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★10 Reasons Comet Landing Was a Hoax

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David Chase Taylor
November 15, 2014
Truther.org
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SWITZERLAND, Basel —
When the European Space Agency (ESA) allegedly landed the Philae spacecraft on the 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko comet which is reportedly traveling 84,000 MPH, you may have been thinking, wait, what, really!? Are you serious!? If so, you weren’t alone.
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Aside from the fact that the comet landing was strait out of the Hollywood movie “Armageddon” (1998) (see trailer) starring Bruce Willis and Ben Affleck, there are far too many anomalies surrounding the historic event not to scientifically reevaluate exactly what us Earthlings are being asked to believe.
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ORIGINAL ARTICLE: HERE
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After all, neither NASA nor the ESA has put a man on the relatively stationary Moon since 1972 (allegedly) and its only 249,000 miles away from Earth. Conversely, the 67P comet is some 310,000,000 miles away from Earth and moving at 23.6 miles per second. Therefore, the likelihood that a 10-year old spacecraft landed on the comet first try around is highly improbable to say the least.
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Considering that landing on a flying space rock had never been executed let alone attempted in the history of mankind, the ESA either had a severe case of “beginner’s luck”, or the incident was an elaborate hoax. After reading the evidence depicted herein, chances are you will agree with the latter.
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1. No Video Footage

According to Rosetta’s Wikipedia page, “Information gathered by [Rosetta’s] onboard cameras beginning at a distance of 24 million kilometers (15,000,000 mi) were processed at ESA‘s Operation Centre to refine the position of the comet in its orbit to a few kilometers.” However, to date, no “live” footage of the comet landing has ever been produced. Instead, the EAS released a 7:56:35 video which contains a lot of computer models, speeches and scientific cheerleading but no actual footage of the event. Since Rosetta and Philae are state-of-the-art spacecraft, the lack of video footage is highly suspect and suggests the ESA has something to hide.
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2. No Real-Time Communication

Philae’s alleged landing on the 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko comet was reportedly executed from ESA Mission Control at ESOC in Darmstadt, Germany. Considering that the comet in question is approximately 310,000,000 miles away from Earth, any real-time communication with Philae in respect to its navigation and precision landing on the comet which is traveling 84,000 MPH (23.6 miles per second) would have had to occur faster than the speed of light (i.e., 671,000,000 miles per hour). Even if the ESA was able to communicate with Rosetta and Philae at the speed of light (which they cannot), there would be an approximant 25-27 minute lag between operational maneuvers emanating from Germany and real-time maneuvers in deep space (i.e., this is calculated by dividing 310 million by 671 million). In short, it’s an impossible feat. For lack of a better analogy, it would be like driving a race car at 84,000 miles per hour with a 25 minute delay in respect to the road ahead. Needless to say, a fiery crash would be in short order.
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3. No Aerodynamic Shape

Considering that real comets such as Halley’s Comet are flying through space at an extremely high rate of speed, they tend to become rather aerodynamic over time due to the cosmic dust and cosmic rays (i.e., high-energy radiation) the encounter while careening though space. This is clearly not the case with the 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko comet which exhibits a rather odd boot or lion-like shape. In short, the comet is very un-comet like which suggests that its entire likeness was fabricated, most likely in an advanced form of Photoshop.
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4. No Stars

In up-close Rosetta-based photos of the 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko comet from August 3, 2014, and September 19, 2014, there are no visible stars in the background. Outside the range of the Sun, stars are extremely bright yet there are none to be found whatsoever. Rosetta-based photos of the 67P comet from August 2, 2014 and August 29, 2014 depict a plethora of stars in the background, suggesting that the up-close photos of the comet were created in Photoshop.
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5. No Fiery Glow

