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Ptolemy Tilted Off His Axis (lost celestial secret found)
LA Times ^
| March 30, 2005
| John Johnson
Posted on 03/30/2005 10:35:09 AM PST by Between the Lines
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To: Between the Lines
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03/30/2005 10:37:38 AM PST
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bubman
To: Between the Lines
"There was no doubt in Schaefer's mind "
Seems pretty speculative to me.
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posted on
03/30/2005 10:42:17 AM PST
by
Brilliant
To: Between the Lines
Farnese Atlas
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posted on
03/30/2005 10:43:27 AM PST
by
blues_guitarist
(Black conservatives arise!)
To: Between the Lines
In never ceases to amaze me how brilliant people in antiquity were sometimes.
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posted on
03/30/2005 10:43:50 AM PST
by
mike182d
("Let fly the white flag of war." - Zapp Brannigan)
To: mike182d
And how little they did with it.
But that was due to Politico-religious reasons more than anything else.
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03/30/2005 10:45:46 AM PST
by
clee1
(We use 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, and 2 to pull a trigger. I'm lazy and I'm tired of smiling.)
To: Between the Lines
Pretty good detective.
A few years ago, he decided to try to determine the actual date of Christ's Crucifixion using purely scientific methods. He wrote a computer program that factored in all the astronomical data he could unearth from the time. Then, because the Crucifixion is thought to have taken place 14 or 15 days after a crescent moon first became visible, he added in thousands of modern records of atmospheric haze to approximate periods of high and low visibility in the ancient Middle East.
Rolling back the calendar more than 1,900 years, he came up with two dates: AD 30 and 33.
Bible scholars, comparing biblical texts with historical records, have arrived at similar dates.
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03/30/2005 10:45:54 AM PST
by
AndrewC
(All these moments are tossed in lime, like trains in the rear.)
To: Between the Lines
The feud holds little interest for Schaefer, who has moved on. The National Science Foundation has given him a grant to review 156 years of sunspot records.
The goal? To find out if the sun has a role in global warming.It will take all of his genius and a ton of money to get the answer to that question! < /sarcasm >
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03/30/2005 10:48:09 AM PST
by
OSHA
(Beware! For they have discovered DEATH in the Constitution and have enshrined it into law.)
To: blam; SunkenCiv
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03/30/2005 10:49:25 AM PST
by
Constitution Day
("You guys need a pallet of paper bags to breathe into, I swear.")
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To: Constitution Day
Thanks, CD, I'll add it to the GGG catalog. It appeared on the GGG ping list in a similar thread:
LSU Researcher Solves Ancient Astronomy Mystery (Farnese Atlas)
Innovations Report/LSU | 1-14-2005 | Bradley E. Schaefer/LSU
Posted on 01/14/2005 2:36:12 PM PST by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1321067/posts
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03/30/2005 10:58:26 AM PST
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SunkenCiv
(last updated my FreeRepublic profile on Friday, March 25, 2005.)
Not a ping, just a GGG update. Please FREEPMAIL me if you want on, off, or alter the "Gods, Graves, Glyphs" PING list --
Archaeology/Anthropology/Ancient Cultures/Artifacts/Antiquities, etc.
The GGG Digest -- Gods, Graves, Glyphs (alpha order)
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03/30/2005 10:59:02 AM PST
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SunkenCiv
(last updated my FreeRepublic profile on Friday, March 25, 2005.)
To: OSHA
Sounds like a study of the Maunder Minimum; the fewer sunspots, the lower the solar output, and based on the spotty (sorry) sunspot reports going back a way, it appears that the Sun had few sunspots during the Little Ice Age. I.E., the Earth's climate derives from the Sun, which is an amazing coincidence, since the Sun is nearly the Earth's sole source of heat.
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03/30/2005 11:02:55 AM PST
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SunkenCiv
(last updated my FreeRepublic profile on Friday, March 25, 2005.)
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posted on
03/30/2005 11:03:12 AM PST
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Rocket1968
(No more Daschle - No more Daschle)
To: Constitution Day
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posted on
03/30/2005 11:04:26 AM PST
by
blam
To: Between the Lines
If you see any updates on Schaefer's work on the sun and global warming, I'd love to be pinged.
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posted on
03/30/2005 11:07:56 AM PST
by
patriciaruth
(They are all Mike Spanns)
To: Between the Lines
Backyard inventor, chess expert and former world-ranked tiddlywinks player,World-ranked tiddlywinks player?
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03/30/2005 11:09:37 AM PST
by
SolidRedState
(E Pluribus Funk --- (Latin taglines are sooooo cool! Don't ya think?))
To: petuniasevan; RadioAstronomer
To: SolidRedState
That was a big sport at MIT.
To: RadioAstronomer; Physicist; PatrickHenry
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