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Since the dawn of the space age, perhaps no celestial body in the solar system
has proved more surprising to astronomers than the planet
Venus. Before the arrival of the earliest space probes, some noted scientists believe that Venus
would be Earth-like, with water clouds, oceans and abundant vegetation.
However, well known to those who have followed this series,
it was Dr. Immanuel Velikovsky who made the outrageous prediction
that Venus would be superhot, based on his hypothesis of the planet's recent
cometary origins. Today, countless Venusian phenomena continue to puzzle
planetary scientists, including the planet's super-fast winds;
its odd, slow backward spin; its vast magneto tail; and even the
recent discover by the ESA's Venus Express spacecraft of a surprisingly powerful
electric field. In recent decades, Wal Thornhill, the Chief Science Advisor
to the Thunderbolts Project, has outlined his own reconstruction of Venus' role
in the recent, extraordinary history of the solar system.
In Part One of this two-part presentation, Thornhill begins by recounting this
history, which he offered in his 2004 article, Cassini's Homecoming,
which he wrote prior to the arrival of the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft at Saturn.
As Thornhill explains, while astronomers to this day refer to Venus as Earth's twin, the most
likely Venusian sibling may be found in the Saturnian system - that is,
the moon Titan. I must explain that Cassini's Homecoming was published
just before the arrival of the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft at Saturn.
It's perhaps one of my most important articles. My analysis and predictions were the
result of applying Electric Universe principles to the remarkable forensic
research of David Talbot and Dwardu Cardona into the global mythic history of the solar system.
Naturally we like to believe the solar system is boringly predictable,
with no recent catastrophes. We ignore the fact that prehistoric astronomers
obsessively recorded the motion of the stars and planets. Yet those forgotten people built
monumental pyramids and monolithic stone observatories,
carefully aligned to the heavens which we couldn't reproduce today
with modern technology. So the question is, what motivated them to such monumental efforts?
Why were the tiny specks of light, the planets worshipped as apocalyptic thunderbolt-
wielding gods? hy was the planet Venus globally described as female with long
flowing hair? Why was the planet Mars globally described as the sword-wielding red god of war?
Why was the ringed planet Saturn globally remembered as our first Sun,
our best Sun? This makes no sense according to our modern myth
of a mostly safe, eon's-old, clockwork solar system. In Cassini's Homecoming, I wrote “Until
recently Saturn was an independent brown dwarf star with its own entourage of
close-orbiting small planets. As a small star approaching the Sun,
Saturn flickered like a faulty electric light when the two stellar magnetospheres
or, that is plasma sheaths, touched together.” Saturn's electrical power was then
usurped by the Sun, and its appearance changed dramatically.
Such rapid variability in the appearance of stars is well documented.
”Before dimming forever, Saturn would have flared up to relieve the stresses caused
by the sudden change in its electrical environment. Saturn still radiates more than
twice the heat it receives from the Sun. We also have a simple explanation for
the origin of Saturn's mysterious short-lived rings.” Chet Raymo,
the physicist, noted writer, educator and naturalist, once wrote,
as if responding to that deep primeval memory, ”Nothing so evokes gasps of delight of
Saturn's ring. The reason I think, is a collision of the expected and the improbable.
A ringed sphere is the archetypal planet of our childhood,
familiar from a thousand comic strips, coloring books,
classroom poster boards, stickers, rubber stamps, birthday cards - you name it.
So, when we see Saturn, there is a kind of instant recognition,
like meeting a relative one knows only from the family photo album.
But there is also the shock of reality, a sense of ’Oh my God, it actually exists!”
In the year 2000 a pivotal meeting was held in Portland, Oregon of key figures
in the Electric Universe, including Anthony Peratt, where it became
clear that petroglyphs are an enduring record of the frightening collapse of a former
cosmos. Where are Saturn's children now? As I explain in some detail
in my April 2006 report, ”Venus isn't our twin! The only common
features are their size and relative closeness in the inner solar system.
In every other way they could not be more different.”
