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I like the audio at the end...
"Pilot: that smell. You schit yourself?
Throttle: nope. I thought it was you.
Pilot: Yeah, it was. I just wanted to know if it was ONLY me?"
This shouldn’t even be possible
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"Pilot: that smell. You schit yourself?
Throttle: nope. I thought it was you.
Pilot: Yeah, it was. I just wanted to know if it was ONLY me?"
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The combining of "This shouldn't even be possible" and "spiral staircases" brought to mind the spiral staircase in the Loretto Chapel in Sante Fe.
The story behind it is pretty amazing. And whether one believes the miraculous aspects or not, everyone can agree it is a remarkable feat of carpentry.
Loretto Chapel - Wikipedia
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Wow!
The staircase is built mostly out of wood and is held together by wooden pegs, with no glue, nails or other hardware used. The inner stringer consists of seven wooden segments joined together with pegs, while the longer outer stringer has nine segments. The exact wood used to build the staircase has been confirmed to be a type of sprucewhich is not native to New Mexico and scientifically not identified anywhere else in the world.[7]
There are 33 stairs, which has been noted to be the age of Christ at the time of his death.
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This was discussed in church today. A scientist at UK finally found a way to read a charred scroll without unrolling it. The video explains how it’s done to allow them to read the words.
The En-Gedi Scroll is an ancient Hebrew parchment found in 1970 at Ein Gedi, Israel. Radiocarbon testing dates the scroll to the third or fourth century CE (88.9% certainty for 210–390 CE), although there is disagreement over whether the evidence from the writing itself supports that date. The scroll was discovered to contain a portion of the biblical Book of Leviticus, making it the earliest copy of a Pentateuchal book ever found in a Torah ark.[1]
The charred ancient scroll from Ein Gedi
The deciphered text fragment is identical to what was to become, during the Middle Ages, the standard text of the Hebrew Bible, known as the Masoretic Text, which it precedes by several centuries. Damaged by a fire in approximately 600 CE, the scroll is badly charred and fragmented and required noninvasive scientific and computational techniques to virtually unwrap and read, which was completed in 2015 by a team led by Brent Seales of the University of Kentucky.[1]
The En-Gedi Scroll is an ancient Hebrew parchment found in 1970 at Ein Gedi, Israel. Radiocarbon testing dates the scroll to the third or fourth century CE (88.9% certainty for 210–390 CE), although there is disagreement over whether the evidence from the writing itself supports that date. The scroll was discovered to contain a portion of the biblical Book of Leviticus, making it the earliest copy of a Pentateuchal book ever found in a Torah ark.[1]
The charred ancient scroll from Ein GediThe deciphered text fragment is identical to what was to become, during the Middle Ages, the standard text of the Hebrew Bible, known as the Masoretic Text, which it precedes by several centuries. Damaged by a fire in approximately 600 CE, the scroll is badly charred and fragmented and required noninvasive scientific and computational techniques to virtually unwrap and read, which was completed in 2015 by a team led by Brent Seales of the University of Kentucky.[1]
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This was discussed in church today. A scientist at UK finally found a way to read a charred scroll without unrolling it. The video explains how it’s done to allow them to read the words.
The En-Gedi Scroll is an ancient Hebrew parchment found in 1970 at Ein Gedi, Israel. Radiocarbon testing dates the scroll to the third or fourth century CE (88.9% certainty for 210–390 CE), although there is disagreement over whether the evidence from the writing itself supports that date. The scroll was discovered to contain a portion of the biblical Book of Leviticus, making it the earliest copy of a Pentateuchal book ever found in a Torah ark.[1]
The deciphered text fragment is identical to what was to become, during the Middle Ages, the standard text of the Hebrew Bible, known as the Masoretic Text, which it precedes by several centuries. Damaged by a fire in approximately 600 CE, the scroll is badly charred and fragmented and required noninvasive scientific and computational techniques to virtually unwrap and read, which was completed in 2015 by a team led by Brent Seales of the University of Kentucky.[1]
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Way cool.
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Nalt
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The family who owns Ni'ihau are the Robinsons. MDA has assets on the island and when there is a need to service this equipment, that is the only place they are allowed to go. There are also two other, much smaller islands, one only .7 miles north of Niihau, that were once part of Niihau many years ago. Supposedly, they were created by volcanic eruptions and then when said volcano collapsed most of Niihau vanished leaving only what remains of Niihau and the much smaller, and uninhabited, Lehau island. Lehau is owned by the state an not the Robinson family.
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I see your point, it's scary stuff, but what if you were that blind person?
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Extreme problems sometimes call for extreme remedies, but outside of that sort of situation . . .
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