In up-close Rosetta-based photos of the 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko comet from August 3, 2014, and September 19, 2014, shadows are being cast on comet from the northeast. Considering that a flash was not used and the comet is roughly 310,000,000 miles away the Sun, the source of the faint light is highly suspect and remains a mystery. Conversely, in a Rosetta-based photo from August 29, 2014, the 67P comet is bright as the sun, dispelling the notion of an exterior light source. Needless to say, the ESA cannot have it both ways. Realistically speaking, the photos of the comet should either be white as the Sun or black as night due to the lack of sunlight. Anything in between is highly suspect.
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6. No Vapor Trail
As depicted in the Rosetta-based photos of the 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko comet from August 3, 2014, and September 19, 2014, no visible vapor trail of hot gasses are emanating from the comet. In comparison to Halley’s Comet, a known comet, the lack of a vapor trail is highly suspect. In a Rosetta-based photo of the 67P comet from August 2, 2014, a radiant white glow is emanating from the comet, something which is curiously missing in the aforementioned photos.
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7. No Space Sheer

Considering that the 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko comet is allegedly traveling at 84,000 MPH, it’s extremely unlikely that a 220 pound spacecraft that’s only a few feet tall (3.3 x 3.3 x 2.6) would be able to withstand the white hot gasses erupting from the comets fiery surface. In other words, the Philae spacecraft would never be able to get close to the speeding comet let alone attach itself for an extended period of time. According to report dated November 13, 2014, Philae was only able to get two of its three legs in contact with the comet yet it had no problem staying upright or attached. A household chair cannot stand on three legs yet this spacecraft is standing on two while traveling through space?
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8. Suspicious Names

The Rosetta space probe and the Philae lander spacecraft were allegedly launched by the ESA on March 2, 2004, by an Ariane 5 rocket, reaching the 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko comet on August 6, 2014. Whether this event occurred in reality is not known, but the name Rosetta was evidently chosen because of its likeness to Rosetta Stone, an international language-based software company. Because the name Rosetta automatically invokes Rosetta Stone, it makes the notion of the Rosetta spacecraft landing on a flying stone in space seem all the more plausible. Considering that “Ph” often constitutes an “F” sound in the English language (e.g. Joseph, Phat, Pharaoh, etc.), the name “Philae” can also equate to “Filae” or “Fool” as vowels in English are ambiguous at best. Considering that comet landing was appears to be a hoax, the name of its primary spacecraft was appropriately named “Fool” for billions have succumbed to its fakery.
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9. Technological Contradictions

If reports are to be believed, Rosetta and Philae are now “Tweeting” from deep space. We can barely get reliable cellular and Wi-Fi service on Earth yet these spacecraft are Tweeting in real time from 310,000,000 miles away? Even stranger, it was reported on November 15, 2014, that Philae is “asleep” after its batteries ran out. One would think that the ESA would have installed batteries that last longer than 72-hours but clearly that’s not the case. Chances are it’s a convenient way of ending the conversation about the highly improbable comet landing before it even gets started. Needless to say, the technological contradictions surrounding the mission are red flags which suggest that the event never transpired in reality.
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2014 Asteroid Attack

Since the public can’t tell the difference between an asteroid or a comet, the landing of Philae on the 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko comet was orchestrated by the CIA (a global entity) in order to condition the masses for the man-made asteroid attack planned for 2014. This particular notion was foreshadowed on August 19, 2014, when the popular science blog “IFL Science” published a report entitled “Graphic Shows The Size Of Rosetta’s Comet” which ominously depicted a photo of the 67P comet atop Los Angeles, California. As former U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt once said, “In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.” The alleged comet landing is no different as it evidently has sinister ulterior motives.
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About the Author

David Chase Taylor is an American journalist and the editor-in-chief of Truther.org. Taylor currently lives in Basel, Switzerland where he has applied for political asylum after the release of The Nuclear Bible, a book credited with foiling a state-sponsored nuclear terror attack upon Super Bowl XLV in Dallas, Texas on February 6, 2011. Taylor has also authored The Bio-Terror Bible, a book and website exposing the global bio-terror pandemic planned for 2014. To date, David Chase Taylor has blown the whistle on over 100 state-sponsored terror plots, including the 2012 Democratic National Convention Terror Plot, the man-made asteroid attack planned for 2014, and the drone strike which killed “Fast and Furious” star Paul Walker. Taylor was also the first to expose Alex Jones’ treacherous links to STRATFOR.
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    • The Watcher

      Time to shut down NASA!

      • RationalSkeptic

        It was not NASA who sent the lander. It was ESA.

