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Speaking for Almighty God, they endorsed RADIUM

by Nathan Natas in

but was almighty god stupid?.

you decide:.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/nxuaim8j3i0?feature=share.

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Taken from the source: Degnen's Standard Radio-Active Solar Pad (1915-1930) | Museum of Radiation and Radioactivity

The original belt which used purfied Radium had a dosage of :

Approximately 35-40 uR/hr above background at one foot for the radium containing pad (top photo)
Approximately 1-2 uR/hr above background at one foot for the uranium containing pad (bottom photo)

Doing a rough calculation of microroentgens to what I measure background radiation with which is microsiverts / hour (but not accounting for the space of 1 foot) it comes to 0.35-0.40 microsieverts per hour.

This was before the new version (bottom photo) appeared with drastically reduced levels of radioactivity due to switching to unrefined ore.

To be honest these levels are only several times background radiation and the biggest concern I would have is the possibility of the chemicals leaking, getting into the air, breathed in or ingested. It would be impossible to say whether it led to bowl cancer but the exposure level of the radium girls was very different (chronic).

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Speaking for Almighty God, they endorsed RADIUM

by Nathan Natas in

but was almighty god stupid?.

you decide:.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/nxuaim8j3i0?feature=share.

ballistic

Radium Girls the dvd is available on Amazon and eBay, based on the true story of the girls whose job it was to paint the dials for airplane cockpits, so they would glow in the dark.

It is said that if you could peer into the soil where these girls are buried to this day their bones will still be giving off a slight glow.

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Probability of Earth and life being how it is

by ballistic in

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there are some things we don't know about existence and whether the earth is a simulation or even a creation.

but we can do some statistical analysis on it.. the probability of a planet like earth existing in the goldilocks zone and having a moon that perfectly eclipses the sun is extremely low, but it's not impossible.

the habitable zone (or goldilocks zone) around a star is the region where a planet could potentially support liquid water on its surface.

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I'm glad I've got people thinking about it rather than the occasional god vs evolution. There's so much more down the rabbit hole of meditating on your senses and whether there is a real observer called "YOU" at the heart of it that exists at all.

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Probability of Earth and life being how it is

by ballistic in

jw
friends

there are some things we don't know about existence and whether the earth is a simulation or even a creation.

but we can do some statistical analysis on it.. the probability of a planet like earth existing in the goldilocks zone and having a moon that perfectly eclipses the sun is extremely low, but it's not impossible.

the habitable zone (or goldilocks zone) around a star is the region where a planet could potentially support liquid water on its surface.

ballistic

Some have described the Anthropic principle which is true but doesn't fit every situation. Others describe that the physical parameters of a substance in liquid form are affected by the physical parameters of a solid. OK. The chipmonk wouldn't survive if it was meditating on the fact it may not be in a "real" world. True. It absolutely is a survival critical thing to see the world as we normally do, totally true, but does not explain if, as a matter of fact, we can really be sure there is a real world out there or not, when you really analyse this.

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Probability of Earth and life being how it is

by ballistic in

jw
friends

there are some things we don't know about existence and whether the earth is a simulation or even a creation.

but we can do some statistical analysis on it.. the probability of a planet like earth existing in the goldilocks zone and having a moon that perfectly eclipses the sun is extremely low, but it's not impossible.

the habitable zone (or goldilocks zone) around a star is the region where a planet could potentially support liquid water on its surface.

ballistic

The chipmunk perceives the world and reacts to it

How does the chipmonk know that what is coming in through his senses, and presumably creating a model of the outside world for him to observe, is really coming in from the outside and not just made up in his head?

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Probability of Earth and life being how it is

by ballistic in

jw
friends

there are some things we don't know about existence and whether the earth is a simulation or even a creation.

but we can do some statistical analysis on it.. the probability of a planet like earth existing in the goldilocks zone and having a moon that perfectly eclipses the sun is extremely low, but it's not impossible.

the habitable zone (or goldilocks zone) around a star is the region where a planet could potentially support liquid water on its surface.

ballistic

I knew there was going to be at least one heckler.

