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60 pages of results. 491. Conclusion (Carl Sagan & Immanuel Velikovsky) [Books]
... the intervening millennia, much information about comets has been gathered, but even today we do not properly understand these cosmic phenomena. "In The Cosmic Serpent, two internationally respected astronomers propose radical new theories about the origin and future of the Earth, focusing on worlds shaped by catastrophe. They claim that impacts from comets, asteroids, and meteoric bombardments caused devastation on a global scale and brought on massive evolutionary changes, including the demise of the dinosaurs. And they say these cosmic events gave rise to ancient myths, inspired prophets and philosophers and affected the creation of astrological sciences and ancient calendars. "Warning that there is something here to outrage everyone, ' Clube and Napier ...
492. Jupiter - God of Abraham (Part III) [Journals] [Kronos]
... certain thunderbolts which they insistently stated to have originated from the planets.(262) This description of a destruction from the sky has even led Asimov, one of Velikovsky's and cosmic catastrophism's staunchest critics, to suggest that the cities might "conceivably" have been hit by "a large meteorite".(263) A meteorite, or meteoric shower, would compare well with the cause of the destruction as described in the Qoran where the visitation from heaven is called "a stone-charged whirlwind". Even the description of a rain of "brick-stones" might conceal such a half-forgotten and/or misunderstood meteorological phenomenon. With this in mind, it behooves us to examine the various ...
493. The Garden, the Fall and the Restoration [Articles]
... in mythical terms of particular astronomical situations as they can be seen, but since this change takes place over thousands of years, that is how long it takes this disorder to occur, it has no effect on life on Earth as such, and they are very explicit in rejecting any naturalistic explanation of mythical passages, they reject comets, meteors and other interventions. The Earth that is subject to these catastrophes is a cosmological term, essentially it applies to the constellations." Question concerning book by Otto Muck on the destruction of Atlantis which indicated that an asteroid strike probably destroyed Atlantis. Shane Mage: "I am afraid I have not read Muck's book, so I cannot ...
... iron exposed at the surface. Under those conditions the new metal combined with the atmosphere in a series of chemical reactions, giving rise to a new atmosphere dominated by carbon dioxide and hydrogen. Then as the Earth outgassed water, the CO2 and H2O initiated a "runaway greenhouse effect" that mimicked the present atmosphere of Venus. Cometary and meteoric bombardment added materials to the atmosphere that were carried in its lower levels. There, subject to lightning and other reactions over millions of years, each water droplet was both a laboratory and an oasis in which countless experiments evolved would have been methanogens, which derive energy from combining organic substances with hydrogen and oxygen. What the methanogens did ...
495. The Archangels [Journals] [Kronos]
... this belief we also find that the Araucanians of Chile believed in the Cherruve who, like angels, were spirits. These took the form of snakes with human heads. But comets and shooting stars were among the manifestations these serpentine spirits were responsible for.(88) In the Fiji islands, various divinities were also believed to appear as meteors and comets. The Ngendei of Fiji was believed to be half snake and half rock, but his children were said to be comets.(89) I do not wish to stray too far from the subject, so I will stop here. The above, however, seems a good indication that comets were believed to be some ...
496. Thoth Vol V, No 3: Feb 28, 2001 [Journals] [Thoth]
... bombarded the Moon must also hit the Earth. Although there are complications - it is not completely straightforward to relate the distribution of craters to that of projectiles - this is why horrific impacts like the one at Chicxulub, which ended the age of the dinosaurs on Earth, are much less frequent than minor impacts like the one that made Barringer Meteor Crater (and we are thankful). This is also why the largest impact craters on a body, like Psyche or Himeros (if it is one), are likely to be the oldest. Larger impacts occur less frequently, so it is unlikely for a large impact to have occurred very recently. Moreover, large impacts create ...
497. Thoth Vol IV, No 13: Aug 31, 2000 [Journals] [Thoth]
... abundant evidence of fresh looking planetary cratering and scarring. Besides, in an Electric Universe comets are not the apocalyptic threat to the Earth imaginatively portrayed by artists. Such pictures are entirely fanciful because a comet would be disrupted electrically by a cosmic thunderbolt before it hit the Earth. The only visible evidence remaining would be an electric arc crater like Meteor Crater in Arizona. The Electric Universe model grew from the realization that a new plasma cosmology and an understanding of electrical phenomena in space could illuminate the new work being done in comparative mythology. In return the images of events witnessed in the prehistoric sky and their sequence could help unravel the recent history of the Earth, Mars and Venus ...
498. Child of Saturn (Part IV) [Journals] [Kronos]
... The City of Cod, VII:16. 5. F. Cumont, Les Mystères de Mithra (1913, 3rd edition), p. 111. 6. E. Zehren, Das Testament der Sterne (Berlin, 1957), p. 326. 7. I. Fuhr, "On Comets, Comet-Like Luminous Apparitions and Meteors," Part II, KRONOS VIII:1 (Fall 1982), p. 51. 8. Ibid.;G . Widengren, Die Religionen Irans (Stuttgart,1965),pp. 123,177, 188, 179, as cited in Ibid. 9. I. Fuhr, loc. cit. 10. ...
... I asked him afterwards how he could have computed this without employing ergodic theory, ' Sagan told me that the proof would appear as an Appendix to a forthcoming paper by him based on his AAAS presentation. He mentioned that he had followed a published method, used by such scientists as Opik and Urey, to obtain apparently reasonable statistics about meteoric collisions with the Moon, Mars and Venus; but in such calculations it is assumed (as an approximation) that the collisions were statistically independent events. Because the planetary motions inherently tend under their mutual gravitational attractions toward some sort of quasi periodicity, in which future near misses can be causally related to past near misses, this assumption ...
500. Velikovsky And The Cosmic Serpent [Journals] [Kronos]
... which frequently took it close to the Earth. It appears that, around 1000 B.C . and earlier, the night sky was indeed far different from that we know now. Each year, possibly twice a year, the Earth would run into the debris strung out along the orbit of the comet and there would be a brief meteor storm of ferocious intensity, the sky being filled with shooting stars and fireballs. Even now seismometers placed on the Moon annually detect a peak in the rate at which boulders crash on to the satellite as the Earth-Moon system runs into the path of the now almost dead Encke's comet. Apparently there was a hierarchy of disintegrations of this remarkable ...
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