What's new?
Well, this site is. After several free years at homepage.com,
they have kicked everyone off, with just 2 weeks notice. And my new service
just got severely hacked.
I wasn't expecting to be launching the new site so soon, so don't be surprised
if it is constantly changing, or if parts aren't working.
The Book
I'm hoping to finish all of it in the second half of 2001. I'll be posting
most of it here. Receive new
chapter alerts by email.
Nazca Lines Theory &
Charles Hapgood and Pole Shifts
Four and five page, referenced articles are now online.
2012 News
Founded
by few (New Scientist - May 9, 2001)
Fewer than 50 people founded the entire population of Europe, according
to a new way of reading history from the genome
Proof
of Cosmic Ray Bombardment (UniSci - May 14, 2001)
Atmospheric carbon 14 levels soared dramatically between 45,000 and 33,000
years ago - this correlates to other peaks for other radioactive isotopes
-- beryllium 10 and chlorine36 -- found in polar ice cores and lake sediments.
All three isotopes are produced when cosmic rays bombard Earth's upper
atmosphere. (more here).
This means that anything "proven" to be
very old using carbon-dating, is now not nearly as old as previously thought.
So much for scientists and their "facts".
Another
Ancient Culture (ABC - May 13, 2001)
Evidence of the accomplishments of the unknown people in what are now
the republics of Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan began to emerge over several
decades of excavations by archaeologists of the Soviet Union. Writing
can now be added to their large buildings and monumental arches. But what
to call this culture? (more here)
Ancient
Horses were Hunted (Nat. Geographic - May 11, 2001)
Well, evidence that one American horse was hunted. This will be
used by orthodox scientists to prove that the massive extinction of megafauna�animals
weighing more than 100 pounds (45 kilograms)� in North America about 10,000
years ago, was caused by a posse of super-hunters with enormous appetites...
Plate
tectonics 500 million years older? (Reuters - May 10, 2001)
The discovery of the so-called Dongwanzi ophiolite, near the Great Wall
of China, pushes back by 500 million years the known beginning of plate
tectonics, and suggests that the process has been going on since Earth's
infancy.
Sudden
extinctions 200 million years ago (AP - May 10, 2001)
The extinction, at the boundary of the Triassic and Jurassic periods of
geologic history, is similar in its suddenness to two extinction events
that have been linked to space rocks' impacts on the Earth. (also here)
Star
eats a planet (BBC - May 9, 2001)
Astronomers finally have evidence that Sun-like stars with planets are
guilty of swallowing the planets in orbit around them.
11,000-year-old
mine in Virginia, USA (Wash. Post - May 4, 2001)
Archaeologists are hailing the site, dubbed Brook Run, as a rare and exquisitely
well-preserved ancient quarry. It dates to more than 11,000 years ago,
a time many scientists call the earliest human habitation of the region.
They are puzzling over how ancient people, without the benefits of backhoes
or even a modern shovel, managed to dig so deep to extract stones from
a vertical seam so narrow. "They must have been very narrow people who
went down there and hauled that stuff out," says a Fairfax County staff
archaeologist.
Yarn
strand suggests Vikings in Canada (NY Times - May 8, 2001)
"I am finding new Norse materials every couple of weeks. It suggests there
was a significant European presence in Eastern Canada in the centuries
around 1000 A.D."
Columbus
in America 7 years earlier (The Times - May 8, 2001)
Professor Bausani said that the �key to the mystery of Columbus and the
Indies� lies in an annotation of the Piri Reis map, which refers to the
American land mass: �These shores were discovered in the year 890 of the
Arab era by the infidel from Genoa.� Genoa was Columbus�s birthplace and
890 corresponds to 1485-86.
Chernobyl
children show mutations (BBC - May 8, 2001)
Scientists say there is evidence that low radiation doses can cause multiple
changes in human DNA, that are passed on to future generations.
Sting's
Pyramid concert (Zahi Hawass - May, 2001)
Hawass comments on trying to protect the ancient monument from the usually
politically-correct Sting.
Black
Holes Don't Just Gobble, They Spin (NASA - Apr 30, 2001)
Not such a surprise really...
Peru city as old as Egypt pyramids (The
Times & Assoc.
Press & Nat.
Geographic)
New radio-carbon dating of plant fibres found at Caral, 120 miles north
of Lima, has revealed that the ancient city was built as early as 2600BC,
more than 1,000 years earlier than was previously thought, making it by
far the oldest urban settlement yet identified in the Americas. It includes
a complex of stone pyramids, plazas and intricate irrigation canals.
