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In between WW1 and 2 telegraph lines on the floor of the Atlantic were being snapped, by what are called turbidity currents. Scientists became aware

Ashley King of the Natural History Museum in London is doing the round of the talk circuit. During lockdown, on 20th February 2021, in the

At https://phys.org/news/2023-02-fossil-discovery-reveals-complex-ecosystems.html ... in this piece we are at the Permian-Triassic boundary event, and its accompanying mass extinction of life. Some 80 per cent of

At https://phys.org/news/2023-02-space-earth-sun-shield.html ... it seems some Dr Strangeloves are trying to prime Joe Public into an awful experiment - turning our weather cold. The claim

a couple of post at https://spaceweather.com ... On the 11th February [2023] sunspot AR3217 has a 'beta-gamma delts' magnetic field that hosts enough energy for

The headline reads, scientists detect a molten rock layer hidden beneath earth's tectonic plates - see https://phys.org/news/2023-02-scientists-molten-layer-hidden-earth.html ... I wonder why they said 'tectonic plates'

At https://phys.org/news/2023-02-prehistoric-human-migration-southeast-asia.html ... stating the obvious, we might say. Sundaland sunk beneath the waves and people migrated. Sundaland must have been occupied by humans but

This story is at https://spaceweather.com ... February 8th, 2023. Tides are associated with the rise and  fall of ocean waters in reponse to the gravitational

At https://phys.org/news/2023-02-remapping-superhighways-australians-reveals-year.html ... sophisticated models combine with recent improvements in demography and wayfinding based on geographic inferences, show the scale of the challenge faced by

William sent in a Yahoo link to a NOAA simulation of the tsunami waves generated by the dinosaur killing asteroid srike. You can watch the

Karahan Tepe is a site close to Gobekli Tepe, and roughly the same age - see https://www.heritagedaily.com/2022/08/karahan-tepe-the-sister-site-to-gobeki-tepe/144272 ... it was discovered in 1997 but not

At two links, and there are many others on the Net, we have news of a re-evaluation of the surviving text on the Mesha stele,

Comet ZTF is barely visible to the naked eye, at its closest approach to the earth, 0.28AU away. See https://spaceweather.com ... February 1st 2023. Meanwhile

At https://phys.org/news/2023-01-unearthing-archaeological-lagash-site-southern.html ... archaeologists returned to Lagash in 2022 to reopen their excavations. They came across an ancient 'tavern' complete with benches, a clay cooling

In further studies on the Tonga submarine eruption on January 15th last year, 2022, we know it produced a plume that consisted of a  lot

The father of the Big Bang theory was a Belgian priest, Georges Lemaitre. At https://phys.org/news/2023-01-lost-video-georges-lematre-father.html ... there is a link to a 20 minute video

An SIS member forwarded the link https://doi.org/10.1016/j.spacepol.2022.101493 ... sent to him by the author, Joel Marks, 'The Worst Case: Planetary Defense against a Doomsday Impactor'

At https://spaceweather.com ... January 27th 2023, we learn a bit more about the disconnection event last week. It seems a CME flew off the sun

Interesting concept - catastrophist archaeology. Looks like some people are awake and not asleep at the wheel. Tomorrow night a 5m cosmic rock will sail

William sent in the link to https://www.yahoo.com/news/earths-inner-core-may-started-161117093.html ... earths solid inner core has stopped spinning in the same direction as the planet. It might even