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KnifeMaker Comment by Carl Rechsteiner on December 30, 2013 at 6:02

I also have a close friend - Andy Roy - owner/operator Fiddleback Forge, and specializes in bushcrafting knives. Might want to check him out. His work is high quality.

KnifeMaker Comment by Carl Rechsteiner on December 30, 2013 at 5:59

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Couple of pics from the forging/finishing stages. Sorry, can't find one of just the finished knife by itself.....must have wandered of in E space.

KnifeMaker Comment by Carl Rechsteiner on December 30, 2013 at 5:54

Here's one I made for a "Bushcrafting Maniac" (he's a good friend so I can say that). He carries it all the time in the woods. It's called a Hym. Farm Knife. Quite handy on the large end, much more functional than a machete with better forward balance.

16" blade forged from a Chevy leaf spring, includes a fire starter and sharpening file (on back of sheath), handle is black locust.

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(Personally, I prefer a chainsaw these days.)

Featured Comment by Charles Sample on December 16, 2013 at 11:33

Amen Ken, great serman!

Featured Comment by Charles Sample on December 16, 2013 at 11:29

Could there be life on other planets?  Absolutely!  God could put life anywhere he so chooses and enable it to live there.

But did he?  That is the question.  We will never know for sure this side of heaven for the reasons already mentioned.

And AMEN on Jesus is God!

Yes God is the steward of the universe.  Man is supposed to be stewards of the earth and we don't always do a good job of even that.

Comment by Ken Spielvogel on December 16, 2013 at 11:11

Good discussion: I don't think we know everything God has done apart from planet earth. Its to vast a subject for us humans to understand. Mostly what I know is "I was lost and now I am found" - thank you Jesus.

Comment by Tobias Gibson on December 16, 2013 at 9:27

Charles, I'm a fairly religious person as well.  I ave often pointed out that the Creation story in the Bible pretty much follows the formation of the universe, only it is told more simply.  (A broad brush, approach) 

When people ask me,  if I believe there could be life on a other planets, I answer yes.  When the ask me how does that reconcile with Christian faith (I'm a Catholic)  I normally quote John 21:25:

"There are also many other things that Jesus did, but if these were to be described individually, I do not think the whole world would contain the books that would be written"

As Jesus is God, we can assume God has also done many other things  in the universe that we humans are unaware of, much of which it is best we remain ignorant of.

As for your  comment about life on other planets reaching earth: "If we, or "they", could get a spaceship traveling 100,000 miles per hour, it would take about 1,600 years to travel between earth and the closest star.  It would take radio signals over 4 years to make the trip."

My point exactly  They won't be visiting us anytime soon. .  If other life forms are out there, God put them there.  We are not the stewards of the universe.  That's God's Job.  

Oh and about those radio signals we transmits from the earth.  By the time they reach are nearest neighboring star (Alpha Centauri) they have been complete drowned out by the radiation emitted by the sun.    The NSA might be monitoring you but there is no life form beyond this planet that can hear a thing you are saying.

Featured Comment by Charles Sample on December 15, 2013 at 23:43

Thank God for global warming.  Otherwise we would still be in the Ice Age! LOL

Comment by James Cole on December 15, 2013 at 23:17

Tobias,  As usual you are quite insightful.  First Chicken Little cried "ice age, ice age" and when that got no traction he cried "global warming, global warming", still no traction so then he bet a straddle; I've got it he cried "climate change"; how can I go wrong with that?  And climate change there shall be, always has been, always will be.

Featured Comment by Charles Sample on December 15, 2013 at 21:03

Tobias, I agree with you.  Human emissions are insignificant compared to what the planet itself puts out.  For instance when Mt. St. Helens blew its top, it put out the equivalent of several years worth of total human emissions.  I wish I could find or remember the number, but it was several years worth.  And when the super volcano under Yellowstone blows again (which it will, sooner or later), Mt. St. Helens will seem like a minor hiccup. 

And all those dead leaves and other vegetation rotting on the forest floors all over this planet are emitting gases 24/7.

But lets not spread the population out.  Let them stay in the cities.  I want open land left to hunt in! LOL

And you are right.  Sagan was a looney.

As far as life on other planets, I tend to think no.  The Bible says that God created the sun, moon, and stars for man.  The earth was created first, then the rest.  And the Bible gives no indication of or reason for life anywhere but earth.  Also we have now gone to the moon and Mars.  And zilch as far as life, not even a microbe.

But for the sake of discussion, lets assume out there somewhere there is another planet circling a star with life on it.  Now the closest star to earth other than the sun, is over 4 light years away.  On the face of it, 4 light years doesn't sound awfully far.

But consider.  A light year is the distance light travels in one year.  Now light travels at 186,000 miles per sec.  So if we multiply 186,000 miles per second by 60 to get a minute, again by 60 to get an hour, by 24 to get a day, and finally by 365 to get a year, we find that light travels 1,365,696,000,000 miles in one year. But again the closest star is over 4 light years, or over 5 trillion miles away.  

If we, or "they", could get a spaceship traveling 100,000 miles per hour, it would take about 1,600 years to travel between earth and the closest star.  It would take radio signals over 4 years to make the trip.

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