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This is a fascinating subject and one that has huge ramifications as far as ancient history is concerned. How big can an earthquake be? Robert

William sent in a link to an MSN story. A couple of months ago geologists claimed the blue stones at Stonehenge mainly came from Wales

At https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/08/240812160244.htm ... earthquakes and meteor impacts on Mars generate seismic waves that are used to map the planet's interior.  The same thing is done

Geologists, exploring the seabed off Lanzarote in the Canaries, using a remotely operated vehicle, at depths of 330 to 8200 feet, have discovered lost islands

Gary sent in the link https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/moon-turned-itself-inside-out-to-form-surface-we-see-today-scientists-discover/ar-BB1lh2vS ... well, sort of - but a quirky headlne. The moon turned itself inside out to form the surface

Dr Martin Sweatman, a chemical engineer at Edinburgh University, is at it again. Not content with upsetting mainstream by identifying figures on the Vulture Stone

Sent in by Eric after reading the earlier post on the subject. This time we get an Australian perspective. Go to https://www.joannenova.com.au/2024/08/the-whole-of-greenland-melted-away-in-the-last-million-years-and-it-wasnt-due-to-cars-and-coal/ ...... an interesting

Geomagnetic storms are expected between the 10th and 12th of August, from saturday until monday - over 3 nights. This is in response to a

At https://www.livescience.com/animals/extinct-species/siberian-gold-miners-accidentally-find-ancient-woolly-rhino-mummy-with-horn-and-soft-tissues-still-intact .... gold mining in the Russian Sakla Republic has come upon a woolly rhino buried in permafrost - although whether the permafrost had

Gary sent in a couple of link. At https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/the-oldest-black-hole-is-baffling-scientists/ar-AA1n8Ylb ... which is another take on the James Webb Space Telescope spotting what is thought to

Venus was a distinct feature of Velikovsky's catastrophic model. Hence, a post with the title of Venus may attract a lot of readers seeing as

At https://phys.org/news/2024-08-plasma-persistent-radio-emissions-fast.html ... fast radio bursts are apparently an open mystery to astrophysicists. Within four milliseconds these powerful events release incredible amounts of energy. It

This story is at https://phys.org/news/2024-08-refutes-theory-earth-continents.html .... I like the headline here as it starts out by saying the consensus opinion of how the continents formed

At https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/07/240730134746.htm ... we are informed the corona is weirdly hot. The Parker Solar Probe rules out S bends in the Sun's magnetic field as

At https://www.sciencealert.com/researchers-claim-long-lost-technology-used-to-build-iconic-pyramid-of-djoser ... pyramids have fascinated generations of people down the years. Sometimes the theories are odd. I'll leave you to decide how odd this

At https://phys.org/news/2024-08-sun-permanently-capture-rogue-planets.html ... can the Sun capture a rogue planet and add it to the solar system. This is an idea once theorised as possible

At https://www.sciencealert.com/520-million-year-old-fossilized-larva-found-with-preserved-brain-and-guts ... Firstly, it must have been buried very quickly. Secondly, this is a fossil of a sesame seed size baby worm. It was

During mid Pleistocene, somewhere between 1.2 million years ago and 700,000 years ago, glacial cycles are said to have changed from every 41,000 years to

At https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/07/240724123027.htm ... scientists assess - how large dinosaurs could really get. Using AI. What could go wrong. They use the carnivore Tyrannosaurus Rex as

At https://www.space.com/x-ray-galaxy-cluster-gas-structure ... the gas is so hot, we are told, between ten million and a hundred million degrees Celsius, that it radiates as powerful