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On December 8, 2016, the American astronaut-hero John Glenn died. The occasion drew international attention not just to a remarkable personality but a life lived with determination, infectious optimism, and devotion to service. Long before his death at age 95, Glenn had not just fulfilled his childhood dreams, but left…
According to a recent press release, galaxy NGC 1222 is a “peculiar example” of lenticular galaxy. It is peculiar because lenticular galaxies are supposed to have used up the material available for new stars to form. NGC 1222, on the other hand, is described as a “starburst” galaxy, since new…
Planetary scientists tell us that Jupiter’s moon Io is the most volcanically active body in the solar system. Yet world-renowned scientists, including astrophysicist Thomas Gold and plasma physicist Anthony Peratt, proposed decades ago that Io’s so-called volcanic plumes are actually focused, high-energy electrical discharges. In this episode of Space News,…
In this John Chappell Memorial Lecture, Wal Thornhill sets forth a unified paradigm where plasma is the dominant, universal medium and the electric force rules the cosmos. Wal’s message to conventional theorists is simple and direct: give up all mathematical contrivances and return to the solid ground of observation, deduction,…
Scientists today are expressing their astonishment over the detection of water-deposits on an asteroid that is thought to be pure metal. The asteroid is called 16 Psyche, and it’s described as the largest metallic asteroid in the solar system. In previous episodes, Dr. Franklin Anariba has proposed that electrochemical processes…
This episode of Space News is an adaptation of the Stephen Smith TPOD, “Old and Far Away,” published October 27, 2016 on Thunderbolts.info. As Steve writes, “High redshift objects, like quasars, are often found in axial alignment with galaxies that possess substantially lower redshift. Indeed, they are sometimes connected to…
Tom Wilson examined the geocentric Ptolemaic system as a case study for the dynamics of belief systems and certainty, and also analyzed some interesting philosophical parallels between the old and the new, Ptolemy and Gravity, quintessence and dark matter. For well over 1000 years, the Ptolemaic cosmological system held sway…
Quantum experiments have long demonstrated that subatomic particles somehow “know” about each other instantly, and at great distances. Institutional science utilizes terms such as quantum entanglement and spooky action to describe the phenomena. But the Electric Universe theory offers a very different perspective. The speed of light limit to communication…
Produced in 1996, Remembering the End of the World was the first documentary covering David Talbott’s labors to reconstruct celestial events in ancient times. The Ben Ged Low film traces Talbott’s work back to its beginning in the early 70s. By following an original inspiration in the work of Immanuel…
Physicist Eugene Bagashov concludes his presentation on the most compelling findings to date of NASA’s New Horizons mission to the dwarf planet Pluto. In this fourth and final episode, Eugene shifts his focus to the Plutonian system’s mysterious moons. The surprisingly chaotic system has been characterized as “pandemonium,” and the…
