Wonders of Ancient Knowledge
POSTED BY: AnthonyT
UPDATED: Thursday, May 25, 2006 16:20
VIEWED: 4678
PAGE 2 of 4
I don't have a link, But I remember reading that bodies were found with evidence that the Mayans performed some basic brain surgery, complete with metal plates attacted to the skull....
long before any European culture
very cool
" Over and in, last call for sin
While everyone's lost, the battle is won
With all these things that I've done "
The Killers
http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/killers/allthesethingsthativedone.html
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Quote:
Originally posted by citizen:
I find the Celtic cross thing the most interesting:Quote:http://www.world-mysteries.com/sar_5.htm
With my experience of navigation as a qualified Yachtmaster, I turned my experimentation to discover if the ancient mariners could find latitude and longitude with the cross. The experiments conducted, confirmed that the ancients could find their position anywhere on the Earth within 3 nautical miles with a hand held device. This discovery may help to prove that it was possible for sailors such as the Phoenicians to have made regular trading contact with the Americas in pre Columbian times. It also may explain the mysterious navigation skills of the Polynesians. This discovery also helps support pioneers of the theory of ancient intercontinental travel such as Thor Heyderhal with his Kon Tiki and Ra expeditions.
That was an interesting read on the Celtic cross. The one thing I don't buy is the attempt to stretch to the Polynesians. I have a book by Harold Gatty (who was fascinating in his own right and a pretty amazing navigator from the second wave of aviation - he was Wiley Post's navigator on the record breaking around the world flight) originally titled, "Nature is Your Guide: How to Find Your Way on Land and Sea by Observing Nature" and he makes a compelling argument that the spread of Polynesians throughout the Pacific followed migratory bird paths. There's really only a chapter on that, and it's not the main topic of the book, but it worked for me
. At least in comparison to Thor Heyderhal who, if I'm not mistaken, is really the only one who thinks the Polynesians came from South America and went west rather than from Indonesia and went east.* edited to add: And, Citizen, thanks for that link. The website rocks! I have a feeling I could spend hours and hours on the site. Right now I'm loving the page on the Piri Reis map of Antarctica's coastline that was based on earlier maps and drawn in 1513 (even though the coastline hasn't been visible since 4000 BC).
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Quote:
Originally posted by AnthonyT:
Ancient Wonders of Knowledge
Hello all, and please come aboard, PirateJenny. Piratenews, you are welcome if you can avoid the terms 'gangsta govt' and 'jew.'
PirateJenny's post about alternative beliefs was interesting to me. It got me thinking about ancient wonders of knowledge.
The Baghdad (sp?) Battery is one such example. An apparent low-voltage battery.
I remember when I was in Philosophy class, I learned that an Ancient Greek philosopher had calculated the approximate circumference of the Earth by measuring shadows. That's some far out stuff.
What other surprising ancient knowledge are you guys aware of? Let's forget for a moment WHERE this knowledge came from (or we'll be arguing about aliens in no time) but concentrate instead on the knowledge itself.
I'm very interested to see what you guys reveal. I may learn a lot.
--Anthony
"Liberty must not be purchased at the cost of Humanity." --Captain Robert Henner
How about the Egyptian Pyramids, even with all of our technology today we still can't build one, and the pyramids are much older then orginally thought, if I'm correct 7,000 years older then originally thought.
The pyrimid of Chepos is nearly 5 hundred feet tall and covers 13 acres at its base and and is built of stones weighing an average 21/2 tons each the stones were cut so perfect that even today in some places you can't put a peice of paper between them, and can you imagine how it looked because it was covered in white lime stone and its peak was made out of gold, even today you can see the Great pyrimid from space, also the four sides of the pyrimid precisely face 4 compass points,north, south , east, and west. in addition to that it is situated less then 5 miles south of the 13th paralle, it can therefore be used as a referance point to section off the entire planet into a 3 dimentional grid of 30-60- and 90 degree angles with the north and south poles equator and center of earth as referance points, which means that you can navigate by air using the pyramid.
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Quote:
...In India, ancient writings describe armies and gods using flying vehicles to wage war. Unlike other religious documents that satisfy themselves with nondescript 'fiery chariots,' the Indians concocted detailed descriptions of the flying machines and the mechanisms which drove them.
so does the summarians they flew in shems,, but actually the Gods of India was the same pantheon of Gods in summarian the names was changed etc, anyway I digress because its off topic. and I'm not suppose to go there
but about the science fiction, does anyone remember watching Aliens the movie with sigourney Weaver, and at the beginning she was talking on a phone that showed her picture to the other person they could see eachother , well that movie came out in like 1987 or 88 and I thought it was so cool, and now look we have cell phones with picture, back then that was science fiction, now its reality
anything that can be imagined can be done.
btw, Baghdad, Mespotamia , thats all Sumaria
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Quote:Actually we could build them with the technology of today. We don't really know how they did it (though there's been successful scale experiments) but I'd have to say they had whips.
