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Revelation 21
Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea. I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Now the dwelling of God is with men, and he will live with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God. He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.”
I am no theologian, and I am sure this question has been asked many times before, but i’m going to get it down anyway.
Assuming that i believed my immortal soul would ascend to heaven at the time of my death, had I met the strict entry criteria.
Assuming also those that hadn’t would go to the sulphurous fire pits of hell, and face ‘eternal torment’.
About Me now..
Upon finding myself in this paradise I would bask in the glow of God and feel good. Possibly for a few million years, not such a long time in all eternity. I would live in one of his many mansions, might have a couple to allow for short breaks, to holiday where the illuminating rays are a little dimmer.
I would wander around, maybe converse with his Seraphim, chat with his Cherubim, I would eventually seek out family and friends, we’d get together, have a bbq talk about old times in this new order. Reminiscing, we’d remember John, and Sue and my Dad and Mum, my friends, more than half the population of the world, and comment how they failed to make the grade, for they had no faith, or they did not believe.
Have we all, the ascended ones been lobotomized, has our memory been wiped, how else could we not feel a little sad for all those billions of lost souls.
July 29th, 2008
Stormy Skies
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July 25th, 2008
Bang..
The milkyway galaxy
Tis home.
Credit: Knut Lundmark, Copyright Lund Observatory.
There is also a nice explanation of the picture/drawing here.
Lets have another look..
Infrared image of the core of the Milky Way galaxy
So some facts for you.
The stellar disk of the Milky Way galaxy is approximately 100,000 light years in diameter, and is believed to be, on average, about 1,000 light years thick. It is estimated to contain at least 200 billion stars and possibly up to 400 billion stars, the exact figure depending on the number of very low-mass stars, which is highly uncertain. Extending beyond the stellar disk is a much thicker disk of gas. Recent observations indicate that the gaseous disk of the Milky Way has a thickness of around 12,000 light years – twice the previously accepted value. As a guide to the relative physical scale of the Milky Way, if it were reduced to 130 km (80 miles) in diameter, the Solar System would be a mere 2 mm (0.08 inches) in width.
Our location amongst the maelstrom
Sun’s location
The Sun (and therefore the Earth and Solar System) may be found close to the inner rim of the Galaxy’s Orion Arm, in the Local Fluff or the Gould Belt, at a hypothesized distance of 7.62±0.32 kpc from the Galactic Center. The distance between the local arm and the next arm out, the Perseus Arm, is about 6,500 light-years. The Sun, and thus the Solar System, is found in what scientists call the galactic habitable zone.
The Apex of the Sun’s Way, or the solar apex, is the direction that the Sun travels through space in the Milky Way. The general direction of the Sun’s galactic motion is towards the star Vega near the constellation of Hercules, at an angle of roughly 60 sky degrees to the direction of the Galactic Center. The Sun’s orbit around the Galaxy is expected to be roughly elliptical with the addition of perturbations due to the galactic spiral arms and non-uniform mass distributions. In addition the Sun oscillates up and down relative to the galactic plane approximately 2.7 times per orbit. This is very similar to how a simple harmonic oscillator works with no drag force (damping) term. Due to the higher density of stars close to the galactic plane, these oscillations often coincide with mass extinction periods on Earth, presumably due to increased impact events.
It takes the Solar System about 225–250 million years to complete one orbit of the galaxy (a galactic year), so it is thought to have completed 20–25 orbits during the lifetime of the Sun and 1/1250th of a revolution since the origin of humans. The orbital speed of the Solar System about the center of the Galaxy is approximately 220 km/s. At this speed, it takes around 1400 years for the Solar System to travel a distance of 1 light-year, or 8 days to travel 1 AU.
Lots going on here, in this space time reality, but what about our neighbors?
Andromeda Galaxy.
A visible light image of the Andromeda Galaxy.
approximately 2.5 million light-years away. So blow me away baby.. What is real?
