Posted on 10/08/2007 11:47:23 PM PDT by doug from upland
The author is on... I'm not sure what the author is on.
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Dear Author,
I have some rather rare swamp land in Florida that is destined to become very valuable for a mere 100 per acre.
Did he say what the chemical was?
Probably dihydrogen monoxide--it has all sorts of bad properties, y'know. (Seriously--that was the first question I had on finishing reading the posted article).
Is this why we use the phrase “there must be something in the water” to explain odd behavior in groups?
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“He also explores how the appearance of a celestial body that outshone the moon would have been interpreted as a significant religious event—the premier appearance of a powerful new god to supplant the deities previously worshipped around the world.”
I guess we’ll have to take his word for the brightness and visibility but it is hard to do so when the current info shows that over three sightings and 190 years the maximum brightness has never been calculated to be any brighter than 1/150th that of the full moon.
And how could they tell? And this is the first I've heard of an "outbreak" of monotheism (not to mention any linkage between monotheism and warlike characteristics!). So how long did this "outbreak" last anyway before going back to poltheism?
*ouch* That's gonna leave a mark...
Those are some beautiful toys.
And it's all been sweetness and light ever since, eh? Bwahaha!
Ya know? Maybe Velikovsky was close.
Let's look at Venus:
What is that thick atmosphere doing so close to the sun?
Why is the entire surface of Venus "young" (no cratering)?
and what's with that rilly rilly slow rotation?
The earth was hit by a Mars size rocky body that stripped off enough of our crust to form the moon, and allow us ocean basins and access to heavy metals.
Suppose Venus was struck by a large icy body, if the strike was a bit off center it could stop the planets rotation in it's tracks, shatter and roll over the crust, release vast clouds of volcanic gasses and dump enough cometary volatiles to form a thick bright atmosphere.
From the viewpoint of earth, Venus would go from being a medium bright star to being the most brilliant angry orange-red object in the sky.
If a lunar sized commet cut across our path on its way to an appointment with Venus, it would be the largest most dramatic display the human race has ever seen! As the coma grew it could easily appear 20 times bigger than the moon. And bright? Achingly bright, bigger than the sun, and nearly as bright. (or maybe even brighter, due to its size). The light would be cold, so cold, colder than Hillary's heart. and the tail would be scything towards us, to end in a sky aflame in meteors.
Clearly a single God swept by us and placed two flaming calls to war in our sky!
One as a relatively quick slap to get our attention, and a lasting burning flame to remind us.
None of that Velikovsky was right stuff either. Hey! I mean it. ~ carumba
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