Shrapnel

Thanks to esquire.com (and their source, applied optics), I’ve acquired some new knowledge today:

Revelations 21:8 calls hell a “lake which burneth of fire and brimstone.” To maintain liquid (lake) form and not vapor (cloud), molten brimstone or sulfur must be ≤ sulfur’s boiling point (444.6°c).

Isaiah 30:26 says heaven receives from the moon as much radiation as Earth from the Sun, plus “sevenfold as the light of 7 days.” The Stefan-Boltzmann 4th power law for radiation (H/E)4 = 50, where E is the absolute temperature of Earth (300°k), deems Heaven 798°k or 525°c.

Heaven is hotter than hell.

Shrapnel

Thanks to esquire.com (and their source, applied optics), I’ve acquired some new knowledge today:

Revelations 21:8 calls hell a “lake which burneth of fire and brimstone.” To maintain liquid (lake) form and not vapor (cloud), molten brimstone or sulfur must be ≤ sulfur’s boiling point (444.6°c).

Isaiah 30:26 says heaven receives from the moon as much radiation as Earth from the Sun, plus “sevenfold as the light of 7 days.” The Stefan-Boltzmann 4th power law for radiation (H/E)4 = 50, where E is the absolute temperature of Earth (300°k), deems Heaven 798°k or 525°c.

Heaven is hotter than hell.

Shrapnel

theeconomist:

Daily chart: Everything you need to know about UFOs

On July 2nd avid watchers of the skies celebrate World UFO day.The National UFO Reporting Centre, a non-profit, has catalogued almost 90,000 reported sightings of UFOs, mostly in America, since 1974. It turns out that aliens are considerate: they seldom disturb earthlings during working or sleeping hours. Rather, they tend to arrive in the evening, especially on Fridays, when folks are sitting on the front porch nursing their fourth beer.

I especially like that they used the term “drinking hours” to describe what we once knew as “evening,” but still. Potentially pretty telling.

Shrapnel

theeconomist:

Daily chart: Everything you need to know about UFOs

On July 2nd avid watchers of the skies celebrate World UFO day.The National UFO Reporting Centre, a non-profit, has catalogued almost 90,000 reported sightings of UFOs, mostly in America, since 1974. It turns out that aliens are considerate: they seldom disturb earthlings during working or sleeping hours. Rather, they tend to arrive in the evening, especially on Fridays, when folks are sitting on the front porch nursing their fourth beer.

I especially like that they used the term “drinking hours” to describe what we once knew as “evening,” but still. Potentially pretty telling.