Wellfooled
Wellfooled t1_j2fameg wrote
Reply to comment by digital_disposition in Our timeline is categorized in before and after Christ, but Christ's birthday isn't the day the year changes. by Apo51209
The Bible is a compilation of 66 different books. Some were written thousands of years before Jesus was on earth (the earliest were written by Moses about 1512 BCE)
The earliest book written after Jesus ( Matthew) was written circa 41 CE.
The last Bible books written were around 96-98 CE by John.
Wellfooled t1_itxdeis wrote
Reply to comment by Enfoting in [OC] In 20 years, Southeast Asia lost 610,000 sq km of forest, a land area larger than Thailand. by Glad-Introduction-14
Yeah, I appreciate the idea behind this-- deforestation is a serious problem, but I live right in the middle of a huge area of red on this map and there are forest as far as the eye can see as soon as you exit my city limits.
Wellfooled t1_jdum3n4 wrote
Reply to comment by sarcastic_patriot in Earth is technically the centre of the observable universe by randomebolaoutbreak
I'm just a layman, but I sympathize with this counter-shower thought. There are things in space that block our view--dark nebulas or even just normal stars preventing us from seeing what's directly behind them. Likewise gravitational lensing occasionally let's us see further than we would normally. The "observable" universe in that sense isn't a perfect sphere with Earth in the middle.
The "center" of the weird shape of the observable universe would be elsewhere. Of course how we could ever settle on the center of an area like that is beyond me.