Catastrophes are part of Earth's real history. Its grim disasters, acting as a backdrop against which human dramas have been played out, have been recorded in many ancient writings. As Milne shows, doomsday catastrophism, once the prerogative of 18th-century geologists steeped in the Biblical memory of the Great Flood, has now regained respectability. Catastrophism applies to many disciplines such as planetary science, biology, climatology, and evolutionary theory. The universe itself, we now believe, is a product of a giant cosmic catastrophe. Indeed life itself may have arisen when the moon may have crystallized out of a crashing mini-planet that enabled organisms to emerge into tidal pools.
Floods and natural disasters seem to be on the increase everywhere and are no longer just a Third World problem. The fear of climatic disturbances are the source of regular international conferences, and it is seriously suggested that the U.S. military shoot down plummeting comets before they destroy civilization, as they once destroyed the dinosaurs. Milne provides a contemporary look at catastrophism in its scientific and in its disastrous earth-shattering sense. Within one volume a wide range of up-to-date scientific facts and concepts are examined. Milne gives readers interested in scientific controversies, contemporary affairs and environmental issues an important document that chronicles the end of a turbulent and disturbing 2,000 years.

Doomsday: The Science of Catastrophic Events

Politics & Social Sciences

MILNE, Antony

Social Sciences

Praeger

Space junk crashing into Earth is a real and escalating danger. Milne provides the first synthesis of the interdisciplinary work of the scientific community, which has been investigating how the satellite industry can be protected from manmade and natural space hazards. The result is an invaluable book for those concerned with space missions and space disasters, those worried about cosmic radiation and its effects on humans, members of the Spaceguard defense movement, and anyone concerned with defense and international cooperation efforts in general.
Tens of millions of objects may exist in space, ranging in size from grains of sand to entire rocket boosters. Many fireballs seen in the skies, often thought to be UFOs, are in fact manmade debris. Plutonium and other highly toxic fuels from failed Russian craft have already contaminated inhabited areas of Central Asia. Natural hazards such as comet particles can travel at 100 times the speed of a bullet and can severely damage satellites. There is also the danger of spaceweather effects, such as cosmic rays, that could interfere with a spacecraft's electronics and interrupt the global transmission of telephones and television.

Sky Static: The Space Debris Crisis

History

Military

A grand tour of the "fireball" mystery, covering all aspects of science to help the reader understand the wide range of natural objects and unexplained phenomena in the skiesCovering reports of comets, ball lightning, antimatter explosions, disc-like clouds, strange sunsets, plasma balls, and "spooklights," this groundbreaking book leaves no scientific theory or hunch unexplored. The mystery sounds from irritating "hums" heard in urban areas are also explored in detail, as well as paranormal evidence of phantom planes and battlefield ghosts, and mystery voices and radio messages that scientists and the military have recorded. It also deals specifically with the huge defense files that have now been accumulated on UFOs around the world, and tries to explain—using the latest in scientific theorizing about energy physics—what this weird phenomena actually is, and why we should be worried about it.

Fireballs, Skyquakes and Hums: Probing the Mysteries of Light and Sound

Reference

Robert_Hale

Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. ; 162 pages; Physical desc. : 3-162p. : ill. ; 23cm. Includes index. Subject: Noise pollution. Noise -- Environmental aspects.

Noise Pollution: Impact and Countermeasures

Newton Abbot (etc.) : David and Charles

Floodshock: The drowning of planet Earth

Alan Sutton

Our Drowning World

Prism Pr Ltd

What really happened to the dinosaurs? This intriguing question has engaged tremendous interest in the 1990's. Antony Milne tackles the most controversial issues concerning the origin physical structure-and extinction-of these intriguing creatures from the prehistoric past. He considers various theories in turn analyzing and evaluating every idea on his way to one inescapable conclusion: extinction is a natural consequence of evolution and an enabling force of the biosphere.

Fate of the Dinosaurs: New Perspectives to Evolution and Extinction

Science & Math

Earth Sciences

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