Tue 26 Jan 2021
In The News
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28 Nov 2020 Missing Dark Matter One hard to make up your mind about. Well, that depends of course. A faraway galaxy, we are told, is noted for its absence of dark matter. This seems to have disturbed cosmologists. Why? In the study the existence of dark matter is explained, an otherwise invisible substance or energy. It involves the theory of galaxy formation. New evidence is presented to show 'the galaxy is not really an anomaly - but a victim of theft'. Take your time digestiing that. Instead of being consistent with the consensus theory the authors have had to opt to keep it propped up. |
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28 Nov 2020 Archaeology and Global Warming At https://phys.org/news/2020-11-ice-patch-norway-reveals-large.html ... this story is part of widespread exploration of retreating mountain glaciers around the world. In this instance it is Norway. The melting glaciers, or what are patches of ice that once belonged to a glacier, on what was a former route way once thought to have been used in the Viking era, across the mountains to what is now Sweden. The melting ice patch has revealed artifacts left behind by travellers and hunters. |
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27 Nov 2020 Strange and STEVE Rober sent in the two links www.space.com/steve-picket-fence-streaks-mystery ... and https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2020AV000183 .. and comments, nobody knows what actually causes STEVE but they all do not think it is aurorae. Aurora occur when charged particles crackle along earth's magnetic field lines. STEVE, it seems, is a river of hot turbulent gas that can be seen independently of solar weather. Hot turbulent gas = plasma and a river is a plasma filament, Robert adds. |
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27 Nov 2020 Earth and Venus At https://sciencex.com/news/2020-11-ancient-earth-thick-toxic-atmosphere.html ... and see also https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abd1387 ... Venus has a thick toxic atmosphere is the premise with which it begins. Now, it seems, early earth likewise once had a thick toxic atmosphere too. Apparently, it disappeared when earth cooled down - but this didn't happen on Venus. This may sound a lot like Velikovsky and a young Venus but it is not. It is the product of mucking about with computer simulation it would seem, factoring in other planets - including Venus. |
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20 Nov 2020 Another day, another meteorite At https://phys.org/news/2020-11-asteroid-vt4-skimmed-earth.html ... the impact audit system in Hawaii spotted a close pass by of an asteroid on the 14th November [2020]. It was just 16 to 32 feet in diameter, about the size of a house. Not a mansion mind you. It came at the earth from our sunward blind spot and was not actually seen until 15 hours after approach, heading back out of earth's vicinity. It passed withing 1864 miles away, which could be regarded as a near miss, or nearly a near miss. It followed the edge of earth's shadow on its outbound journey. |
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15 Nov 2020 Apophis Asteroid At https://phys.org/news/2020-11-apophis-asteroid-earth-thought.html ... David Tholen, an astronomer at the University of Hawaii, has been having another look at the asteroid Apophis, and at the path of its orbit. The asteroid is 360m wide and was only discovered in 2004. He presented his new findings at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society. It has been woked out that it would come close to the earth in 2029, 2036, and 2068. These findings were more or less one of the motif's of Nicholas Costa's book, 'Adam to Apophis'. |
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13 Nov 2020 Comet ATLAS Another day. Another comet. At https://spaceweather.com ... 11th and 12th November 2020 ... an image of the Orion Nebula with Comet Atlas in the foreground. It will be at its closest position to the earth on the 14th yet will still be 50,000 miles away. Another harmless visit from the back of beyond. The comet is a round green blob, which is actually its atmosphere. The green colour is due to diatomic carbon, or C2, a compound that glows bright green out in space. |
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13 Nov 2020 Dust on the Sea Floor Of interest to catastrophists one might assume. Ancient dust on the sea floor. However, once again the focus is on climate. rather than meteors or comets. Go to https://phys.org/news/2020-11-ancient-sea-floor-climate-history.html ... during the Late Glacial Maximum, around 20,000 years ago, and more, iron containing dust accumulated on the sea floor. Iron is said to fertilise marine phytoplankton. In this case in the South Pacific. It is an odd story if your read it through. |
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12 Nov 2020 Fossil controversy Gary and William have been sending in links over the last few weeks that I've been unable to post, for a variety of reasons. We are now getting back to normal, it is to be hoped, and I'll kick off with a link sent in by Robert. The subject is soft tissue fossils which are said to reveal incriminating trends at www.icr.org/article/soft-tissue-fossils-reveal-incriminating-trends ... which claims 85 reports of biomaterial, such as proteins, have been discovered inside fossils. We are not told in what form the fossils occur - or if they were petrified in situ. |
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12 Nov 2020 Viking burials William sent in a Yahoo link to this story but you can see it at www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-8937305/ ... which comes with images. A previously unknown burial and ritual site at Gjeelestad in Norway has come to light, complete with what is said to be a feasting hall, a cult house of the dead, and a ship burial. The archaeologists used ground penetrating radar to make their discoveries, rather than using a trowel on their hands and knees. It seems to have begun life as an Iron Age cemetary but in the Viking era was expanded into a more elaborate affair. |