NASAdude

three weeks in Hawaii.
what a wonderful way to avoid a frigid Pennsylvania winter. 
that much time yields lots of photos. 
follows is a small assortment.

white tiger.  in zoo.  not in the wild.
same tiger
lava and ocean
lava and ocean
peacock.  roaming in zoo.
creepy guys
sea turtle
underwater sea turtle.  snorkeling is fun.
Volcano National Park.  big crater.  long, hot hike around rim and across lava.
waterfall
waterfall.  long drop.
whale
snorkeler pretending to be a whale?
whale
cave (lava tube) entrance
gecko.  rampant everywhere. completely let down after watching the Geico commercials.
awesome golf courses
more awesome golf courses
Hilo bay.  open ocean on left.  protected bay on right.
more lava
magma meeting ocean
top of Mauna Kea, about 14000'.
big mirror at Gemini
ocean sunset
mountain sunset
very windy and below freezing at the top of the mountain.  note blowing hair.
sunset.

didn't avoid PA winter entirely
ended up stranded in Atlanta overnight due to snow/ice storm in PA
required four guys to push my car out of parking space, after digging for half an hour and liberal salt application
got home to find a frozen sewer line
brrr

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1 Kings 7:23 And he made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one brim to the other: it was round all about, and his height was five cubits: and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about.

circumference = pi * diameter

The diameter is given as 10 cubits, and the circumference is 30 cubits.

If the diameter is 10 cubits, then the circumference would be 31.4 cubits, an error or 1.4 cubits.
If the circumference is actually 30 cubits, then the diameter would be 9.5 cubits.

Rounding doesn't really work for the first case, but one could argue that the diameter could have been rounded up from 9.5 to 10 cubits.

Unfortunately, it's clear that measuring in fractional cubits was practiced, so that excuse isn't valid.

1 Kings 7:31 And the mouth of it within the chapiter and above was a cubit: but the mouth thereof was round after the work of the base, a cubit and an half: and also upon the mouth of it were gravings with their borders, foursquare, not round.
32 And under the borders were four wheels; and the axletrees of the wheels were joined to the base: and the height of a wheel was a cubit and half a cubit.

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31Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field:
32Which indeed is the least of all seeds: but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof.

Acually, the mustard seed is not the smallest seed. The orchid, poppy, and wolffia (duckweed family) are smaller.

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