      • Agnostic Atheist

        Typical…

    • Anonymous

      Hmmmmm… It is plausible that one could land a lander on a comet, given the right equipment. But it would be exceedingly difficult. It would be possible to synchronize the path of travel with a comet, then align with the comet and land on it. But to do that, you’d have to send it well beyond the planned rendezvous point, then reverse direction, align with the direction of travel of the comet and accelerate to the speed at which the comet is traveling by the moment the comet catches up with the spacecraft. This would require an enormous amount of fuel, and I doubt any spacecraft launched in 2004 could have carried enough fuel to execute such a maneuver, even with 10 years to do it,

      I’d say Truther makes a very good case for the Rosetta/Philae landing being a hoax.

    • Three69ingSquirrels

      Don’t forget to mention that flight MH-370 was used to drop a nuke on the comet, which will then makes it’s way to New York as part of the next nuclear false flag. This will happen tomorrow. Or next Sunday. And perhaps the Super Bowl.

      • Mayhem

        Not NY, dummy, but LA :shock: it’s a proovable fact. There’s even a picture and everything :grin: but you’re correct about the passenger jet depositing a nukular whizz bang on it :lol:

        • Anonymous

          Try Miami.

    • MrAnthony

      Hilarious! The moron who keeps making fake predictions about attacks dares to call a comet landing a fake. What a joke. Please put him in an asylum and keep him away from computers.

      • Howard West

        The problem for NASA is that comets are not dirty snowballs! This landing is another nail in that coffin.

        http://youtu.be/AyRug5u5UxQ?a

        • Agnostic Atheist

          Before you discredit something, please try to at least get the basics right :mad:

      • LifeIs

        MrAnthony yes, truther.org is a joke. A disinformation project.

        And in this case, the purpose of the article is to discredit articles like THIS:

        /space/2014/11/the-rosetta-hoax-exposed-and-decoded-the-comet-landing-is-a-complete-fabrication-2485672.html?currentSplittedPage=0

        …which is a much more interesting article.

        The fact that THIS comet was releasing water vapor in June, when 362 million miles from the Sun, tells you it should be venting gas now.

        Other comets have, when further from the Sun.

        As for why fake a comet landing, i posted some guesses here.

    • Safffff

      I have a camera that can tell exact distances and sony has a robot called Asimov that can pour coffee, I’m sure a lander can sense and detect the distance and speed of a comet and can land itself with the only input needed would to tell where on the comet to land.Duhh

    • German

      Just discredit him in under 30 seconds (again and again…)

      Universe is a Vacuum, it means for the complete idiots: No Air, No Airodynamic shape…

      Plz do something to ban this liars ip address, he’s discredit for every single stupid article he wrote…

    • RationalSkeptic

      LOL. Aerodynamics? There’s no air out there.

      The comet was too far away from the sun for vapor trails, glowing and hot gasses leaking.

      • LifeIs

        RationalSkeptic no, about the “too far away from the Sun.”

        67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko is inside the orbit of Jupiter.

        67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko was emitting water vapor in June 2014, when Rosetta was 362 million miles from the Sun and 220 thousand miles from the comet.

        In 1993, Hale-Bopp was between the orbits of Jupiter and Saturn, and it had a coma.

        In 1986, Halley’s Comet reached perihelion. As it moved away from the Sun, it had a major flare-up, beyond the orbit of Saturn.

        In 2007, Comet 17P/Holmes, 2.5 AU from the Sun, 232 million miles, and moving away, increased in brightness by a factor of half a million, in a 24 hour period.

    • Ellin Callvis

      So if the comet landing is based on fake science and other falsehoods, it begs the question WHY?

      If these rocket scientists got imperial and metric scales mixed up again, or made some other mistake, would they really go to this much trouble to cover it up? Bigger missions were messed up and they admitted it – but maybe there was no denying the Challenger explosion since we alll saw it live on TV.

      • LifeIs

        Ellin Callvis I can think of two reasons to fake a comet landing.

        1. We know that the textbook theories of the solar system are false, and we want to keep that information out of the hands of rival nations. So, we give them misleading information.

        This pertains to the “electric universe” and “electric comets” discussion.

        2. The comet lander actually has a different purpose. Its instruments are actually studying something else.
        Something that is a secret.

    • Cuz

      I talked to Bruce Willis. He said it’s already been done.

    • CrowPie

      I would like to know what happened to the ‘coma’ that is supposed to be around comets.

