Oct 15, 2018 Ancient civilizations catastrophically destroyed. Pareidolia: the tendency to perceive a specific, often meaningful image in a random or ambiguous visual pattern. Everyone is familiar with seeing “horsies and duckies” in cloud patterns. Lying back in a field of grass and watching the random interplay of dust and…
David Talbott will examine the protocol for cross-cultural investigation, bringing an objective standard to a field of study that scholars have long assumed to be hopelessly subjective. Is it really possible to identify extraordinary natural events hidden within a carnival of ancient myths and symbols? Our claim is that world…
Oct 12, 2018 What astronomers call a “Fast Radio Burst” can release more energy in five milliseconds than the Sun does in 80 years! Assumed distances to such high energy sources is said to be a billion light-years, or more, because of redshift measurements. If that is the case, then…
Oct 11, 2018 Phobos could be electrically charged. Of the two Martian moons, Phobos is the largest, at 28 by 20 kilometers. Its most prominent feature is Stickney crater, a ten-kilometer-wide excavation that is almost as large as Phobos, itself. If the crater was caused by the impact of…
New scientific research into the planet-forming conditions in so-called young star systems has delivered a shocking blow to gravitational accretion theory. In a paper published in the journal Astronomy Astrophysics, scientists described their attempts to determine how much material is present in the disks around stars that are thought to…
Oct 10, 2018 The Parker Solar Probe is beginning its seven year maneuvering phase. The Parker Solar Probe was launched on August 12, 2018. Its first gravity assisted slow-down took place on October 3, 2018. The probe will conduct several more gravity-assist maneuvers with Venus over the course of the…
Oct 9, 2018 Recent information reveals new dwarf planet features. The Kuiper Belt theory was proposed by astronomers Kenneth Edgeworth and Gerard Kuiper in 1951. Sometimes known as “trans-Neptunian Objects”, scores of Kuiper Belt Objects (KBO) from the size of small moons to the size of small planets…
Oct 8, 2018 The Universe keeps getting bigger. A recent press release announced that astronomers, combining data from the Hubble Space Telescope and the Spitzer Space Telescope, found a galaxy they believe is 13.3 billion light-years from Earth, making it the most distant object ever detected. According to the report,…
In part one of this presentation, Thunderbolts colleague Peter Mungo Jupp began a provocative reassessment of the standard geological and anthropological timetables on planet Earth. We have proposed a radically alternative history for our planet, and indeed our entire solar system. In relatively recent times, there was a chaotic period…
Oct 5, 2018 More Cassini data analysis. Saturn’s magnetosphere is an electrical environment, causing dark-mode plasma discharges and lightning bolts that flash across the ring plane. As previously written, when Cassini entered orbit around the giant planet, mission specialists were shocked to discover lightning of immense power, up to a million times more powerful than anything…
