Forwarded message: >From vanhoose Tue Oct 5 11:23:13 1993 Date: Tue, 5 Oct 93 11:23:12 -0400 From: Todd E. Van Hoosear <vanhoose> To: todd Subject: physics and the art of motorcycle maintenance X-Status:Date: Mon, 2 Nov 92 14:59:04 -0500 From: Todd E. Van Hoosear <todd> To: todd Subject: physics and the art of motorcycle maintenance
Date: Tuesday, 20 October 1992 10:01am ET From: John.Jansen@MSU Subject: funny
> Date: Mon, 19 Oct 92 11:21:55 -0400 > From: Chris Penney <penney@cl-next4.cl.msu.edu> > > Subject: funnie...
> The temperature of Heaven can be rather accurately computed. Our > authority is Isaiah 30:26, "Moreover, the light of the Moon shall be as > the light of the Sun and the light of the Sun shall be sevenfold, as > the light of seven days." Thus Heaven receives from the Moon as much > radiation as we do from the Sun, and in addition 7*7 (49) times as much > as the Earth does from the Sun, or 50 times in all. The light we > receive from the Moon is one 1/10,000 of the light we receive from the > Sun, so we can ignore that ... The radiation falling on Heaven will > heat it to the point where the heat lost by radiation is just equal to > the heat received by radiation, i.e., Heaven loses 50 times as much > heat as the Earth by radiation. Using the Stefan-Boltzmann law for > radiation, (H/E)^4 = 50, where E is the absolute temperature of the > earth (-300K), gives H as 798K (525C). The exact temperature of Hell > cannot be computed ... [However] Revelations 21:8 says "But the > fearful, and unbelieving ... shall have their part in the lake which > burneth with fire and brimstone." A lake of molten brimstone means > that its temperature must be at or below the boiling point, 444.6C. We > have, then, that Heaven, at 525C is hotter than Hell at 445C. > -- From "Applied Optics" vol. 11, A14, 1972 > > -=Chris=- >
Chris, you poor deluded heathen. Your logic is so flawed that you will surely perish in eternal damnation. First off, you give the absolute temperature of the earth as -300K. Now, as we know, the Kelvin scale is an absolute scale, meaning that there are no negatives temperatures in the Kelvin scale. Also, when you take the boiling point of brimstone to be 444.6 degrees Celsius, you assume standard atmospheric conditions on Earth. So, when we take into acount Hell's higher atmostpheric pressure, the temperature would actually be much higher than 445 degrees C. Not to mention it depends on if you subscribe to the literal or figurative theological interpretation of the book of Revelations, but that's another issue altogether. So, as you can see Chris, God will surely strike you down with a bolt of lightning, because of your blasphemous ways.
-John