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- Dumbledorito, on 10/12/2007, -1/+57And his color palette was FAAAAbulous!
- mdnash, on 10/12/2007, -9/+42chlorophyl. more like borophyll!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+22"The earth, a purple blaze
Of sapphire haze
In orbit always"
black sabbath beat them to it. - NnyDarko, on 10/12/2007, -8/+28When are they ever happy?
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......................f`-,.........`-,/...*-,___,,-~*....,-*......|...`-,.................. ***** Spam - Aloyarc, on 10/12/2007, -3/+16Twenty Eight Days, Six Hours, Forty Two Minutes, Twelve seconds...That is when the world will turn purple again.
- Cannon13, on 10/12/2007, -10/+21Something tells me the conservative Christians aren't going to be happy about this.
- ostracize, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Amazing how an article about "scientists" and "pre-history" has to grow into an anti-religious tirade.
Grow-up people...grow-up. - Munchy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Actually about 60 years ago, earth and everything on it was black and white. Just watch any movie or tv program from the early 1900's.
- silverchrysalis, on 10/12/2007, -6/+11why would it offend us? its actually rather fascinating.
- mtvkilledusall, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Way to pay attention.
The museum you speak of is the Creation Evidence Museum in Glen Rose, Texas.
The website of which is here: http://www.creationevidence.org/cemframes.html
Their claim about the earth being pink is actually this;
"A solid crystalline ice composite is proposed by Dr. Carl E. Baugh (The founder of the Creation Evidence Museum) which was created by God approximately 11 miles up in the stratosphere with the hydrogen atoms being so supercold as to act as a fiber optic superconductive metallic substance. The composite not only permitted heavenly body light to shine through but magnified it as well in color and fiber optically conducted the sun's light all the way around the earth in a pink hue." (Taken from here: http://www.biblestudymanuals.net/k13.htm)
Not that I believe any of that,
I was just raised the same way in Texas and I thought your comment needed more explanation. - atbnet, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6As a Christian, albeit not very conservative at all, I am not unhappy about the earth being purple. It's not like the Bible says the earth was green and that's that! Not that I put much stock in that either anyhow, seeing how the Bible doesn't explain dinosaurs either.
Anyhow, I am ready for a change, so plants let's work on a new chemical.
I also believe in evolution. I don't see why Christians get their panties in a bunch about that either. - ReTardis, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Of course it was purple! Due to all the purple rain.
- triscuitbiscuit, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Ah...
So this is how Barney evolved... - stafunk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I'll be damned, that's the one. I guess it wasn't just some weird dream after all. :)
- Afreyt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I for one welcome our purple leafed overlords.
- MackPrime, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4http://melbotis.blogspot.com/grimace.jpg
- m00dy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Pics or it didnt happen
come on why isnt there an artists render-?(whatever the word is, english isnt my first langauge) - startrek, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3According to Kent Hovind (one of the christian people who is known for this kind of stuff) says that way back then, the Firmament was there, then God caused a huge comet to hit the earth in a specific spot which caused the 14 degree tilt, and the melting of all that ice and the hole punched into the fermament caused it to fall down and then that is what caused the global flood.
BTW, the only way I know this is because my mom made me sit down and watch Kent Hovind's entire 10 VHS set about this. - jamiejamez, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3"this just brought to mind a bizarre childhood memory.. in my religious upbringing in Texas, somewhere along the lines we ended up at a christian history museum (explaining how man lived with the dinosaurs and other such nonsense)."
Sounds like you may have visited "Dinosaur Adventure Land" http://www.csicop.org/si/2004-11/hovind.html
Unfortunately, the owners never acquired any building permits and were sentenced to 10 years in prison http://www.parentdish.com/2007/03/08/creationist-dinosaur-theme-park-fails-miserably/
but the official web site says they are still open http://www.dinosauradventureland.com/ - Dumbledorito, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Or purple nurples?
- crashflow, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3does that explain purple lettuce?
