I’ve been attending the local Astronomy Club the last few month. And last Tuesday I took my new Christmas telescope out (Orion StarBlast 4.5 EQ) and took a look at Saturn. Wow! I was using a 6mm, 66deg. eyepiece which if I have my math right, gives me about a 75x magnification. Numbers aside, what [...]
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Milky Way’s warp caused by interloping galaxies
CNN.com – Milky Way’s warp caused by interloping galaxies – Jan 10, 2006 Whoa!
READ MORE »10 Reasons Why Gay Marriage is Wrong
From a chain e-mail going around. Funny AND clever. 10 reasons Gay Marriage is wrong: 1. Being gay is not natural. And as you know Americans have always rejected unnatural things like eyeglasses, polyester, and air conditioning. 2. Gay marriage will encourage people to be gay, in the same way that hanging around tall people [...]
READ MORE »God’s Real Estate
“Robertson suggests God smote Sharon” “God says, ‘This land belongs to me, and you’d better leave it alone,’” [Pat Robertson] said. Two questions: 1: What does the creator of an infinite and awesome universe want with a small piece of land in the Middle East as his own; what makes Israel more his than any [...]
READ MORE »Jesus in ancient Greece and Egypt?
To sleepy to provide all the links and references to articles and podcasts I’ve encountered lately on this subject (see the last blog of mine on the “Pagan Origins of the Christ Myth”,) so read these and enjoy doing your own research: Jesus and the Egyptian “son of God” Horus Jesus and the Greek man-God [...]
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