There’s been a lot of interesting chatter on the Tusk lately about cosmically inspired aboriginal Rock Art. The strange etchings and scratchings on rocks around the world have long caused speculation that at least some portion of the art is inspired from above, the question is how much, what exactly did they see, and when did they see it. For instance,Pierson Bieretto over at Cosmopier…
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Wow. Michael Davias at Perigee Zero keeps stripping the hide off the ball for Carolina Bays. He has investigated, identified and, most importantly — visualized and shared — some extraordinary info on the range and character of bays in the Southeast and Midwest.
The screenshot below only scratches the surface of what Mike has put out there for all of us. See the full data in a Google…
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CCNet Extra- 19 November 2010
Brian G. Marsden, Eminent Astronomer, Dies
This might be off-topic on some of the lists to which I am a member of . . . but it is a very sad piece of news that everyone in the astronomical community should be made aware of. Brian was a good friend . . . a brilliant man . . . and one of the nicest people in the astronomical community. As those of the Jewish faith would…
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From: http://home.swbell.net/a1star1/
A mythical monster, usually represented as a large reptile with wings and claws, breathing out fire and smoke. (Webster’s New World Dictionary)
There are dragon or serpent monster myths found in practically every culture on Earth (for simplicity, I will refer to serpent monsters as dragons). Usually in these myths, the dragons were capable of great…
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A NICKEL PICKLE
The Problems of Building High-Tech From a Meteoroid Wreck
by Bob Kobres
Part D
From the original on Bob Kobres’ site here.
Uniformitarianism succeeded in displacing catastrophism as the acceptable approach to unraveling Earth’s past, largely because slow moving glaciers better explained the presence of displaced boulders. Catastrophists had surmised that these large…
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1 Oct 2010
Richard:
Responses to some of your comments (which are in italics):
Haynes did confirm our evidence for peaks in the magnetic fractions at the YD layer. He found more Ir than we did at nearly any site which is a smoking gun for an impact. He’s nuts if he thinks the Ir levels that he found in the stream bed are normal. Probably the Ir washed out of the YD layer into the streambed.
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