Apr 9, 2015 What did the ancient people think of the axis mundi (world axis)? In the footsteps of Mircea Eliade, mythologists and anthropologists tend to think of the axis mundi or ‘world axis’ as a straight object running through the cosmos vertically. While this is, of course, correct for the…
Apr 8, 2015 Rhea bears examination in light of electrical theories. Rhea is one of Saturn’s medium-sized moons, second only in size to Titan, with a mean diameter of 1528 kilometers. The entire visible surface of Rhea is covered in craters, making it a candidate for the most heavily…
In March, the NASA Dawn Spacecraft entered the orbit of the mysterious dwarf planet Ceres, with the craft scheduled to begin sending images to Earth later this month. For several weeks, surprising and unexplained bright spots within a crater on the planet’s surface have generated enormous buzz in popular media….
Apr 7, 2015 Space and time do not bend or warp. In September 1998 astrophysicists documented an inexplicable “tug” acting on the now defunct Ulysses spacecraft as it traveled through the Solar System in an orbit over the Sun’s poles. When radio signals from Earth were returned from an onboard…
Apr 6, 2015 Easter eggs are not unique to Christendom, but find a match in the eggs painted by ancient Zoroastrians and modern Persians on occasion of Nowruz – the beginning of the new year, celebrated on the spring equinox. For the student of ancient religions they are a…
The subject of this video series by Dave Talbott is the ancient experience of towering celestial forms that are no longer present. From a single snapshot of the configuration, we can work backwards to the first appearance of these bodies out of an undifferentiated cloud or sea of dusty plasma….
Apr 3, 2015 In 1742, the French natural philosopher John Theophilus Desaguliers (1683-1744) formulated some of the first generalisations regarding the electrification of air. That – as well as Halley’s work, presumably, although he did not cite it – inspired Pontoppidan, writing in 1755, to propound an electric nature…
It is a great paradox in comet science: We are told that a comet nucleus is a ball of ice, or dirty snowball, or icy fluff ball that accreted billions of year ago in the solar system’s infancy. Comets are said to sublimate ices as they move toward the sun,…
Apr 1, 2015 Astronomical bodies such as the earth, the moon, the sun or any other moons, planets and stars are too large or too distant for direct experimentation with their global properties, even in the Space Age. A terrella (Latin for ‘earthlet’, ‘earthkin’ or ‘little earth’) is an…
Part of The Electrochemistry of Comets by Dr. Franklin Anariba | Space News, posted on YouTube March 31, 2015 Please note, transcript is rough and may include some misinterpretations of certain words and terms. What I’m going to do here is start to give you an illustration of what can…
