Now I’ve finished my responses to the 22 creationists, I thought I’d finish off with a few links to others I found during the whole nightmare ordeal.
22 Creationists: other responses
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Jantar Mantars
As you can tell from the previous few posts, our tour of Delhi, Jaipur and Agra included a lot of visits to tombs, forts and palaces. Throw in a couple of mosques and museums, and you’ve pretty much summed up the trip.
Except, that is, for the Jantar Mantars.
A Jantar Mantar is a uniquely Indian artifact: a set of giant, building-sized instruments for taking precise astronomical measurements. They were built in the 1720s and ’30s by Maharaja Jai Singh II of Jaipur in several cities, including ones in Jaipur and Delhi, which still exist.
Overview of the Jantar Mantar at Jaipur (public domain, Wikimedia Commons)
The Oort Cloud
Yesterday, NASA published a logarithmically scaled map, below, of the solar system and surroundings, to accompany the news that Voyager 1 has left the heliosphere and entered interstellar space.
Solar System, in Perspective by NASA/JPL-Caltech