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Boreades
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| Mick Harper wrote: | | the whole theory, based as it is on cyclical occurrences, falls apart immediately. |
What theory?
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Mick Harper
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| Boreades wrote: | | Victor Clube, an astrophysicist, has been looking into the cyclic nature of the Taurid-Arietid meteor showers that arrive in Britain in late June and November. He hypothethises that these are remnants of a much bigger meteor cluster on an orbit that intercepts with Earth every c.500 years, and have had bigger impacts with Earth in the past. |
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Boreades
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Oh, him.
| Dr Stace Victor Murray Clube (S.V.M. Clube) (born October 22, 1934 in London) is a British astrophysicist, previously Dean of the astrophysics department at Oxford University. Together with Bill Napier is co-author of books on coherent catastrophism, and also with Mark Bailey. |
That "coherent catastrophism"...
Coherent catastrophism is the hypothesis that the inner solar system, and consequently the Earth, has been subjected to catastrophes from passing comets. It is termed “coherent” because:
“Cataclysms visit wide areas of the planet due to the coherent arrival of many impactors in a few days. It is entirely feasible that within those few days the earth could receive hundreds of blows like that of the Tunguska object. |
It's a coherent phrase, even if it's not a coherent theory.
| He has also been Senior Visiting Fellow at Armagh Observatory, and Acting Director of the Royal Observatory in Edinburgh. In the late 1950s he played first class cricket for Oxford University. |
Is he on a sticky wicket?
Ref: his page in [ The Velikovsky Encyclopedia ]
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Boreades
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It's nice to see our old friend Velikovsky making an appearance.
| There is no doubt that some scientists have labeled some of Velikovsky’s work, pseudoscience or worse, but also others who have acknowledged that Velikovsky made predictions that have turned out to be correct. |
| Immanuel Velikovsky (1895-1979) was a controversial author of several books suggesting a radical interpretation of history. In his best-selling book, Worlds in Collision (1950), he argues that the Earth and other planets, had been subject to cosmic catastrophes in historical times, that had been recorded in the oral traditions, myths and legends of the peoples of the world. | |
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Mick Harper
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The only 'coherent catastrophe' we have actually witnessed, the Tunguska object, was so catastrophic nobody knew about it.
Dinosaur 1: Did you feel that?
Dinosaur 2: Did I feel what? | |
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