My aching back!

Archeologists recently unearth an iron nail from the ruins of an old stone fort on the island of Ilheu de Pontinha, off the coast of Madeira. The nail dates from the first or second century CE, and was possibly one of thousands used by the Romans to attach bodies to wooden structures in their own charming form of public execution.

The fort was believed to have been briefly occupied by a number of members of the Knights Templar, the medieval fraternity mentioned in Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code as keepers of the artifacts of the crucifixion of that itinerant rabbi named….oh, can’t think of his name, starts with the letter J, I think.

Therefore…

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(can you see this coming?)

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…some are speculating that the nail found was one of those used in That Crucifixion. One of the archeologists made this supposition because…

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(ready for this?)

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…the surface of the nail was smooth instead of being pitted, as if the nail were treated delicately, as if it were “some sort of relic”. Conclusive proof!

And of course, the dumbshit organizations that pass for “media” are fanning this meager ember of speculation.

Published in: on 2 March 2010 at 15:07  Leave a Comment  
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Water, water everywhere!

A story quietly came across the wire today, the subject of which has increased chances of establishing permanent residence on the moon a hundredfold.

Using NASA’s Mini-SAR radar instrument on India’s Chandrayaan-1 lunar orbiter, it has been discovered that the moon’s north pole contains at least 600 million metric tons of water ice in permanently-shadowed craters. Sub-surface water was also discovered last year near the moon’s south pole.

This not only allows future lunar base establishment without having to ship water from Earth, but also would allow oxygen for breathing and hydrogen fuel for energy and for propulsion. We don’t have to bring it to the moon ourselves; it’s already there.

America may not establish the first lunar base, but the odds of creating one within my lifetime just bumped way up.

Published in: on 2 March 2010 at 12:47  Comments (1)  
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Pregnancy in the Land of Patriarchy

In Iowa, you’ll get busted for attempted feticide if you fall down the stairs.

In Florida, they’ll chain you to a hospital bed and eventually cause a miscarriage if you seek a second medical opinion.

Need we go into the misogynist attitudes in the Catholic Church?