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by Michael Goodspeed
07/21/2007
from
Thunderbolts Website
"Confronted on many occasions in the
past by the prospect of world- end, national elites have often
found themselves having to suppress public panic -- only to
discover, too late, that usual means of control commonly fail.
Thus an institutionalized science is expected to withhold
knowledge of the threat; a self-regulated press is expected to
make light of any disaster; while an institutionalized religion
is expected to oppose predestination and to secure such general
belief in a fundamentally benevolent deity as can be mustered."
The above comments are found in a letter
(dated June 4, 1996) from the office of Dr. P.A. Charles,
then Head of Astrophysics of the University of Oxford, to Ms.
Victoria Cox, then Chief, Physics and BMD Coordinator of the
European Office of Aerospace Research and Development. The letter
(written by S.V.M. Clube) summarizes the findings of USAF
funded research resulting in the report,
The Hazard to Civilization From Fireballs and
Comets.
Although the report does not represent the electrical perspective on
comets and/or meteoroids, it raises many issues of enormous import
to the Electric Universe. As correctly pointed out by Clube,
scientific, governmental, and religious officialdom seem to live in
either deliberate or unconscious denial of the real global threats
posed to Earth -- including evidence of global catastrophes in the
recent past.
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In 1950,
Immanuel Velikovsky proposed in
his book Worlds in Collision that in a once-violent and
chaotic solar system, the earth experienced global disturbances,
including electric arcs passing between the earth and cosmic
intruders. Subsequently, academia applied such pressure to the
book's publisher that it was dropped while it was the NY Times'
number one bestseller. This pathology of denial and suppression
continues today, as mainstream cosmology remains willfully ignorant
of the Electric Universe - a model that rewrites much of human
history into a story that is far more dramatic and frightening than
we've been led to believe.
Paradoxically, officialdom's lobbyists continually promote fear of
the End of the World in the hope of securing endless billions
in funds for more research and "action." The "doomsday" asteroid
threat and the global warming madhouse are the favored causes of the
moment. From the
Electric Universe perspective,
officialdom has misled the public on both issues, and required is
immediate and fundamental correction.
When it comes to "killer asteroids," according to EU proponents, our
planet may not be nearly so vulnerable as the mainstream insists.
From the EU perspective, as explained by Wallace Thornhill,
Earth, asteroids, and comets are charged bodies moving in the
electric field of the Sun.
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Thornhill believes that the charge
difference between the earth and these bodies from the depths of the
solar system provides the earth with a natural defense against
asteroids and comets, particularly very large ones. When an asteroid
or comet enters the electric field of the Earth, which is contained
within its "magnetosophere," or more accurately, plasma sheath,
there will be a powerful discharge between the two bodies.
See:
The internal electrical stress caused by
the discharge of the interloping asteroid or comet will generally
cause it to detonate like an exploding capacitor -- just as comets
have frequently exploded "inexplicably" as they moved toward the Sun
on their elongated orbits.
See:
This electrical effect is also witnessed
in bolides that flicker, flare up and explode as they streak toward
the Earth. It is why meteors become visible to the eye when they are
about 60 miles in altitude, and a few appear at up to twice that
height. And it is why meteors are sometimes accompanied by
electrophonic sound that is simultaneous with their flaring up. (The
Peekskill Meteor)��
This is not to say that the Electric theorists believe comets and
asteroids pose no threat to human beings. But the havoc these bodies
might wreak would likely be limited to localized disasters --
perhaps a series of Tunguska-like events producing regional
devastation with falls of sand and dust, perhaps electrical craters,
fires and earthquakes, but no single impact crater at all.
For a review of the recent candidate for a Tunguska "impact" site,
see
New Tunguska Crater Found?
The devastation of a global extinction requires an encounter with
something much larger than a puny comet or asteroid. In all
likelihood, it requires electrical exchanges with a body the size of
a planet or moon.
On the question of global warming, EU proponents insist that the
issue has never been properly considered. Any attempt to understand
atmospheric and meteorologic phenomena on Earth or any planet is
futile if one remains ignorant of the Electric Sun model.
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Thornhill writes in his essay "Global
Warming in a Climate of Ignorance":
"Simply put, we do not understand
the Sun. And if we do not understand the Sun we have no basis
for understanding its influence on the Earth's climate.
