Posted on 08/16/2005 1:39:57 PM PDT by jb6
Yes, I mean I can see maybe one remarkable resemblence...but all of them???
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Oh, come on; you give too much credit. Never forget Charles Forte and the Forteans.
Or, the early Fate! magazines.
Or, Long John Nebble's radio program.
You could see FIRE through it.. ( That's what always impressed ME, looking through the mica window on our oil heater as a kid.. )
"I Remember Isinglass"...maybe a title I'll use some day. Maybe not, too; using a title implies all the hard work involved in writing the stuff between said title and, "The end."
Anyway, we never had a mica window on our oil heater as a kid...because we never had an oil heater; instead, we had a cast iron wood stove, with big mica windows in the doors.
Of course, I also learned that if you put enough dry driftwood & green manzanita in a sheet-steel stove, and open the drafts, once the metal turns from cherry-red to yellowish-white, it at least looks like you can also see the flames licking inside. That is Pretty Cool, too...once.LOL
I might recommend a book, if you can find it, that is MUCH better than Von Dingalin's books: Supernature. Sorry; I forget the author's name. Excellent read, and not nearly so far out.
Even simpler "Dogs and More Dogs," NOVA Good program
Dog evolution is simpler than most people think, contends Raymond Coppinger, professor of biology at Hampshire College and coauthor of Dogs: A Startling New Understanding of Canine Origin, Behavior & Evolution. Coppinger is convinced that, contrary to the traditional theory that humans actively domesticated wolves, wolves themselves chose domestication because of the easy pickings in Stone Age refuse dumps, where those animals that weren't scared off by people had a better chance of finding food and surviving.And there's no reason that process couldn't have begun 100,000 years ago.
"Any one wolf that's a little tamer than the other, who can stay there longer, gets more food," Coppinger says. "He's the one that's going to win that evolutionary battle."
Right. One may be a coincidence - five is by design. When I first saw those pictures my immediate reaction was that they were Photoshop alterations. I was never able to confirm their authenticity, but the lady Egyptologist clearly acknowledged that the inscriptions did actually exist. She just "labored mightily" to explain and debunk them within the bounds of conventional archaeology.
Perhaps the pyramids were landing platforms for alien spacecraft.
..........
More like visual land markers.
ping for later
Thanks Ben, I'll post the usual sig message when I get home. I doubt that I'll ping the list, because (as Tallulah Bankhead once said) there's less here than meets the eye.
1. Level the area roughly to slightly below the natural rock surface.
2. Have your workers each carry a goatskin of water from the Nile.
3. Empty into the shallow hole
4. Note which areas stick out.
5. Have your workers push a large flatish piece of rock over the sticking out area and wear it down
6. As the water evaporates/soaks away, other areas will stck out.
7. goto 4.
Exactly, I stopped reading this stupid article after the statement that dogs couldn't be developed without bio-engineering.
Excellent points.
Have to wonder if these wanks ever even touched a small block of limestones. One of the softest building stones, a hard brush with the naked hand will dust off some stone. Moving one block back and forth over another and using water will level both blocks rather quickly and leave a nice slurry for sun baked mortar. On one show long ago, they showed how today's egyptians quarried limestone without steel tools...levers and water. Three or four skinny workers were knocking these off fast enough to put union workers to shame.
A visit to Indiana's limestone quarries and fab plants would quickly educate these wanks as to the mysteries of stone. It is awe inspiring to walk through a limestone plant with huge blocks stacked on timbers to season. The 20 to 30 foot high stacks obliterate any view of the nearby surroundings, making it easy to fantasize being in the pyramid setting. Even more awesome is hearing the loud crack and tumble of broken stone after the first freeze.
Bump to read tomorrow.
Great post , I have always been facinated by the ancient world. Weaned at a very early age on Richard Haliburtons "Book of Marvels." Loved his books.
The book: It was Lyall Watson's first book on the subject.
SUPERNATURE: A New Look at Unexplained Phenomena
Paperback
New York: Bantam, 1974
ISBN: 553 08368 195
(In Britain, the sub title is The Natural History of the Supernatural)
Fascinating reading, and no deep-end theories to get in the way.
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"Actually the way wolves turned to dogs was proven in Russia by the domestication of foxes over about a 50 year period. They now sell domesticated foxes who have both dog/cat behavior traits."
What you're telling us is that they beat the cartoon by 50 years?
Bookmark for later ...
I wouldn't doubt he used many sources..
But "Chariots" was the big book, the one that got the press, the one that sold, the one on the best seller list, the one talked about at the cocktail parties, etc..
I give him credit where it's due..
He asked all the questions, made the wild claims, got everybody all worked up...
Seriously, it's just something that someone, somewhere, pointed out.. that limestone is used to make cement, mortar, and that if it was poured into a form, allowed to harden, then "finished", after a couple thousand years, you wouldn't be able to readily distinguish it from "regular" limestone..
I don't know if it's true, but it sure sounds like it would be plausible..
It would sure make transport easier..
Mix it on site, pour it into a large form, let it set..
No carrying large 11 ton block up to the next tier, and all the manpower, danger involved..
Who knows?
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