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Conspiracy, the Paranormal, the Unexplained and the Esoteric
Figure this would have a better chance of surviving in the Media Center than on the main page, and I'll be adding youtube and podcast links from time to time as I come across them, so it fits.
This has been something that's interested me from a very young age, all aspects of mysterious stuff, whether we're talking forgotten or forbidden archeology or civilization (Atlantis, pre-colombian exploration of america, etc), unexplained events (like Tunguska in 1908, the lost Roanoke Island colony, etc), paranormal events like ghosts, the study of ESP and that sort of thing, conspiracy (ranging from JFK to stuff like the perpetration of the drug war and the infilitration of the media by US intelligence) and, of course, UFOs (which to me means "unexplained" not "extraterrestrial" but that's a whole other topic). Anything could show up, and everybody should feel free to add whatever they like. Just try to keep it as civil and respectful as possible. This is not intended to be a DC thread; it's as much for entertainment purposes as it is to solve all the world's mysteries. **Although if anybody posts anything from Third Phase of Moon they should probably expect me to kick them in the balls.** Few things I like to watch or listen to in no particular order (most of this can be found on itunes as well...): The Paracast Binall of America The Gralian Report The Paranormal Report Dark City Radio Misterioso Open Minds (mostly their podcast) That's it for now, just wanted to get this started. Been thinking about doing it for a while... |
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07-08-2015, 08:01 PM | #586 |
oxymoron
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It's always struck me as too good to be true, but that's just a gut feeling.
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07-09-2015, 10:33 AM | #587 |
oxymoron
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Take a gander at this if you want to get your conspiratorial mind going: https://www.congress.gov/congression...use-report/153
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07-09-2015, 12:37 PM | #588 | |
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07-09-2015, 12:51 PM | #589 |
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Carl Sagan sent all our information out into space? Seems a bit reckless
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07-09-2015, 02:21 PM | #590 |
Keep doubting J MFing Houston
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For those that still use the vastness of space as the reason they couldn't get here:
We will have the tech within 100 years IMO. NASA Admits Alcubierre Drive Initiative: Faster Than The Speed Of Light NASA is currently working on the first practical field test toward the possibility of faster than light travel. Traveling faster than light has always been attributed to science fiction, but that all changed when Harold White and his team at NASA started to work on and tweak the Alcubierre Drive. Special relativity may hold true, but to travel faster or at the speed of light we might not need a craft that can travel at that speed. The solution might be to place a craft within a space that is moving faster than the speed of light! Therefore the craft itself does not have to travel at the speed of light from it’s own type of propulsion system. It’s easier to think about if you think in terms of a flat escalator in an airport. The escalator moves faster than you are walking! In this case, the space encompassing the ship would be moving faster than the ship could fly, keeping all the matter of the ship intact. Therefore, we can move faster than light, in a massless cloud of space-time. What is the Alcubierre Drive? It’s actually based on Einsteins field equations, it suggests that a spacecraft could achieve faster-than-light travel. Rather than exceed the speed of light alone in a craft, a spacecraft would leap long distances by contracting space in front of it and expanding space behind it. This would result in faster than light travel (1). Physicist Miguel Alcubierre was the first that we know to identify this possibility. He described it as remaining still on a flat piece of space-time inside a warp bubble that was made to move at “superluminal” (faster than light) velocity. We must not forget that space-time can be warped and distorted, it can be moved. But what about moving sections of space-time that’s created by expanding space-time behind the ship, and by contracting space-time in front of the ship? This type of concept was also recently illustrated by Mathematician James Hill and Barry Cox at the University of Adelaide. They published a paper in the journal proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical and Physical Sciences (3). It was once believed that Einsteins theory of special relativity means that faster than light travel is just not possible. This is a misconception, special relativity simply states that the distance you travel depends on how fast you move, for how long you’re moving for. So if you are driving at 70 mph you will have covered 70 miles in one hour. The confusing part is that, no matter how fast you are moving you will always see the speed of light as being the same. It’s similar to sound, if you close your eyes and imagine that the only sense you have is hearing, you will identify things by how they sound. So if a car is driving at a rapid speed and honks its horn, we know that the horn is always tooting the same tone, it’s just the car’s motion that made it appear to change. Special relativity also showed us that the atoms and molecules that make up matter are connected by electromagnetic fields, the same stuff light is made up of. The object that would break the light speed barrier is made up of the same stuff as the barrier itself. How can an object travel faster than that which links it’s atoms? This was the barrier. The only problem with our modern day science is that creating distortions in space-time require energy densities that are not yet possible for humans, or so they say. NASA scientists are currently working on tweaking Alcubierre’s model. Faster-than-light travel, also known as hyper space or “warp” drive from what the masses know for sure is currently at the level of speculation. Although there is already a lot of evidence that shows it is possible and has already been accomplished, mainstream science is still catching up. We are at the point right now where faster-than-light travel is still theoretical, but possible. At the same time, we have to look at other factors that are now coming to light. As former NASA Astronaut and Princeton Physics Professor Dr, Brian O’leary Illustrates. This topic has recently had another media explosion and congress recently discussed and looked at evidence for Earth like planets recently found by Kepler Telescopes. Three “super-Earths” to be exact that are most probably teeming with life (4). Furthermore, former congressmen and women recently participated in a citizens hearing on the subject of UFOs a few weeks ago. You can read more about that here. I’ve used this video in many articles before, but it’s just a great clip from when Dr O’leary was still with us. http://www.collective-evolution.com/...speed-of-light |
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07-09-2015, 03:52 PM | #591 |
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I think NASA has actually dropped that program. However, private corporations and entrepreneurs are still working on it ('it' meaning exotic drives, not this specific one). There's supposedly a major announcement about one of them Friday.
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07-27-2015, 06:30 PM | #592 |
Mahomes > God
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I believe we already discussed this but what does everyone think about David Paulides' work?
I've recently starting into heavy and man it's pretty damn wild and chilling...crazy stuff. Guy is a really good interview too. |
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07-27-2015, 06:41 PM | #593 | |
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07-29-2015, 05:31 AM | #594 |
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Now that quantum computing is in its infancy and not yet taken over the world or created Skynet I wonder: do electric sheep dream of God?
Once true AI is achieved does it seek out a God? Does it need one? Does where it's created matter? |
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08-06-2015, 01:51 PM | #595 |
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08-06-2015, 02:30 PM | #596 |
I like 'em mustard & biscuits
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08-06-2015, 02:32 PM | #597 |
I like 'em mustard & biscuits
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but seriously folks....
OK...I've changed my stance on this now. maybe it's not as cut and dry as I originally thought....but at one point on the video she's in the hall doing something with her hands and SHE LOOKS HIGH AS BALLS! also....."the elevator game"!!?? **** THAT! WTF! wish I'da never heard of that crap. |
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08-06-2015, 03:11 PM | #598 |
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Does the elevator ritual give you infinite ammo if you push all the buttons in the correct order?
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08-06-2015, 03:13 PM | #599 |
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Bolton gonna knock you out
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