June 30th marked the annual celebration of Asteroid Day, and science media used the occasion to suggest the need for greater funding for planetary defense against such an intruder. But just how real is the danger to Earth from kinetic impacts from asteroids, comets and meteors? In this episode, we…
A new investigation into the wind patterns in Earth’s upper atmosphere may provide critical insight into our planet’s electrical environment, and its relationship to the Sun. In numerous past episodes, retired professor of electrical engineering Dr. Donald Scott has outlined his mathematical modeling of a Birkeland current’s structure, and its…
In the first three parts of this presentation, Thunderbolts colleague Andrew Hall has explored the electrical nature of wind and powerful storms on Earth, and on planets throughout the solar system. Of course, geologists tell us that winds played a significant role in shaping the landscape of our planet, supposedly…
Since the start of the Space Age in the late 1950s, scientists were often surprised about what was found by space probes and remote detection devices. Probe results were often described as “surprising” or “unexpected”. In 1950 there were four major assumptions that were directly or indirectly used in developing…
It seems that the labyrinthine dance of the hero Theseus, as cited in our previous Discourse, gives us some powerful clues as to the extraordinary celestial events from which the underlying mythic archetype emerged. The “dance” had its own unique and awkward form called the Crane Dance, made famous by…
A team of scientists on Earth has made a surprising and perhaps very significant discovery on the Sun’s magnetic field. The scientists were utilizing a solar telescope to study the Sun’s corona, and through good fortune were able to observe and analyze an exceptionally powerful solar flare. The team focused…
In this adaptation of the Mel Acheson TPOD “Gravity vs Plasma,” Mel explains why the essence of momentous paradigm shifts in science is simply a matter of different viewpoints. Just as the landscape looks different when viewed from different locations, the facts and theories of the sciences appear different when…
In the first three parts of this presentation, physicist Eugene Bagashov has presented the ongoing analysis he and several colleagues are conducting into the presence of Birkeland currents within the Milky Way galaxy, and close to our solar system. This includes evidence that the Local Interstellar Chimney, where our solar…
Recent scientific reports have highlighted increased scientific interest in a long-enduring mystery on the Moon. For well over a half a century, scientists on Earth have puzzled over the cause of occasional mysterious flashes of light seen on the lunar surface, or what is called Transient Lunar Phenomena. In fact,…
Wind Map by Andrew Hall The face of the Earth was shaped by three primary means: volcanic eruption, lightning, and wind. It occurred in primordial storms which significantly ionized the atmosphere, charged the ground like a battery, and discharged energy between them in the same way we see today: earthquakes,…
