Monthly Archives: February 2007

Tomb of Jesus II

Posted on February 27, 2007 by Adam

And of course the Discovery Channel is airing the documentary. There’s some good support material provided online, so check it out. A problem for future investigation is that any bones found with the ossuaries have been reburied due to the … Continue reading →

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Tomb of Jesus… maybe?

Posted on February 25, 2007 by Adam

So is it a Jewish conspiracy to trash the One True Faith (TM) or is it a statistical goof being flogged to the world for the sake of publicity? About 1980 a bunch of archaeologists stumbled across a tomb with … Continue reading →

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Human-Chimp Split not so old?

Posted on February 24, 2007 by Adam

When the first molecular clock studies were performed on the apes what surprised everyone was just how recently the human line had split from the apes – prior to that first study in the 1970s everyone had thought the human … Continue reading →

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Who Buried Jesus II?

Posted on February 23, 2007 by Adam

In the previous section I noted the apparent non-Orthodox burial tradition that Jesus was buried by his enemies, not his friends as the Gospels would lead us to believe. The Gospel of Peter states: And then they plucked the nails … Continue reading →

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Who Buried Jesus?

Posted on February 19, 2007 by Adam

How was JC buried? And by who? Friend or foe? Continue reading →

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Star-Brake II

Posted on February 19, 2007 by Adam

Mag-sails acting as interstellar brakes follow the equation: V = Vo/(1 + k.Vo^(1/3).t)^3 …and as we discovered the distance the mag-sail travels while deccelerating from Vo to V during a fixed time, t, is: s = Vo.t/2 * [ (V/Vo)^(1/3).(1 … Continue reading →

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Magnetic Sail as a Star-Brake

Posted on February 10, 2007 by Adam

No-fuel decceleration Continue reading →

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Long term habitats

Posted on February 7, 2007 by Adam

Red dwarfs… trillion year real estate Continue reading →

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If Jesus Lived Today

Posted on February 6, 2007 by Adam

Haldane on JC in modern times Continue reading →

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Alternative-style “proteins”

Posted on February 6, 2007 by Adam

For several years molecular biologists have been fiddling with the machinery of Life, trying out its capabilities. Now a new kind of “protein” made from beta-amino acids (different to our alpha-aminos by having an extra carbon) have been synthesised and … Continue reading →

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