    • Anonymous

      Good article.

    • The Seer

      Truther.org go back to sleep

    • Norry

      When a fellow Human Being puts forth a reasonable argument on whatever subject and then receives an inordinate amount of negative comments, I tend to wonder, why?

    • Arte Vespule

      A hoax? For what purpose? To what end? Could it be a hoax? Sure I suppose it could be. But it would be an expensive one, so they would need a very good reason to do it. Could a probe launched 10 years ago land on a comet? Most decisively YES. Said probe would not have to burn fuel for ten years to do so. There is no atmospheric drag in space so no momentum is lost. As for the comet not being an aerodynamic shape? Same reason, there is no atmosphere in space…

      This Taylor guy is a nutter. He see conspiracies in everything. And absolutely nothing he has said to date, has ever proved accurate….

    • truthlovingsoul

      well, they have to throw the public a space bone to justify the TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS they are stealing.

    • youdontaskwhy

      Or it’s an awful lot closer than they say.

    • youdontaskwhy

      And Rosetta Stone the company is named after this Rosetta Stone and it’s 3 language inscription of the following text allowing the deciphering of hieroglyphics and thereby giving a deep insight into a previously mysterious culture. Hmm

      The Rosetta Stone: translation of the demotic text

      [Year 9, Xandikos day 4], which is equivalent to the Egyptian month, second month of Peret, day 18, of the King ‘The Youth who has appeared as King in the place of his Father’, the Lord of the Uraei ‘Whose might is great, who has established Egypt, causing it to prosper, whose heart is beneficial before the gods’, (the One) Who is over his Enemy ‘Who has caused the life of the people to prosper, the Lord of the Years of Jubilee like Ptah-Tenen, King like Pre’, [the King of the Upper Districts and] the Lower Districts ‘The Son of the Father-loving Gods, whom Ptah has chosen, to whom Pre has given victory, the Living Image of Amun’, the Son of Pre ‘Ptolemy, living forever, beloved of Ptah, the Manifest God whose excellence is fine’, son of Ptolemy and Arsinoe, the Father-loving Gods, (and) the Priest of Alexander and the Saviour Gods and [the Brother-and-Sister Gods and the] Beneficent [Gods] and the Father-loving Gods and King Ptolemy, the Manifest God whose excellence is fine, Aetos son of Aetos; while Pyrrha daughter of Philinos was Prize-bearer before Berenice the Beneficent, while Areia daughter of Diogenes was [Basket]-bearer [before Arsi]noe the Brother-loving, and while Eirene daughter of Ptolemy was Priestess of Arsinoe the Father-loving: on this day, a decree of the mr-sn priests and the hm-ntr priests, and the priests who enter the sanctuary to perform clothing rituals for the gods, and the scribes of the divine book and the scribes of the House of Life, and the other priests who have come from the temples of Egypt [to Memphis on] the festival of the Reception of the Rulership by King Ptolemy, living forever, beloved of Ptah, the Manifest God whose excellence is fine, from his father, who have assembled in the temple of Memphis, and who have said:

