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Monthly Archives: July 2007
How Big is a Planet?
Stars are fundamentally different to planets and one surprising way in which they differ is just how big they can get. Heavy stars get hotter and they puff-up from very fast fusion rates – stars heavier than the Sun fuse … Continue reading
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Bible errancy
As I noted below, the Bible contains history and has a history. During the course of its development certain quite notorious “exaggerations” of specific numbers crept in – famously the +900 year ages of pre-Flood patriarchs, like Methuselah’s 969 years, … Continue reading
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Chilling Venus
An old SF dream, independently invented by Olaf Stapledon and Jack Williamson, is the idea of terraforming. Venus has long been viewed as a suitable target. When CO2 was first found in huge amounts in the 1920s, Stapledon imagined giant … Continue reading
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Human Nature isn’t PC
A cute and informative article from Psychology Today… Ten Politically Incorrect Truths About Human Nature …which is quite a good popular update of current evolutionary psychology ideas. One thing it brushes over a bit lightly is why men find older … Continue reading
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Abiotic Production of Oxygen/Ozone
Planets with carbon dioxide rich atmospheres won’t produce oxygen or ozone is amounts large enough to look misleadingly like an Earth-like planet… Abiotic formation of O2 and O3 in high-CO2 terrestrial atmospheres …but only if they have oceans. If the … Continue reading
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Jesus is Lord!
Not a sign of a sudden conversion, but more of a gentle steering back into faith. For the last 8 years I have been an avowed agnostic – with occasional lapses. But recently I have had to admit to myself … Continue reading
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