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42 pages of results. 261. Evidence for the Extreme Youth of Venus [Journals] [SIS Review]
... is the case: it is surprisingly bright at the surface and pictures by Veneras 9 and 10 showed the horizon 200-300m distant. Cloud movements show a 4 day rotation period of the upper atmosphere at the equator which declines to 2 days towards the poles. This is explained by a constant wind velocity on a reducing perimeter as the upper atmosphere spirals up to the poles. However, with a rotation period of the planet of 243 days retrograde and sluggish surface winds, the upper atmospheric movement is incomprehensible. The negligible variation in surface temperature is explained theoretically in astronomical textbooks by slow winds in the dense lower atmosphere of 1 to 2 metres/sec from the poles to the equator ...
262. A Rage to Deny: The Roots of the Velikovsky Affair [Books]
... addition, "temperamental" or "periodically violent" galactic nuclei can become "monsters" and blow up, (151) and, as a result, there are a great number of "galaxies in whose centres very violent things are going on." (152) Focussing nearer to us, we are told that the arms of spiral galaxies indicate "quite rapid if not violent evolutionary processes" and our Solar System in particular is very "close to a major irregularity" of this type. (153) These spiral arms contain billions of interstellar comets, and if these structures near our Solar System are "rapidly evolving," (154) then it is inevitable ...
263. The Demands of the Saturnian Configuration Theory [Journals] [Aeon]
... "The Mountain." [113] This connection did not escape Talbott who has provided some intriguing insights concerning the associations shared between the altar, the world mountain, the cosmic pillar, and other Saturnian elements. [114] Other examples of this motif are encountered in depictions of Mithras, shown with a serpent coiled around him in spiral fashion, and in that of the Mithraic Kronos, or Aion, who is likewise shown within the coils of a spiraling snake. [115] But since we have opted for Jueneman's Rankine vortex in lieu of Thornhill's Birkeland current- at least temporarily- how do we account for the image of the serpentine nature under this scheme? ...
264. The Calendar of Kalasasaya (Built Before the Flood) [Books]
... the Satellite was 5 - 9 terrestrial radii. We may now attempt to answer the Questions put previously. 1. The Solar Year-that is, the time taken by the Earth to complete one revolution round the Sun is not always of the same length. Owing to the resistance of the interplanetary medium, the terrestrial orbit is a fine inward-tending spiral. Hence the year' was the longer the further we go back in the life-history of our Earth. It will decrease more and more in the future, and will become shorter even than Mercury's present year of 88 days, till the Earth, having spiralled quite close to the Sun, will eventually disintegrate and its material will become ...
265. Catastrophism and Evolution [Articles]
... superimposed on this steady rate are bursts of extra activity occurring every few hundred million years. The orthodox view of the comets presently in the Solar System is that they are the remnants of a much larger number present since its formation (8 ). However, an alternative theory is that the Solar System captures comets as it passes through a spiral arm of the Galaxy, an event which may occur every few hundred million years, i.e . a frequency of the same order of magnitude as that for times of maximum crater formation in the Solar System (9 , 10). According to this model, the last capture would have taken place when the Solar System passed ...
266. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... project. Immanuel Velikovsky challenged that statement, as also did S. K. Vsekhsviatskii, saying that the rings were a recent feature of Saturn, caused by its eruptive activity. Even since the Voyager project scientists have been unwilling to admit that the rings of Saturn are recent in origin, although the consensus belief is that they are slowly spiralling inwards like the grooves on a gramophone record. Dr Fred Scarf is refreshingly honest about the situation: "We assume the atmosphere of Venus is static, and that it's all from outgassing, not volcanoes. The rings of Saturn are the way they've been for millions of years, not that stuff is falling in now. And, ...
267. Electric Discharge as the Source of Solar Radiant Energy (Concluded) [Journals] [Kronos]
... extra energy" to the electric discharge through their increased mass. ( 12a) In spite of the enormous absolute potential we attribute to the solar environment,(13) there is no reason to expect interstellar space to be characterized by important potential gradients, at least not on a scale of star-to-star distances. Even if currents flow in the spiral arms of the galaxy as Bruce suggests, to a good approximation the potential should be uniform in all directions within a few light-years of the Sun (13a) On this basis we could assume that most particles of matter indigenous to this region- neutral atoms and molecules, positive ions, and electrons- move in essentially random directions. ...
268. Catastrophism and Evolution [Journals] [SIS Review]
... steady rate are bursts of extra activity occurring every few hundred million years [7 ]. The orthodox view of the comets presently in the Solar System is that they are the remnants of a much larger number present since its formation [8 ]. However, an alternative theory is that the Solar System captures comets as it passes through a spiral arm of the Galaxy, an event which may occur every few hundred million years, i.e . a frequency of the same order of magnitude as that for times of maximum crater formation in the Solar System [9 , 10]. According to this model, the last capture would have taken place when the Solar System passed ...
269. IN THE BEGINNING [Books]
... and their weapons are fiery . . . (5b) [They were] flying in the air continuously above the bottomless. (5a) And I threw [them] out from the height. ' The stage described in this passage is that of the swarms of satellitic debris rushing through the heavens like streams of shooting stars on their spiral path which eventually made them approach and fall blazing on the Earth where, according to xviii. 7, the angels, or fragments of wreckage, plunging below the surface of our planet, were condemned . . . to be under earth till heaven and earth shall end forever. (xxvi. 2b) ' [And now] ...
270. Thoth Vol I, No. 15: June 7, 1997 [Journals] [Thoth]
... drastic revisions are needed. It will be obvious, for example, that the familiar "laws of gravity" can only address a limited range of phenomena, and in the forms customarily expressed these "laws" actually invite contradictions. Any high school physics student can see the problem posed by photographs of galactic and globular cluster structures, where spiral arms are visible but the stars farther out along the arms rotate around the center at a higher velocity than those closer in- not the condition predicted by Newton's laws! Globular clusters are smaller spheroidal galaxies in which either the stars just "sit there" without falling in towards the center as Newton's gravity demands, or they rotate around the ...
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