In the News

At https://phys.org/news/2023-02-space-earth-sun-shield.html ... it seems some Dr Strangeloves are trying to prime Joe Public into an awful experiment - turning our weather cold. The claim

a couple of post at https://spaceweather.com ... On the 11th February [2023] sunspot AR3217 has a 'beta-gamma delts' magnetic field that hosts enough energy for

The headline reads, scientists detect a molten rock layer hidden beneath earth's tectonic plates - see https://phys.org/news/2023-02-scientists-molten-layer-hidden-earth.html ... I wonder why they said 'tectonic plates'

At https://phys.org/news/2023-02-prehistoric-human-migration-southeast-asia.html ... stating the obvious, we might say. Sundaland sunk beneath the waves and people migrated. Sundaland must have been occupied by humans but

This story is at https://spaceweather.com ... February 8th, 2023. Tides are associated with the rise and  fall of ocean waters in reponse to the gravitational

At https://phys.org/news/2023-02-remapping-superhighways-australians-reveals-year.html ... sophisticated models combine with recent improvements in demography and wayfinding based on geographic inferences, show the scale of the challenge faced by

William sent in a Yahoo link to a NOAA simulation of the tsunami waves generated by the dinosaur killing asteroid srike. You can watch the

Karahan Tepe is a site close to Gobekli Tepe, and roughly the same age - see https://www.heritagedaily.com/2022/08/karahan-tepe-the-sister-site-to-gobeki-tepe/144272 ... it was discovered in 1997 but not

At two links, and there are many others on the Net, we have news of a re-evaluation of the surviving text on the Mesha stele,

Comet ZTF is barely visible to the naked eye, at its closest approach to the earth, 0.28AU away. See https://spaceweather.com ... February 1st 2023. Meanwhile

At https://phys.org/news/2023-01-unearthing-archaeological-lagash-site-southern.html ... archaeologists returned to Lagash in 2022 to reopen their excavations. They came across an ancient 'tavern' complete with benches, a clay cooling

In further studies on the Tonga submarine eruption on January 15th last year, 2022, we know it produced a plume that consisted of a  lot

The father of the Big Bang theory was a Belgian priest, Georges Lemaitre. At https://phys.org/news/2023-01-lost-video-georges-lematre-father.html ... there is a link to a 20 minute video

An SIS member forwarded the link https://doi.org/10.1016/j.spacepol.2022.101493 ... sent to him by the author, Joel Marks, 'The Worst Case: Planetary Defense against a Doomsday Impactor'

At https://spaceweather.com ... January 27th 2023, we learn a bit more about the disconnection event last week. It seems a CME flew off the sun

Interesting concept - catastrophist archaeology. Looks like some people are awake and not asleep at the wheel. Tomorrow night a 5m cosmic rock will sail

William sent in the link to https://www.yahoo.com/news/earths-inner-core-may-started-161117093.html ... earths solid inner core has stopped spinning in the same direction as the planet. It might even

At https://spaceweather.com ... on January 23rd 2023, we learn that Comet ZTF has developed an Anti-Tail  - but it is apparently, an optical illusion. They

At https://martinsweatman.blogspot.com/2019/07/decoding-pictish-symbols.html ... this post goes back to 2019 as I trawl through Sweatman's web site. The Picts are thought to be a backward people

Just found this excellent article on the net. The article is by Marc Young, better known at https://cosmictusk.com ... for his research for the Comet