Cone of Sand
My first memory is of an ideal cone of sand!
It was on the road in a small town called Blenheim, in New Zealand. My mother always claimed I was 10 months old when this happened, which would have made it August 1944. I remember I could walk, but not yet speak. Although the age may be wishful thinking, it was still remarkable and unusual for a first memory. My mother and a neighbour were talking alongside the sand, outside our house.
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Sodom and Bolides
In the Biblical story of the destruction of the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, the towns are destroyed by “fire and sulphur” from heaven. Did it really happen? The most recent scientific evidence is that it probably did, in 1680 BC.
A long article in Nature (2021) by a large collaboration of scientists describes decades-long archeological studies at the largest city ruins in the Jordan Valley, to be found just north of the Dead Sea. The authors of the paper avoid calling the ruins “Sodom”, but the coincidences are very great, and I think the city was indeed Sodom. This snippet describes the results and further explains some features not covered in the paper.
Miyake Events, Human DNA and Space Travel
Once in about every thousand years a huge dose of cosmic rays hits earth and radiation dose rates for earth-dwellers rise to about 100x normal. A Japanese scientist called Fusa Miyake, and her co-workers, discovered the phenomenon in 2023 and other scientists, particularly those working on Antarctic ice cores confirm these events, which have now been called Miyake events.
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