      Whereas King Ptolemy, living forever, the Manifest God whose excellence is fine, son of King Ptolemy [and Queen] Arsinoe, the Father-loving Gods, is wont to do many favours for the temples of Egypt and for all those who are subject to his kingship, he being a god, the son of a god and a goddess, and being like Horus son of Isis and Osiris, who protects his father Osiris, and his heart being beneficent concerning the gods, since he has given much money and much grain to the temples of Egypt, [he having undertaken great expenses] in order to create peace in Egypt and to establish the temples, and having rewarded all the forces that are subject to his rulership; and of the revenues and taxes that were in force in Egypt he had reduced some or(?) had renounced them completely, in order to cause the army and all the other people to be prosperous in his time as [king; the arrear]s which were due to the King from the people who are in Egypt and all those who are subject to his kingship, and (which) amounted to a large total, he renounced; the people who were in prison and those against whom there had been charges for a long time, he released; he ordered concerning the endowments of the gods, and the money and the grain that are given as allowances to their [temples] each year, and the shares that belong to the gods from the vineyards, the orchards, and all the rest of the property which they possessed under his father, that they should remain in their possession; moreover, he ordered concerning the priests that they should not pay their tax on becoming priests above what they used to pay up to Year 1 under his father; he released the people [who hold] the offices of the temples from the voyage they used to make to the Residence of Alexander each year; he ordered that no rower should be impressed into service; he renounced the two-thirds share of the fine linen that used to be made in the temples for the Treasury, he bringing into its [correct] state everything that had abandoned its (proper) condition for a long time, and taking all care to have done in a correct manner what is customarily done for the gods, likewise causing justice to be done for the people in accordance with what Thoth the Twice-great did; moreover, he ordered concerning those who will return from the fighting men and the rest of the people who had gone astray (lit. been on other ways) in the disturbance that had occurred in Egypt that [they] should [be returned] to their homes, and their possessions should be restored to them; and he took all care to send (foot)soldiers, horsemen, and ships against those who came by the shore and by the sea to make an attack on Egypt; he spent a great amount in money and grain against these (enemies), in order to ensure that the temples and the people who were in Egypt should be secure; he went to the fortress of Sk3n [which had] been fortified by the rebels with all kinds of work, there being much gear and all kinds of equipment within it; he enclosed that fortress with a wall and a dyke(?) around (lit. outside) it, because of the rebels who were inside it, who had already done much harm to Egypt, and abandoned the way of the commands of the King and the commands [of the god]s; he caused the canals which supplied water to that fortress to be dammed off, although the previous kings could not have done likewise, and much money was expended on them; he assigned a force of footsoldiers and horsemen to the mouths of those canals, in order to watch over them and to protect them, because of the [rising] of the water, which was great in Year 8, while those canals supply water to much land and are very deep; the King took that fortress by storm in a short time; he overcame the rebels who were within it, and slaughtered them in accordance with what Pre and Horus son of Isis did to those who had rebelled against them in those places in the Beginning; (as for) the rebels who had gathered armies and led them to disturb the nomes, harming the temples and abandoning the way of the King and his father, the gods let him overcome thein at Memphis during the festival of the Reception of the Rulership which he did from his father, and he had them slain on the wood; he remitted the arrears that were due to the King from the temples up to Year 9, and amounted to a large total of money and grain; likewise the value of the fine linen that was due from the temples from what is made for the Treasury, and the verification fees(?) of what had been made up to that time; moreover, he ordered concerning the artaba of wheat per aroura of land, which used to be collected from the fields of the endowment, and likewise for the wine per aroura of land from the vineyards of the gods’ endowments: he renounced them; he did many favours for Apis and Mnevis, and the other sacred animals that are honoured in Egypt, more than what those who were before him used to do, he being devoted to their affairs at all times, and giving what is required for their burials, although it is great and splendid, and providing what is dedicated(?) in their temples when festivals are celebrated and burnt offerings made before them, and the rest of the things which it is fitting to do; the honours which are due to the temples and the other honours of Egypt he caused to be established in their (proper) condition in accordance with the law; he gave much gold, silver, grain, and other items for the Place of Apis; he had it adorned with new work as very fine work; he had new temples, sanctuaries, and altars set up for the gods, and caused others to assume their (proper) condition, he having the heart of a beneficent god concerning the gods and enquiring after the honours of the temples, in order to renew them in his time as king in the manner that is fitting; and the gods have given him in return for these things strength, victory, success(?), prosperity, health, and all the (sic) other favours, his kingship being established under him and his descendants forever:

