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Troy on the other hand, actually existed.
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02/23/09
To be honest I have always thought that words like "probably," "could have," and "might well have been" should be applied to the likely site of Homer's Troy more often than your average documentary chooses to apply such terms. Unwarranted certainty is a disease common to archaeologists. "Pick an idea and defend it to the death" seems like an unscientific motto.
02/23/09
Archaeologists! What can you expect from a pack of jumped-up grave robbers. Quantum physicists, now there's some solid practical science going on there.
"Uhh. So there's this Cat, see, but it's not dead and alive 'coz that would be stupid...and some flavored charms and...uh... Oh yeah, everything is made out of string."
"Dude, gimme the bong."
"Hey, let's blow up Switzerland with the LHC again!"
"Okay. Just don't forget to hit the Auto-Reset."
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Don't know where they got the "dragging a cable" part from.
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Atlantis was, as any babbling idiot knows, built on a plan of concentric circles- not a grid like this. This is obviously one of the cities left behind by The Great Race of Yith!!
02/23/09
02/23/09
Hard to imagine; they'd need to be "dragging" across 2 vectors. And the artifacts just happened to cross in neatly compartmentalized rectangles forming, if cut in half from top to bottom (at least from this orientation), a larger near-mirror-image enclosure?
They get a bunch of the google earth maps from government satellites. Must have some kind of "what if we find this or that" confidentiality clause there. I know this is quite different, but...
Sure, it is HUGE. But I'm not ready to close the book on this one...
02/23/09
There isn't anything dragging anything across the floor.
You've got a boat. The boat uses sonar and yes, the boat does use a grid pattern to map it. They're just not putting it together right in this spot.
When this first broke I was bored at work and screwed around with google earth for awhile. You find this a lot actually.
02/23/09
02/23/09
Where do you think the technology for the internet came from, hunh? Aliens? Bell Labs?
So, yeah, I'm sure its the mapping equipment that did it. Which is what they tell us, as they sip martinis in their secret underwater lair.
02/23/09
From auquatic eyes on leashes
we shall see the coming
of the metal gods
that speak our fall
on 45 through 19
and something about 9-11 and
the middle east as well.
So it is foretold, so it shall be.
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[maps.google.com]
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11/15/08
Fronkenstein: "Werewolf?"
Eye-gor "There wolf!"
11/13/08
11/13/08
Thakur and Sharma need to take a damn physics class. The full moon is no closer than at any other time of the month.
It's all suggestion. People act up on the full moon because there's a full moon, and everyone knows people act up on the full moon.
11/13/08
Like, duh!
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11/13/08
The reason why people seem to act crazy on the full moon is because they believe the full moon causes craziness.
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