ...
484. "The Seasons Alter": Catastrophism in A Midsummer Night's Dream [Journals] [Kronos]
... , the years 1560-1614 (approx.) were marked by an incredible number of unusual meteorological disturbances, earthquakes, unexpected celestial phenomena, famines, and, of course, the recurring plagues. These events increased in number and frequency, reaching their apogee in the years 1594-1606.(11) Among the huge number of disturbances, they cite meteors, rain and flooding, rivers changing their courses, herds of oxen drowned, hail, cold and snow, terrifying lightning, enormous devastation of grain fields, extended frosts in 1572, from November to the following March without interruption drought and famine, comets and eclipses, blazing stars, earthquakes, flaming skies, storms, flood tides ...
485. Big and Little Science [Articles]
... a question of peace of mind, which I think has proved far more important than mere truth. Under Newton we were not as coddled and favored as under Ptolemy, but we believed nevertheless that the Earth would always survive. Under catastrophism that certainty is gone, for no technology we have, not even Star Wars, can drive giant meteors from our path. This is a vastly bleaker and more depressing picture, ergo the panicked resistance-but it could be true. If this possibility exists, steps must be taken to explore it thoroughly and objectively. Catastrophism can then be seen as doing just this, and therefore as an alternative or rival paradigm to classical science in all its ...
486. "The Seasons Alter": Catastrophism in A Midsummer Night's Dream (Continued) [Journals] [Kronos]
... sweet thunder. In Worlds in Collision, Velikovsky cites records from country after country referring to the enormous noise which accompanied the derangement of the skies, noise so long-lasting and intense that the people called it the time of heavenly noise and prayed for it to be lessened.(62) Here, the awful noises of earthquake and volcano and meteor which underlie the image of barking have become the oxymoron sweet thunder. In Theseus' next speech, the point is made once more. A cry more tunable Was never halloed to, nor cheered with horn In Crete, in Sparta, nor in Thessaly. (127-129.) It is as if the entire world of the Mediterranean ...
487. Heretics, Dogmatists and Science's Reception of New Ideas (Part 4) [Journals] [Kronos]
... of not crediting Velikovsky with priority in reviving the interest in cosmic catastrophes involving Earth, had been printed without the editor consulting him.(205) Gribbin was indignant. In his article, he had cited an article in the March 1966 Analog by J. E. Enever as the beginning of the "present wave of interest in the meteor impact hypothesis".(206) In answering the letter, Gribbin justified his ignoring Velikovsky because "in scientific terms, the Velikovskian version has a bolt missing, whereas Enever, Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle did their sums properly", so Velikovsky "deserves no credit whatsoever for his curious mishmash of half-truths and inaccuracies". Then ...
488. An Empirical Approach to Collective AmnesiaA [Journals] [Kronos]
... governing the collective acquisition of fear requiring repression simultaneously offers an equally mechanistic process which gradually eliminates that fear. Laboratory-conditioned fears eventually are extinguished when the signal ceases to be followed by the fear-evoking event. If there have been no major celestial disruptions (as assumed here) since the last Mars encounter, the continued occurrence of comets, eclipses, meteor showers, etc.- without consequent calamity- should have served partially to extinguish the raw undifferentiated terror generalized to such stimuli. This would include as well the power of verbal, ritual escatological methods. It may be that our own generation's conscious confrontation with celestial catastrophism has been facilitated by the millennia-long period of natural collective fear-extinction through celestial ...
489. A Holographic World [Journals] [Kronos]
... name, no address.... It is where there are no answers even though new questions are always asked. Arthur Koestler described "reality of the third order," which contains phenomena that cannot be apprehended or explained on either a sensory or a conceptual level, "and yet occasionally invade them [these levels] like spiritual meteors piercing the primitive's vaulted sky". In an ancient sutra of Patanjali, knowledge of "the subtle, the hidden, and the distant" is said to arise by looking with the pravritti a Sanskrit term meaning "before the wave." This description parallels the idea of an apparently concrete world generated by interference patterns, by waves ...
490. Venus in Ancient Myth and Language [Journals] [Aeon]
... . Talbott, The Saturn Myth (New.York, 1980), pp. 18-19. 4. D. Talbott & E. Cochrane, "On the Nature of Cometary Symbolism," KRONOS XI:1 (Fall, 1985), pp. 26-27; U. Dall'Olmo, "Latin Terminology Relating to Aurorae, Comets, Meteors, and Novae," Journal for the History of Astronomy XI:10 (1980), p. 16. 5. P. Gossman, Planetarium Babylonicum (Rome, 1950), p. 41. 6. B. Brundage, The Phoenix of the Western World (Norman, 1981), p. 78. 7 ...
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