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When ever I read about any thing dealing with science, the conservative reaction always amuses me.
They have this love/hate relation with science. The love to hate science, and hate to have to rely on science.
First, they don't understand why scientists don't have all the answers. Then, they make fun of scientists for not having all the answers. The ironic part is the conservatives don't even have the "questions".
The funny thing is when you look at recorded history it's pretty obvious that our progress is constantly interrupted.
Once upon a time we could quarry, cut and move 100 ton stones like they were Lego pieces, now Space Aliens look as plausible as any other explanation. We find batteries thousands of years old in Baghdad, yet Ben Franklin is credited with "inventing" electricity.
Jesus was a scientist, he turned suffering into whine.
The funny thing is when you look at recorded history it's pretty obvious that our progress is constantly interrupted.
Once upon a time we could quarry, cut and move 100 ton stones like they were Lego pieces, now Space Aliens look as plausible as any other explanation. We find batteries thousands of years old in Baghdad, yet Ben Franklin is credited with "inventing" electricity.
When ever I read about any thing dealing with science, the conservative reaction always amuses me.
They have this love/hate relation with science. The love to hate science, and hate to have to rely on science.
First, they don't understand why scientists don't have all the answers. Then, they make fun of scientists for not having all the answers. The ironic part is the conservatives don't even have the "questions".
Oh bullshit. A large percentage of the greatest scientific minds are devoted Christians and have been throughout the ages.
I love science. I love REAL science. Not the made up kind, though. I find genetics fascinating and see them as a reflection of God's power and complexity, as I do pi. I despise it when political hacks bastardize it and lie about it to further idiotic agendas.
The funny thing is when you look at recorded history it's pretty obvious that our progress is constantly interrupted.
Once upon a time we could quarry, cut and move 100 ton stones like they were Lego pieces, now Space Aliens look as plausible as any other explanation. We find batteries thousands of years old in Baghdad, yet Ben Franklin is credited with "inventing" electricity.
Good God, Frank, have you never worked in industry? Just one of the backup rolls on our 4 hi rolling mills weighs 180 tons without the bearings and frame. 220 tons as it goes in. And it is removed and changed on a daily basis.
Using the tools that they had at the time, we have moved huge stones, just as they did in that time.
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRRDzFROMx0]YouTube - Building Stonehenge - This Man can Move Anything[/ame]
No, Ben Franklin did not invent electricity. He was one of the first to study it in a methodical manner.
The so called Baghdad Battery was more than likely a method to plate gold onto silver.
Battery (thing)@Everything2.com
No one is sure who invented the 1st battery; the earliest specimen of one is the "Baghdad Battery", a number of clay jars discovered in Baghdad, Iraq in 1932. The battery is believed to be around 2000 years old, constructed during the Parthian period (250 BCE to CE 250). The device itself is a clay pot with an asphalt cork. An iron rod travels through the asphalt and into a cylinder attached to the cork which partially fills the jar, but does not touch the bottom. When the battery is filled with an electrolyte, such as wine or vinegar, it produces an electric charge.
No one is entirely sure what the Baghdad batteries were for; important electronic appliances (like toasters and walkmans) had not yet been invented. Many believe that the batteries were used to cover silver with gold when making jewelry; the process of electroplating.
There were a bunch of wars and a few hundred more years passed and the Baghdad batteries were forgotten; the technology to make fake jewelry was lost.
I've been lied to?but that has to be quite far away from Earth otherwise don't we get hit by lot's of small chunks?
Most..maybe 99% will miss. Anything else will be mostly burned up in the atmosphere or glance off.
No matter what happens smaller is better.
What is wrong with the last day on this Earth to enjoy it with MAYBE sex.I've been lied to?Most..maybe 99% will miss. Anything else will be mostly burned up in the atmosphere or glance off.
No matter what happens smaller is better.
Why does this response not suprise me? I knew SOMEONE would go there...everybody wants to be a commedienne. We are talkin final days ...death an destruction and Ol Terry just wants to get naked one more time and bump ugly!
Christ! do you people ever take anything seriously? I mean besides sex... Oh to hell with it...I'm gonna find me a hooker and an eight ball...
Boooooosh's fault....
I bet he knew about it too and didn't do a thing about it...
The funny thing is when you look at recorded history it's pretty obvious that our progress is constantly interrupted.
Once upon a time we could quarry, cut and move 100 ton stones like they were Lego pieces, now Space Aliens look as plausible as any other explanation. We find batteries thousands of years old in Baghdad, yet Ben Franklin is credited with "inventing" electricity.
