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The latest in state-of-the-art microscopes has just been opened in Oxfordshire, England. It is the Diamond Light Source synchroton:

According to the BBC’s science department:

“The vast machine, which covers the area of five football pitches, generates intense light beams to probe matter down to the molecular and atomic scale…………Within the machine, which is sometimes described as a “super microscope”, electrons are accelerated into a thin, doughnut-shaped vacuum chamber, which measures 562.6m (1,846ft) in circumference. As the particles whizz around and around, almost reaching the speed of light, they lose energy in the form of synchrotron light. This intense light, which falls in the range of x-ray, ultra-violet and infra-red, is then channelled off into beamlines, where it passes through samples of material, probing deep into their fine-structure.”

A truly amazing invention.

In maybe eight or ten thousand years, after global warming has wiped most of us out and only a few survivors of homo sapiens remain, it will look like this:

and those who see it will decide it was originally a religious gathering place.

Filed under: Scientific wonders

This photograph of two, patient 5000 – 6000 year old, link neolithic lovers locked in an embrace of death…….

…….is probably the most moving image on the internet today.

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Old young love

On the subject of male-bonding (see last post) it appears the good Reverend Ted Haggard……..

………..late of the New Life Church in Colorado Springs, has now decided – with a lot of “help” from various Inquisition church officials – that he’s not homosexual after all.

Not only did he never take the methamphetamines he confessed to buying (“I threw them away”) but he only ever hired the male prostitute, Mike Jones, for a massage.

A rose, they say, by any other name……?

Back in November, Haggard announced he was about to undergo a period of “spiritual restoration” that would likely take years. But it didn’t. Three weeks later he was completely cured, totally heterosexual, and the “…….part of my life that is so repulsive and dark that I’ve been warring against it all of my adult life” – is no more.

A Divine miracle, perhaps?

Perhaps not. One would think if God had performed a miracle on Father Ted his church would be clamoring to welcome him back into the fold. Nothing is further from the truth. Part of the “agreement” between Haggard and the New Life Church is that he will leave the area and take up a secular line of work elsewhere.

In response, the now Mister Haggard has announced he will probably move to Missouri or Iowa where he will pursue a Masters Degree in ………wait for it! ……….Psychology!

Filed under: Fallen mighty