Shroud of Turin Real!

[Dragonlipz]

I painted the shroud.

You missed a spot............

 

[Boota]

Well, I'm not even convinced that you really exist. I still think that avatar's too good to be true

I suspect this is the real Boota--

http://www.mid.muohio.edu/computer/images/geek2.jpg

And that avatar's just photoshopped together

Damn, you got me! I've got a patchier head of hair now, though. It's like several little bald spots.

 

[cantdog]

Nah, the carbon dating was done by three or four universities all at the same time, Oxford, Arizona and maybe Cal-tech, they all read 800-1300CE, I'm doing this roughly from memory. There hasn't been any new dating because they said the new box they put the shroud in destroyed the possibility of dating. The best evidence says the shroud is from the Middle Ages, if you find new carbon dating was done post a link. Some guy this year re-created the shroud pretty well, I think it was mentioned on this board.

"In 1988, the Holy See agreed to permit six centers to independently perform radiocarbon dating on portions of a swatch taken from a corner of the shroud, but at the last minute they changed their minds and permitted only three research centers to undertake such analysis. The chosen laboratories at the University of Oxford, the University of Arizona, and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, produced results indicating that the analysed portion of the shroud dated from the 13th to 14th centuries (1260–1390)."

13th

The carbon dating method is good to within a century or so. Three labs. all within shouting distance of 1275 CE. Nobody had 900 or less, dude. It's a medieval/renaissance artifact.

 

[cantdog]

And it is real. A real piece of real cloth, dating from the 13th century.