Thornhill's writings on Venus have included an expansive picture of the
solar system's recent history. In this picture, Venus was born recently
by its parent proto-Saturn, and the Saturnian moon Titan was a
member of the same family. Based on this radical hypothesis,
Thornhill has made remarkably accurate predictions about Titan,
including its surface features and atmosphere. You just summarized the conclusions of
many lifetimes of work, principally by Talbot and Cardona into
the detailed sequence of events surrounding the entry into the solar system
by the body we now call Saturn. But the inspiration for all of us came initially
from the scholar Immanuel Velikovsky. In 1950, years before the space age,
he concluded from his extensive interdisciplinary research
that the planet Venus was remembered from the time of the dawn of the modern era
as a brilliant newborn cometary body. He concluded in his best-selling book,
”Worlds in Collision”, that the night-side of Venus radiates heat because Venus is hot.
Here we have two theorist’s beliefs being demolished at once;
that something the size of a planet could be a comet, and that Venus recently
had a different orbit. Typically, later findings from space
probes supported his conclusion, but made no difference to consensus opinion.
Astronomers minimized the importance of Velikovsky's remarkable claim,
or simply dismissed it as a lucky guess. Although one noted scholar
acknowledged at the time that Velikovsky had a remarkable record of successful predictions
and no failures. The discovery that Venus was almost red-hot made it imperative for
scientists to invent an explanation. The result was the fictitious enhanced
or runaway greenhouse effect. All the space-age data shows Venus is
not a twin of the earth at all. Its magnetospheric tail has been
described as cometary; the entire planet is said to have been resurfaced.
Of course, the idea that Venus is an infant simply doesn't occur.
If the view about twinship is mistaken, then the belief in a common origin is without foundation.
What's more, climate scientists have allowed themselves to be misled into
thinking that the hellish conditions on Venus awaits us due to a runaway greenhouse
effect, if we don't mend our ways. Ignorance is infectious. So much for twins.
Now for Venus' sibling, Saturn's moon Titan. I wrote “What can we expect Cassini to find,
based on this dramatic recent history of Saturn? We should expect to see family traits
amongst the members of the Saturnian family- including the departed Earth, Mars and Venus.
For example, the moon Titan, which is larger than the planet Mercury,
seems to be a close sibling of Venus...” ”So we should be alert to similarities
between Titan and Venus. It is already known that Titan has the
densest atmosphere of any terrestrial planet, after Venus. That is a huge puzzle for scientists.”
The New Scientist of November 6, 2004: ”Titan images add to the moon's mystery.”
Stephen Battersby reported, “The world got its first peak at the surface of
Saturn's moon Titan last week. The images were taken as Nasa's Cassini-
Huygens spacecraft swept past the moon. The images show a landscape that is
clearly still being shaped. Although Titan must have suffered
numerous meteor impacts in the past, its surface today is largely crater-free. Somehow these
scars must have been eroded or filled in.” But that's precisely what we said about Venus when the
Magellan orbiter revealed that planet's surface. I also wrote, “Titan has a global layered
haze like Venus... We may expect to find that Titan's atmosphere has some of the smell of
Venus about it. Both Venus and Titan's atmospheres, being very young,
will not yet be in equilibrium. So calculations about atmospheric constituents that
assume equilibrium as a starting point will be wrong.” ”The methane found in Titan's atmosphere
is quickly destroyed by sunlight so it has to be replenished. That has led
to the suggestion that Titan must have a hydrocarbon ocean for
the methane to have lasted for the conventional age of the solar system.
However, radar, infrared and radio observations of Titan
have not found signs of a hydrocarbon ocean. In fact one radar return was, and I quote
’of a type that we should expect to get back from Venus.’” End of quote. Titan is most likely
a baby brother of Venus. Six months after writing Cassini's
Homecoming, I wrote another article, ”Titan a Rosetta stone for early Earth?”
There I wrote the Electric Universe conceptual model can claim a number of
successful predictions. Most importantly it was the only model
to predict the surface features of smog- shrouded Titan
before they were revealed in detail by Huygens
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