Turin Shroud Older Than Thought

Krieg · Jan 31, 2005

There has got to be someone running a modern conspiracy campaign who can use this...

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20050124/shroud.html

Torm · Jan 31, 2005

Nifty! A shroud made before people could think about how to make it. Who'da thunk it? (Nobody, apparently!)

Yes, I know what it meant.

Krieg · Jan 31, 2005

lol

Well my personal opinion is that the shroud is a hoax (and no disrespect to those who believe it is genuine) but from a gaming standpoint it is much more fun if it is real.

tarchon · Jan 31, 2005

Kinetics for dating?! If they really wanted to know the age, they'd radiocarbon the putatively original parts, but I'm guessing they won't. I suppose if they did, it would just turn out that the most recently tested part was a "patch" too.

Henry · Jan 31, 2005

"Between 1,300 and 3,000 years old."

If only I could get my boss to accept that kind of margin of error...

Terath Ninir · Jan 31, 2005

The Shroud of Turin will never die! No matter what science throws at it, it will always have another trick up its nonexistant sleeves...

Henry · Jan 31, 2005

No matter what science throws at it, it will always have another trick up its nonexistant sleeves...

What self-respecting Artifact or Relic doesn't?

Stone Angel · Jan 31, 2005

Now if only we can extract some DNA from it! Then I can begin my modulation of God-Child super atheletes!

The Seraph of Earth and Stone

Angcuru · Feb 1, 2005

Oh, Stone Angel and his Jesus-cloning ambitions.

Anyways, the thing is, always has been, and always will be a hoax. It's a piece of cloth, nothing more. Go do something more productive, like watching paint dry on a crash-test minivan.

Umbran · Feb 1, 2005

Of course, the thing that shows most stongly that the Shroud is a hoax is not the dating. It is the image itself.

Let's say we take a guy, and paint dye on his face. Then lay a cloth over his face, so the cloth picks up the dye. When you take the cloth away, you get a very distorted image of a human face. But the Face on the Shroud is not distorted. It's the image you'd get if someone simply painted an image on the cloth.