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The Moon’s Long Lost Twin Found
International Business Times ^ | 8/11/2011 | International Business Times

Posted on 03/24/2012 12:57:47 AM PDT by U-238

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To: patton

We got thread-jacked by creationists.


41 posted on 03/24/2012 7:02:18 AM PDT by lefty-lie-spy (Stay metal. For the Horde \m/("_")\m/ - via iPhone from Tokyo.)
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To: lefty-lie-spy

They are not of the body. They believe in I Euclid V.


42 posted on 03/24/2012 7:07:04 AM PDT by patton (DateDiff)
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To: U-238

Thanks for posting this. Fascination subject. Too bad the Flat Earthers had to stink up the thread, but it serves as an abject lesson on the macelency of civilization’s veneer.


43 posted on 03/24/2012 7:18:00 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (Sofa King Mitt Odd Did Obamneycare)
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To: lefty-lie-spy
We got thread-jacked by creationists.

What's the saying? "Science is hard. Harder if you're dumb."

44 posted on 03/24/2012 7:20:50 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (Sofa King Mitt Odd Did Obamneycare)
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To: presently no screen name

Eternity has no beginning or end so all find
themselves in the now, recognizing that is to
know your intellect as the void, blissful and
shining.


45 posted on 03/24/2012 7:21:35 AM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: tet68

You know, the difference between countable infinity (chaos), and uncouncountable infinity (entropy), escapes some people. Moreover, the very idea of random events makes them soil their shorts.

So they seek an illusion of control ...

That is actually a survival mechanism. I once placed a mouse in a glass cage, next to a snake in a glass cage. In about 12 hours, the mouse dropped dead. It had food, water, and it was protected from the snake by the glass.

I didn’t autopsy the mouse, but I am pretty sure it died of stress.

So, if we throw a virgin in the volcano, G-D won’t drop a burning rock on our house...


46 posted on 03/24/2012 7:35:28 AM PDT by patton (DateDiff)
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To: patton

“....I once placed a mouse in a glass cage, next to a snake in a glass cage. In about 12 hours, the mouse dropped dead....”
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Sure you did....We all believe you actually did this.


47 posted on 03/24/2012 8:42:25 AM PDT by House Atreides
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To: presently no screen name
"How do you know this 'authority' knows what they are talking about and not deceiving you? Making you believe what they want you to believe? Putting trust in 'man' is for the gullible."

Exactly. How do we prove anything to be the word of God when it is all recorded on materials made by man? It is physically the same as any text that could easily have been changed by any man. It doesn't help that most of the texts were written many lifetimes after the fact.

If even one text or relic had supernatural properties that could not be explained or reproduced, I would be more likely to believe it. In fact, other cultures have more unexplainable relics to show. For example, the perfectly symmetrical Egyptian statues that can only be replicated through robotics. Or buildings perfectly aligned to stars within 1/100th of a degree, something barely.

Right now I see Biblical texts as edited and compiled by many men for their own purposes. Even if some men in history received the direct word of God, it was still written down and kept by men. You must THINK and not put complete trust in anything made by man, just as you said.

48 posted on 03/24/2012 8:53:35 AM PDT by varyouga
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To: House Atreides

ok, let me give you more detail. My kid was off at college or the like, and I was feeding his pet snake. It ate live mice.

We had two glass cages, a big one the snake lived in, and a smaller one for feeding - don’t feed a snake in it’s home, or it will assume that anything that moves in it’s home is food, and you will get bit.

So the procedure is take the snake out of it’s home, put it in the feeding cage, and chuck in a mouse. Snake eats mouse.

But we had two mice, so once the snake had eaten, I put it back in it’s home, and set up the spare mouse in the feeding cage with some food and water, for the next time the snake needed to be fed.

Hours later, it keeled over, dead. I should have put something between the two glass cages, so it couldn’t see the snake staring at it.

But you “all” can believe whatever you wish.


49 posted on 03/24/2012 9:32:18 AM PDT by patton (DateDiff)
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To: patton

I now believe you—you sweet talking devil.


50 posted on 03/24/2012 9:58:50 AM PDT by House Atreides
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To: U-238

Earth’s two moons? It’s not lunacy, but new theory
Associated Press | August 3, 2011 | SETH BORENSTEIN
Posted on 08/03/2011 12:49:20 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2758171/posts

and from the FRchives:

In the shadow of the Moon
New Scientist | 30 January 1999 | editors
Posted on 08/31/2004 8:42:25 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/1203912/posts


51 posted on 03/24/2012 10:00:50 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him)
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To: KevinDavis; annie laurie; Knitting A Conundrum; Viking2002; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Mmogamer; ...

Thanks U-238. Pinging to an update. This is not, however, really an X-Planets topic.

 
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52 posted on 03/24/2012 10:02:08 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him)
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To: 75thOVI; agrace; aimhigh; Alice in Wonderland; AndrewC; aragorn; aristotleman; Avoiding_Sulla; ...

Thanks U-238. Pinging to an update.




53 posted on 03/24/2012 10:02:08 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him)
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To: skinkinthegrass

Thanks!


54 posted on 03/24/2012 10:04:24 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him)
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To: BigCinBigD; ExGeeEye; Kenny Bunk; onedoug; bert; Moonman62; MD Expat in PA; campaignPete R-CT; ...

Thanks!


55 posted on 03/24/2012 11:20:06 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him)
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To: the invisib1e hand

I thank HIM for everything, dude! Have you thanked HIM for oxygen?


56 posted on 03/24/2012 12:05:30 PM PDT by presently no screen name
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To: MD Expat in PA
It saddens me that some people are ignorant of what scientific progress has done to improve the quality and quantity of their lives. Science does not have to be in opposition to religion and religion does not have to be in opposition to science.

Oh PLEASE - SAVE THE DRAMA!!!!!

Besides this has NOTHING to do with religion, so much for this 'ignorance' you speak of!.

57 posted on 03/24/2012 12:14:49 PM PDT by presently no screen name
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To: Jonty30
"I believe it’s spelled scones." !????
LOL!...Not really.
note the time of post/sleepy/contacts-out/didn't use handy spellchecker.
c'mon, a biscuit ping!... maybe for breakfast.
:-D

58 posted on 03/24/2012 12:29:55 PM PDT by skinkinthegrass (Simple: Kill the terrorists, Protect (all) the borders, ridicule all the (surviving) Liberals :^)
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To: SunkenCiv
"I believe it’s spelled scones." !????
LOL!...Not really.
note the time of post/sleepy/contacts-out/didn't use handy spellchecker.
c'mon, a biscuit ping!... maybe for breakfast.
:-D

59 posted on 03/24/2012 12:32:00 PM PDT by skinkinthegrass (Simple: Kill the terrorists, Protect (all) the borders, ridicule all the (surviving) Liberals :^)
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To: presently no screen name
Besides this has NOTHING to do with religion, so much for this 'ignorance' you speak of!.

That’s a curious statement coming from someone who hijacked a science thread and made it all about religion.

60 posted on 03/24/2012 1:34:00 PM PDT by MD Expat in PA
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