Reflecting the Book

March 30, 2007

Sun stood Still

Sun Stood Still
[Joshua 10:12-14] On the day the LORD gave the Amorites over to Israel, Joshua said to the LORD in the presence of Israel: “O sun, stand still over Gibeon, O moon, over the Valley of Aijalon.”

So the sun stood still, and the moon stopped, till the nation avenged itself on its enemies, as it is written in the Book of Jashar. The sun stopped in the middle of the sky and delayed going down about a full day. There has never been a day like it before or since, a day when the LORD listened to a man.”

What?!? Ah how did this happen? The Earth could not have stopped spinning to keep the Sun in place. The only reasonable explanation is the sun rotated with the Earth for a few hours. How crazy is that? It’s a very cool story about how God listens to our prayers.

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How not to cook a bird

March 30, 2007

F-16 engine ingests bird after takeoff @ Tyndall AFB. Think you might find it interesting to see a crash from the cockpit of an airplane. It is an instructor pilot in the rear and a student in the front seat of an F-16.

A “Bird Strike,” as seen through the Heads Up Display (HUD). You can see the bird flash by just prior to impacting the engine. You can hear the aircraft voice warning system telling them they have a problem and referring to the “D-6 NL” which means there is no engine RPM. They made 2 attempts to re-light the jet engine, but evidently there was too much damage from the bird strike and they had to eject.

These guys were very cool; note the heavy breathing. They certainly flew longer than one would expect before ejecting. Airspeed can be observed on the HUD’s upper left corner. It goes down to the low 120’s as they struggle to get the engine going again, but as the plane noses over and dives to earth it increases to at least 175 just before impact.

It just goes to show how quickly your day can go to pieces - 45 seconds from strike to ejection. All and all, not bad. They ran the Emergency Checklist, made two re-light attempts, and picked out a plowed field for impact before ejecting.

You can follow the audio attached to it and hear the conversation between the pilot and instructor pilot and then the tower. Including the pilot saying they were punching out. The tower didn’t seem to completely understand it all, and missed the significance of the last transmission.

The towers last radio call, he’s talking to an empty aircraft. The video continues until impact, even after they both eject. A classic “buying the farm” as you can see the plowed rows get bigger. A real nice job from the aircrew by keeping their cool and turning the aircraft away from populated areas. No one hurt and no one killed but the dirty bird did cost the Taxpayers a “few” million dollars!

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Culture Quiz

March 30, 2007

Three posts today, must be your lucky day.

I found the 5 question “Culture Quiz” on O’Reilly’s site interesting. Too bad I only scored a 2 out of 5. :???:

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Reflecting the Book

March 29, 2007

Flat Earth

Flat Earth
[Isaiah 11:12] “And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.”

[Revelation 7:1] “And after these things I saw four angels standing on the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that the wind should not blow on the earth, nor on the sea, nor on any tree.”

The Bible is not a scientific instrument as some would like to think. These verses are figurative and not literal.

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Happy Birthday

March 28, 2007

Yesterday Meaninglis had it’s first birthday :smile:

To celebrate I’m going to write daily about strange things that happen in the Bible until the end of April. I’m not a Bible scholar so my insight will probably be limited. Some of the topics have entire books written about them. I’ll try to keep my Meaninglis thoughts short and to the point.

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