Xenith on 29/3/2010 at 18:08
I always liked the (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphia_Experiment) Philadelphia Experiment although I'm not sure how much of it is true even after reading all sorts of stuff about it on different sites, one more obscure than the other.
Don't know much about the movie that was based on this, but it's an entertaining read about alleged teleportation, people getting stuck in walls and so on and so forth.
Another link... (
http://www.crystalinks.com/phila.html)
rachel on 29/3/2010 at 18:20
yeah, the old Soviet scalar weapon rumors, I read about that. Gotta love it.
a test of a Soviet scalar EM howitzer in the pulsed endothermic mode.They're fun to read, but I always considered these only a rumor. Not that I don't believe Soviets couldn't have the technological edge on that, but since the fall of the USSR there's never been any compelling reason to believe it. It's like testing UFOs at Area 51. And what
On a related note I love the legend that the Tunguska Event was a (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_event#The_Wardenclyffe_Tower) Tesla experiment gone wrong.
:)
st.patrick on 29/3/2010 at 21:36
Quote Posted by Nicker
The (
http://www.kb.se/codex-gigas/eng/) Codex Gigas is another fascinating book. The name means Giant Book and it is just that, the largest surviving medieval manuscript known; 92 cm (36.2in.) tall, 50 cm (19.7in.) wide and 22 cm (8.6in.) thick. Bound in wood and metal it weighs in at 75 kg (165 lbs).
It is perhaps not as mysterious as the Voynich Manuscript, unless you choose to believe the legend that it was written in a single night, by a monk who was walled up in his cell for extreme naughtiness and who enlisted the help of the Devil, paying tribute with a full page portrait of the Arch Demon himself (and the monk's immortal soul, of course). Thus the Gigas is also known as "The Devil's Bible".
Both the Old and New Testaments are included along with various reference works, calendars, an encyclopedia, histories and such.
Another claim I have heard for it is that it contains no writing errors.
It more likely took the single scribe anywhere from five to twenty years or so to complete it. The consistency of the writing shows no signs of fatigue, aging or disease so the monk (possibly 'Herman The Recluse') must have been tough as nails and a classic case of OCD.
I saw the book when it was on display in the National Library in Prague. The images don't really do it justice - my first reaction was "holy shit, it is that big".
Muzman on 5/4/2010 at 11:10
Much as I enjoy the genuinely mysterious, the overlap with the tinfoil hat category of things is often even more perplexing.
It's kind of off the subject, in a way, but why on earth would people concoct ideas like (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemtrails) chemtrails and get all worried about them is beyond me. (anyone really worried about them should come here. Atmospheric conditions mean they almost never occur, unlike in England, say, where every jet leaves one. OR MAYBE THEY'RE INVISIBLE)
Or (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reptilians) Reptilians, surely the result of eating too much blue cheese one night and nodding off on the couch as (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V_%28science_fiction%29)
V started.
All the same, Crop circles. They've gone right out of style since the X-Files days when they used to crop up (or is that down?) on the actual news. I'm not suggesting it could actually be UFOs, but have you seen some of these things? They do seem slightly beyond a couple of guys with broomsticks overnight. (Or perhaps I underestimate university Maths Club pranksters who grew up on Spirograph).
