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Tue Dec-16-08 01:32 AM
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This is cool - Cracked.com 6 Insane Discoveries That Science Can't Explain |
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Tue Dec-16-08 06:14 AM
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1. I didn't spend too much time on the science one |
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but I clicked a few links and was most amused. Funny guys
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Tue Dec-16-08 12:53 PM
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Voynich Manuscript: Probably a hoax. http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/Hoaxipedia/Voynich_Manuscript/Antikythera Mechansim: An ancient orrery used in astrology. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism - scroll down to section 4.1 Baigong Pipes: natural hematite formations which occur within sandstones. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baigong_PipesStone Balls of Costa Rica: Manmade. http://web.ku.edu/~hoopes/balls/faq.htmBaghdad Battery: Indeed a battery, but used in electroplating. http://www.smith.edu/hsc/museum/ancient_inventions/battery2.htmlThe Bloop - This is the only true mystery. We still have no idea what produced The Bloop. http://archives.cnn.com/2002/TECH/science/06/13/bloop/
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Tue Dec-16-08 08:34 PM
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I had found this last night (this morning? today? last year?) at work and I loved cracked.com/....their comments are like "omg I was just thinking that!"
KNEW I should have researched before I put it in here. The bloop sounds interesting. A giant whale fart?
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Wed Dec-17-08 10:51 AM
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7. That's ok - it was funny, and that's what counts! |
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and hey, I had never heard of "the Bloop" before - that's truly interesting.
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Thu Dec-18-08 08:55 PM
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8. I remember seeing a show on those stones. |
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They figured out how to make one using only another small stone and two pieces of bamboo. What they couldn't figure out was why anyone would want to make one. I mean, really, it's big stone ball. Why?
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Fri Dec-19-08 02:24 PM
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9. Wonder what the Bloop sounds like at normal speed? |
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Here, along the Gulf of Mexico, we get unexplained "sonic booms" that the military assures the public are not related to any of their planes. I am fifty miles from the coast and I sometimes hear them - they sound very much like when the Space Shuttle is landing, which is the only time I hear sonic booms from a known source.
They generally only happen in the winter during cold spells and one theory I read was that they are caused by some phenomenon involving cold masses of air interacting with warm air rising from the surface of the ocean.
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Tue Dec-16-08 02:47 PM
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3. OMG! Someone found something that SCIENCE CAN'T EXPLAIN! |
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Therefore I must conclude that Reiki massage channels "healing energy", dead relatives perform helpful miracles for living loved ones, and the Lock Ness monster is real.
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Wed Dec-17-08 08:40 AM
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5. Which is not the tone of the article |
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In fact, they mock the crazier theories for some of the items on the list.
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Wed Dec-17-08 08:55 AM
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6. Yes, I know that's not the tone of the article. |
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Just my reaction to the phrase "science can't explain", and the intention with which that phrase is often uttered.
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