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Hah, I did watch this with the family when it came out... totally thought the prologue was right up the stolen history alley (especially the turning into stone bit). Beyond that though, not much going on, from a "soft disclosure" or "quality movie" standpoint. Some pacing issues (it has...

Nothing to really add, except boy, does our standard history gloss over monoliths like this. Everyone is familiar with the pyramids at Giza and the attempts to figure out how they could have built it... but they're presented like an anomaly. The fact is, construction of multi-ton stone...

I think I'm losing the plot here a bit. First of all, now I'm not even clear now on whether the balls themselves were supposed to contain the oil lamps or whether that was generally done in another area on the mast. If the balls were the containers for a mundane light source, what was the...

The Google ngram results for "rocket" are very interesting: Google Books Ngram Viewer Don't have time at the moment to dig deeper (and I have about a dozen other threads I'm supposed to be following up on!) Cross posted from this article: 19th Century: The Boynton Bicycle Railroad

The Google ngram results for "rocket" are very interesting: Google Books Ngram Viewer Don't have time at the moment to dig deeper (and I have about a dozen other threads I'm supposed to be following up on!) Plus, maybe this ought to go in the rocket thread.

"Restored" is an odd turn of phrase, because the finished product is still partially ruined. To give it that authentic flavor, no doubt. I am absolutely no good at judging construction materials from a photograph, @jd755, do you want to take a crack at this? Seriously, the Columbian...

Eh, probably for the best that Aiahavezred opted out, but it's a bit of a shame, as I'm not trying to be difficult, or promote the existence of God/aliens/whatever. I try to be truly skeptical, but that sword cuts both ways... to fringe topics and mainstream "facts." I would like to address the...

Uranus is calculated to have a 17 hour day and night cycle at the equator around it's equinoxes, but I'm not sure how much that has to do with reality, let alone the clock in question. I'm not sure. So the difference between the two would be larger than 17 hours, 53 and change. None of these...

Lots here and I'm not done reading it all, but I can't miss an opportunity to add more potentialities to the speculation. I would also suggest that perhaps the material the balls are made of could only "maintain a charge" for a finite amount of time. It also seems possible that some of the...

Love re-reading this post. There's a lot to take in. I tend to agree with most of the concluding bullet points, especially speculating on a far more organized Native resistance that we are generally led to believe. The pieces are already in the narrative and the described civilization level of...

I disagree on almost every part of your post (except I concede "experts" agree, which is worth absolutely nothing to me). First of all, how would you know that the iridium came from the object that collided with the Earth and not a part of whatever was destroyed at the impact crater? Iridium...

Okay, off-topic a bit, but I thought some might find this translation as humorous as I did. From your link, here's The Message translation: Sounds more like the boss ordering a pizza!

I like that "natural causes" can include rocks and assorted debris traveling from regions unknown in "outer space" and hitting Earth, even though no one has ever seen the full event (from traveling across the cosmos to entering the atmosphere and then smashing into the ground). I thought saying...

That video claims that drone can "stay aloft some 60 miles above sea level." Now that's the video I want to see!

As almost always, I find great value in what jd posts, as I think it opens up all sorts of possibilities when interpreting what KD wrote, which I think is a factual summary: We still do not really know what "certain events" and "conditions" fully mean and the explanations could be very mundane...

Maybe? Troy ounces are allegedly derived from Troyes, France. Here's a few details that might warrant further investigation: Troyes - Wikipedia So, for anyone confused on why I think this might be related, I'm thinking in terms of historical duplication. The highlighted elements of Troyes...

Articles like this are some of my favorites. To me, it clearly illustrates that in (what we call) the 19th century, there were some serious historical revisions (to say the least). Very similar to the Pompeii situation. It really does call into question what anyone means when they claim...

Eva is spot on, at least as far as we can trust timeanddate's information. I personally wouldn't mind if we had some more direct information, but seeing as how Naukan, Russia is abandoned, I doubt we could get anyone to verify. It appears that Uelen, Russia is the furthest East settlement and...

The Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn are roughly where the sun appears directly above on the solstices. So it would seem that for that position to have changed, then either the sun's position changed relative to the land or vice versa. I want to double check a bunch of older maps now, purely for...

That's a fascinating little tidbit, when taken in conjunction with the construction photos we tend to see involve finishing a roof/dome. In general, when talking about the history of North America (everywhere?), the only documentation we have to go on was written by people who were, at the very...