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Global warming will stop until at least 2015 because of natural variations in the climate, scientists have said. Researchers studying long-term changes in sea temperatures said they now expect a "lull" for up to a decade while natural variations in climate cancel out the increases caused by man-made... Read More
The Arlington Institute, a non-profit think tank specialising in predictive modelling of future events, hopes to utilise paranormal powers to provide an early warning of impending disasters or other critical events, such as acts of terrorism. British psychic Chris Robinson (right), who clai... Read More
At Approximately 8:45 p.m. on Saturday May 3rd, SIU Investigator, Adam Johnson, accompanied by filmmakers/brothers Josh and Ron Johnson, and four residents of the “Marley Woods,” were able to witness a brilliant display of ‘Amber lights’. A total of 7-8 silent ‘Amber lights’ were witnessed. It began... Read More
The dino-killing Chicxulub meteor might have ignited an oil field rather than forests when it slammed into the Gulf of Mexico 65 million years ago, say geologists. Smoke-related particles found in sediments formed at the time of the impact are strikingly similar to those created by modern hi... Read More
This is about an ancient book called The Archimedes Codex, bought for $2.2 million in October, 1998, at an auction in New York City by an anonymous collector who sent it to the Walters Art Museum, here to be restored, conserved, and probed for its content. It was thought to contain mathematical... Read More
Air rods, also called "flying
rods" and "sky fish," are something like crop circles in that even the skeptics
admit they exist. The only question is what they really are. Invisible to the
eye, they are picked up by cameras all over the world. Are they living
creatures, alien probes, or some sort of 3D electromagnetic smudge? To believers
in the cryptozoology-based theory of air rods, air rods are probably living
creatures, and they are possibly related to older stories of atmospheric beasts.
To skeptics, air rods are bits of flying debris, insects or birds filmed under
unusual conditions, or blips on film that are due to errors in film processing.
Air rods were discovered in the
1990s. People found that some films of all types, ranging from home videos to
movies seen in theaters, had odd disturbances that looked something like blurry
rods that were mostly transparent, occasionally whitish in color. Most of these
disturbances were fast-moving and barely visible to the eye. These rods showed
up best against large areas of the same color, such as the sky.
The people who examined films
for anomalies of this sort started calling what they did "sky fishing" because
they usually started by looking at the areas of sky that were visible in films.
They found that these rods were widespread. Countless films had them lurking
almost imperceptibly in the corners, including old television shows, movies,
films of sporting events, almost everything imaginable. There were simply too
many examples to study them all, running into the thousands or tens of
thousands. There were also air rods visible in photographs, but these were
hardly studied at all for reasons that will become clear below. Close study of
air rod films revealed a number of very interesting features. As these rods
zoomed about, they displayed all the features of three-dimensional objects. In
other words, they were not two-dimensional blotches on the camera lens or on the
film itself, but something out there in the environment that was actually being
filmed by accident...
Sumerian : In the eleventh tablet of the
Semitic Babylonian epic of Gilagamesh is a flood story that is the source for
the Noah story. The Gods resolved to cleanse the earth of an overpopulated
humanity, but Utnapishtim was warned by the God Ea in a dream. He and some
craftsmen built a huge (seven decks encompassing one acre in area) ark.
Utnapishtim then loaded it with his family, the craftsmen, and "the seed of all
living creatures." The waters rose up, and a storm continued for six days and
six nights. The Gods repented and wept upon seeing the global destruction of
living beings and stilled the flood on the seventh day. The waters covered
everything but the top of the mountain Nisur, where the boat landed. A dove was
loosed, but it returned, having found no place to rest. A swallow was sent, but
it too returned. Seven days later, after having loosed a raven that did not
return to the ark, the people began to emerge. Utnapishtim made a sacrifice to
the Gods. He and his wife were given immortality and lived at the end of the
earth.
Greco-Roman : Zeus decided to punish humanity for
its evil ways. Other Gods grieved at the destruction because there would be no
beings to worship them. Zeus promised a new stock, a race of miraculous origin.
He was going to use thunderbolts when he remembered one of Fate's decrees: that
a time would come when sea and earth and dome of the sky would blaze up, and the
massive structure of the universe would collapse in ruins. With Poseidon's help,
he caused storm and earthquake to flood every part of the land except the summit
of Mount Parnassus. When Zeus crushed the hanging clouds in his hand, there was
a loud crash, and sheets of rain fell from heaven. The rivers began rushing to
the sea. When Neptune struck the earth with his trident, the rivers raced across
the plains. Sea and earth could no longer be distinguished; all was sea without
any shores, covering every living being except for one fortunate couple,
Deucalion and Pyrrha. Earlier, Deucalion and Pyrrha had consulted Themis at her
oracular shrine...
