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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Mano on December 02, 2010, 06:06:12 PM
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Ohboy!! good reason to leave the wife at home. spent $246 for 2nights for me n her, with that price i wont hesitate to get that motel next trip.
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You can check in, but you can never leave.
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Ya but the view from the rear rooms aint so great
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Ever wonder if the oil we burn today isnt from the dinosaurs and plant life, but from the land fills of man before them?
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Ever wonder if the oil we burn today isnt from the dinosaurs and plant life, but from the land fills of man before them?
I wonder alot if there were advanced societies before us, but we just dont have any evidence that they ever existed.
In the history channel show "Life After Man" there would be almost no evidence we ever existed 10,000 years after we're all gone. 10,000 years is a blink of an eye in the 3 billion years the earth has been around.
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Ever wonder if the oil we burn today isn't from the dinosaurs and plant life, but from the land fills of man before them?
That is something to think about. Man before the dinosaurs?
Have you seen the program "Ancient Aliens" on the History Channel?
The writers of the show believe the Ancients were way more advanced
than man today. The existence of Vimanas, Global Landing Strips, Atomic Weapons,
and Advanced Wireless Power Stations like the ones envisioned by Nikola Tesla.
Underground Cities built with unknown technology have been discovered recently in Ecuador
and Turkey. No way to carbon date those sights. How did they cut the stone and why so far underground?
They even go on to suggest Hitler sent archaeologists to study ruins of the Ancients
in India. The result of this research helped them build the V1 and V2 rockets.
Maybe the Ancients didn't need oil. You have to wonder if they had landfills. :)
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'East of the Rockies you're on the air' :D
Kidding..
I do not dismiss the possibility of advanced civilizations being here before recorded history but I don't completely embrace it either. I'd like to see some hard evidence one way or another though.
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The "Evidence" is slowly being uncovered. Sites like Machupichu, Peru and Tihuanaco, Bolivia in South America cannot be explained.
We don't have the technology or the math to construct monuments like that. Tihuanaco has stones of pure granite
that have been cut to perfect dimensions, block after block, each one identical, then set into place with only one attempt. Each block
is perfect. The inside cuts are still so sharp today they can cut a finger. The big mystery is how did they do the inside
cuts. Each one is perfect. Today it would take a computer generated template to make those inside cuts, and each one is identical
to the other blocks. The blocks of granite weigh more than 150 tons each. A thousand slaves could not pick up those
blocks and put them into place. There is no evidence yet, that diamonds were used to cut those blocks. How did they
transport those large pieces of granite from rock quarries hundreds of miles away?
The Nazcan Planes in Peru are mountains that have been cut off. It would take thousands of earth movers like the ones
manufactured by Caterpillar to move that much dirt. The big mystery is where did they put the dirt. The Nazcan Lines
can only be seen from an airplane. The lines were filled with glass crystals. Lots of mysteries cannot be explained.
You can only study what the Ancients left behind.
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Mano
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And they made cheese from arsenic metabolizing bacteria! Not sure how the heck the left some in Mono Lake, but there it is!
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Oh believe me I don't dismiss the idea. I think there are literally tons of things we don't know nor are likely to know in our lifetimes.
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Uhmm,....actually, it has been worked out on how large stones could be moved and placed with great accuracy. One man demonstrated it by building a barn using stones than weighed 50,000 pounds each. He moved them and placed them by himself.
Another group has successfully built a copy of Stonehenge, using only the materials available when the original was built.
There are a number of engineering solutions to answer how these things were accomplished. It just makes for better television when it can be presented as a great mystery.
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Uhmm,....actually, it has been worked out on how large stones could be moved and placed with great accuracy. One man demonstrated it by building a barn using stones than weighed 50,000 pounds each. He moved them and placed them by himself.
Another group has successfully built a copy of Stonehenge, using only the materials available when the original was built.
There are a number of engineering solutions to answer how these things were accomplished. It just makes for better television when it can be presented as a great mystery.
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Uhmm,....actually, it has been worked out on how large stones could be moved and placed with great accuracy. One man demonstrated it by building a barn using stones than weighed 50,000 pounds each. He moved them and placed them by himself.
