True Mysteries and Oddities

small wonder..
how George Washington found out that apples had nothing to do with the tree of evil?

It is a mystery. good thread. Unexplainable to me how the rocks moved.
Torrents or tremors would be ruled out in my humble opinion. Far as I know
if it were a human that moved the rocks they'd think it was too little of a mystery
to be known for. The Loch Ness Monster mystery, well I have seen that, all you do
is shoot a snake in the right area of the head with a bbgun and it will dance across
the water. Caught or confessed, the guys in Scotland? Utterly meaningless, to have to
have a sight to base a mystery or conspiracy on. Seen here is one of many dead oak trees
that appear to rot in shapes of heads.

well how about apparitions people claim to have seen. and life after death experiences. there is more to it than science. or is it?

One time I thought I was the singer in Creedance Clearwater Revival. except the band was in my tooth and John Fogerty was becoming an abscess. John Fogerty, of course, being the clean tooth. reiterate the backup band band was coming after my white tooth, dan dogleberg i mean John Fogerty the one who copied his own song run thru the jungle..

newbyy said:

well how about apparitions people claim to have seen. and life after death experiences. there is more to it than science. or is it?

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I think near-death experiences can easily be explained with science.

Apparitions though? I'm not so sure. I haven't experienced any apparitions myself (or really anything paranormal for that manner), but there are some pretty convincing stories out there. Is it possible that all these people are just lying assholes?

I saw this video of Sigmound Freud, mabye the last one ever made smoking a big fattie and the dull black and white footage was fading out. It was the disappearing apparition. Me and my friend went to this techno show, and there was this wall that you had to climb steps too, music was booming against the bricks. Sh it was awesome, two dancing girls in smoke like some kind of lazer show. Realized later that The Kush Licensed Incense product, "which progressed into a near marijuana momentum" had the same kind of graphic. I didn't like it, the packages of that herb. It was sorta over and above the show the brick wall in a dif't spot at the show..

Strange clouds in the air, sometimes when they look like something, which is against my rain religion, cloudbastrers or ufo detailing, can overpopulate. I am aware apparitions happen sometimes in movies,
and the only one I have seen is a naked fire scene in Police Academy. Then when i saw the movie later it was not ther. The party at the beach Mahoney went to.

Are apparitions ghosts?

Biologists trying to figure why giant earthworm grew so big

YUNNAN PROVINCE, China (CNN) - A huge half-meter-long earthworm was found in the gutter of a residential house Thursday in Binchuan Country, Yunnan Province in southwest China.
Li Zhiwei, a worker from the Forestry Bureau of Binchuan County, saw the slinking worm by the gutter when he was putting out some Chinese dates to dry in the backyard.
“It looked like a snake, I looked carefully and found it was actually a huge earthworm,” said Li, who added that he decided to keep the worm and raise it in his backyard.

[video=youtube;89qeQde-_XA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89qeQde-_XA[/video]


Cairns man Ant Hadleigh snaps incredible pics of snake-eating spider

As a frequent visitor to the beaches and wild rainforests of Cape York, kite surfer Ant Hadleigh thought he had seen it all.
But the Cairns man was in disbelief after witnessing a golden orb spider slowly attempt to eat a brown tree snake at a mate's place in Freshwater yesterday afternoon.

"I thought it was pretty incredible," Mr Hadleigh said.
"A few times the snake managed to get up and attack the spider, and the spider would run back up the web.
"I would have put my money on the snake for sure, especially seeing how big it was."



Mammoth backyard spider devours bird

The photos — which are reported to have been taken this week in Atherton, west of Cairns — show the spider clenching its legs around a lifeless bird trapped in a web.

Head spider keeper at the Australian Reptile Park at Gosford on NSW central coast, Joel Shakespeare, said the spider was a Golden Orb Weaver.

^^ Cool, Heis. The earthworm was impressive, but that Golden Orb spider freaks me the fuck out! It' looks like a leftover of some bygone era, If one ever dropped on me I would shit myself to death...

Is this an apparition or a Pixie? looks like a camera mishap...

And thus did they fold space ... traveling without moving. cn

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Is this an apparition or a Pixie? looks like a camera mishap...

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Cool picture. Space ghost!!

yep you'd be right if it weren't raining that day..MAYBE it was a moth glare but that looks like tighty whiteys.

Heisenberg said:

Quite an interesting story behind this one. I had always thought of this as boiling water vs room temp, but as you point out it gets more complicated than that. Interesting history about the debate as well, almost an illustration of the scientific method wrestling with itself. Thanks for turning me on to some engaging reading.


Stonerman, in the case of boiling water vs room temp it seems that, in addition to evaporation, convection can also play a role. If the ice cube trays have a frost on them, it acts as an insulator. The colder water might not melt this frost, whereas the hot water will. This allows heat to escape out of the sides faster, and so the hot water tends to freeze from the bottom up. The colder water freezes on top first, and the crust acts as a further insulator.

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This always seemed like an unsatisfactory answer to me as well. I agree that the hot water will tend to lose heat faster because it has a larger delta t, and also by not freezing the top layer it will allow for more heat transfer faster. But what happens when the boiling water cools down to room temperature? Why does the top not freeze over at that point? If the warmer water is being convected to the top, shouldn't it lose heat very rapidly from the top? Nothing is insulating it to keep the heat in, so once the temperature gets to room temperature after some length of time, shouldn't the same thermodynamic laws apply to that as the initially room temp water?

This explanation makes perfect sense to explain why the boiling water would have a faster rate of delta temp/delta time, but not a faster total delta time.

The unidentified underwater sound known as the "bloop" is now thought to be solved.

"The broad spectrum sounds recorded in the summer of 1997 are consistent with icequakes generated by large icebergs as they crack and fracture. NOAA hydrophones deployed in the Scotia Sea detected numerous icequakes with spectrograms very similar to “Bloop”. The icequakes were used to acoustically track iceberg A53a as it disintegrated near South Georgia Island in early 2008. Icequakes are of sufficient amplitude to be detected on multiple sensors at a range of over 5000 km. Based on the arrival azimuth, the iceberg(s) generating “Bloop” most likely were between Bransfield Straits and the Ross Sea, or possibly at Cape Adare, a well know source of cryogenic signals."