Originally posted by PirateJenny:
How about the Egyptian Pyramids, even with all of our technology today we still can't build one, and the pyramids are much older then orginally thought, if I'm correct 7,000 years older then originally thought.
Massive massive whips.
Quote:That doesn't mean that's why they built the pyramids or why they were laid out in the way they were.
which means that you can navigate by air using the pyramid.
Quote:Aliens is one of my favourite films, but the video phone was hardly Science Fiction in the late 80's, more like science fact:
but about the science fiction, does anyone remember watching Aliens the movie with sigourney Weaver, and at the beginning she was talking on a phone that showed her picture to the other person they could see eachother , well that movie came out in like 1987 or 88 and I thought it was so cool, and now look we have cell phones with picture, back then that was science fiction, now its reality
1956 - The first picture phone system is built as a test system by AT&T.
1964 - AT&T presents the Picturephone (or Mod1) at the World’s Fair, people line up to make a video call to Disneyland in Anaheim, California, where people also line up to call the World’s Fair. The first person to use the Picturephone is Herbert Hoover.
1970 - Toshiba develops the world's first colour video phone.
More insane ramblings by the people who brought you beeeer milkshakes!
"I had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalog: 'No good in a bed, but fine against a wall'." -- Eleanor Roosevelt.
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Quote:
Originally posted by GinoBiffaroni:
I don't have a link, But I remember reading that bodies were found with evidence that the Mayans performed some basic brain surgery, complete with metal plates attacted to the skull....
long before any European culture
very cool
The Incas did this... but way weirder than that, is the re-shaping of the human skull... (link below has pics) http://members.cox.net/ancient-sites/inca/day2_Lima.htm
So... in fact, reality also influences science fiction...
Ok, so the “Coneheads” was supposed to be a comedy, not sci-fi, my bad...
I saw a show saying that the ancient Indian "sky machines" were derived from meteor and/or comet sightings... maybe...
I believe the human intellect is so fascinated with the complexities of nature and the evident limitations of our understanding of it, that we develop these inventive science fiction visions which only hope to conquer our shortcomings. This level of consciousness deepens our symbiotic relationship between man and nature.
Oh, did I mention I LUV sci-fi…
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
I just had to jump in here. If you go to Fine Science Tools (finescience.com) you'll find they have knapped obsidian scalpels. These extremely sharp blades make fine cuts that leave little scar tissue. They are suggested as a low cost alternative to diamond scalpels. The downside is that the edge is so fine they can be used only once. Lateral force will break off small pieces and dull the blade. They are perfectly suited to eye surgery.
As a child, our family had a rock that was brought to us as a curiosity. For a couple of years everyone took a whack at it (literally) from time to time, and succeeded in only chipping the hammer head off. I was finally able to break off a 1" (2.54cm) chip. It has a conchoidal shape, and one curved edge that was so fine I could see through the quartz grains. When I foolishly tested the edge on my finger (I was young) I got a deep cut that I never felt even though I was watching closely. It was that sharp. That got me interested enough to follow up on related stories to this day.
The stone was not flint.
However, recently there were those two Australian miners who were rescued. When the rescuers started digging, they ran into a layer of rock that was the hardest rock (not mineral) known. Thats' why it took them a week to reach the miners. The rock was metamorphic quartzite, and that's what I suspect the rock was that we had.
Nearly everything I know I learned by the grace of others.
NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Hey all,
I just became aware of some 'undersea pyramids' near Okinawa, Japan.
Has anyone heard of these? I only found one reference to them and it was from 1995. One would suppose that we've learned more by now? The article I read said the pyramids were 10,000 years old.
Does anyone know if they were determined to be natural or man-made?
--Anthony
"Liberty must not be purchased at the cost of Humanity." --Captain Robert Henner
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
http://www.lauralee.com/japan.htm
I have seen this before.. but it slips me...not sure if this is a trustworhty site... http://www.morien-institute.org/yonaguni.html
I saw that CNN covered it... and discovery had a show on it.. still looking...
I do know the oldest pottery in the world has been found in Japan this age and older...
..and some shopping http://store.aetv.com/html/product/index.jhtml?id=73307&browseCategory
Id=&location=&parentcatid=&subcatid=
Wha?!?... *sniff sniff* OH.... IM ON FIRE!!!
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Quote:
Originally posted by AnthonyT:
These texts clearly deal with fantastical effects, but couch them in mechanical devices and weapons. Rather than simply suggest magic or divine might, they go into imagined details of construction and operation.
--Anthony
"Liberty must not be purchased at the cost of Humanity." --Captain Robert Henner
Actually, it sounds like a description of a modern conventional/nuclear war, which is why there are a lot of UFO fanatics saying that it is a record of an invasion. I too think it bears an uncanny resemblance to modern warfare (a little too much to be coincidence in my opinion), but I will wait until there is more evidence before I make up my mind.
You're welcome on my boat. God ain't.
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME