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119 pages of results. 841. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... arguments based on depth of sediment are groundless, and interpretations of world temperatures etc are baseless. Sirius Mystery sources: DAILY TELEGRAPH 9.12.85: NATURE 318, pp.45-46 Adrian Berry presents a promising theory, that of W.Schlosser and W.Bergmann, as to why the Dogon tribe of Mali should possess "strangely accurate information about Sirius B. Even though this little star is invisible except through a powerful telescope..., they know its size, its orbit around Sirius A, and that it is made of super-dense matter." He cites written evidence from ancient sources that Sirius was thought to be red in colour (viz. Horace ...
842. Genesis and Extinction [Books] [de Grazia books]
... was Clarence King, and, in his attempt to assail evolution on its firmest historical ground, he penned several passages of beauty and importance [2 ]: Greek art was fond of decorating the friezes of its sacred edifices with the spirited form of the horse. Times change: around the new temple of evolution the proudest ornament is that strange procession of fossil horse skeletons, among whose captivating splint-bones and general anatomy may be descried the profiles of Huxley and Marsh. Those two authorities, whose knowledge we may not dispute, assert that the American genealogy of the horse is the most perfect demonstrative proof of derivative genesis ever presented. Descent they consider proved, but the fossil jaws ...
843. Thoth Vol I, No. 16: June 15, 1997 [Journals] [Thoth]
... will out" (sic). But there is no getting around the fact that many scientists have taken a woefully unscientific approach to the whole issue. While extraordinary claims must demand extraordinary evidence, the reluctance of many to consider Frank's evidence was matched only by their keenness to block his attempts to gather more. Frank's experience in this quintessentially Strange but True story are far from unique. The whole issue of bombardment by cosmic debris is one that has always been dogged by mule- like intransigence dressed up as academic rigour. Until the early 19th century, anyone claiming to have seen stones falling out of the sky was regarded as having had a few beers too many; the ...
844. Earthquakes in the Early Irish Tradition [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... sea, so great was the storm; so that the storm took them westward in the ocean till they were weary."[6 ] What type of storm, we may well wonder, could have raised the "bottom gravel" from the sea bed? Arriving in Ireland, the Iberian Celts were faced with even more frightening and strange phenomena. O'Flaherty, the famous 17th century chronographer, notes for example that the first hours of the invaders' sojourn in the country were marked by the appearance of two new lakes: "On the very night they arrived in Ireland, it is reported that two lakes sprung up in the country; one of which was Loch-lumny, ...
845. Radiohalos And Earth History [Journals] [Kronos]
... These rings, known as pleochroic halos, have been found in many rocks of different geological ages, and the diameters of the respective rings are always the same. "Thus, it can be concluded that the rates of disintegration of uranium and thorium are constant .. . "( 7 ) The first premise of this argument may seem strange when first encountered. Is it true that the energy of an emitted alpha particle depends on the rate of decay? Apparently so. This relationship was discovered experimentally in the early years of radioactivity studies, and for a long time it constituted something of a paradox- not only for the regularity of the increase in alpha-particle energy with increase ...
846. Thoth Vol I, No. 15: June 7, 1997 [Journals] [Thoth]
... in a thousand ways, currently-observed phenomena contradict "laws of physics' as earlier stated. To put it in the simplest and bluntest of terms, there is much more to the history of our solar system than Newtonian gravity operating across empty space.- VELIKOVSKY AND PLANETARY CATASTROPHE David Talbott (dtalbott@teleport.com) In confronting the strange consistency of planetary mythology one must ultimately ask the question asked more than 45 years ago by Immanuel Velikovsky, author of _World in Collision_. At the heart of Velikovsky's controversial thesis was a seemingly outrageous idea. He claimed that _planets_, moving on quite different courses than observed today, formerly disturbed the motions of the ...
847. Proposed Variations on the Saturnian Configuration [Journals] [Aeon]
... other words, tells us is: "I do not know." But if it was the Sun that was illuminating Saturn, how did Saturn dim and brighten by a constantly shining (even if invisible) Sun? This is explained by Talbott as being due to the cycle of day and night as perceived from Earth. What is strange is that, during earth's day, the crescent appears in the "night" position while, during the night, the crescent appears in the "day" position. Placing the Sun at Earth's south pole would solve the problem of the invisible Sun, but it would create problems with the appearance of the Saturnian crescent. It is ...
848. Manna as a Confection [Journals] [SIS Review]
... confirmation; it would suggest the presence of at least some radium in the cloud, thus amply justifying the instructions of Exodus 19 and Exodus 33, vv.17-23 that no ordinary mortal can approach the God of the cloud at all closely and expect to survive the encounter. Another suggestive occurrence is the time when Moses' face shone so strangely after he came out of the cloud that the others kept their distance from him (Exodus 34, vv.29-35). Many similar pointers can be picked up from an informed reading of the Old Testament. It may be noted that strontium, barium and radium can all make luminous paints and that the colour schemes cited above are ...
849. Seti's Foreign Connections [Journals] [Kronos]
... could be the result of rotating water molecules at deepsky distances. THE DEDUCTION OF GAMMA Many laymen do not realize that physical scientists already know why the force of gravity is directly proportional to the product of the attracting masses, and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between their centroids. The mystery is not there, but in the strange multiplying constant called "gamma". To see this easily just imagine that we have two one gram masses separated by one centimeter between their centroids. Then we have one gram squared divided by one centimeter squared, multiplied by this gamma thing, which is equal to 6.668E-8 cubic centimeters divided by the product of second squared and ...
850. Sagan's Folly Part 1 [Journals] [Kronos]
... ), Velikovsky wrote: "The migration of ideas may follow the migration of peoples, but how could unusual motifs of folklore reach isolated islands where the aborigines do not have any means of crossing the sea? And why did not technical civilization travel together with the spiritual? Peoples still living in the stone age possess the same, often strange, motifs as the cultured nations. [Cp. Kubler, op. cit., p. 325.1 The particular character of some of the contents of folklore makes it impossible to assume that it was only by mere chance that the same motifs were created in all corners of the world." After he lifted only part ...
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