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Probability of Earth and life being how it is

by ballistic in

jw
friends

there are some things we don't know about existence and whether the earth is a simulation or even a creation.

but we can do some statistical analysis on it.. the probability of a planet like earth existing in the goldilocks zone and having a moon that perfectly eclipses the sun is extremely low, but it's not impossible.

the habitable zone (or goldilocks zone) around a star is the region where a planet could potentially support liquid water on its surface.

ballistic

Yes Blondie, the thread hasn't gone at all the way I imagined. My ponderings were influenced by it being trendy to talk about the universe as a "Simulation" at the moment (tiktok, various forums, memes, etc) there's also much talk of quantum mechanics on some other forums and how nothing is solid, thus blurring the lines between whether something like a simulation actually has to be "solid" in any regard other than perception, and finally I've been reading a lot of Eastern Religion and existentialism, so I'm interested to know, if I'm projecting the universe "out there", how could I tell that is the case, or even likely?

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Probability of Earth and life being how it is

by ballistic in

jw
friends

there are some things we don't know about existence and whether the earth is a simulation or even a creation.

but we can do some statistical analysis on it.. the probability of a planet like earth existing in the goldilocks zone and having a moon that perfectly eclipses the sun is extremely low, but it's not impossible.

the habitable zone (or goldilocks zone) around a star is the region where a planet could potentially support liquid water on its surface.

ballistic

HereIam60 This is somewhat close to me current beliefs even though I didn't mention it in the question. A kind of existentialism which sounds like Eastern Philosophy where we are not separate from creation, but creating by looking, and when you look for yourself in this reality / dream, we find there is no self.

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Probability of Earth and life being how it is

by ballistic in

jw
friends

there are some things we don't know about existence and whether the earth is a simulation or even a creation.

but we can do some statistical analysis on it.. the probability of a planet like earth existing in the goldilocks zone and having a moon that perfectly eclipses the sun is extremely low, but it's not impossible.

the habitable zone (or goldilocks zone) around a star is the region where a planet could potentially support liquid water on its surface.

ballistic

There are some things we don't know about existence and whether the Earth is a simulation or even a creation. But we can do some statistical analysis on it.

The probability of a planet like Earth existing in the Goldilocks zone and having a moon that perfectly eclipses the sun is extremely low, but it's not impossible.

The habitable zone (or Goldilocks zone) around a star is the region where a planet could potentially support liquid water on its surface.

Add to this the possibility that an intelligent civilisation has existed which builds knowledge of science to understand such concepts in an evolving universe is even more unlikely. (The moon is slowly moving away from the Earth).

The Earth's moon is unique in its ability to cause total solar eclipses.

The probability of a moon having the right size and orbital characteristics to cause total eclipses is considered low.

Why choose the Moon's eclipses as part of this? Because it is our only moon, and clearly visible to everyone on the planet. If you wanted to design a planetary system and put a "signature" out there for everyone to see (more visible than the pyramids for example), choose the moon.

By the way this is just a thought experiment.

Using AI to work out some probabilities for me, the result came in (not entirely complete) but as follows:

Let's assume the probability of a planet being in the Goldilocks zone is 1 in 100 (a rough estimate based on the size of the habitable zone relative to the total space in a star system).
Let's assume the probability of a moon causing total solar eclipses is 1 in 1000 (a rough estimate based on the complexity of the moon's orbit and size requirements).
Let's assume the probability of intelligent life developing science is 1 in 1000 (another rough estimate).
Multiplying these probabilities: 1/100 * 1/1000 * 1/1000 = 1 in 10,000,000,000 (or 1 in 10 billion).
However, this is a very rough estimate and doesn't account for the dependencies between the events.

I'm not entirely happy with AI's calculation, for example, if the moon is moving away from us, our evolution would have to start at exactly the right moment (complete with various extinctions and so on) that we came to a scientific knowledge of the solar system and eclipses right when we did. This would make the chances even more remote.

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Changed View of Post Armageddon and Paradise Conditions ?

by HereIam60 in

when i first came into contact with jehovah's witnesses they were talking about god's kingdom bringing about a peaceful new world.

the scripture used being psalm 37:10,11 "just a little while longer and the wicked will be no more.you will look at where they were and they will not be there., but the meek will possess the earth and they will find exquisite delightin the abundance of peace..".

i took this to mean, then, that when jehovah intervened, at his appointed time, it would be instantly, invisibly, and painlessly.

ballistic

Many years ago there was a free leaflet with people restoring paradise on the front and in the picture, a JCB!

I remember feeling cheated with that, because everyone knows that a JCB is a product of it's time and relies on numerous industries, processes, knowledge, manufacturing capabilities. To build one JCB, you would require literally hundreds of advanced industries and the educated people to run and work in the factories and facilities.

Hardly paradise. Back to the grind.