It’s a living parable.
It’ll all make sense in the weirdest ways.
On the first retrieval attempt they were surprised to discover an “empty tube”. The second try worked, leaving a denarius coin for a hole on the top of the rock. They waited for better lighting to verify that the rock sample from Montdenier was in the tube. At 12:34 EDT, Perseverance took the tube inside and sealed it up.
1234... The tube is numbered 266 which = Hebron, aka Kiryat Arba, the city of four, the location of Machpelah, the “double” cave of the Patriarchs.
Traditions are that Adam and Eve are buried there. The first man Adam was named after the red earth, as Mars in Hebrew is named Ma’adim for the same, the red soil.
Which was just collected and sealed up in tube 266.
You get the idea. Who can deny. :)
Funny thing about big surprises, Julian day 266 is Sept. 23 in non-leap years. Same day that Tora! Tora! Tora! was released in 1970.
And then that saying about awakening a sleeping giant became famous unto this day. Right out of a movie script.
Montdenier, the mountain of a
denarius = “containing ten”
1) A Roman silver coin in NT time. It took its name from it being equal to ten “asses”...<
And everyone knows that the law is an...
It’s best to have these kinds of data points at the ready. I just never know when they will come in handy.
I’m never disappointed. Perseverance for the win!
OK, buddy - in your heart of hearts, you have to know that was weird, right?
Umberto Eco much?
“The core is now enclosed in an airtight titanium sample tube, making it available for retrieval in the future.”
And so it began.