Posted on 01/26/2004 4:05:16 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
Islam does a lot of moon-worship.
Would they try to sabatoge colonization thereof, or even worse, try to take it over politically?
I didn't know that. Seems we would have burned the whole moon up with the first landing!
I have to suppose the oxygen is not "free" but maybe an oxide?
The months of the Islamic calendar begins at the New Moon .. (as do the Hebrew and Chinese calendars). It is true that unlike the Hebrew and Chinese calendars, the Islamic calendar is purely lunar.. but I'm not sure where the leap to "moon-worhip" comes in.
Lunar phases play a heavy role in Christianity as well. The official definition of Easter (Gregorian) was and still is: The First Sunday After The First Full Moon After The Spring Equinox. I don't think you could say Christians worship the moon, even though they rely on it for calculating Easter.
Right. So it's already been "burned," if you will. To use it, we'll have to break the chemical bonds of the oxygen with the various metals it's compounded with. There are many proven processes to do that; no magic, just basic industrial chemistry.
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haha.....sounds like the history of Earth over the last 2000 yrs......I guess that makes the current Earth and its inhabitants the waxing gibbous Earth.....well thats the impression I get when I have a look at what entertains us........
Or for that matter, according to pagan Barbara Walker, the hexagram (aka the Star of David) is an ancient pagan symbol pre-dating Judaism. It's a fertility symbol, the upward triangle representing the penis, penetrating the vulva of the downward triangle. So do Jews worship sex?
You'll find that many symbols have ancient pagan meanings.
You have no idea how much we do. ;^)
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· concrete
· sulfur concrete
· cast basalt
· sintered basalt
· fiberglass
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