http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/velikovsky/ en-us Wed, 24 Sep 2008 00:06:40 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2088914/posts Two terrestrial planets orbiting a mature sun-like star some 300 light-years from Earth recently suffered a violent collision, astronomers at UCLA, Tennessee State University and the California Institute of Technology will report in a December issue of the Astrophysical Journal, the premier journal of astronomy and astrophysics. "It's as if Earth and Venus collided with each other," said Benjamin Zuckerman, UCLA professor of physics and astronomy and a co-author on the paper. "Astronomers have never seen anything like this before. Apparently, major catastrophic collisions can take place in a fully mature planetary system." "If any life was present on either... physorg.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2088914/posts#comment Wed, 24 Sep 2008 00:06:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2023410/posts ScienceDaily (May 30, 2008) — A new analysis of the Martian rock that gave hints of water on the Red Planet -- and, therefore, optimism about the prospect of life -- now suggests the water was more likely a thick brine, far too salty to support life as we know it. The finding, by scientists at Harvard University and Stony Brook University, is detailed May 30 in the journal Science. "Liquid water is required by all species on Earth and we've assumed that water is the very least that would be necessary for life on Mars," says Nicholas J. Tosca,... Science Daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2023410/posts#comment Fri, 30 May 2008 08:35:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2047921/posts I was privileged this week to preview, before its release to the public, what may well prove to be a masterpiece of the documentary film-making art—a new look at the Biblical story of the Exodus from Egypt in the light of contemporary archeology and politics in the Middle East. Filmmaker Tim Mahoney´s "The Exodus Conspiracy",[1] due to be released within a few months, seeks to demonstrate the historical accuracy of the Biblical narrative of the exodus of the children of Israel from Egypt on the basis of recent archaeological discoveries and geographic explorations. A secondary thesis of the film is... American Chronicle http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2047921/posts#comment Sat, 19 Jul 2008 07:38:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1986453/posts Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Mar 03, 2008Mira: The Tale of a Giant StarThe light-years long plume of ionized gas from this red giant star provides evidence suggesting its electrical nature.NASA launched the Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) spacecraft on April 28, 2003 from the Cape Canaveral launch facility in southern Florida. Equipped with advanced near and ultraviolet detectors, GALEX was scheduled to remain in orbit for about 29 months studying galaxies in the hundreds of thousands. The mission has been extended and GALEX continues to return images such as the one of Mira, a red-giant star with a trail of material extending from... thunderbolts.info http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1986453/posts#comment Sun, 16 Mar 2008 09:11:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1960651/posts Well made YouTube video on the relationship of Immanuel Velikovsky and the Electric Universe. Velikovsky, Hero or Villain? Plasma Cosmology Astronomy Many of the predictions made by Velikovsky have proven true... while the traditional astronomers and cosmologists are repeatedly surprised by the findings. YouTube video http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1960651/posts#comment Mon, 28 Jan 2008 09:51:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1863215/posts ...Now, fast forward to more recent times on Venus. We've begun to understand the story of its surface evolution largely due to the Magellan mission in the 1990s. The biggest surprise of Magellan was that the surface seems like it's all the same age. That's what I'm calling the second great transition. Something changed on Venus 600 or 700 million years ago to make the surface all the same age. If you use the word catastrophic it rubs some people the wrong way, but something dramatic happened on Venus which wiped out almost all signs of an older surface. The... Astrobiology Magazine http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1863215/posts#comment Mon, 9 Jul 2007 21:46:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1754461/posts The results, presented today at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) assembly in San Francisco, USA, were obtained thanks to VIRTIS, the Visible and Infrared Thermal Imaging Spectrometer on board Venus Express. To obtain this fundamental information about the surface temperature, VIRTIS