Thu 9 Sep 2010
In The News
Welcome to our "In the News" page, featuring summaries of Internet news, relevant to Catastrophism and Ancient History.
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31 Aug 2010 Nasca Lines ... and water At www.andina.com.pe/Ingles/NoticialImprimir.aspx?id=313896 August 27th ... we have a Peruvian account of American research that has previously appeared in book form. The theory was advanced that the Nasca Lines may have a connection with water. Basically, he is saying the geoglyphs may be a sort of map of underground water sources in a harsh and very dry environment - a desert. The pattern of straight lines is located in a small area 37 miles long and just one mile wide. |
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31 Aug 2010 Other Worlds The Journal of the British Interplanetary Society published a letter in 1986 that has obviously intrigued Paul Gilster for a long while - see his blog at www.centauri-dreams.org and the posting for August 26th 2010). It is all about contact iwth other civilisations - and other worlds. What if advanced civilisations did tend to explore their immediate solar systems, but for various reasons confined themselves only to their neighbours and not to space at large - might this explain why nobody has been in contact with the earth. |
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31 Aug 2010 Index of Postings in August 2010 August 2010 August 2nd ... Science and the Brotherhood of Silence August 2nd ... Cooking the Data to warm it up August 2nd ... What the Large Hadron Collider is doing - in a nutshell August 2nd ... Stratigraphy and a Revision (the Alan Montgomery solution) August 3rd ... a negrito migration? August 3rd ... Current World Archaeology August 3rd ... A New Mann non-tree ring hockey stick model August 3rd .... geoglyphs from the Atacama Desert in Chile August 3rd ... the Jared Diamond myth in tatters |
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30 Aug 2010 Climate Science - has it been nailed at last? At http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/08/28/congratulations-finally-to-spencer-and-braswell-on-getting-their-paper-published/ is a post about arguably the most important climate sceptic inroad into climate science - aimed right at the bull's eye. |
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30 Aug 2010 Alternative Science on the Web At www.thunderbolts.info there is a forum posting, Links to Related Alternative Science Web Pages. It is very useful as it provides some different takes on a number of issues such as gravitation, aether, aetherneutrinos, glowing magnetism, wave particles, electric stars, the fractal Sun theory, electrogravity, electrodynamics, and red shift etc. |
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29 Aug 2010 Vortex of Fire At http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/08/27/tornado-of-fire-in-brazil/ you will find some short video clips of a tornado of fire created during wild fires - transient phenomena captured by the abundance of mobile phones with cameras. Are these combustible tornados? The video clips are available on a variety of blogs. |
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29 Aug 2010 The peculiar properties of sound at Stonehenge New Scientist August 27th ... acoustic experiments were made at Stonehenge in an attempt to determine how it may have sounded during prehistoric gatherings. Once the acoustic fingerprint was discovered it could then be analysed - or modelled, using an anechoic chamber (at the University of Salford), and afterwards, convoluted. Due to reflection of sound from the stones, reverberating sounds such as drumming become deeper - as if the bass had been turned up and the tenor turned down. |
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28 Aug 2010 Neutrinos and decay rates - ongoing At http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/08/27/folow-up-on-the-solar-neutrino-radioactive-decay-story/ --- which is the story that broke a few days ago concerning research that seemed to show a variation in radioactive decay rates on earth - is being reopened after a cascade of criticism. The real shocker is they attributed it to solar neutrinos - and they aren't supposed to react with matter and ar particularly difficult to detect. In fact, they might even not exist. |
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28 Aug 2010 sockeye salmon A subject after my own heart - the salmon fishery. At www.physorg.com/print201969970.html sockeye salmon mysterious vanished from Canadian rivers last year and it was thought the warm El Nino ocean surface water might have been to blame - giving rise to scary stories about global warming in the future and the disappearance of wild salmon from menus around the world. Various things were said to be to blame - apart from AGW they included a drop in ocean food resources, more prey species, and disease picked up from fish farms etc. |
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28 Aug 2010 The birth of black holes At www.physorg.com/print201957102.html ... a paper in Nature purports to have discovered the origin of the universe's first super massive black hole - by computer simulation of dark matter, stars, gas, and black holes. They were born when early galaxies collided and fused together - quite simple really. However, it is not quite simply simple as it means the old hypothesis that gravity draws small pieces of matter together and these then go on to form large structures is - well, redundant. |