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- From: dnash@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (David Nash)
- Subject: Kalki: Krishna, or Borg? You make the call
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- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 23:40:39 GMT
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- In article <7VHVXB7w165w@kalki33.lakes.trenton.sc.us> system@kalki33.lakes.trenton.sc.us (Kalki Dasa) writes:
- >lip@s1.gov (Loren I. Petrich) writes:
- >
- >>
- >> What's the "Bhu-mandala system"?
-
- A group of six planets around a class-M star near the edge of the
- Neutral Zo....whoops, wrong science-fiction story.
-
- >
- >The Bhu-mandala system is a gigantic disk-shaped region in
- >higher-dimensional space. Its 3-dimensional projection is on the
- >ecliptic. Ordinary human beings cannot see the physical disk of
- >Bhu-mandala, because our senses are not sophisticated enough. But its
- >existence has been reported by demigods and advanced yogis.
-
- Now why does this sound so familiar? Oh. Yes. Back when N-rays were
- all the rage, Blondlot claimed that the inability of non-French scientists
- to see the rays was due to poorer visual acuity. Gotta love that particular
- excuse!
-
- >> >Eclipses are explained as the result of the planet Rahu passing
- >> >between the sun and the earth, or the moon and the earth. In modern
- >> >astronomy, the planet Rahu is identified as the moon's ascending node,
- >> >which is indeed in line with the sun-moon-earth system during an
- >> >eclipse.
-
- The ascending node is a POINT. The Sun is a sphere, which we see as a
- disk about half a degree in diameter. Care to explain how a point can
- occlude such a disk?
-
- And why just the ascending node? Why not the descending node as well?
-
- And why does this planet which we cannot see produce an event that
- is very easy to see?
-
-
-
- >>
- >> There is no such thing as a planet separate from the Moon that
- >> causes eclipses.
- >
- >So you say, but this is only your opinion. You cannot see Rahu, but that
- >does not mean it doesn't exist.
-
- Rahu does not cause eclipses. The little invisible (but very very powerful)
- gnomes in my closet take care of that. Of course, they take great pains
- to move the planets so it *looks* like they are obeying Newton's laws
- of motion, but this is really an illusion. Your ideas about Rahu are
- only your opinion. You cannot see the gnomes, but that does not
- mean they don't exist.
-
- >Sincerely,
- >Kalki Dasa
-
- Don't forget to chant:
-
- "If you chant it, he will come
- If you chant it, he will come
- If you chant it, he will come
- ..."
-
- ---> Dave
-
-
- --
- David Nash | Gradual Student, Chemistry
- | University of Illinois (Urbana)
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