      With good fortune! It has seemed fitting to the priests of all the temples of Egypt, as to the honours which are due to King Ptolemy, living forever, the Manifest God whose excellence is fine, in the temples, and those which are due to the Father-loving Gods, who brought him into being, and those which are due to the Beneficent Gods, who brought into being those who brought him into being, and those which are due to the Brother-and-Sister Gods, who brought into being those who brought them into being, and those which are due to the Saviour Gods, the ancestors of his ancestors, to increase them; and that a statue should be set up for King Ptolemy, living forever, the Manifest God whose excellence is fine – which should be called ‘Ptolemy who has protected the Bright Land’, the meaning of which is ‘Ptolemy who has preserved Egypt’ – together with a statue for the local god, giving him a scimitar of victory, in each temple, in the public part of the temple, they being made in the manner of Egyptian work; and the priests should pay service to the statues in each temple three times a day, and they should lay down sacred objects before them and do for them the rest of the things that it is normal to do, in accordance with what is done for the other gods on the festivals, the processions, and the named (holi)days; and there should be produced a cult image for King Ptolemy, the Manifest God whose excellence is fine, son of Ptolemy and Queen Arsinoe, the Father-loving Gods, together with the (sic) shrine in each temple, and it should be installed in the sanctuary with the other shrines; and when the great festivals occur, on which the gods are taken in procession, the shrine of the Manifest God whose excellence is fine should be taken in procession with them; and in order that the shrine may be recognized, now and in the rest of the times that are to come, ten royal diadems of gold should be added – there being one uraeus on them each, like what is normally done for the gold diadems – on top of the shrine, instead of the uraei that are upon the rest of the shrines; and the double crown should be in the centre of the diadems, because it is the one with which the King was crowned in the temple of Memphis, when there was being done for him what is normally done at the Reception of the Rulership; and there should be placed on the upper side of (the) square(?) which is outside the diadems, and opposite the gold diadem that is described above, a papyrus plant and a ‘sedge’ plant; and a uraeus should be placed on a basket with a ‘sedge’ under it on the right of the side on top of the shrine, and a uraeus with a basket under it should be placed on a papyrus on the left, the meaning of which is ‘The King who has illumined Upper and Lower Egypt’; and whereas fourth month of Shemu, last day, on which is held the birthday of the King, has been established already as a procession festival in the temples, likewise second month of Peret, day 17, on which are performed for him the ceremonies of the Reception of the Rulership – the beginning of the good things that have happened to everyone: the birth of the King, living forever, and his reception of the rulership – let these days, the 17th and the last, become festivals each month in all the temples of Egypt; and there should be performed burnt offerings, libations, and the rest of the things that are normally done on the other festivals, on both festivals each month; and what is offered in sacrifice(?) should be distributed as a surplus(?) to the people who serve in the temple; and a procession festival should be held in the temples and the whole of Egypt for King Ptolemy, living forever, the Manifest God whose excellence is fine, each year, from first month of Akhet, day 1, for five days, with garlands being worn, burnt offerings and libations being performed, and the rest of the things that it is fitting to do; and the priests who are in each of the temples of Egypt should be called ‘The Priests of the Manifest God whose excellence is fine’ in addition to the other priestly titles, and they should write it on every document, and they should write the priesthood of the Manifest God whose excellence is fine on their rings and they should engrave it on them; and it should be made possible for the private persons also who will (so) wish, to produce the likeness of the shrine of the Manifest God whose excellence is fine, which is (discussed) above, and to keep it in their homes and hold the festivals and the processions which are described above, each year, so that it may become known that the inhabitants of Egypt pay honour to the Manifest God whose excellence is fine in accordance with what is normally done; and the decree should be written on a stela of hard stone, in sacred writing, document writing, and Greek writing, and it should be set up in the first-class temples, the second-class temples and the third-class temples, next to the statue of the King, living forever.

      Translation by R.S. Simpson
      Revised version from R.S. Simpson, Demotic Grammar in the Ptolemaic Sacerdotal Decrees (Oxford, Griffith Institute, 1996), pp. 258-71

      Copyright of R.S. Simpson and the Griffith Institute
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    • [H4L]ÃÐV!SØRY

      Rosetta 4 kilometres in diameter, moving at a speed as great as 135,000 kilometres per hour.
      that speed is not possible landing on comet. :idea: Rosetta Comet Landing is NOT a hoax!
      like Nasa + russia in space = Fake :eek:

    • [H4L]ÃÐV!SØRY

      Rosetta 4 kilometres in diameter, moving at a speed as great as 135,000 kilometres per hour.
      that speed is not possible landing on comet. :idea: Rosetta Comet Landing is a hoax!
      like Nasa + russia in space = Fake :eek:

    • Agnostic Atheist

      Surely the author of this article can’t be serious???
      Lets discredit all human accomplishment because we don’t understand basic science, quite disgusting
      if you ask me…

    • two brain cells

      How much ad revenue does this douchebag earn from his site? That’s the only intelligent thing he’s achieved.

      I guess it’s relatively easy to fool the gullible and sadly that’s what most “truthers” are.

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