Human
race "just lucky" (The Times - Apr 18, 2001)
Modern human beings might have outlasted relations such as the Neanderthals
not because of genetic advantages, but by a slice of �cosmic luck�, according
to two scientists, who believe Homo sapiens has been extremely lucky not
to have been wiped out by an asteroid impact � and that other hominid
species might not have been so fortunate.
A
'four-piston engine' drives earth (EurekaAlert - Apr 23, 2001)
Deep beneath Earth's surface, continent-sized plumes of hot rock are floating
upwards, providing a driving force for such phenomena as the movements
of whole continents, earthquakes, volcanism, and even climate change.
What
is happening at the South Pole? (Enterprise Mission)
In recent weeks, a series of disturbing and mysterious reports have been
coming out of Antarctica, centered around a strange
"anomaly" recently detected on that perpetually frozen Continent.
The stories, covered extensively by internet news sources (like Kent Steadman's
Cyberspace
Orbit site), draw eerie parallels to material as diverse as a French
novel, the "X-Files" movie, and as we shall see, even Arthur C. Clarke's
"2001 - A Space Odyssey." Read about the 11 people evacuated,
and a possible nuclear
power plant
Infant
Stars Rock Their Cradle (STScI - Mar 28, 2001)
Extremely intense radiation from newly born, ultra-bright stars has blown
a glowing spherical bubble in the nebula N83B, also known as NGC 1748.
Astronomers estimate that the spherical void in N83B must have been carved
out of the nebula very recently - in astronomical terms - maybe as little
as 30,000 years ago
Titicaca
Islands Were Shrines Before Incas (UniSci - Apr 23, 2001)
The Islands of the Sun and the Moon -- two islands on Bolivia's side of
Lake Titicaca, long known as sites of Incan shrines -- are likely to have
been the destination for ritual pilgrimages by worshippers a thousand
years or more before the Incan empire.
Solar
Forecasters on full alert (Space.com - Apr 18, 2001)
A large CME can contain a billion tons of matter, spit out at high speed,
that hits anything and everything in its way. On occasion, Earth is in
the strike zone.
Malta
heritage site destroyed (News 24 - Apr 15, 2001)
5000 year old Mnajdra stone temples wrecked by vandals
Inspiration
for Pyramids & Sphinx (UniSci - Apr 16, 2001)
Newly published research suggests that the Pyramids and Sphinx were inspired
by natural landforms that abound in the Western Desert of Egypt. You must
see these convincing
photos
Yet
another solar flare (NY Times - Apr 13, 2001)
Jupiter's
Northern Lights (BBC - Apr 12, 2001)
They saw an expanding region of light that covered an area the size of
Earth in a matter of minutes, and disappeared just as fast.
Asteroids
affected human evolution (BBC - Apr 12, 2001)
....the most likely cause of hominid extinctions may be more than 20 globally
devastating catastrophes that occurred over the last five million years....
Early
Brazilians looked African (April 7, 2001)
Human skulls unearthed in Brazil and ranging in age from about 8,000 to
11,000 years look more like modern Africans and Australian aborigines
than like modern Asians or Native Americans
Discovery
of historic clock dating to 6500 years (Apr 8, 2001)
A stone circle at Nabta, Egypt.
Oldest
stone structure in Egypt (Egypt Revealed - Apr 9, 2001)
A large, rectangular structure near Djoser's pyramid pre-dates it.
Suprising
Pyramid Facts (Egypt Revealed - Apr 9, 2001)
Mr. Zahi Hawass gives us the lowdown on what has and hasn't been
happening at Giza, as a prelude to a book he has written with Mark Lehner,
that promises to be an excellent read
Here
comes another one (Reuters - April 11, 2001)
Another solar flare, due Wednesday night, Australia time (therefore about
half a day later in Europe, 3/4 day later in the USA)
Astronomers
Find 2 'Extreme' Galaxies (NY Times - Apr 10, 2001)
Bringing the total to 4. Their black hole jets send trillion-electron-volt
photons our way...
New
tombs found in Egypt (CNN - Apr 9, 2001)
"We found two tombs containing 22 mummies. The first 11 are among the
best we found. They are beautifully gilded and the designs and drawings
on the sarcophagi are exceptional," said Zahi Hawas.
Darwin's
Theory Faces Challenge (San Fran Chron. - Apr 8, 2001)
This time, though, the evolutionists find themselves arrayed not against
traditional creationism, with its roots in biblical literalism, but against
a more sophisticated idea: the intelligent-design theory
Gamma
Rays from exploding baby stars (Yahoo - Apr 4, 2001)
Astronomers do not know what causes gamma ray bursts, or even exactly
what they are, but satellite BeppoSAX managed to observe the flash of
one on Feb. 22, and it turned out to be the second-brightest burst ever
observed
World's
oldest boat discovered (Telegraph - Apr 1, 2001)
Bitumen pieces, dating from 5,000bc, are indented on one side by impressions
of reeds and encrusted with barnacles on the other. Dr Carter said: "From
the point of view of early trade, and early seafaring, this is a very,
very important find. These are certainly the earliest fragments of boats
ever found in the Gulf, and possibly in the world."
