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Blobs and Plates
12 May 2024 GeologyThe space age has revealed that Plate Tectonics is a peculiarity confined to Earth and is non-existent everywhere else in the solar system. Plate Tectonics
Tonga Volcanic Explosion
12 May 2024 Catastrophism, Electromagnetism, GeologyAt https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/volcanos/record-shattering-tonga-volcanic-eruption-wasnt-triggered-by-what-we-thought-new-study-suggests ... the Hunga Tonga volcano was a real explosion - triggered by gas building up to a critical point. Scientists had thought it
Apophis
11 May 2024 Astronomy, CatastrophismNo, not the Egyptian god of that name, or any pharaoh Apophis, but the asteroid that on Friday the 13th, April of 2029, that will
Stonehenge Lunar Standstill
11 May 2024 Archaeology, AstronomyAt https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/major-lunar-standstill-may-reveal-if-stonehenge-is-aligned-with-the-moon ... further to the post last week on Stonehnge and its station stones, forming a rectangle and an alignment to the lunar standstill,
Solar Orbiter Images
7 May 2024 Astronomy, Electric Universe, ElectromagnetismAt https://phys.org/news/2024-05-solar-orbiter-mind-boggling-video.html ... a video captured by ESAs Solar Orbiter mission shows feathery hair like structures made of plasma following magnetic field lines in the
Sarginu
7 May 2024 ArchaeologyAt https://phys.org/news/2024-05-assyriologist-archaeological-mystery-bc.html ... mysterious symbols etched on temples in the 8th century BC city of Dur Sharrukin [Khorsabad] appear to have been carved in the
Cosmic Glitch in Gravity
4 May 2024 Astronomy, cosmology, Electric Universe, ElectromagnetismAt https://phys.org/news/2024-05-cosmic-glitch-gravity-strange-behavior.html ... Canadian researchers claim to have found a 'cosmic glitch' in gravity. This may explain the strange behaviour of the universe. Gravity becomes
LiDAR archaeology
4 May 2024 ArchaeologyA motley collection. At https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/lasers-reveal-prehistoric-irish-monuments-that-may-have-been-pathways-for-the-dead ... LiDAR technology has really revolutionised archaeogy. They can, for example, peer into woodland and map the ground on which
Something Odd in the Pacific
3 May 2024 GeologyWilliam sent in the link https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/strange-structures-discovered-in-the-pacific-could-change-our-understanding-of-earth/ ... here we have some unexplained geology in South Africa, on the one hand, and New Zealand, on the
The Moon and a Bear bone
1 May 2024 ArchaeologyAt https://www.iflscience.com/engraved-bone-of-prehistoric-bear-is-the-oldest-example-of-neanderthal-culture-73884/ ... in this we are back to the last Interglacial Period with a date between 115,000 and 130,000 years ago. It involves a
Blessed Ball Courts
28 April 2024 ArchaeologyAt https://phys.org/news/2024-04-art-discoveries-eastern-sudan-tale.html ... in the desert of eastern Sudan, in what is called the Atbai Desert, there are plentiful rock art sites - along what
Earthquakes or Not
28 April 2024 Archaeology, GeologyRobert sent in some interesting links. At https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/5-catastrophic-megathrust-earthquakes-led-to-the-demise-of-the-pre-aztec-city-of-teotihuacan-new-study-suggests .... the gist of the paper is that evidence of earthquakes found at Teotihuacan caused the demise
Gmma Rays and Supernovae
22 April 2024 Astronomy, cosmologyAt https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/04/240416125319.htm ... a nearby supernova in 2023 failed to produce gamma rays. NASAs Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope did not detect any gamma rays -
Stellar Flares
22 April 2024 Astronomy, cosmologyAt https://phys.org/news/2024-04-hydrogen-recombination-plausible-explanation-high.html ... here we have a plausible explanation put forward to explain the intensity of stellar flares. Cosmologists making sense of solar flares as
Lizard Fish
20 April 2024 Biology, PalaeontologyAt https://www.livescience.com/animals/extinct-species/giant-82-foot-lizard-fish-discovered-on-uk-beach-could-be-largest-marine-reptile-ever-found ... it was in fact a very large ichthyosaur that lived in the seas of late Triassic - going back 200 million years
Giant Kangaroos
20 April 2024 Biology, PalaeontologyAt https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/04/240415110602.htm ... palaeontologists have excavated 3 new species of extinct kangaroos that lived between 5 million years and 40,000 years ago. Note the end
Reviewing the Base Model of the Universe
18 April 2024 Astronomy, cosmologyYou can read about this at https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2024/04/15/worlds-top-cosmologists-convene-to-question-conventional-view-of-the-universe/ .... which comes courtesy of the Guardian newspaper. It concerns an upcoming meeting of the Royal Society which
Electric Signals Bees and Flowers
18 April 2024 Biology, Electric Universe, ElectromagnetismAt https://www.sciencenews.org/article/flower-antennas-bees-electrical-signals/ ... flowers may act as antennae for bees electrical signals. Plants might use the signals to communicate when to trigger nectar production. The
Investigating the LB/Iron transition
18 April 2024 Archaeology, CatastrophismSpecifically, their focus is on western Anatolia and the eastern Aegean region. You can view a podcast interview at https://open.spotify.com/3i5EhhvUkQTiuPGwWrTtyS .... but see also https://www.migmag-erc.eu/
Pottery and Australians
17 April 2024 Anthropology, Archaeology, GeologyAt https://phys.org/news/2024-04-discovery-pottery-rewrites-aboriginal-history.html ... the discovery of pottery on Jiigurru/Lizard Island off the Queensland coast challenges the idea Aborigines were unaware of pottery manufacture prior to