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2009-10-Teveth-News

Jan 6, 2010 Will the Supernova of a Nearby Start Wipe Out Earth?

London Telegraph had this by Ben Leach on “Earth 'to be wiped out' by supernova explosion.” The story addressed a start called T Pyxidis located some 3, 260 light years away. It is set to self-destruct in an explosion called a supernova with the force of 20 billion billion billion megatons of TNT. Per scientists, the blast from the thermonuclear explosion could strip away the Earth's ozone layer.

Astronomers at Villanova University in Philadelphia said that the International Ultraviolet Explorer satellite has shown that T Pyxidis is really two stars, one called a white dwarf that is sucking in gas and steadily growing. When it reaches a critical mass it will blow itself to pieces. They reported that the blast will become as bright as all the other stars in the galaxy put together.

Per the story, the Hubble space telescope has photographed the star preparing for its big bang with a series of smaller blasts or ‘burps’, called novas. These explosions came regularly about every 20 years from 1890 – but stopped after 1967.

Scientists Edward M Sion, Patrick Godon and Timothy McClain at the American Astronomical Society in Washington said that the next blast is nearly 20 years overdue. Robin Scagell, vice-president of the UK's Society for Popular Astronomy, said: “The star may certainly became a supernova soon – but soon could still be a long way off so don't have nightmares.”

Comment: While speculation isn’t called for here, it is obvious that this event, when it happens, will surely play a role in the age end.

Yahoo News had this from Live Science on “Bible Possibly Written Centuries Earlier, Text Suggests.” The essence of the story was an archeological find in Israel which dates to the 10^th century BCE during the reing of King David. While many persons have dated the Hebrew Scriptures to Moshe in olden days, some scholars have argued that portions of the writings were written in the 6^th century BCE because so-called scholars would not date the Hebrew language any earlier. The writing was discovered more than a year ago on a pottery shard dug up during excavations at Khirbet Qeiyafa, near Israel's Elah valley. The excavations were carried out by archaeologist Yosef Garfinkel of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. At first, scientists could not tell if the writing was Hebrew or some other local language.

Gershon Galil, a professor of Biblical Studies at the University of Haifa in Israel, deciphered the ancient text. He identified words particular to the Hebrew language and content specific to Hebrew culture to prove that the writing was, in fact, Hebrew.

Galil said that "It uses verbs that were characteristic of Hebrew, such as asah ('did') and avad ('worked'), which were rarely used in other regional languages… Particular words that appear in the text, such as almanah ('widow') are specific to Hebrew and are written differently in other local languages."

The text is written in ink on a trapezoid-shaped piece of pottery about 6 inches by 6.5 inches (15 cm by 16.5 cm). It appears to be a social statement about how people should treat slaves, widows and orphans. In English, it reads (by numbered line):

1' you shall not do [it], but worship the [Lord].
2' Judge the sla[ve] and the wid[ow] / Judge the orph[an]
3' [and] the stranger. [Pl]ead for the infant / plead for the po[or and]
4' the widow. Rehabilitate [the poor] at the hands of the king.
5' Protect the po[or and] the slave / [supp]ort the stranger.

Per the story, the content, which has some missing letters, is similar to some Biblical scriptures, such as Isaiah 1:17, Psalms 72:3, and Exodus 23:3.

Comment: Back in 1975, I was visiting with some so-called scholars at the American Schools of Oriental Research in Jerusalem. I remember one of them talling me that Moses could not have compiled/written the Torah because people could not write in his day in the 15^th century BCE. But the finds at Ebla and in other places have proven how wrong these so-called scholars are.