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60 pages of results. 511. Thoth Vol II, No. 5: March 15, 1998 [Journals] [Thoth]
... Symposium has been added as a bonus. This two minute sync sound clip is worth the price of the CD. To order by email contact: robert@redprods.com- WATERY MOON By Wal Thornhill The recent headlines from NASA about water being discovered on the Moon near the poles came with the lame explanation that it probably results from meteoric and cometary bombardment. It has been said that our Moon would not look out of place if it were orbiting one of the giant outer planets. But when it comes to the inner solar system, the well known cosmologist, Irwin Shapiro, has said of theories which try to explain the presence of the Moon orbiting the Earth that ...
512. The Origin Of The Moon [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... lead "as a major lunar geological process" and referred to "an early high temperature episode in lunar history" which "produced an apparent depletion in volatile elements, including lead, as indicated by the...high uranium-238 to lead-204 ratios of lunar material from Tranquility Base, compared to terrestrial [Earth] and chondritic [soft meteoric] materials." This and other observations made him conclude his paper with these words: "Continuous examination of basic assumptions provides some of the greatest harvests in Science." (33) (Capitalization and emphasis added.) According to Velikovsky, Silver reported in 1972 that the lunar surface had to have been heated at some time ...
513. H. H. Hess and My Memoranda [Journals] [Pensee]
... the answers. When I maintain (see the way I expressed myself in my memo) that the rocks on the moon may be magnetic though the moon possesses hardly any magnetic field of its own, I suggest something that is not expected. Yet should the rocks be found magnetic, the explanation will be immediately forthcoming that this proves their meteoric nature. Therefore I have urgently advised- and I repeat it here- that the orientation of the rocks before their removal should be noticed and marked. Meteorites would fall at random and would not be all similarly oriented. You said to me that this simple task of marking the orientation is not included in the program; if it will be ...
514. Spatters And Planetary Iconography [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... acclaimed in The Journey to the West, cover the first seven centuries. After returning from Heaven to his magical mountain home, Wu Kong is forced to battle the armed forces that Heaven sends after him. These forces resemble those armies of demons that tried to distract the Buddha. One citation suggests that spatters appeared: "they clashed like meteors and raindrops in the air."(28) (Emphasis added.) In my pictorial catalogue of the spatter, it serves the gods as both decorative and practical jewellery, blooms into flowers (in its more sophisticated form) and appears on garments, carpets, shields and the backs of mirrors. Modern-day spatters appear on more ...
515. Thales: The First Astronomer [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... DK 59 A 12.) In both instances a well-known thinker would have insisted that a certain kind of event held by most people to be erratic is in fact expectable within the general terms of this account of the heavens. (For a recent attempt by an astronomer to ground Anaxagoras' achievement in his observation of the annual recurrence of meteor showers, see Lewis 1996.13-14, 48, 145.) Compare the story in Plutarch's Life of Pericles (35) about Pericles explaining an eclipse to a steersman by passing his cloak in front of his face. Pericles was, of course, a friend and "pupil" of Anaxagoras, and the story is meant to ...
516. On Celestial Mechanics [Journals] [Pensee]
... rationalize his position: "In seeking a source of energy [for the continuous radiation of heat and light from a star] .. . the first question is whether the energy to be radiated in future is now hidden in the star or whether it is being picked up continuously from outside. Suggestions have been made that the impact of meteoric matter provides the heat, or that there is some subtle radiation traversing space which the star picks up. Strong objection may be urged against these hypotheses individually; but it is unnecessary to consider them in detail because they have arisen through a misunderstanding of the nature of the problem. No source of energy is of any avail unless it ...
517. The Radiocarbon Dating Method [Journals] [Pensee]
... W. F. Libby, "Ruminations on Radiocarbon Dating," XII Nobel Symposium, Radiocarbon Variations and Absolute Chronology, ed. 1. U. Olsson, Almqvist & Wiksell (Stockholm, 1971). 3. Clyde Cowan, C. R. Atiuri and W. F. Libby, "Possible Anti-Matter Content of the Tunguska Meteor of 1908," Nature, 206 (1965), 861. 4. P. V. Wells and R. Berger, "Late Pleistocene History of Coniferous Woodland in the Mojave Desert," Science, 155 (1967), 1640. 5. R. Berger and W. F. Libby, "Equilibration of Atmospheric ...
518. Thoth Vol I, No. 22: August 31, 1997 [Journals] [Thoth]
... were the souls of men of renown. Among the Polynesian Islanders, according to Williams, a comet did not just signify the death of a king, a comet meant the flight of the soul. Similarly, the eminent student of comparative myth and religion, James Frazer, produced extensive proof that "a widespread superstition...associates meteors or falling stars with the souls of the dead. Often they are believed to be the spirits of the departed on their way to the other world." With respect to the departing cometary soul of Caesar, which I shall take up in a summary of the Greek and Roman material, I cannot resist passing on to the reader ...
519. The Pitfalls of Radiocarbon Dating [Journals] [Pensee]
... of cosmic rays and of electrical discharges on an interplanetary scale would make organic life surviving the catastrophes much richer in radiocarbon and therefore, when carbon dated, that organic matter would appear much closer to our time than actually true. But if the invasion of the terrestrial atmosphere by "dead" (non-radioactive) carbon from volcanic eruptions, from meteoric dust, from burning oil and coal and centuries-old forests, predominated the picture, then the changed balance of radioactive and of radio-inert carbon would make everything in the decades following the event appear much older. Thus, it is the competition of these factors that would decide the issue in each separate case. My own impression is that in ...
520. A Rage to Deny: The Roots of the Velikovsky Affair [Books]
... " (22) Velikovsky seemed to be defying not only Newton and Democracy and Truth, (and Harvard), but, even worse, to be saying that the sky was not safe and, worst of all, that the danger it posed was not in any way stoppable by us. After all, how does one deter a meteor or set up alliances against a comet or subvert a fireball or negotiate with an asteroid? Therefore, Velikovsky had to be denied and destroyed before his lie could pollute the clean, new, shining world which U.S . democracy had created. In this sense, the Affair of the early 1950's was not merely formalized American science ...
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