Biggest CME in 25 years (BBC
or NASA
- Apr 4, 2001)
But it misses Earth - phew!
Dark,
repulsive energy (Yahoo - Apr 2, 2001)
The Hubble Space Telescope has spied the most distant supernova ever,
an 11-billion-year-old exploding star whose existence suggests that a
repulsive ``dark energy'' is spurring the expansion of the universe
Yeti
hair defies DNA analysis (The Times - Apr 2, 2001)
British scientists on the trail of the Yeti have found some of the best
evidence yet for the existence of the mythical Himalayan creature � a
sample of hair that has proved impossible to identify
Another
sunspot CME to hit Tuesday (BBC - Apr 2, 2001)
This article has some great pics of the Northen and Southern Lights, which
were even seen in New
Mexico
Sunspot
- pretty lights, little harm (BBC - Apr 1, 2001)
Residents in Nevada, California, and Arizona witnessed a shimmering display
of the red and green Northern Lights on Friday night
Pigs
with AIDS?? (ABC - Mar 30, 2001)
PRRS has infected some pigs in about 75 percent of American pig herds
- vaccines have only partially been effective.
Sunspot explodes! (BBC
or CNN
- Mar 30, 2001)
This coronal mass ejection (CME), is heading towards the Earth and will
reach us within the next 24 to 36 hours. Scientists are predicting a "geomagnetic
storm" when it reaches us. Might be wise to switch your computer off?
Giant
Sunspot May Explode! (BBC - Mar 29, 2001)
Over the past 24 hours it has become unstable displaying signs that its
pent-up energy is about to be explosively released. Brace yourself?
Seeking
Origin of Chinese Civilization (Xinhua - Mar 29, 2001)
A grand archaeological project will be launched in China in the coming
five years, aiming to seek the origin of ancient Chinese civilization,
the world's only ancient civilization that has been developing for 5,000
years without interruption.
Cosmic
Ray hunting in Antarctica (LSU - Mar 29, 2001)
Nine LSU researchers recently spent three months at a U.S. research station
in McMurdo, Antarctica, trying to detect cosmic rays by sending a specially
designed instrument to the top of the atmosphere via a giant helium balloon.
Jupiter
Radiation Belts Harsher than expected (LSU - Mar 29, 2001)
New measurements from NASA's Cassini spacecraft indicate that any future
spacecraft venturing very near Jupiter would be zapped by the radiation
belts there even more severely than had been previously estimated
Oldest
find yet in East Timor (ABC Australia - Mar 29, 2001)
A settlement twice as old as any previously known in East Timor has been
identified following carbon dating of shells from a cave near Tutuala
village at the eastern end of the island at between 30,000 and 35,000
years old.
Cleopatra:
Short, Fat and Ugly
Statues depict the alluring and ambitious queen of the Nile as an ordinary
looking woman with slightly bucked bad teeth, slightly severe in her appearance.
Buried
relics uncovered at Angkor Wat
Japanese archaeologists dug up 103 pieces dating to the 12th century
Polar
Telescope Tracks Sub-Atomic Particles (Reuters - Mar 21 2001)
Neutrinos travel through the Earth all the time without being detected.
Scientists believe the trail of the neutrino should, in theory, point
back to its point of origin.
Easter
Island Statues (Discovering Archaeology - Mar 22, 2001)
Roadways for shifting the statues uncovered
Earth's
crust movements using GPS (Uni of Toronto - Mar 22, 2001)
As the ice sheets melted, the Earth responded by rebounding, springing
back to towards its original position - and it still is!
Banished
to a watery grave (New Scientist - Mar 21, 2001)
The ancient timber circle known as Seahenge could disintegrate if it is
reburied as planned, says a British archaeologist.
"Lucy"
has Competition (AP - Mar 21, 2001)
A 3.5 million-year-old skull has been found in Kenya, completely unrelated
to "Lucy", and a contender for the role of human ancestor
Machu
Picchu might collapse (New Scientist - Mar 7, 2001)
It is shifting and at risk of a major landslide.
Great
Wall of China longer than first thought (AP - Feb 23, 2001)
It was 310 miles longer when built 2000 years ago
HAARP
Transmitter now running at full power (Feb 17, 2001)
and its connection to the supposed "Russian" shoot down of Korean Airlines
Flight 007 in 1983
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