Posted on 09/30/2006 12:52:45 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
They call him the "planet finder," a nickname Geoff Marcy seems to like and one that certainly fits. The UC Berkeley astronomer discovered 70 of the first 100 or so planets that have been found beyond our solar system. He's found many more since then, making Marcy the most prolific planet finder ever to study the night skies... "Every school child learns that our small bluish rock floats silently in a vast, dark cosmic ocean for eons, dwarfing our human lives in both space and time. We know that we play glorious bit parts in a gargantuan cosmic play whose past script unfolds before our telescope time machines and whose future script expands before us with ever greater clarity. But we adults continue to squabble over terrestrial minutia, born of our reptilian roots, our territorial tendencies and our imaginary needs. The extrasolar planets remind us that Earth is just one stage of many (in) which subplots are playing out."
(Excerpt) Read more at ocregister.com ...
The Conference on Precession and Ancient Knowledge Fusing Modern Science, Subtle Energy and the Wisdom of Antiquity
This exciting conference brings together world renowned thinkers in Archaeoastronomy and Esoteric Archaeology. Join Graham Hancock, Geoff Marcy, John Anthony West, John Major Jenkins, Walter Cruttenden, Richard Hoagland and others in a unique and intimate University setting. Develop a dialogue with scientists, pioneers and explorers of the highest order. Deepen your understanding, meet fellow travelers, and learn from those who are helping to illuminate the ties between ancient cultures, consciousness, mythology, subtle energy and our ancestral knowledge of the stars.
Friday, August 11, 2006
Errrrrr. . . . Renowned Egyptologist John Anthony West brings Emmy-winning research to UCI conference (mild snark and red flags added)
http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/2006/08/errrrrr.html#comments
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