Muzman on 26/3/2010 at 06:02
The talk of ancient things like the (
http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=131322) Baghdad Battery made me think of other stuff like (
http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4184) the Antikythera Mechanism which made me think of aliens, ghosts, conspiracies, whakiness and weirdness and things in general introduced by (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Search_of..._%28TV_series%29) Leonard Nimoy.
This is probably unfair to the Baghdad Battery, but what are ya gonna go. I'm nuts about weird shit and I don't think we've had a thread about this for a while (ten links appear). So anyone can and should post their favourite wooful tale of the moment, be it the Jersey Devil, Mothman, Chupacabras, Frozen Bigfoot/water dmamged gorilla suit from a couple of years back, how HAARP is secretly trying to destroy the world (or save it from approaching asteroids They're not telling us about).
I got involved in a "(
http://www.flickfilosopher.com/blog/2009/07/072209secrets_of_the_universe_and_go.html) discussion" once about how
Horton Hears a Who is secretly trying to warn us about the approach of (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_X_collision) Planet X, or something. That was weird.
Sometimes it's the little ones I like the best like this youtube vid : (
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06X9qXTvKNQ) creeper in my apartment which is cute. Likely bollox but cute all the same.
More! I say.
frozenman on 26/3/2010 at 06:15
I've been interning at a company that makes "science" documentaries for National Geographic Channel, Discovery, etc...so this is one thing where there are a lot of things that come to mind.
I read (
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/science/earth-environment/article6982391.ece) articles about these ruins only recently found in the upper Amazon basin and that spiraled into an interest in Percy Fawcett and the book The Lost City of Z by David Grann.
Also I think the (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloop) Bloop is fascinating- an ENORMOUSLY loud sound underwater and there's no conclusive evidence of what it was?
witherflower on 26/3/2010 at 06:28
I've recently aquired a deep fascination for the Terracotta warriors and Machu Picchu. Ancient civilizations are always a hit. It is clear to me that the church upon their accumulating power hid great truths from the common man that these great civilizations had tremendous insight into.
Martin Karne on 26/3/2010 at 08:09
Anybody recall that fossil steel hammer in an English coal mine which was found on 300 million years coal vein?
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http://wakeupproject.com/Forum/viewtopic.php?p=96915&sid=713de5238e06763884d6648850d8a9ad)
(scroll a bit down)
Or this petrified rain forest found in a coal mine in the US?
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http://www.sciencebuzz.org/blog/huge-underground-fossil-rainforests-discovered-illinois-coa)
This URL is not truncated, is like that.
Quote:
Last year, news came out about the discovery of a large fossil forest dating from 300 million years ago in a coal mine located in eastern Illinois. Now, five more prehistoric forests have been identified in the same region.
Who was doing mining works back then?
Visitors landed in dire need of new minerals to repair their damaged spacecraft?
An ancient civilization, maybe intra terrestrials? A race of once technically advanced men fallen in disgrace after an ancient nuclear war, and avoiding contact with us, coz you know they're superior and have superior tech and know how, and they think they're the shit yo?
Ancient nuclear war, look at the empty quarter in the Arabic peninsula, green sand glass that cooled off so fast that it was no meteorite but a probable nuclear explosion.
:confused:
Quote:
Mandaville examined each of the larger pieces in detail, made some penciled jottings in his notebook, and we moved on to meteorite sites described in published works on the Rub' al-Khali. One was a crater evidently created by the impact of an extraterrestrial object of some size. As we explored the bowl, looking for more metal fragments, Hadban would call excitedly, "Jeem....Jeem!" to attract Mandaville's attention to some discovery he thought merited scrutiny. At another site we collected minute pieces of fused silica, glass-like, smooth and jet black, some round like pearls and others teardrop-shaped. Among the oddest manifestations of the meteorites were porous chunks of fused silica, coated, apparently as they splashed into the air from some enormous impact, by iron-rich gases. The resulting masses, with their soft-appearing insides and smooth chocolate-colored coatings, look for all the world like some unearthly kind of Eskimo pie.
(
http://www.saudiaramcoworld.com/issue/196706/camping.in.the.empty.quarter.htm)
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http://www.saudiaramcoworld.com/issue/197905/desert.glass-an.enigma.htm)
Somebody wait while I call the shrink.
BRB
Fafhrd on 27/3/2010 at 07:17
Quote Posted by witherflower
It is clear to me that the church upon their accumulating power hid great truths from the common man that these great civilizations had tremendous insight into.
