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[theweaselking]

Seismologists have recording of the sound of the earth ripping apart last December.

Also,
Phone-spamming scum petitioning to be allowed to mine "fuck off and die" list for numbers to call.

Also,
Man rediscovers how to move huge stone blocks without rollers, pulleys, or any modern tools at all. This, incidentally, as an aside, solves the mysteries of Stonehenge, the Pyramids, and many other ancient construction marvels, without the intervention of aliens.

Also,
Brain-dead pregnant woman being kept on life support by donations - her family is hoping to keep her alive until the baby is capable of surviving outside the womb. Prognosis looks good.

Comments

[cmseward.livejournal.com]

Would be nice if they'd release that sound file (of the December earthquake) to the general public. At least, I haven't been able to find it anywhere on the web.

[silmaril.livejournal.com]

"Side note: Extraterrestrial assistance is not needed."

Nice.

[anivair.livejournal.com]

***Brain-dead pregnant woman being kept on life support by donations - her family is hoping to keep her alive until the baby is capable of surviving outside the womb. Prognosis looks good.***

See? this is the sort of thing that this science should be used for.

Also, regarding aliens and stonehenge . . . there's a sunny book called the Awful Truth (I have a signed copy). Basically the author is really bright and it's well researched. He goes into pretty great detail about things like the pyramids and stonehenge (among others) and how it's realistically impossible for them to have been built the way we classically think they were (ie with many people hauling huge numbers of stones while being whipped or by rolling them along merrily with logs underneath or whatever). And he really does a nice job of stripping away assumed history.

The problem with this is that he then fills those gaping holes with ALIENS THAT HUMANS WORSHIPPED LIKE GODS WHO DESTROYED THE TEMPLE OF JERUSALEM AND LEFT THIS PLANE!!!!!!!!!!!

Basically, he's a brilliant whack job. But if you can separate the crap from the fruit loops from the good stuff it's an interesting read.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Sounds like Von Danniken. Ever seen "Chariots Of The Gods"? The dude's insane.

This is the one you mean?
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1880959399/qid=1121956896/sr=8-7/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i5_xgl14/102-4098377-0249753?v=glance&s=books&n=507846

[anivair.livejournal.com]

yeah, that's it. but for god's sake don't spend money on it. Wait till you're in town and you can borrow my copy if you want to read the silliness.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

I'll skip it entirely, thanks.

I just wanted to know if I'd found the right one.

[cmseward.livejournal.com]

There was a show on Discovery over here a couple of days ago about the Sphinx, and they went through pyramid construction as well. They've found some early examples, that are quite obviously learning experiences, and you can see how they refined the construction methods over the years. Their conclusion is that it was definitely possible to build them, and the workers were probably not slaves, either, but farmers who couldn't do any farming six months of the year due to their fields being flooded by the Nile.

The Sphinx is much more impressive, because it's basically a massive sculpture, carved out of the limestone bedrock from the top down. "No pressure, but if you screw up, we need to find a new, million-ton chunk of bedrock to start from."

[unnamed525.livejournal.com]

Yes ... and don't forget the fact that, according to the geologists, there's water erosion on the Sphinx, but according to the egyptologists (who don't know what they're talking about when it comes to what erosion looks like on rocks), it's sand erosion.

[unnamed525.livejournal.com]

I like aliens.