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60 pages of results. 551. The New York Velikovsky Centenary Conference [Journals] [SIS Review]
... After morning coffee Renate Schukies presented an indigestibly large mass of fascinating data from ancient mankind's artistic work around the world. Lastly Ev Cochrane read a remarkable paper entitled Mars Rocks in Ancient Myth and Modern Science, from which I quote the start and finish: On June 28, 1911 the inhabitants of Nakhla, Egypt were treated to a spectacular meteor shower. As it turns out, one of these rocks almost certainly came from the planet Mars, nearly 50 million miles away. The difficulty in dislodging a meteorite from the red planet, much less transporting one to Earth, has prompted several noted authorities to doubt their Martian origin. The meteorite's chemical imprint, however, not unlike ...
552. Man's Divine Mirror [Books] [de Grazia books]
... times associated with terrifying celestial phenomena between 3000 and 3500 years ago when manna, soma, and ambrosia were provided to starving survivors. This I explain in The Lately Tortured Earth, where too, many legends are reported insisting that copper, gold, silver, petroleum and iron were exploded or dropped onto Earth and used by their finders. Meteoric iron was commonly used long before the controversial "Iron Age" and may have fallen in amounts sufficient to institute this age. Myths of dragons burying gold are met with. And so on. The stone (and wood) age might have gone on forever if the surface of the Earth had not been blasted into metals and by ...
553. Collapsing Tests of Time [Books] [de Grazia books]
... to heavily radiating bodies and was also subjected to heavy radiation storms from a distance. In fact, every change in the earth's atmosphere lessened or increased the reception of radiation: the cloud canopies, the lowering or dropping of canopies, the rising of exploded vapors, the destruction of biospheres and the loss or gain of atmosphere from comets, meteors and planets. In all of this, the parent and daughter elements involved in radio clocks have experienced a turbulent history. No pair of elements can be granted to have remained locked in their crystallized rock interior since the beginning of its time. There is no way of commencing the history of potassium and argon at the bottom of the ...
554. The Exo-Synchronous Molecular Evolutionary Clock [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... million year cycle. The 32 million year cycle episode phenomenon is a strong starting point for the argument since it is based on geological data and has been accepted by a large number of the scientific community. The theory holds to a cycle of episodes of destruction and extinction on Earth and which some advocate as having been caused by a repeating meteor shower or other extraterrestrial type of event. Except for its infrequency, this is somewhat descriptive of Velikovsky's proposal. The very number of published articles that show the cycle's relationship with evolution should be an indication of how natural such a conclusion could be. One proposal is that of Jablonski [33] and which was reported on by Lewen ...
555. Lies, Damned Lies and .... [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... know it's there. The dust motes, the sunshine itself, and the air have a different feel, a different texture - and the sound, of the bells travelling... you begin to understand physics, and without physics there would be no metaphysics. Something happened about fifteen hundred years before Christ. Nobody quite knows - a meteor, a comet? It changed the magnetic poles, the climate; put us out of kilter, made nonsense of the laws." - from Cold Iron by Nicholas Freeling (Andre Deutsch, 1986), pp. 177-178 \cdrom\pubs\journals\workshop\w1990no2\20lies.htm ...
556. Solar Eclipses and the Historical Record [Journals] [Horus]
... seems to make no sense. October 29, 1399; Newton amends the date of an Italian source to the retrocalculated October 29, 1399. The source also declares that, ". .. stars in the manner of fire falling from heaven were seen in many parts of Italy." Newton interprets the passage as a description of a meteor shower. April 15, 1409; this is another account of extended duration, the eclipse lasting 26 minutes too long. August 29, 1448; two reports suggest too short a duration. April 27, 1473; the source describes a long period of totality, thus contradicting the retrocalculated annular eclipse of shorter duration. July 29, ...
557. The Demands of the Saturnian Configuration Theory [Journals] [Aeon]
... not a physicist." [2 ] And neither am I. All I will do here is add a reminder to the effect that many were the things once thought impossible which were eventually found to be possible, and that many of these ended up becoming dogmas of science. Easily coming to mind in this respect are the occurrence of meteoric falls, the non-illusory nature of comets, and continental drift. But let's put all that aside for the time being. Allow me instead to concentrate on the demands which the Saturnian configuration theory itself raises, and whether or not these can be met. What do I mean by "demands"? Theories do not stand, if ...
558. Letters [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... , processions et alia indicates the significance and existence of celestial prehistoric lights that reached their fullest development during the night of the shortest and longest days. ' This demonstrates the need for any celestial scenario to accommodate the universal and perennial evidence for annual or semi-annual features in mythology. Zysman's belief that auroras were achieved through the earth's transit through great meteoric showers which involved reciprocal discharges between Earth and the impending space debris' is not incompatible with the kind of scenario envisaged by Clube and Napier. Zysman succeeds in reconciling the usual confusion between the North' and the Zenith' as regards the appearance of the world column'. References to the South Star as significant in the mythology, ...
559. The Electric Saturnian System [Journals] [Aeon]
... have truncated tributaries or an inadequate catchment to explain the size of the canyons. A good example is the Grand Canyon. Any so-called "impact crater" that is circular will be an electrical crater, particularly if it has a central peak. That includes the buried Sudbury crater in Canada and Manson crater in the USA. Of course, Meteor Crater is a recent example. As for the glow discharge, yes, I am sure that orbiting within proto-Saturn' plasma sphere would have generated auroral type effects and may have contributed appreciably to the sky light and color. AEON: What I meant was would the glow discharge have taken on the appearance of a column of light while ...
560. Planet in Crisis: the Earth's Last 12,000 Years [Journals] [SIS Review]
... the loss of a primaeval Golden Age, the advent and also the demise of the Ice Age, the sudden refrigeration of the Siberian/Alaskan mammoth fauna and even the foundering of legendary realms such as Atlantis, Lyonesse, etc. [126-135]. Variously identified as a great comet, an asteroid, an itinerant star, a massive meteor swarm, or a former moon - dated, equally variously, from as long ago as 25,000BC to as recently as just a few centuries before the birth of Christ - none of these agents, except the stellar candidate, seemingly possess the capacity to affect Earth to the degree that field evidence and geophysical theory demand. Nevertheless ...
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