made use of the so-called infrared spectral 'windows' present in the Venusian atmosphere. Through these 'windows' thermal radiation at specific wavelengths can leak from the deepest atmospheric layers, pass through the dense cloud curtain situated at about 60 kilometres altitude, and then escape to space, where it can be detected by instruments like VIRTIS. In this way VIRTIS succeeded... Science Daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1754461/posts#comment Sat, 16 Dec 2006 17:20:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1753590/posts SAN FRANCISCO - Detailed observations from the first comet samples returned to Earth are debunking some of science's long-held beliefs on how the icy, celestial bodies form. Scientists expected the minute grains retrieved from a comet Wild 2 to be made up mostly of interstellar dust — tiny particles that flow through the solar system thought to be from ancient stars that exploded and died. Instead, they found an unusual mix of primordial material as if the solar system had turned itself inside out. Hot particles from the inner solar system migrated out to the cold, outer fringes beyond Pluto... AP on Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1753590/posts#comment Thu, 14 Dec 2006 20:50:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1678394/posts Old Testament dispute continuesWas King David Judaism's King Arthur? By Richard N. Ostling AP Religion WriterAP Photo/Biblical Archaeology Review by Thomas E. Levy American archaeologist/educator Nelson Glueck's suggestions that a gate lay buried at the entrance to the Iron Age fortress of Khirbat en-Nahas were recently realized when archaeologists discovered a four-chamber gate (only two have been excavated). Radiocarbon dating fixed the date of its construction to the 10th century. Some scholars are busily debunking the Bible's account of the great King David, asking: Was he really all that great? Was he largely legendary, Judaism's version of Britain's legendary King... Decaur Daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1678394/posts#comment Sat, 5 Aug 2006 19:35:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1671604/posts Scientists said Monday they have found the first widespread evidence of giant hydrocarbon lakes on the surface of Saturn's planet-size moon Titan. The cluster of hydrocarbon lakes was spotted near Titan's frigid north pole during a weekend flyby by the international Cassini spacecraft, which flew within 590 miles of the moon. Researchers counted about a dozen lakes ranging from 6 miles to 62 miles wide. Some lakes, which appeared as dark patches in radar images, were connected by channels while others had tributaries flowing into them. Several were dried up, but the ones that contained liquid were most likely a... AP - Bakersfield Californian http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1671604/posts#comment Tue, 25 Jul 2006 01:56:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/786902/posts Biblical plagues and parting of Red Sea 'caused by volcano' By Jonathan Petre, Religion Correspondent (Filed: 11/11/2002) Fresh evidence that the Biblical plagues and the parting of the Red Sea were natural events rather than myths or miracles is to be presented in a new BBC documentary. Moses, which will be broadcast next month, will suggest that much of the Bible story can be explained by a single natural disaster, a huge volcanic eruption on the Greek island of Santorini in the 16th century BC. Using computer-generated imagery pioneered in Walking With Dinosaurs, the programme tells the story of how... News.telegraph.co.uk http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/786902/posts#comment Mon, 11 Nov 2002 20:44:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1737076/posts THE SEA PEOPLES All at once, they were on the move, scattered in war. They laid their hands upon the lands to the very circuit of the earth, their hearts confident and trusting; Our plans will succeed... " (Ramesses III). The name "Peoples of the Sea" comes directly from the Egyptian records, describing the Sea Peoples' exploits. As their collective name tells us, they were tribes who had developed a life style almost totally dependent upon the sea. They perfected boats, sailing and navigational techniques for fishing offshore as well as long distance travel and explored much of the Atlantic... U Colorado Edu http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1737076/posts#comment Sun, 12 Nov 2006 00:12:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1622832/posts Chunks of a comet currently splitting into pieces in the night sky will not strike the Earth next month, nor will it spawn killer tsunamis and mass extinctions, NASA officials said Thursday. The announcement, NASA hopes, will squash rumors that a fragment of the crumbling Comet 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 3 (SW 3) will