Close up on Ceres. The white dot comes into view...
Focus is sharpened....
There is something PRINTED on it...
In English:
"Inspected by Number 6."
Could it be that the greatest mysteries we find or can even imagine are simply mundane pieces of a greater reality?
Ceres was inspected by Number 6.
Johnny 5 is Alive!
With savage Islamists running rampant destroying the artifacts of earilier civilizations in the Middle East, I suppose there are many mysteries that might remain. Destroyed artifacts = missing puzzle pieces.
I'm glad some of us got to see the Bagdad battery before it was looted among many other artifacts in Bagdad Museum by Muslim rioter, probably not to be seen again. If you don't know what this is, you should look it up and be surprised.
Delores Cannon, in Jesus and the Essenes, talks to an ancient Essene named Suddi, contemporary of Jesus, He keeps surprising her with the apparent sophistication of the very harmonious Essene community in Qumrun. It seems, for instance, that they had running water for their baths which they took daily, hygenic toilets, courtyard flower gardens and orchards, were fully egalitarian, very educated, totally commununal (but allowing for personal space), were a cashless society that shared everything, and were completely non-violent.
They had secret ways of defending themselves if need be that Suddi only reluctantly admitted had something to do with sound. But, not wanting to resort to that, whatever it was, had a habit of keeping hidden as they were considered heretics by the mainstream Jews and dangerously independent by the Romans.
When Suddi told how he often stayed up late into the night chatting with friends, studying, or meditating, Delores asked him what he used for light. He told her that he would either use an oil lamp or the "lights that burn without fire."
Puzzled, she asked him to describe the latter. What he described sounded EXACTLY like a Bagdad battery except that on top of it was twisted on a solid crystal globe of some sort.
Delores thought he must mean a glass bulb, but Suddi didn't know what glass was and didn't think it was hollow either.
The globe is what gave off the light, which Suddi said was much brighter than the oil lamp.
He also said there were a lot of these in the community. They were common place to him, though he had no idea how they were made and had never taken one apart to see. They were, at that time, still-functional artifacts of a much earlier time.
The Essene community was only 200 years old at that time and the "lights that burn without fire" had apparently been with them from the beginning.
I thought that was pretty interesting. It at least answered my question as to what the Bagdad batteries were for. Researchers have always made the assumption that they were only for electroplating gold. But light... how much simpler and beautifully mundane an answer?
We should never assume that we are at the pinnacle of technology in this time. Technologies have come and gone. Our species, it seems, is much older than we tend to assume. Civilizations have had ample opportunities to rise and fall, and with them, vast banks of knowlege.
I'm glad some of us got to see the Bagdad battery before it was looted among many other artifacts in Bagdad Museum by Muslim rioter, probably not to be seen again. If you don't know what this is, you should look it up and be surprised.
Delores Cannon, in Jesus and the Essenes, talks to an ancient Essene named Suddi, contemporary of Jesus, He keeps surprising her with the apparent sophistication of the very harmonious Essene community in Qumrun. It seems, for instance, that they had running water for their baths which they took daily, hygenic toilets, courtyard flower gardens and orchards, were fully egalitarian, very educated, totally commununal (but allowing for personal space), were a cashless society that shared everything, and were completely non-violent.
They had secret ways of defending themselves if need be that Suddi only reluctantly admitted had something to do with sound. But, not wanting to resort to that, whatever it was, had a habit of keeping hidden as they were considered heretics by the mainstream Jews and dangerously independent by the Romans.
When Suddi told how he often stayed up late into the night chatting with friends, studying, or meditating, Delores asked him what he used for light. He told her that he would either use an oil lamp or the "lights that burn without fire."
Puzzled, she asked him to describe the latter. What he described sounded EXACTLY like a Bagdad battery except that on top of it was twisted on a solid crystal globe of some sort.
Delores thought he must mean a glass bulb, but Suddi didn't know what glass was and didn't think it was hollow either.
The globe is what gave off the light, which Suddi said was much brighter than the oil lamp.
He also said there were a lot of these in the community. They were common place to him, though he had no idea how they were made and had never taken one apart to see. They were, at that time, still-functional artifacts of a much earlier time.
The Essene community was only 200 years old at that time and the "lights that burn without fire" had apparently been with them from the beginning.
I thought that was pretty interesting. It at least answered my question as to what the Bagdad batteries were for. Researchers have always made the assumption that they were only for electroplating gold. But light... how much simpler and beautifully mundane an answer?
We should never assume that we are at the pinnacle of technology in this time. Technologies have come and gone. Our species, it seems, is much older than we tend to assume. Civilizations have had ample opportunities to rise and fall, and with them, vast banks of knowlege.
