In the News

At https://phys.org/news/2022-02-earth-1.html ... where did the water on earth come from? This new study effectively eliminates outer space via comets and meteorites as the source

William has provided the link to https://www.yahoo.com/news/ancient-killer-crocodile-had-dinosaur-1030040... ... fossils of the beast were first found back in 2010 in eastern Australia. The fossil is said

At https://phys.org/news/2022-02-tilting-earth-crust-ancient-megafloods.html ... the headline caught my attention - tilting the earth's crust governed the flow of ancient megafloods. How does that happen? If the

Marinus van der Sluijs has an article in Nexus magazine on geomagnetic excursions and reversals. Go to https://nexusmagazine.com/product/when-the-aurora-went-global/?v-3e8d115... ... the same subject was covered in

At https://phys.org/news/2022-02-prehistoric-ancient-british-museum.html ... concerns the discovery of a chalk drum - with some interesting zig zag markings. It goes back 5000 years in date, deep

At https://phys.org/news/2022-02-french-cave-story-neanderthals-early.html ... Mandrin Cave, near Montclinier in southern France, is throwing up an oddity for archaeologists, but unsurprisingly one that supports the recent idea

Having already been aired on Clark Whelton's email list it would be interesting to note what is already known about Fleet Marston, a Roman settlement

At www.sci-news.com/archaeology/hopewell-comet-10515.html ... another link to the Hopewell comet paper exploding over North America. Sent in by Gary. At https://phys.org/news/2022-02-comet-un271-largest.html ... which is another link

We've had all kinds of black holes over the last few years - see earlier posts. Now we have a free floating black hole roaming

At https://phys.org/news/2022-02-supermassive-black-hole-flares-simulations... ... black holes, it seems, aren't always dark places, or invisible. Astronomers have seen intense light shows, or flares. Using computer simulation physicists

Devon is famous for its red soil and its Cambrian period red rocks which colour that earth. However, fossils of extinct Ice Age animals such

At https://phys.org/news/2022-02-comet-fiery-destruction-downfall-ancient.html ... the Hopewell culture in North America fell into decline 1500 years ago, which is not unlike the setbacks faced by the Romans

At https://phys.org/news/2022-02-early-human-settlement-arabian-peninsula.html .... evidence that Palaeolithic people repeatedly occupied a rock shelter in southern Arabia has been found, dating back 210,000 to 120,000 years ago.

William sent in the link, https://yahoo.com/entertainment/sun-moon-could-unleashing-earthquakes-00... ... It begins - what causes lava to gush from volcanoes in plumes of liquid fire? Plate tectoncs. What

At https://phys.org/news/2022-01-solar-orbiter-comet-tail.html ... the Solar Orbiter spacecraft has flown through the tail of Comet Leonard. In the process data was collected that now awaits analysis.

Not everything about Velikovsky had anything to do with errant planetary orbits, although that is of course the most obvious point of criticism. He also

Interesting subject as we await a solar storm next week. At https://phys.org/news/2022-01-scientists-mysterious-finger-like-features... ...  but see also www.nature.com/articles/s41550-021-01570-2 ... where we learn that back in 2019,

Horses have been entwined with human history for at least 5000 years. At https://phys.org/news/2022-01-quest-uncover-horse-rewriting-picture.html ... we learn that horses enabled rapid transport and played a

Rhodes Fairbridge, a prolific science author in his day, noted that DG King-Hele had in the 1960s, point out a pattern of solar planetary behaviour,

At https://phys.org/news/2022-01-volcanic-eruption-hours-long-thunderstorm.... ... a study by the US Geological Survey, with input from NOAA, looked at the Taal eruption in the Philippines, which took place