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In article <7VHVXB7w165w@kalki33.lakes.trenton.sc.us> system@kalki33.lakes.trenton.sc.us (Kalki Dasa) writes:
>lip@s1.gov (Loren I. Petrich) writes:
>
>> 
>> 	What's the "Bhu-mandala system"?

A group of six planets around a class-M star near the edge of the
Neutral Zo....whoops, wrong science-fiction story.

>
>The Bhu-mandala system is a gigantic disk-shaped region in
>higher-dimensional space. Its 3-dimensional projection is on the
>ecliptic. Ordinary human beings cannot see the physical disk of
>Bhu-mandala, because our senses are not sophisticated enough. But its
>existence has been reported by demigods and advanced yogis.

Now why does this sound so familiar?  Oh.  Yes.  Back when N-rays were
all the rage, Blondlot claimed that the inability of non-French scientists
to see the rays was due to poorer visual acuity.  Gotta love that particular
excuse!

>> >Eclipses are explained as the result of the planet Rahu passing
>> >between the sun and the earth, or the moon and the earth. In modern
>> >astronomy, the planet Rahu is identified as the moon's ascending node,
>> >which is indeed in line with the sun-moon-earth system during an
>> >eclipse.

The ascending node is a POINT.  The Sun is a sphere, which we see as a
disk about half a degree in diameter.  Care to explain how a point can
occlude such a disk?

And why just the ascending node?  Why not the descending node as well?

And why does this planet which we cannot see produce an event that
is very easy to see?



>> 
>> 	There is no such thing as a planet separate from the Moon that
>> causes eclipses.
>
>So you say, but this is only your opinion. You cannot see Rahu, but that
>does not mean it doesn't exist.

Rahu does not cause eclipses.  The little invisible (but very very powerful)
gnomes in my closet take care of that.  Of course, they take great pains
to move the planets so it *looks* like they are obeying Newton's laws
of motion, but this is really an illusion.  Your ideas about Rahu are
only your opinion.  You cannot see the gnomes, but that does not
mean they don't exist.

>Sincerely,
>Kalki Dasa

Don't forget to chant:

"If you chant it, he will come
If you chant it, he will come
If you chant it, he will come
..."

---> Dave


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