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Post by nerdthenord on Oct 14, 2023 17:18:26 GMT
Got an awesome picture of the Eclipse from south Texas! Attachments:
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Post by treeslicer on Oct 14, 2023 17:54:25 GMT
Got an awesome picture of the Eclipse from south Texas! Thanks, but could you post a bigger one? I'd like to share that with some of my astronomy buddies.
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Post by nerdthenord on Oct 14, 2023 18:00:09 GMT
Got an awesome picture of the Eclipse from south Texas! Thanks, but could you post a bigger one? I'd like to share that with some of my astronomy buddies. Sorry, all I could get. I don’t have a good camera so I took phone video through the glasses and screenshot the best frame. Still feel free to share!
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Post by treeslicer on Oct 14, 2023 21:26:15 GMT
Thanks, but could you post a bigger one? I'd like to share that with some of my astronomy buddies. Sorry, all I could get. I don’t have a good camera so I took phone video through the glasses and screenshot the best frame. Still feel free to share! Here's a little Photoshopping. If you make the video available, frames could be stacked for sharpness.
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Post by nerdthenord on Oct 15, 2023 9:50:24 GMT
Sorry, all I could get. I don’t have a good camera so I took phone video through the glasses and screenshot the best frame. Still feel free to share! Here's a little Photoshopping. If you make the video available, frames could be stacked for sharpness.
Ah, didn’t know that. I’ll PM you the video today
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Post by nerdthenord on Oct 22, 2023 17:04:01 GMT
Sorry, all I could get. I don’t have a good camera so I took phone video through the glasses and screenshot the best frame. Still feel free to share! Here's a little Photoshopping. If you make the video available, frames could be stacked for sharpness.
Sorry for the delay. Here’s the video link.
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Post by treeslicer on Oct 22, 2023 23:30:08 GMT
Now that I've seen it, I'm not certain that I can do much with it, but I'll try. Thanks!
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Post by nerdthenord on Oct 23, 2023 14:16:23 GMT
Now that I've seen it, I'm not certain that I can do much with it, but I'll try. Thanks! This was taken by my best friend's father in law. Attachments:
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Post by treeslicer on Oct 23, 2023 16:34:00 GMT
Now that I've seen it, I'm not certain that I can do much with it, but I'll try. Thanks! This was taken by my best friend's father in law. That's a good one. Thanks! Astrophotography is one of my other hobbies.
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Post by Zen_Hydra on Oct 27, 2023 16:01:19 GMT
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Post by hawthorn on May 30, 2024 5:27:13 GMT
According to Immanuel Velikovsky's books, people between 1500BC and 1000BC were seeing venus, mars and jupiter making near passes to earth and sometimes shooting off plasma arcs between each other, one of which allegedly hitting earth and creating the great rift in jordan and the dead sea. Imagine waking up one day to people screaming, you look outside and there's freaking jupiter blotting out the whole sky. If you think a solar eclipse is spooky.
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Post by treeslicer on Jun 4, 2024 16:31:55 GMT
According to Immanuel Velikovsky's books, people between 1500BC and 1000BC were seeing venus, mars and jupiter making near passes to earth and sometimes shooting off plasma arcs between each other, one of which allegedly hitting earth and creating the great rift in jordan and the dead sea. Imagine waking up one day to people screaming, you look outside and there's freaking jupiter blotting out the whole sky. If you think a solar eclipse is spooky. Because Velikovsky was educated as a Freudian psychiatrist rather than as a physicist, a geologist, or an archaeologist, I'd dismiss his theories as resulting from Venus envy.
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Post by howler on Jun 4, 2024 17:33:27 GMT
According to Immanuel Velikovsky's books, people between 1500BC and 1000BC were seeing venus, mars and jupiter making near passes to earth and sometimes shooting off plasma arcs between each other, one of which allegedly hitting earth and creating the great rift in jordan and the dead sea. Imagine waking up one day to people screaming, you look outside and there's freaking jupiter blotting out the whole sky. If you think a solar eclipse is spooky. Because Velikovsky was educated as a Freudian psychiatrist rather than as a physicist, a geologist, or an archaeologist, I'd dismiss his theories as resulting from Venus envy. Yup, some people always want to place Venus in Uranus.