Remember that a Christian mob burned the Library of Alexandria down, destroying thousands of years of mathematical and scientific knowledge, and historical records. Not an entirely intentional 'WE MUST HIDE THE KNOWLEDGE' action by the organized Church.
doctorfrog on 27/3/2010 at 07:57
Just local to my area of the world, here are some strange little tourist traps:
* The Mystery Spot (an old-fashioned antigravity house)
* The Winchester Mystery House
* The UDAF (the Upside Down Airplane Field)
The last item there is a curiosity found in the hills near where I live. Along a private road in an open field there is the skeleton of an airplane mounted upside-down on a squat scaffold. Also on the premises is a trailer, which is always inhabited, by a guard or a resident, who will sometimes come out to shine a spotlight out on where you are. Kind of creepy when me and my friends discovered it about ten years ago, and we have no idea what it's there for.
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http://www.yelp.com/biz/the-upside-down-airplane-sunol)
fett on 27/3/2010 at 14:30
Being a bit of a language buff, I've been intrigued for a while with the (
http://www.voynich.nu/) Voynich Manuscript. Not necessarily anything metaphysical, but despite claims that it's a hoax, the language really does seem to work and look like an actual language, and the author(s?) was clearly purposeful about what he was writing. I can't help but wonder if there's not a cure for cancer and HIV hidden in the thing somewhere, or who the hell wrote it. Even more interesting is that cryptologists believe it originated in Italy, and started circulating about the time Cosimo di' Medici started collecting books for the Laurentian library in Florence - which is also about the time when the Jesuit monks took it upon themselves to start hunting and burning non-Christian manuscripts. This leads to all kinds of "what ifs" about Cosimo and Lorenzo di' Medici's fascination with humanism and ancient writings, which was part of the conflict between the Medici and the Church at the time. Hmmm....
Some of these older things you guys are posting about make me think of my research from years ago into Noah's flood (Gilgamesh, or whatever). The Bible makes an interesting comment about the flood eradicating "the world that was." There are hints in the Bible, and in some Summerian texts that humans were far more advanced than we imagine prior to some cataclysmic event that wiped out all kinds of technology - the kind of technology that would produce things like the Bagdad Battery, or the the Antikythera Mechanism. My own research was novice at best, but I wouldn't be surprised if some of these things weren't common before a widespread deluge that wiped out huge segments of life and knowledge.
witherflower on 27/3/2010 at 17:45
Quote Posted by fett
Being a bit of a language buff, I've been intrigued for a while with the (
http://www.voynich.nu/) Voynich Manuscript. Not necessarily anything metaphysical, but despite claims that it's a hoax, the language really does seem to work and look like an actual language, and the author(s?) was clearly purposeful about what he was writing. I can't help but wonder if there's not a cure for cancer and HIV hidden in the thing somewhere, or who the hell wrote it. Even more interesting is that cryptologists believe it originated in Italy, and started circulating about the time Cosimo di' Medici started collecting books for the Laurentian library in Florence - which is also about the time when the Jesuit monks took it upon themselves to start hunting and burning non-Christian manuscripts. This leads to all kinds of "what ifs" about Cosimo and Lorenzo di' Medici's fascination with humanism and ancient writings, which was part of the conflict between the Medici and the Church at the time. Hmmm....
Some of these older things you guys are posting about make me think of my research from years ago into Noah's flood (Gilgamesh, or whatever). The Bible makes an interesting comment about the flood eradicating "the world that was." There are hints in the Bible, and in some Summerian texts that humans were far more advanced than we imagine prior to some cataclysmic event that wiped out all kinds of technology - the kind of technology that would produce things like the Bagdad Battery, or the the Antikythera Mechanism. My own research was novice at best, but I wouldn't be surprised if some of these things weren't common before a widespread deluge that wiped out huge segments of life and knowledge.
You've researched this? Intriguing...
Not long ago I read about the (
http://www.redicecreations.com/specialreports/2006/01jan/solfeggio.html) solfeggio scale which apparantly was hidden by church authorities ages ago. It includes the 528 hz frequency that scientists use to repair broken dna today.
It wouldn't surprise me at all if living organisms had all the power it needs to heal itself from any natural occuring desease if tuning in to certain frequencies. Hiding this fact would most certainly make any religious authority even more powerful for obvious reasons.
Bluegrime on 27/3/2010 at 20:21
The Bloop. An ultra low frequency sound that got picked up by old Cold War submarine detectors off the coast of South America. The kicker is that it was picked up, clearly, from two of these detectors placed a staggering 5,000 Km apart.. Quite the loud noise. Theres speculation about it being anything from the noise from some great undersea beast, machinery, and even the Cthulu. ( The noise was thought to originate from within 500 miles of the alleged nap pad that squid head set up in HP Lovecrafts books )
Wiki link: (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloop)