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More, bring it on..
July 23rd, 2008
Object originated from outside the solar system
And where is the object heading?
Volatiles tangled in a delightfully incomprehensible dance, balanced, inexorably connected, to wit the salt of Amun.
Fly me to the moon in your rocket airplane..
Kupier
The Kuiper belt (pronounced /ˈkaɪpɚ/, to rhyme with “viper”), sometimes called the Edgeworth-Kuiper belt, is a region of the Solar System beyond the planets extending from the orbit of Neptune (at 30 AU) to approximately 55 AU from the Sun. It is similar to the asteroid belt, although it is far larger; 20 times as wide and 20–200 times as massive. Like the asteroid belt, it consists mainly of small bodies (remnants from the Solar System’s formation). It is home to at least two dwarf planets – Pluto and Makemake. But while the asteroid belt is composed primarily of rock and metal, the Kuiper belt objects are composed largely of frozen volatiles (dubbed “ices”), such as methane, ammonia and water.
Amun
Amun (also spelled Amon, Amoun, Amen, and rarely Imen, Greek Ἄμμων Ammon, and Ἅμμων Hammon, reconstructed Egyptian Yamānu) was the name of a deity, in Egyptian mythology, who gradually rose to become one of the most important deities in Ancient Egypt, before fading into obscurity.
Amun’s name is first recorded in Egyptian as ỉmn, meaning “The hidden (one)”. (Hence the connection to the mysterious kupier belt.)
Amun
July 15th, 2008
Is it worth the hassle
1.. Firtly, because blix add pages doesn’t appear to work with newer versions of wordpress,
I have used Page Link Manager by Garrett Murphey.
Not much of one for branching out, I am using his older version on this site, had to modify site code a little, can’t remember why now, Check this but it is a handy plugin. The plugin basically allows you to decide which pages show up in the site’s main navigation.
The site I am currently building will allow multiple users to log in and personally update a specific page.
I have for example a site showcasing the work of others.
To achieve the desired functionality I have created separate templates for each user, (see bottom of post A new page template) and they will be able to upload to that page by posting in a category specific to that page.
So I have set the site to show a static front page, and set posts to be rendered on a news page, excluding categories as necessary, using a snippet of php i found on an earlier search. Category template customization
This page will display posts only by the site admin, news and updates etc.
Now for the users who will upload profile I have created pages and will insert the php to call for specific category relevant to their work.
I Have been dabbling, making changes, and loosing site of overall objectivity; consequently things are a little diffuse cloud like in their structure.Tis the old one, need content and ideas..
Coming soon
July 15th, 2008
and smashed the orbits of Phobos and Deimos.
In part 2 of building a model solar system. See part 1 here.
Phase 2. Will be adding the gear wheel for the earth and moon system, plus the Earth itself.
Unfortunately the moon snapped off in the construction stage.
Now how is this likely to effect our planet.
Apparently if the earth was suddenly without its moon, there would be significant problems associated with the planets water.
The moon effects the global altitude of the water, so if this was taken away, a lot of water would be redistributed around the poles.
The effect on the planets rotation would also be changed, the moons location, and gravitational attraction keeps the planet in a relatively stable orbit, no wobbles as such, and as consequence a fairly predictable seasonal climatic balance.
Without this stability life on this sphere would likely have struggled to build itself to the complexity we see today.
So on a lighter note, it’s only a model after all, i’ll get out the super glue and try to restore equilibrium.
Phobos and Deimos
Again in the construction when trying to place the pin on the bottom of mars onto the orbiting moons arm their relative position was changed when I was forced to bring out the hammer to bash the pin in.
I have no idea how this turn of events would effect the solar system as a whole, dynamic interactions and connections are one thing, but i’m thinking not much, considering removing our own moon would apparently not cause all the planets to plunge headlong into a fiery death as we all race towards the sun.
Fate of the solar system in my hands.
July 10th, 2008
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