Tag: meteors

The 2015 Taurid shower produced many fireballs, or exceptionally bright meteors. Here’s another one, captured in 2015 by Jeff Dai in Tibet.

Are asteroids hiding among the Taurids?

By Eddie Irizarry in ASTRONOMY ESSENTIALS | SPACE | October 15, 2018 Via EarthSky.Org And, more to the point, are any asteroids that might be hidden in the Taurid meteor stream potentially hazardous to Earth? It’s the time of year for the long-lasting Taurid meteor shower. If you glimpse any, think about this. Last year, a team of researchers from […]

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Open Letter: Napier on Defant and the Joe Rogan podcast

Open Letter: Napier on Defant and the Joe Rogan podcast

Via: CosmicTusk.com Bill Napier sent the Tusk a note regarding Joe Rogan’s unforgettable debate-style podcast on the Young Dryas Boundary Hypothesis. His informed correction of Marc Defant’s self-styled skeptical authority on comets is priceless and instructive. A cultural genre of all-purpose professional “skeptics,” like Defant and Shermer, have emerged since James Randi kicked off their gig forty years ago. Like […]

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Illustration by Patrick Kyle

The Sluggish Race to Guard the Earth Against Meteors – Vice.com

Via Vice.com May 22, 2015 By Rory Tolan The sky god slept like a rock. In a yawning crater cut into the side of Manhattan’s Central Park, a stone as old as the Earth had amassed a crowd. I found it in a huddle of selfie sticks, flapping brochures, and children slapping it with sweaty palms. But Tomanowos, a divine […]

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Here There Be Dragons

Here There Be Dragons

Regarding the prevalence of the dragon in the myths of ancient cultures, British astronomers Victor Clube and Bill Napier, wrote in 1982: “The earliest recorded myths are those of combat, between a god or hero and a dragon. The dragon was a familiar figure in Greece, Egypt, Mesopotamia, Babylon, India, China, North America, and elsewhere. Usually, he has the form of a winged serpent.

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Randall Carlson on the Midwest Real podcast

Randall Carlson on the Midwest Real podcast

Randall spoke with the guys frankly and openly about his experiences within Masonry, his research into ancient cultures and cataclysms, sacred texts and much, much more. Get ready to go into the deep end with this one.

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