The funny thing is when you look at recorded history it's pretty obvious that our progress is constantly interrupted.
Once upon a time we could quarry, cut and move 100 ton stones like they were Lego pieces, now Space Aliens look as plausible as any other explanation. We find batteries thousands of years old in Baghdad, yet Ben Franklin is credited with "inventing" electricity.
Good God, Frank, have you never worked in industry? Just one of the backup rolls on our 4 hi rolling mills weighs 180 tons without the bearings and frame. 220 tons as it goes in. And it is removed and changed on a daily basis.
Using the tools that they had at the time, we have moved huge stones, just as they did in that time.
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRRDzFROMx0]YouTube - Building Stonehenge - This Man can Move Anything[/ame]
No, Ben Franklin did not invent electricity. He was one of the first to study it in a methodical manner.
The so called Baghdad Battery was more than likely a method to plate gold onto silver.
Battery (thing)@Everything2.com
No one is sure who invented the 1st battery; the earliest specimen of one is the "Baghdad Battery", a number of clay jars discovered in Baghdad, Iraq in 1932. The battery is believed to be around 2000 years old, constructed during the Parthian period (250 BCE to CE 250). The device itself is a clay pot with an asphalt cork. An iron rod travels through the asphalt and into a cylinder attached to the cork which partially fills the jar, but does not touch the bottom. When the battery is filled with an electrolyte, such as wine or vinegar, it produces an electric charge.
No one is entirely sure what the Baghdad batteries were for; important electronic appliances (like toasters and walkmans) had not yet been invented. Many believe that the batteries were used to cover silver with gold when making jewelry; the process of electroplating.
There were a bunch of wars and a few hundred more years passed and the Baghdad batteries were forgotten; the technology to make fake jewelry was lost.
I love your dismissive and faux superior attitude especially when claiming knowledge not your own and using it to attempt to deride someone who worked with Manhattans biggest real estate developer for 15 years, giving me access to talk with the most up to date, state of the art General Contractors about building techniques; it says a lot about you. But you're right Miss Scarlett, I'm a house worker, I don't know nothing about building large buildings.
The man in the video is clearly onto something, no doubt about it. He moved those large stone all by himself around his level, concrete platform with the greatest of ease.
Since the quarry for the Stonehenge Blue Stone was over 240 miles away all we have to do is find the portions of the overland level concrete road that eased transportation of the stones from the quarry to the construction site. Piece of cake.
I was thinking more about the following: Puma Punku where the stone clearly show signs of complex engineering and machines cuts. These were not done with deer antlers.
And then at Sacsayhumana where they took the mans stone moving techniques and added a dimension to it because some of the stone have as many as 16 facets and they fit absolutely perfectly into all of the stones next to them.
The explanation that the Baghdad batter was used for electroplating gold jewelry makes less sense than anything you've posted, but again, since that explanation is not your own, I cannot fault you for it.
I'm more inclined to go with the idea that mankind was as clever then as we are today; that back then people were as smart as Einstein, Obama, Old Rocks and Freddo Corleone and they may have come up with more practical uses for electricity then pawning fake gold coins off on people.
This is from the Egyptian Temple at Dendera and shows a construction that looks an awful lot like a light bulb. This would make sense that the interiors of Egyptian temples were artificially lighted since no system of mirrors was capable of bringing sunlight into the temples while they were being built and no smoke from burning torches has ever been found on the ceiling of the interior of any Egyptian Temple. The Bablyonians and Egyptians and countless others all knew what power there was in lightning and found a way to harness electricity for their purposes.
We forgot somewhere along the way.
Boooooosh's fault....
I bet he knew about it too and didn't do a thing about it...
I bet he made it, and aimed it right for earth
On an archeological program, I watched an engineering archeologists, with nothing but wooden poles and a granite hammerstone, fit two large andesite boulders together just as closely as the pre-Inca did.
As for the rest of your slack jawed wonder, yes, our ancestors were just as smart as we are today. And, using the technology of the day, accomplished wonders. But that was all it was, ingeneous use of the tools that they had.
Light bulbs in Egypt? Think about the technology that would support that. Where are the glass factories? The copper wire, transformers, and generators? What you are proposing is ridiculous.
for those of us that can actually READ, we know its ancient historyFor those of us that have some science in our background, this is an ongoing story. It does not concern if we might get hit, that is a certainty. It is when, and will we be far enough along to prevent that strike? Will we have people in power that are sufficiently in touch with reality and the scientific communtity to do the neccessary actions?
Not an idea to terrorize anyone with. Reality to challenge us to prevent such a catastrophe.
