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60 pages of results. 581. Sagan's "Ten Plagues" [Journals] [Kronos]
... emission of heat." Thus Velikovsky does not suggest that Mars should be hot, but rather that, if it is hot, Worlds in Collision provides an explanation. Sagan feigns perplexity: "It is difficult to understand this set of errors." But in Sky & Telescope for March 1961, about the time Sagan was starting his meteoric rise to stardom (suffering little ablation), there appeared the following: "It has long been known that the observed surface temperature of Mars is about 30 degrees centigrade higher than would result from the sun shining on an airless planet at its distance. The amount of this [supposed] greenhouse effect depends on the abundance of carbon ...
582. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... 000 years ago, but genetic studies now indicate that they were independently domesticated in several different areas – Italy, central Europe, northern India, south-east Asia and New Guinea. DATING Ageing Mars (New Scientist, 26.3 .05, p. 18) Geologists estimating the age of any surface area on Mars count the numbers of meteor craters and work on the theory that the more craters there are the older the surface. These are then compared to counts on the surface of the Moon, certain areas of which have been precisely' dated from rocks brought back by astronauts. Now, however, serious problems have arisen with this method, as it has been discovered ...
583. Polymathics and Catastrophism: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Problems of Evolutionary Theory [Journals] [Kronos]
... Hammer (whose meaning is now as in English but which appears, in early Germanic, to have meant "stone"). And it recurs in Latin caelum, which meant both "sky" and "chisel". For a catastrophist, however, none of these cases is surprising. He assumes that, during interplanetary encounters, meteor showers are both frequent and devastating and that ancient vocabularies will predictably associate large loose stones with celestial disturbances. CATASTROPHIC ARYANISM? Before we leave the subject of the protohistoric Indo-Europeans, it may be worth noting that there are non-linguistic as well as linguistic aspects of their culture that suggest catastrophic influences. One of these non-linguistic culture-patterns was the smelting ...
584. The Ring of Truth by Isaac Vail [Books]
... a good, kind, beneficent god; such was this world-engirdling serpent, that was only another name for the Earth-investing water. Imagine then a cloud-band shining like the bands of Jupiter. Imagine an Earth-band, broad at the zenith and tapering toward a point toward either horizon. Every lineal feature in a world-canopy must have appeared either shining with meteoric brilliance or glowing ruddy in the flaming sunlight. We can see some reason for the many legends of the "dusky", "spotted", "red", and "speckled" dragons. Man saw these arching and bonded monsters; and certainly, the author of the book of job saw them or he would not have ...
585. The Dragon in China and Japan by M. W. VISSER [Books]
... , in Shosan's opinion, a kind of thunder-pearl15 . We learn from this passage that the prehistoric stone weapons and utensils were considered by the Chinese (for all these names were borrowed from Chinese work), and in imitation thereof by the Japanese, as thunderbolts; this is the same conception that we find everywhere among primitive peoples. Also meteors, of course, are believed to have been thrown by lightning upon the earth, or to be fallen stars. As to the dragon, his connection with rain and thunder is evidently supposed to begin long before his birth and to show itself in a terrible way as soon as be is born. References. 1. Kii zodanshu ...
586. KA [Books]
... in ancient religion, holy' and axe', appear each way. The Hebrew peladhah means iron; Lydian, Greek and Etruscan have labrys, dolabra, falandum. Falandum is the sky, thought to be of iron, from which pieces of iron sometimes fall, e.g . the Palladium, which was probably a lump of meteoric metal or ore. The sounds F and P are closely related (vide Grimm's law). The Arabic balta is an axe, very close to the Latin dolabra, axe, and falandum, sky, when read backwards. The Arabic raqs means dance; read right to left its consonants become sqr, Latin sacer. The Hebrew ...
587. The Aristotelian Cosmos [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... cold, dry and wet. The nature of these elements require that they move in straight lines: earth downward, fire upward, air and water horizontally. The atmosphere fills the whole sub-lunary sphere, though its upper reaches consist not of proper air, but of a substance which if set in motion, will burn and produce comets and meteors. The four elements are constantly being transformed one into the other, and therein lies the essence of all change. "But if we go beyond the moon's sphere, nothing changes and none of the four terrestrial elements is present. The heavenly bodies consist of a different, pure and immutable fifth element', which becomes purer the ...
588. The Velikovsky Affair [Books] [de Grazia books]
... related in my book. Oceanographic research brought several confirming data. H. Pettersson of Goteborg found so much nickel in clay of the oceanic bed that he inferred that at some time in the past there had been a prodigious fall of meteorites [39]. In W. in C., the descent of enormous trains of meteorites and meteoric dust and ash (pp. 51ff) of land and sea is narrated, with reliance on ancient sources. In 1958, J. L. Worzel found a layer of white ash, 5 to 30 cm thick, very close to the bottom, evenly spread over an enormous area of the ocean bed in the Pacific, and ...
589. The Erratic Descent of Man [Books]
... A more intense period of impact activity and atmospheric dusting, perhaps linked, as in the Clube/Napier hypothesis, to the disintegration of a giant comet, could be envisaged as causing an Ice Age, but as yet there is little direct evidence for this. Clube and Napier believe that Comet Encke, the asteroid Olijato and the Taurid meteors are the remnants of a giant comet (see chapter 1), and extrapolations backwards from present orbits indicate that the break-up may have occurred about 9,500 years ago [78]. This, however, is after the end of the Würm, the most recent Ice Age. Nevertheless, it remains a possibility that the giant ...
590. A Return to the Two Sargons and Their Successors [Journals] [Aeon]
... and other hard-stone, items in the pyramids dressed? That, I am afraid, remains something of a moot question. But even if we were to allow Heinsohn the use of iron tools in the construction of the pyramids, that, in itself, is not enough reason to re-date the pyramids to the iron age. After all, meteoric iron had been known and used long before that. Thus, according to the Egyptian priest Manetho, as quoted by Plutarch, the Egyptians considered lodestones to be the bones of the god Horus, while iron, in general, was believed to be the bones of Set (which Plutarch translated as Typhon). [121] Meteorites ...
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