Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Gold/Mining/Energy : A New Age In Gold Refining -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Michael J. Wendell who wrote (581)	2/5/1998 8:56:00 PM
From: Lee Bush	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 672

Mike: Our moments are soooo brief that the scientists have never actually witnessed the formation of a star from galactic dust clouds, the presumed source. Yet THE BOOK says that the stars were CREATED? Hmm... I'm in pretty deep water (or deep space) when it comes to astrophysics. I need to read that book and should not comment further for now, unless some of the grey matter up top decides to become radioactive. Lee

To: Michael J. Wendell who wrote (581)	2/6/1998 11:20:00 AM
From: Chuck Bleakney	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 672

Twin stars do exist... and it doesn't take too much physics understanding to figure out the process of 2 stars colliding. Gravity interaction will cause them to both spiral around their combined center of gravity. It may take an incredible amount of time for them to actually combine. Head to head collisions would be extremely rare given the size of stars and the average space between them. My take n the great flood is that it is "based" in fact. But you have to consider and filter many other things before you take it literally. If there was an event that caused rain for an extended period of time it would have been preceded with a prior event that caused the atmosphere to absorb and retain a lot of water vapor. The region in question is Mediterranean based and it is well known that the Med sea was once land locked and was quite a bit lower prior to the end of the last ice age. It is easily conceivable that as the last ice age ended and the level of the oceans rose that the portion we now call the straits of Gibralter was just a cleft in a ridge. As the water rose it would have eroded this and in all probability broken through quite quickly, similar to an earthen dam giving way. That wave of water rushing into the much lower Med sea would have certainly have been a great flood. It's quite possible the "end" of an ice age could be very wet times for the world as well and hence the rain that is equated with the source of the flood... but my guess is that it is more of a coincidence. The end of the last ice age is well within Mans collective memory and there is plenty of other evidence to corroborate a much lower ocean level. (Bearing straights and the Asian-American migration.) Chuck