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- From: dayton@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Michael A Dayton)
- Newsgroups: sci.skeptic
- Subject: Re: Krishnas, Vedas, and all that (was: TM debunking needed)
- Date: 21 Jan 1993 21:14:29 -0500
- Organization: Homewood Academic Computing, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md, USA
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- References: <1993Jan20.041222.28142@netcom.com> <1jkl4lINN89t@duca.hi.com> <1993Jan22.014554.7281@s1.gov>
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- Keywords: sun, moon, Krishna
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- In article <1993Jan22.014554.7281@s1.gov> lip@s1.gov (Loren I. Petrich) writes:
- >
- > As to Vedic astronomy, I wouldn't be very surprised if it
- >wasn't very sophisticated; apparently the Vedas teach explicitly that
- >the Earth is flat, which may give pause to Hindu fundamentalists like
- >the Hare Krishnas.
- >
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- I had a (rather weird) friend who was a Krishna for a short time, and
- he mentioned this to me as well. While I don't remember the entire
- argument, a major part was the relative temperatures of the bodies
- involved. Basically, the sun and the moon are both made of some
- kind of celestial fire, the sun feels hotter therefore must be closer.
-
- He claimed the moon landings were fake because
- 1) the moon is too far away
- 2) it is made of fire anyway and would incinerate any moon walkers
-
- Don't remember how he accounted for craters, ...and, of course, the
- eclipse question is compelling.
-
- see ya
- mike
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