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The thunderbolts site was recently the victim of a distributed brute force attack which spread across WordPress sites all around the globe in a matter of minutes. An injection of unusual hidden scripts onto our site is what caused the “Malware Ahead” warning which Google issued and forced onto the…

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Ganymede

  Feb 20, 2014 The largest moon in the Solar System shows signs of what could be electric scarring. Jupiter and its moons have been the destination of several deep space missions over the last four decades. Beginning with Pioneer 10 in 1973, and including the most recent visit by  New Horizons, seven different camera…

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Ironstone Fulgurites

Feb 14, 2014 Strange formations within a sandstone matrix are found throughout the Blue Mountains. Exactly what are sandstone and ironstone? The classic explanation is that they are both sedimentary rock, which means they are deposited in layers. In the Blue Mountains near Sydney, the sandstone layer is around 600…

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The Universe in Lace

Feb 12, 2014 Is the recently announced “cosmic web” based on erroneous conclusions? A press release from the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC), reports observations of the filamentary structure that comprises the Universe. A nebula exceeding 2 million light-years across, surrounding a quasi-stellar radio source (quasar) known as UM287,…

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Dry Water

  Feb 07, 2014 Several previous Picture of the Day articles take issue with the idea that Mars once flowed with liquid water. Since Mars is now a freeze-dried, barren wasteland of rocks and dust, it is presumed that the supposed water features there evaporated over millions of years. When…

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Butterflies on a String

  Feb 06, 2014 Modern astronomy has a planetary nebula (PN) problem: Gravity can’t do what PNs do. Astronomers invent a kind of pseudo-magnetism to fill the explanatory holes. This pseudo-magnetism is a reified presumption that’s unplugged from the electric currents that generate real magnetic forces. Consensus theory has PNs…

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