On 28 November 1953, a delusional and
depressed Dr Frank Olson threw himself out of the tenth floor window of his New
York hotel. Olson was a long-serving scientist for the US Army's secretive
Chimical Corps Special Operations Division, whose problems began at a meeting 9
days earlier. The meeting had been orchestrated by Sidnet Gottlieb, Head of the
CIA's Technical Services Staff. Unknown to those present at the meeting,
Gottlieb had aquired a quantity of LSD and secretly wanted to test it. Spiking
Olson's drink with the LSD, he passed the bottle around and sat back waiting for
results. Olson, an outgoing personality who loved practical jokes, soon began to
suffer jarring side effects. One of those present at the meeting, Ben Wilson,
later recalled that Olson 'was psychotic'.
Gottlieb and his boss, the Director of
Central Intelligence, Allen Dulles, initiated a 20-year cover-up of the
circumstances surrounding Olson's death.At stake was the CIA's super secret
project, MK-ULTRA. The project had grown out of an earlier secret programme,
known as Bluebird, that was officially formed to counter Soviet advances in
brainwashing. In reality the CIA had other objectives. An earlier aim was to
study methods 'through which control of an individual may be attained'. The
emphasis of experimentation was 'narco-hypnosis', the blending of mind altering
drugs with careful hypnotic programming. Ever evolving, project Bluebird was
later renamed Project Artichoke, after a vegetable that Dulles was particularly
fond of. Artichoke was an 'offensive' programme of mind control that gathered
together the intelligence divisions of the Army, Navy, Air Farce and FBI.
The scope of the project was outlined in
a memorandum dated January 1952 that ominously asked: "Can we get control of an
individual to the point where he will do our bidding against his will and even
against fundamental laws of nature such as self preservation?" The race was on
to create a programmable assassin! A crack CIA team was formed that could
travel, at a moments notice, to anywhere in the world. Their task was to test
the new interrogation techniques, and ensure that victims would not remember
being interrogated and programmed. All manner of narcotics, from marijuana to
LSD, heroin and sodium pentathol (the so called 'truth drug') were regularly
used...
The ruins at Great Zimbabwe are the most
extensive in sub-Saharan Africa, and arguably the most emotive. The name
'Zimbabwe' probably comes from the Shona phrase Ziimba dza Mabwe1, meaning
'Houses of Stone'. 30km south-west of Masvingo2 in Zimbabwe3, the ruins sit on a
1000m plateau, at the base of some low granite hills on otherwise open plains,
with few trees. For generations, these cyclopean stone walls were considered one
of the great unsolved mysteries of the world; who could have built these ruins
when no surrounding people was capable of more than mud huts? Why could such a
people not have dominated the local Shona tribespeople and built more such
cities? Where had their advanced civilisation gone by the time Europeans reached
the area in the 1800s? Nowadays, we have satisfactory - and often surprisingly
obvious - answers to all these questions, though there are mysteries yet on the
plains.
The Ruins: There are three main
sections, the Hill Complex (also known as the Acropolis or Hill Town), the
Valley Ruins and the Walled Town (or Great Enclosure). The Valley Ruins are now
almost invisible, as they are the remains of mud-brick (daga) buildings between
the other two sections. A purpose-built version of a local village is thankfully
well concealed from view at the rear, offering fortune-telling and tribal
dancing during the high season. It does, however, give an impression of what the
Valley ruins must once have looked like, with conical thatched roofs slope
almost to the ground. The Hill Complex is largely built into the rocky hillside,
with walls and floors carved into the rock in some places and built on top of it
in others. Guides will enthusiastically point out to visitors areas where the
acoustics would allow public speeches to be made, and caves that act as
loudspeakers to allow voices to be projected over the surrounding countryside.
However exciting these stories may be to tourists, it should be remembered that
they owe more to the imaginations of the guides than to local tradition or
archaeology...
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The ruins at Great Zimbabwe are the most
extensive in sub-Saharan Africa, and arguably the most emotive. The name
'Zimbabwe' probably comes from the Shona phrase Ziimba dza Mabwe1, meaning
'Houses of Stone'. 30km south-west of Masvingo2 in Zimbabwe3, the ruins sit on a
1000m plateau, at the base of some low granite hills on otherwise open plains,
with few trees. For generations, these cyclopean stone walls were considered one
of the great unsolved mysteries of the world; who could have built these ruins
when no surrounding people was capable of more than mud huts? Why could such a
people not have dominated the local Shona tribespeople and built more such
cities? Where had their advanced civilisation gone by the time Europeans reached
the area in the 1800s? Nowadays, we have satisfactory - and often surprisingly
obvious - answers to all these questions, though there are mysteries yet on the
plains.
