RE: Crop circles.

[Orrex]

Neat-o. Check it out:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=228x53223

[Why Syzygy]

1. Ha. Isn't this telling ...

(...) "I think everybody assumed such monument complexes were known about or had already been discovered," added Pollard, a co-leader of the Stonehenge Riverside Project, which is funded in part by the National Geographic Society. (...)

Such oblong burial mounds are very rare finds, and are the country's earliest known architectural form, Wickstead said. The last full-scale long barrow excavation was in the 1950s, she added. (...)

IOW, everything discovered by 1950 odd is considered final! Nothing more to see here! :wrygrin:

[Orrex]

4. I've heard about interesting work regarding infrared satellite imaging

It's been very useful in finding long-lost ruins in Central America, I believe. It works by identifying the differences in heat given off by stone vs. vegetation, and when they spot an unusually orderly pattern, they can check it out on foot.

[Fire Walk With Me]

9. Along similar lines, Photoshop and similar techniques have been used

to reveal cave drawings previously invisible to the naked eye. Really neat stuff.

[lildreamer316]

21. I saw a tv special about that....

too bad I can't remember where or when..I think it was on the Science Channel, though, not too long ago - like within the last six months. I remember vivdly the satellite infrared images they showed. Or it may have been on History International channel. I'll see if I can dig it up, no pun intended. ;)

[MorningGlow]

2. WOW that's cool

Thanks for the link, Orrex!

But...wait...does that mean there's a giant jellyfish buried in England as well???
:rofl:

[Orrex]

3. If there is, I sure as heck won't be the one to go digging for it!

:scared:

[conscious evolution]

5. If you do,

I have a great woo cure for the sting!1!
Fresh urine works wonders to counteract the poison.:hide:





























Seriously,it does work.

[mother earth]

7. Ha-ha, conscious evolution, that deserves a woo-woo

:woohoo: :rofl:

[Why Syzygy]

8. Lime juice works as well.

Be sure to pack some limes!

[I Have A Dream]

6. That's really interesting; there's so much that we still haven't discovered.

I'm sure that this will provide years of fun for archaeologists. :)

Thanks, Orrex.

[Orrex]

10. Possibly my all-time favorite DU subject line:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x5936858

(Alas, I fear that it might get moved to The Lounge.)

[I Have A Dream]

11. Yeah, great headline!

:smoke:

[Why Syzygy]

12. And the poppies turn them into engineers!

But an electrical engineer from North Carolina — described by the London newspapers as a "retired astrophysicist" — figured out that it was an abstract representation of pi, the number at the center of Euclidean geometry.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,368422,00.html

[Celebration]

13. if there is some solar event or shift on July 9

I guess we will have to take notice. Some of these science types are reading that into the crop circles. Don't ask me details of this because I don't know them.

[northernlights]

16. ????

What's going on with July 9? That relates to crop circles? Or energy shift?

(My open house is scheduled for July 8...and I wrote earlier about my premonition last year that some event would happen right after my house went on the market...)

[Celebration]

17. Linda Moulton Howe reported on that

I *think* she said July 9. She didn't give details though, that I can remember.

[Why Syzygy]

20. Eclipses...

Full moon with partial lunar eclipse on July 7, 2009. Full solar eclipse July 22, 2009.

Penumbral Lunar Eclipse of July 07
July's penumbral eclipse is only of academic interest since the magnitude is just 0.156. Although the Moon will be above the horizon from most of Canada (Figure 4), the eclipse is so minor as to be completely invisible to the naked eye.


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Total Solar Eclipse of July 22
To make up for the anemic lunar eclipse earlier in the month, a major total eclipse of the Sun occurs two weeks later. The path of the Moon's umbral shadow extends across India, China, a handful of Japanese islands and the South Pacific Ocean (Espenak and Anderson, 2008). A partial eclipse is seen within the much broader path of the Moon's penumbral shadow, which includes most of eastern Asia, Indonesia, and the Pacific Ocean (Figure 5).

The central path begins in India's Gulf of Khambhat at 00:53 UT. The Moon passes through perigee several hours earlier, so the path of totality is unusually wide.

http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/OH/OH2009.html

July 9 2009 is also the Jewish Feast of Tammuz, fwiw.

[Celebration]

14. okay, finally I can see this

http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/news/article-1027178/Easy-pi-Astrophysicist-solves-riddle-Britains-complex-crop-circle.html

[northernlights]

15. cool!

Thank you for that. I was trying to visualize it from the description and getting stuck.

[I Have A Dream]

18. Thanks! That really helps. nt

[Celebration]

19. We need our spy sattelites

honing in on Barbury castle and other "hot" crop circle areas and try to settle this thing. If these are people with ropes and boards I want to know!