- oojamaflip2006, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2not even god can explain purple lettuce
- thejoker86, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2you will actually find that sunlight is a source of sustinance for many organisms... including humans. I think by memory we get Vitamin D from sunlight.
- MackPrime, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2purple sky makes purple animals.
this explains all those blue animals. - leonbev, on 10/12/2007, -9/+11This can't be true... It's not in the Bible!
Repent your eeeevil ways, Diggers! Judgment day is a comin'! - vroom101, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Pretty purple-pink storm: http://chamorrobible.org/gpw/gpw-20061021.htm
- crash331, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I think you need to go back to science class. Of course light can be absorbed.
- Dumbledorito, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Thanks, Dad. How's Calvin doing? Still playing with that stuffed tiger? :)
- Murdats, on 10/12/2007, -4/+6its something about the origin of the earth, they always get upset when people talk abut that
- mapkinase, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2That is where dinosaurs got their color from.
- Afreyt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacteriorhodopsin
- jamiejamez, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2"...my mom made me sit down and watch Kent Hovind's entire 10 VHS set about this."
You might be interested to know that Kent Hovind and his wife Jo were recently sentenced to 10 years in prison, for failing to obtain building permits for Dinosaur Adventure Land. http://www.parentdish.com/2007/03/08/creationist-dinosaur-theme-park-fails-miserably/
For those not familiar with "Dinosaur Adventure Land" here's an article about a visit to Kent's park http://www.csicop.org/si/2004-11/hovind.html - resplence, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Wow how did the for this article comments turn into a random spam free-zone?
- vroom101, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Purple sunset in the Persian Gulf, Photograph #27:
http://chamorrobible.org/gpw/gpw-200702.htm - resplence, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Of course. See http://livingonlight.org/ and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breatharianism
- vroom101, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I think there's a purplish carrot in this Carrot Overlords photo op:
http://chamorrobible.org/gpw/gpw-20050309.htm - GrantTheGr8, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"Rendition" is the word you're looking for.
- capellathestar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Those are some amazing sunsets. Nice site.
- yournamehere, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1it was just bruised from all the asteroids hitting it back then.
- VeganG, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1So THAT'S what they mean by "purple mountains majesty."
- matthewaaron, on 10/12/2007, -10/+10I'm not a scientist or theologian, but most Biblical scholars believe that the sunlight shining through the firmament of the early earth was a rose color. Might have something to do with the different colors of the organisms from a Biblical standpoint... just a thought.
- Afreyt, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1This was news 15 years ago. Where have you guys been. Yeah, purple bacteria photosynthesize, and they are older than blue-green algae. Whoa!]
Apologies to the educators among us, but this is ancient, ancient stuff that should be in every biology textbook. Bacteriorhodopsin. Yay.
/sarcasm - shiftkgb, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2I like the idea of a purple earth, sounds cool but i dont buy his rational for some things.
"Being latecomers, microbes that used chlorophyll could not compete directly with those utilizing retinal, but they survived by evolving the ability to absorb the very wavelengths retinal did not use, DasSarma said."
SInce when do we run out of sunlight?
“Chlorophyll was forced to make use of the blue and red light, since all the green light was absorbed by the purple membrane-containing organisms,”
So basically all the green light was being eaten, its not like a damn food source, its light. - shiftkgb, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I didnt mean it like its not a food source, i meant as an expendible food source, cause if that was the case then solar power would be the death of my tulips.
- Agrajag, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0You planted your tulips directly underneath a solar panel?
- Dumbledorito, on 10/12/2007, -5/+4"Why would it offend me? There is no proof, so it isn't real."
Wow. Just... Just wow. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+3Whatever happened to the firmament, anyway? Last time I checked, the astronauts didn't crash into it on the way to the moon. And boy, that would've pissed a lot of people off if they had broken it or something - all that water would just come pouring right down, and that'd be it for civilization.
- AdebisiTheGamer, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1http://www.p2pnet.net/images/barney.jpg
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