The subject of this video series by Dave Talbott is the ancient experience of towering celestial forms that are no longer present. From a single snapshot of the configuration, we can work backwards to the first appearance of these bodies out of an undifferentiated cloud or sea of dusty plasma. We can then follow the configuration’s evolution through phases that range from quasi-stability to earth shaking catastrophe
Previous Episodes
- Discourses on an Alien Sky: When Planets Were the Gods
- Discourses on an Alien Sky: The Acid Tests of a Reconstruction
- Discourses on an Alien Sky: Cosmic Catastrophe & Cultural Obsession
- Discourses on an Alien Sky: To Hear the Ancient Witnesses
- Discourses on an Alien Sky: Mythic Creation – Events Seen and Heard
- Discourses on an Alien Sky: When Saturn Ruled The World
- Discourses on an Alien Sky: The Great Conjunction of Primeval Times
- Discourses on an Alien Sky: Visualizing the Polar Configuration
- Discourses on an Alien Sky: The Tests of Predictive Ability
