Posted by morris108 on April 20, 2008
Basra is one of the most famous places for Sufi history, and has had many masters.
The Whirling dervishes are a Sufi order, mimicking the movement of the planets in our Solar system.
This is a picture I took in India near Pune. The Sufis here levitate a very heavy stone (probably about 80 kilos) many times a day. And they have been doing this for a very long time. I first read about it in a book published 50 years ago.
They just use a single finger and have to chant
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Posted by morris108 on April 3, 2008
Liquid water found on Saturn’s moon
NASA’s Cassini probe has found pools of liquid water on Enceladus, maybe one of the most important scientific discoveries in decades.
Suggesting life is possible over there.
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Posted by morris108 on April 3, 2008
From todays What Really Happpened
Titan’s surface organics surpass oil reserves on Earth
Saturn’s orange moon Titan has hundreds of times more liquid hydrocarbons than all the known oil and natural gas reserves on Earth, according to new Cassini data. The hydrocarbons rain from the sky, collecting in vast deposits that form lakes and dunes.
Posted Apr 2, 2008 12:34 PM PST
Category: SCIENCE/HEALTH
Mike Rivero comments:
There are two implications here. First is that for as long as our civilization relies on hydrocarbons as an energy source, we might be better served long-term spending a trillion dollars on developing a space tanker system than on killing people in the Middle East.
Second, Titan is proof that processes other than dead dinosaurs can create complex hydrocarbons found in oil deposits.
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