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Thanks for responding. But I phrased my question poorly; that wasn't the information I was looking for. The paper published in JAMA a few years back presented conclusions but few specifics on the testing: the closest approach I found was a statement that some loci had been tested up to 30 times. There was nothing as specific as a percentage of matching that I could find in that articl
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Khazar-khum Wrote:
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> The DNA evidence isn't
> de facto truth, either; much of it is based on
> matches of less than 30%.
To what does the "matches of less than 30%" refer?
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Don Barone Wrote:
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> How can something escape a black hole ?
The term "black hole" is used in a couple of senses. You're thinking of the gravitational pull of a former stellar mass within an event horizon (the point of no return for matter approaching a black hole). In that sense, nothing that crosses the event hori
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Tommi Huhtamaki Wrote:
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> I don't
> personally doubt the existence of Hawking
> radiation, although a confirmation by observation
> would be very nice.
And here, apparently, it is.
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At least as logical as most of the others:
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Khazar-khum Wrote:
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> Wow. Not only did you manage to mangle Frost, you
> managed to successively reduce his clear poem to
> gibberish.
Practice makes perfect.
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Hermione Wrote:
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> Sirfiroth Wrote:
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> > his works are
> > clandestinely influenced by personal beliefs
>
> I assure you that you don't mean "clandestinely".
> And nor do you mean "personal beliefs".
>
>
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Pete Clarke Wrote:
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> Hi Mark,
Hi Pete,
This post is more thinking out loud than an attempt to argue a point. I'm still trying to come to grips with your suggestion. I don't reject it out of hand by any means; but I still need to get back up to speed on some of the issues involved.
> Although I agree that the ta
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Roxana Cooper Wrote:
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> Doesn't the complete lack of history prior to the
> fourteenth c. bother you just a little?
Oh, I believe all the credible evidence points at a 14th Century origin for the Shroud -- and that doesn't bother me a bit. On the other hand, if the Shroud were proven conclusively to have a 1st Century
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Pete Clarke Wrote:
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> My understanding is that the description in John
> matches post 50AD linens found in Palestine.
Interesting. So the author of John may well have based his description on Jewish burial customs as he knew of them, given that that Gospel was probably composed 3 to 4 decades after Gamaliel's death.
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Roxana Cooper Wrote:
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> What neither John nor any other Evangelist says
> is that the burial cloth, or cloths, had an
> *image* of Christ on them! I find it difficult to
> believe that such a miracle would have gone
> completely unmentioned in ALL FOUR gospels (which
> are the closest thing we've got to contemp
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Pete Clarke Wrote:
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> The problem with both of these is, of course, that
> traditionally Judaism didn't adopt the tahrihim
> (burial shroud or white clothes) until the death
> of Gamaliel in 52AD. It suggests that the
> references to shrouds and wrapping in John are
> anachronistic and are, therefore, not much us
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Pete Clarke Wrote:
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> the reference to the wrapping of Jesus is John 18
> 40:
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> "Then took they the body of Jesus, and wound it in
> linen clothes with the spices, as the manner of
> the Jews is to bury."
Typo alert: this is John 19:40.
But the relevant section to any discussion of the Shroud o
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Khazar-khum Wrote:
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> Messing with geysers tends to kill them, too.
Permit me to emphasize this point. Geysers are rare -- the Geyser Observation and Study Association estimates there are just over 1000 geothermal and only a dozen cold water geysers worldwide -- because the circumstances under which they exist are both uncommon and
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Greg Reeder Wrote:
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> I've ordered my men to tie me to the mast.
Bad mistake. Filling your ears (or in this case, eyes) with wax is the only safe thing to do.
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cladking Wrote:
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> There are warm springs in Egypt proving it's not
> too far from geothermal energy.
If you are not proposing geothermal geysers -- that is, proposing that the pyramids were built on sites that were deluged at unpredictable intervals with thousands of gallons of water at temperatures of 160 degrees F. or
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Anthony Wrote:
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> What I find most intellectually convoluted is
> looking for evidence of geysers in the texts when
> there's no evidence of geysers on the continent!
You needn't overstate the facts. Africa has lots of volcanism, and while true geysers aren't common there they do exist. Most African geysers
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Thanks, Greg! A reminder that Zahi Hawass's oft-repeated line "You never know what secrets are hidden beneath the sands of Egypt" isn't just a line after all.
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Roxana Cooper Wrote:
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> Seeing as the Grand Gallery is completely enclosed
> by heavy blocks of stone it's difficult for me to
> see exactly how it could have been used as an
> observatory.
They were observing cosmic rays and neutrinos, of course. You mustn't let niggling little facts interfere with your imagi
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Thanks very much, Katherine. I didn't realize the grounds for the concern were so very specific and well-founded. I thought they were just trying to protect themselves from annoyance from the folks who mangle data in whatever way it takes to draw their desired conclusion.
Katherine Griffis-Greenberg Wrote:
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> any DNA
> re
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markham Wrote:
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> I'm guessing that even assuming the
> Y-haplogrouping is accurate, that doesn't mean
> that the Egyptian royals were Celts. Sure, maybe
> they had a Western European ancestor...but that
> could be a long way back and have little bearing
> on who they really were by Tut's time.
The
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markham Wrote:
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> > Hawass previously announced that he would
> not
> > release the racial DNA results of Egyptian
> mummies
> > — obviously because he feared the
> consequences of
> > such a revelation.
>
> "Obviously"? Really? How is it "obvious" that not
> releasing
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A gallery showing various portrayals of some of Shakespeare's most famous female characters. Clicking on a slide brings up a page that (usually) also has the information of who's pictured. The highlight for me was the shot of Lillie Langtry playing Cleopatra.
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G Horvat Wrote:
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> I don't know the current percentage for nuclear
> DNA but Chimpanzee mtDNAs are still 92% similar to
> human.
> 95% similar in nDNA. The first study to estimate indel differences rounded down to 95%, but more recent studies cite somewhat smaller percentages for both SNPs and indels and hence round
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Joe_S Wrote:
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> >>Would aliens actually have DNA?
More importantly, would they also have eukaryotic cells that function almost identically to ours? If not, then whatever the DNA encoded might be expressed differently. In the human genome, a codon -- a part of a gene that encodes an amino acid -- is a 3 base sequence; 61 of
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... can be found here. I saw this link this morning; I'd never seen so many of these before. The drawings are based on what Norden saw when he traveled in Egypt and Nubia in 1737-8.
My apologies if this (or something like it) has been posted before.
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Roxana Cooper Wrote:
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> Why is it so hard to believe Alexander died of
> disease? Happened ALL the time in those days - and
> today too!
I'd guess because people get so wrapped up in the near superhuman myths surrounding some historic personalities that they refuse to believe anything so common as a micro-organism could
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Tommi Huhtamaki Wrote:
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> I don't think the jets are caused by Hawking
> radiation. As far as I know, Hawking radiation is
> very very weak, and I'm unaware of it's existance
> being proved by observation. Are you able to help
> me with that, if it has?
You're correct: the Hawking radiation on nor
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Jammer Wrote:
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> I sat in classrooms in the 60s and heard "the
> gravitational field inside a black hole prevents
> anything, including light, from escaping".
>
> Yet clearly matter can be ejected?
No, but the effect is almost the same. In the middle '70s, Yakov Zeldovich and Alexander Starobinsky s
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I am so sorry to hear this. Lee's knowledge and insights will be missed.
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