slam into Earth just before Memorial Day. "There are some Internet stories going around that there's going to be an impact on May 25," NASA spokesperson Grey Hautaluoma, told SPACE.com. "We just want to get the facts out." Astronomers have been observing 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 3, a comet that circles the... Space.com on Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1622832/posts#comment Thu, 27 Apr 2006 23:32:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1641966/posts Ancient mega-catastrophe paved way for the dinosaurs, spawned Australian continent. Planetary scientists have found evidence of a meteor impact much larger and earlier than the one that killed the dinosaurs -- an impact that they believe caused the biggest mass extinction in Earth's history.The 300-mile-wide crater lies hidden more than a mile beneath the East Antarctic Ice Sheet. And the gravity measurements that reveal its existence suggest that it could date back about 250 million years -- the time of the Permian-Triassic extinction, when almost all animal life on Earth died out.Its size and location -- in the Wilkes Land... Ohio State University http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1641966/posts#comment Thu, 1 Jun 2006 21:26:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1626867/posts NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is giving astronomers their most detailed view yet of a second red spot emerging on Jupiter. For the first time in history, astronomers have witnessed the birth of a new red spot on the giant planet, which is located half a billion miles away. The storm is roughly one-half the diameter of its bigger and legendary cousin, the Great Red Spot. Researchers suggest that the new spot may be related to a possible major climate change in Jupiter's atmosphere. These images were taken with Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys on April 8 and 16, 2006 Hubble Site http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1626867/posts#comment Thu, 4 May 2006 20:44:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/813688/posts The Drama Complex The traditions of Greek tragedy as in Oedipus Rex are based upon the religious traditions of the Greeks - - the idea of destiny or a preordained fate subject to the whims of the gods. Socrates saw this fallacy in Plato’s Euthyphro, when he asked Euthyphro what was pleasing to the gods and how could someone be pious to the gods when they all wanted something different than the others. It made no sense to observe the divinity of one god and ignore the demands of another god. How could a person know what it was to... Sir Francis Dashwood Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/813688/posts#comment Sun, 29 Dec 2002 13:24:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1092484/posts The Mars rover Opportunity's examination of Martian rocks last week provided the first convincing evidence that our neighbour world was once "awash" in water, as one NASA scientist described it. But where did the water come from? And why does Mars have no liquid water now, while Earth apparently has been covered with the stuff for 4 billion years? Scientists are just beginning to piece the story together, and it goes right back to the beginning. Mars, like Earth, was formed from dusty and rocky debris left over after the sun was born 4.57 billion years ago. Initially, there were... The Toronto Star http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1092484/posts#comment Sun, 7 Mar 2004 10:21:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/669255/posts Ancient history as taught today is a disaster area. The chronology of the first and second millennium BCE is badly wrong. The history of ancient history revisionism offered here is drawn largely from the pages of SIS publications over the last 25 years. The Revision of Ancient History - A Perspective By P John Crowe. An edited and extended version of a paper presented to the SIS Jubilee Conference, Easthampstead Park, Sept. 17-19th 1999 [1] Internet Paper Revision no.1 March 2001 Contents Introduction An Outline History of Revising Ancient History - Up to 1952. 2.1 Exaggerating Antiquity. 2.2 The Early... SIS - How Historians have now embraced Velikovsky! http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/669255/posts#comment Fri, 19 Apr 2002 19:33:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/740831/posts Archeologists to Unearth Ancient Egyptian City Wed Aug 28,10:25 AM ET By Heba Kandil CAIRO, Egypt (Reuters) - In a squalid suburb of northeast Cairo, a red granite obelisk towering above ramshackle homes is the last visible vestige of a nearly 7,000-year-old city where ancient Egyptians believed life began. Archeologists say they soon expect to unearth other artifacts and unlock the secrets of the sun-cult city of On buried beneath today's suburbs of Ain Shams, which means "eye of the sun" in Arabic, and the adjacent area of Matariya. "It's a matter of a few months and the supreme council... Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/740831/posts#comment Wed, 28 Aug 2002 19:10:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1236867/posts Is the Sun really hot? The question is, on the face of it, almost insane. No-one could possibly doubt that the sun is the only source of external heat on earth. And, certainly, the part that we see, the sun's photosphere, is some 5,800 degrees Kelvin. The solar corona, which extends into space, may be as hot as one million degrees Kelvin. But what exactly is underneath this hot atmosphere? The explanation universally accepted without question is that it must be an even hotter mass of hydrogen gas, fusing into helium and other elements at temperatures of 15 million degrees... alternative science http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1236867/posts#comment Wed, 6 Oct 2004 15:44:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1330389/posts Canadian archeologist Russell Adams's interest is in Bronze Age and Iron Age copper production. He never intended to walk into archeology's vicious debate over the historical accuracy of the Old Testament -- a conflict likened by one historian to a pack of feral canines at each other's throats. Yet by coincidence, Prof. Adams of Hamilton's McMaster University says, he and an international team of colleagues fit into place a significant piece of the puzzle of human history in the Middle East -- unearthing information that points to the existence of the Bible's vilified Kingdom of Edom at precisely the time... chn http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1330389/posts#comment Fri, 28 Jan 2005 06:42:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/565860/posts November 7, 2001  The Reality of Ancient Catastrophism  About fifty years ago, a Russian psychiatrist named Immanuel Velikovsky wrote a book, "Worlds in Collision."  He suggested that much of the earliest history of mankind was deeply affected by catastrophic cosmic events.  His suggestions seemed outrageous:  that Venus is a comet that was ejected from Jupiter, and that its flybys past the Earth created the tidal forces that explained the Parting of the Red Sea and other miraculous incidents recorded in the Bible.  Velikovsky's theories had one big problem:  they assumed a highly unlikely coincidence. Evolutionists claim the Solar System ... The Cydonia Files http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/565860/posts#comment Wed, 7 Nov 2001 17:12:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1006914/posts The Battleground Who Destroyed Megiddo? Was It David or Shishak? Timothy P. Harrison Sidebar: Megiddo at A Glance Did King David conquer and destroy Megiddo? Well, that depends partly on the date of Stratum VI. Let me explain why. Most scholars accept David as a historical figure who was an active military ruler in the period portrayed in the Hebrew Bible (the early tenth century B.C.E.). However, there is considerably less agreement on how to interpret the archaeological evidence for this period. That’s where Megiddo Stratum VI figures in. The dispute is over which archaeological material relates to the time... Bibical Archaeology http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1006914/posts#comment Thu, 23 Oct 2003 23:49:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1307719/posts Scientist: Asteroid May Hit Earth in 2029 Thu Dec 23, 5:40 PM ET By JOHN ANTCZAK, Associated Press Writer LOS ANGELES - There's a 1-in-300 chance that a recently discovered asteroid, believed to be about 1,300 feet long, could hit Earth in 2029, a NASA (news - web sites) scientist said Thursday, but he added that the perceived risk probably will be eliminated once astronomers get more detail about its orbit.   There have been only a limited number of sightings of Asteroid 2004 MN4, which has been given an initial rating of 2 on the 10-point Torino Impact Hazard... Yahoo/AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1307719/posts#comment Fri, 24 Dec 2004 04:24:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1239558/posts The Hollow Earth Perhaps some of the most bizarre scientific theories ever considered were those concerning the possibility that the Earth was hollow. One of the earliest of these was proposed in 1692 by Edmund Halley. Edmund Halley was a brilliant English astronomer whose mathematical calculations pinpointed the return of the comet that bears his name. Halley was fascinated by the earth's magnetic field. He noticed the direction of the field varied slightly over time and the only way he could account for this was there existed not one, but several, magnetic fields. Halley came to believe that the Earth... umuseum http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1239558/posts#comment Sat, 9 Oct 2004 00:48:51 GMT