{"id":47594,"date":"2015-11-09T05:03:20","date_gmt":"2015-11-09T05:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=47594"},"modified":"2015-11-09T05:03:20","modified_gmt":"2015-11-09T05:03:20","slug":"surprise-surprise-surprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=47594","title":{"rendered":"Surprise, surprise, surprise"},"content":{"rendered":"

[ by Charles Cameron<\/strong> — astronaut in a cathedral, nuclear reactor in Gabon ]
\n.<\/p>\n

I enjoy scoping and snoping out strange claims, and had to check out possible anachronicities <\/strong>not once but twice today — first, to verify the presence of an astronaut<\/strong> in Salamanca’s seventeenth-century (1513-1733 to be more precise) “New Cathedral”:<\/p>\n

\"SPEC<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

and then, of a nuclear reactor<\/strong> from two billion years ago in Gabon, West Africa.<\/p>\n

** <\/p>\n

Neither one turned out to be von D\u00e4niken<\/strong> fool’s gold, but both certainly glisten enough to be worth a mention.<\/p>\n

The Salamanca cathedral astronaut<\/a> is there, carved in stone, all right — but as part of a 1992 renovation. And what’s most interesting to me is that it’s entirely in conformity with tradition for an artist working today on such a restoration to “sign” his work with a contemporary flourish of this sort. It is thus faithful to what Benedict XVI would call the hermeneutic of continuity<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And 2 billion year old nuclear reactor<\/a>?<\/p>\n

It’s not as old as the sun, of course, by about 3.6 billion years, nor as close to us, nor as vast — but it’s there, it’s there.<\/p>\n

Hat tips:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n
  • for the astronaut, Jeff DeMarco<\/a><\/strong>\n
  • for the reactor, Cheryl Rofer<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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