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Post by hawthorn on Jun 4, 2024 20:10:35 GMT
That's what everyone 100 years ago said. They did not even discuss the evidence and just cancelled him instead.
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Post by treeslicer on Jun 5, 2024 1:17:37 GMT
That's what everyone 100 years ago said. They did not even discuss the evidence and just cancelled him instead. In the hundred years since, no evidence has been found to support Velikovsky's ideas, and much to disprove them (e,g,, no organic extraterrestrial material found trapped in in ice cores and seds cores). I'll discuss his proposed changes to Egyptian chronology, as well as the nature of any catastrophes which may have contributed to events during the Bronze Age of the Eastern Mediterranean area, but I won't get into a point-by-point debate over Velikovsky's orbital mechanics or geophysics. Reading his correspondence with Einstein (who didn't "cancel", him, but tried to show him his errors), by itself, will demonstrate that Velikovsky's ignorance of basic mathematics, physics, geology, and geophysics was profound, www.varchive.org/cor/einstein/index.htm. I will note that many of the points raised by Velikovsky about geology have been eliminated by the adoption of plate tectonics, and his astronomical mysteries (such as the behavior of comet tails) have been illuminated by space-based astronomy and planetary exploration from the late 1950's forward.
BTW, I'm something of a Velikovsky scholar, and believe that he was ill-advised to charge (pun intended) the windmills that he did, armed only with a pen and a largely classical and biological education rather than one heavy with physical science and engineering.
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Post by hawthorn on Jun 5, 2024 3:57:35 GMT
BTW, I'm something of a Velikovsky scholar, lol, sure thing and the pyramids are only 4500 years old
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Post by treeslicer on Jun 5, 2024 4:14:11 GMT
BTW, I'm something of a Velikovsky scholar, lol, sure thing and the pyramids are only 4500 years old
Now that's an issue that Velikovsky knew less than nothing about.
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Post by hawthorn on Jun 5, 2024 5:40:48 GMT
you know he's not the only one who has questioned the establishment's dating of the pyramids and he didn't start it
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Post by mrstabby on Jun 5, 2024 7:46:21 GMT
You will always find people who doubt something, like the shape of earth. Not saying you shouldn't doubt, but within reason. His stuff reads like it was written by someone lacking basic physics knowledge, trying to connect myths and reality any way he could.
Also the early psychoanalysts all were people who would have themselves very much profited from a good therapy session. Walking mental disorder collections the lot of them.
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Post by treeslicer on Jun 5, 2024 16:30:02 GMT
you know he's not the only one who has questioned the establishment's dating of the pyramids and he didn't start it Velikovsky wasn't involved in the later argument over dating the Giza Pyramids earlier than then 3rd. Millennium B.C.. He argued for a much later date (and that one, 1250 B.C., is clearly erroneous) than is currently accepted. I suspect that you're mixed up. Please note that it's Velikovsky's astronomy that I have issues with, not many of his proposed changes to the standard Egyptological dating scheme. Personally, I favor Manetho's numbers for the length of the Hyksos Period.
If you know a Naue II from a khepesh and Protogeometric potsherds from LH III, we might have something to discuss.
You will always find people who doubt something, like the shape of earth. Not saying you shouldn't doubt, but within reason. His stuff reads like it was written by someone lacking basic physics knowledge, trying to connect myths and reality any way he could. Also the early psychoanalysts all were people who would have themselves very much profited from a good therapy session. Walking mental disorder collections the lot of them. Yup. IMHO, Freud and his colleagues were more than a little "squirrely", like many shrinks I'm acquainted with. I've known some with bizarre private and professional lives. Their contributions to faculty gossip are often seminal.
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