In the News

Interesting subject as we await a solar storm next week. At https://phys.org/news/2022-01-scientists-mysterious-finger-like-features... ...  but see also www.nature.com/articles/s41550-021-01570-2 ... where we learn that back in 2019,

Horses have been entwined with human history for at least 5000 years. At https://phys.org/news/2022-01-quest-uncover-horse-rewriting-picture.html ... we learn that horses enabled rapid transport and played a

Rhodes Fairbridge, a prolific science author in his day, noted that DG King-Hele had in the 1960s, point out a pattern of solar planetary behaviour,

At https://phys.org/news/2022-01-volcanic-eruption-hours-long-thunderstorm.... ... a study by the US Geological Survey, with input from NOAA, looked at the Taal eruption in the Philippines, which took place

At https://phys.org/news/2022-01-frequent-extreme-superflares-nova-v2487.html ... photometric observations of a recurrent nova event, V2487ph, is displaying interesting behaviour. Superflares have been identified from the sources, occurring on a

Gary sent in a link to Fomenko at www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sdw9s-_mY20 which is basically a summary of Fomenko's ideas in regards AD chronology. There are several other

William sent in the link https://www.yahoo.com/news/heres-scientists-know-tonga-volcano-124800517... ... while residents of the Tonga islands struggle to recover from a massive volcanic explosion and tsunami wave that

As news is emerging that several of the smaller islands in the Tonga group were swamped with the likelihood of a quite high death toll

In the Bucks Free Press of January 14th 2022, and the Bucks Herald [see for example www.bucksfreepress.co.uk/news/national/19843461.rare-roman-wooden-figure... ] we learn that a remarkably well preserved

Gary sent in the link to www.dailymail.co.uk/scienctech/article-10403571/ ... the moon.s crust may have formed from a slushy magma ocean that froze over hundreds of millions

Some interesting stories this past week. At https://phys.org/news/2022-01-light-year-wide-earth-source-nearby.html ... which is indeed, a startling discovery. A 1000 light year wide void around the earth is

Gary also sent in the link www.science.org/content/article/greeks-really-do-have-near-mythical-orig... ...  the Mycenaeans were real people that imposed themselves on the LB world. They are tangled up in

The link was sent in by Gary ... www.space.com/diamond-rain-atmosphere-uranus-neptune ... the two big outer planets, described here as ice planets as it is thought they

William sent in the link to www.yahoo.com/news/treasure-trove-2-000-fossils-190000947.html ...  paleontologists have unearthed around 2000 fossils in SER Australia - insects, fish, spiders, and plants [leaves and

At https://phys.org/news/2022-01-asteroids-earth-threats.html ... some asteroids, or comets, are in the vicinity of the earth in 2022 - which is the theme of this piece. Not

At https://spaceweather.com 11th January 2022 .. in an update on solar cycle 25 they say it is shaping up to be stronger than anticipated. The

Gary sent in the link to https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00368504211064272 ... 'Premature Rejection in Science: the case for the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis' by James Lawrence Powell. The

At https://phys.org/news/2022-01-coherent-interstellar-magnetic-field.html ... magnetic fields are the secret ingredients of the interstellar medium. They are involved in the process of making stars. An international team

At www.academia.edu/35582047/Did_Aboriginal_Australia_record-a_simultaneous... ... by Fuller and Hamacher in the Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage  20{3] pages 349-359 [2017]. Australian researchers have recently homed in

Gary sent in another link to an article on the Kythera mechanism. An interesting read. Go to www.scientificamerican.com/article/an-ancient-greek-astronomical-calcula... ... but see earlier post on the