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The Roman Catholic Church announced yesterday that the Shroud of Turin, venerated by millions of Christians over the centuries as the burial cloth of Jesus, cannot be authentic because new scientific tests show that it dates from the Middle Ages. … Nevertheless, Catholics were encouraged to continue their veneration of the shroud as a pictorial image of Christ, still capable of performing miracles, even though it cannot be accepted as a genuine historic relic, and no one knows how the image was produced. … At a news conference yesterday, the shroud's custodian, Cardinal Anastasio Ballestrero, revealed that radiocarbon tests conducted independently by three laboratories this year have concluded that the shroud cloth was created between 1260 and 1390. … The shroud's authenticity has been debated since it was first put on display in the mid-14th century. … In the Middle Ages, many objects appeared in Europe that were said to be the shroud of Jesus, fragments of his cross or other relics, but most were discarded as fakes long ago, and few others maintain a devoted following as does the Shroud of Turin. … The shroud, which belongs to the pope, has been kept for the last 410 years at the Cathedral of Turin, where it lies folded inside a silver casket. It is rarely put on public display. … An estimated 3 million visitors came to see it when it was last exhibited in 1978.
[Roberto Suro, New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 October 1988]
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Category: Cephalopods • Weirdness
Posted on: March 8, 2007 9:48 AM, by PZ Myers
Fark is having an octopus photoshop contest — most of the entries make me go "eh", but there are a few nice ones.
Phil Plait thinks this could be a symbol of rapprochement between the brilliant analysts of the natural world at Pharyngula and those slack-jawed people who stare dully at the sky at Bad Astronomy. (I kid, astronomers probably think a little bit now and then, too.)
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Comments
Posted by: Megan S | March 8, 2007 10:25 AM
Have you ever seen this one? Its one of my favs and makes me giggle... http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/
Posted by: Phil Plait | March 8, 2007 12:15 PM
Slackjawed? At least we have bones in our heads.
Posted by: Rheinhard | March 8, 2007 12:31 PM
Now now, PZ, I thought that after the grinding attrition of the "Best Science Blog" contest, that the Pharynguloids and BadAstronomers had reached a rapprochement...
Posted by: The Science Pundit | March 8, 2007 1:32 PM
I realize that photoshopping has become an all-purpose word for digital image manipulation, but as a loyal GIMP user, I must register my complaint. (unless you don't like open source software?)
Posted by: PZ Myers | March 8, 2007 1:55 PM
We learned that a PZ/Phil battle is good for traffic, you know.
Posted by: stogoe | March 8, 2007 2:20 PM
Sciencepundit, just relax and rejoice in our war on trademarks. Viva la (useless) copyright warfare! Aspirin, xerox, kleenex, bandaids, photoshop, there are many already free, and many battles still left to fight.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_generic_and_genericized_trademarks
Posted by: sinned34 | March 8, 2007 3:05 PM
most of the entries make me go "eh"
So most of the entries make you pretend you're Canadian? I thought only international travel and the occasional comment from politicians made you Yankees do that...
Posted by: Bryn | March 8, 2007 11:03 PM
Hey, now! Those of us who choose to look up don't think any the less of those who prefer to stare into the deeps. Play nice!
Posted by: raincoaster | March 9, 2007 12:06 AM
Finally, photographic evidence of the blind idiot god Azathoth, who bubbles and blasphemes at the centre of the universe forever...either that or somebody snapped me unwrapping birthday presents at midnight. One or the other.
Posted by: Jorg | March 11, 2007 2:28 AM
...so where does this put astrobiologists?...