"But there is a way to understand the Sun, if only we can step
outside the traditional astrophysical assumption that gravity
alone operates in space. The generation and transmission of
power for electric lights involves magnetism. And unlike any
campfire, the Sun manifests an abundance of magnetic phenomena.
Those phenomena suggest that the Sun is an electrical body.
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The magnetic field of the solar wind
shows that electric currents flow within the solar system. The
million-degree temperature of the solar corona points to an
external power source for the Sun. The polar plume and
equatorial plasma torus show that the Sun, like all stars, is
the focus of galactic currents 'pinching' naturally into an
hourglass form with an equatorial current sheet."
According to Thornhill, Earth and all
the planets are in a continuous electric relationship with the Sun.
This is why the temperatures of the upper atmospheres of planetary
"gas giants" have long presented a conundrum to astronomers. They
are hotter than can be explained by absorbed sunlight, and other
attempts to explain the temperature anomalies in mechanical terms
have met with failure.
In a recent report in the journal Nature, scientists commented on
the perplexing (to them) heating of Saturn's upper atmosphere:
"This unexplained 'energy crisis'
represents a major gap in our understanding of these planet's
atmospheres." Another scientist commented, "We need to
re-examine our basic assumptions about planetary atmospheres and
what causes the observed heating."
Unfortunately, the "basic assumption"
that has directed the space sciences for nearly a century is the
belief that space is electrically inert. Most astronomers and
meteorologists still do not realize what has already been
demonstrated by recent discoveries of the Earth-Sun connection:
charge exchange is continuous, and the auroras are just one effect
of the ongoing electrical transactions. The planetary theater is, in
fact, filled with electrical circuits across the conducting plasma
medium.
It is the electric model of the Sun that will enable us to
understand the highly energetic meteorological phenomena we see on
many planets in our solar system, including the extraordinary global
dust storms witnessed on Mars. (When
Dust Storms Engulf Mars)
In fact, in the famous planet-enshrouding Martian dust storm of
2001, temperatures rose a stunning 40 degrees C - what
investigators called a case of "instantaneous global warming." But
to this day, NASA scientists still give no attention to the
relationship of that event to the planet's eccentric orbit, or the
fact that Mars was nearing perihelion and was the closest it had
been to Earth in about 12 years.
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At that time it was also being "tickled"
by the Earth's plasma sheath, or magnetosphere, establishing a
temporary electrical connection between Earth and Mars for the
transfer of charge. It seems that Mars responded with an outburst of
atmospheric discharges, these taking the form of monstrous dust
devils - or more accurately, electrical tornadoes. (Dust
Devils - or Tornadoes)
From the EU perspective, interplanetary currents focused largely on
the sun feed electrical storms on planets, including Earth. The
increases in solar output, together with the incoming currents
directly intercepted by planets, can charge up the planetary
ionospheres - the outcome being "anomalous" heating of the upper
atmospheres.
Since "global warming" is being witnessed on other planets,
including Mars (according to NASA, the planet has been steadily
warming for at least the past several decades), mainstream
scientists have greater cause than ever to "re-examine (their) basic
assumptions about planetary atmospheres and what causes the observed
heating."
But ironically, from the Electric Universe perspective, the
potential for global catastrophe on Earth, including rapid climate
change, may be far GREATER than most scientists believe. Our
relationship with the Electric Sun is far from purely benevolent.
Within the last two centuries, we have been hit (or nearly hit) with
solar flares that may have had the potential to eradicate
civilization. In September of 1859, we were wracked by a flare so
powerful that telegraphic service went down, equipment caught fire,
and some people were even shocked into unconsciousness.
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A new book "The
Sun Kings: The Unexpected Tragedy of Richard Carrington and the Tale
of How Modern Astronomy Began," outlines the terrifying
danger posed by CME storms, including a series of powerful solar
flares that hit Earth during October 2003. This vision of a possible
future stands in radical contrast to the nuclear fusion model, which
would have us believe that the earth will exist rather peacefully in
the Sun's domain for several billion years, until its hypothetical
cataclysmic death throes.
Albert Einstein once asked,
"Is the Universe friendly?"
Ultimately, the answer is probably a
resounding "No!" although not for the reasons we've always been
told.
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