M.J. Rose

Did our earth once have two moons? And if so, what happened to the other one?

Early Earth May Have Been Orbited By Two Moons

by Nell Greenfieldboyce (NPR.org)

(This artist’s illustration shows a collision between the moon and a companion moon. Scientists say the collision could be responsible for the moon’s asymmetric shape.)

The early Earth had two moons instead of just one — our familiar moon, as well as a smaller companion moon that also rose and set in the sky for tens of millions of years.

That’s according to a new theory that says this smaller moon eventually went careening into our moon and is still there, in the form of mountains on its far side.

Scientists have long puzzled over those mountains, and the fact that the two sides of our moon are very different. The near side has flat lowlands, while the far side is high and mountainous…

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One of the world’s oldest documents, The Mahabharata, includes detailed accounts of technologically advanced flying craft and nuclear battles complete with radiation sickness and mushroom clouds. What do you make of it?

Flying Aircraft & Nuclear War and Other Strange Occurrences of The Past

Edited By James Hartman

The Indian Epics, especially the MAHABHARATA, pick up the thread of the tale of devastation and destruction. Atlantis, rather displeased at its humiliating defeat, deceived that they were no longer interested in subjugating the Rama Empire (An Indian Empire), and decided instead to annihilate the major cities using weapons of mass destruction. Sanskrit scholars could not comprehend what was being described in the Epics until the dropping of the first atomic bombs on Japan.

There are AUTHENTIC VERSES from the Indian Epics:

“Gurkha, flying a swift and powerful vimana (fast aircraft) hurled a single projectile (rocket) charged with the power of the Universe (nuclear device). An incandescent column of smoke and flame, as bright as ten thousand suns, rose with all its splendor. It was an unknown weapon, an iron thunderbolt, a gigantic messenger of death, which reduced to ashes the entire race of the Vrishnis and the Andhakas. The corpses were so burned as to be unrecognizable. Hair and nails fell out; Pottery broke without apparent cause, and the birds turned white. …After a few hours all foodstuffs were infected… …to escape from this fire the soldiers threw themselves in streams to wash themselves and their equipment.” — The Mahabharata

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The mystery of the disappearance of the dinosaurs. This is something we’ve all wondered about since grade school, and it’s something the scientists have been hotly debating for decades. Could it be that a recent discovery has settled the mystery once and for all?…

Case Closed for Dino Killer?

by Michael Balter

What happened to the dinosaurs? For more than 100 million years, they ruled the world. Then, suddenly—poof—about 65 million years ago, they were gone. At least that’s the way it looks to most scientists, who blame an asteroid hitting Earth for the ancient beasts’ dramatic demise. Some researchers are still skeptical about the asteroid hypothesis, but a new fossil discovery in Montana may lend it new impact.

Back in 1980, when the late Nobel laureate physicist Luis Alvarez and his son, geologist Walter Alvarez, first tried to pin dinosaur extinction on an errant asteroid, they faced a major credibility gap. At the time, there was little firm evidence for such a catastrophic event. But then they and other researchers found an overabundance of iridium in geological formations at the 65-million-year transition line between the Cretaceous and Tertiary periods, known as the K-T boundary. Iridium is common in asteroids but rare in Earth’s crust…

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