Another group has successfully built a copy of Stonehenge, using only the materials available when the original was built.
There are a number of engineering solutions to answer how these things were accomplished. It just makes for better television when it can be presented as a great mystery.
that's it, im building myself a stonehenge.
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QFT Personally, I could lift a sea going vessel with my bare hand(notice not plural).............. (with some rope and a pulley system)
Uhmm,....actually, it has been worked out on how large stones could be moved and placed with great accuracy. One man demonstrated it by building a barn using stones than weighed 50,000 pounds each. He moved them and placed them by himself.
Another group has successfully built a copy of Stonehenge, using only the materials available when the original was built.
There are a number of engineering solutions to answer how these things were accomplished. It just makes for better television when it can be presented as a great mystery.
But most of our "friends" here prob want to blame the aliens.
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I can pick up my boat without ANY pulley system, but it's a sunfish sailboat that weighs less than I do.
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'blame'? nope...
Willing to listen to points of view that I haven't considered in the past? yep.
The true mark of intellectual honesty is not only the acceptance, but the solicitation of, differing points of view.
Thus I don't make a judgment on anything until I have absolute, 100 percent, verifiable proof that the thesis is valid.
I could delve deeper into the conversation but, frankly, I'm here to have fun and I've had waaaayyyy too many philosophical discussions both in life and on the web to even begin to bother with them anymore. Everybody believes what they believe and attempting to move them off of that position is a task I'm not willing to undertake. I will watch and chuckle when people attempt to do it to each other though.
*slaps clown nose and floppy shoes back on and heads to another thread*
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Wiseguy..... :D
I can pick up my boat without ANY pulley system, but it's a sunfish sailboat that weighs less than I do.
As an FYI piece.... It's an Archimedes reference, who did take a galley out of the water simply by using pulleys and his arm.
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and without the internet for 'inspiration' ;)
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Wiseguy..... :D
As an FYI piece.... It's an Archimedes reference, who did take a galley out of the water simply by using pulleys and his arm.
Huh. I've always heard that he pulled a heavily laden galley in to dock (horizontal as opposed to vertical movement, as your version suggests) using a fairly complex system of 2nd class (movable) pulleys. After all, it would be kind of hard to suspend a structure above the ship from which you then wish to suspend the full weight of said craft. At least. if you wish to attain any degree of stability.
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Without thinking too hard, I believe you reiterated what I just said, no?
Huh. I've always heard that he pulled a heavily laden galley in to dock using a fairly complex system of 2nd class (movable) pulleys. After all, it would be kind of hard to suspend a structure from which you then wish to suspend the full weight of this war ship from with any degree of stability.
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How were the Pyramids created with a maximum 6" difference on each corner (Max ammount they were off was by 6")? Aliens, duh. Slaves couldn't do all that stuff. :rolleyes:
And then the Mayan and Aztec drawings of flying contraptions (big birds).
Hehe
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Without thinking too hard, I believe you reiterated what I just said, no?
Yes, and no. You say he lifted a galley out of the water it floated upon, if I unserstand correctly, while I have always heard that he pulled the ship in to dock. In this version, he was pulling the boat horizontaly, rather than vertically.
This:
(http://www.cs.drexel.edu/~crorres/bbc_archive/Archimedes_ship_demo.jpg)
as opposed to this:
(http://i864.photobucket.com/albums/ab208/bbazzal/Archimedes.jpg)
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And to think this thread started off on motels :rolleyes:
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ya we veered off about 270 degrees didn't we?
The Omni at Tucson National is the finest hotel I've ever stayed at. I'd like to go spend a couple of days there and go to the airplane graveyard someday.
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ya we veered off about 270 degrees didn't we?
The Omni at Tucson National is the finest hotel I've ever stayed at. I'd like to go spend a couple of days there and go to the airplane graveyard someday.
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The Hilton at Cabo San Lucas is real nice, if you can get past the 110% humidity and 100+ temperature 'till the sun goes down. :banana:
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Quick story about the Omni.
When I was doing the event coordinating thing our travel agent completely !$#@$!'d me off the week prior to staying at the Omni. She knew she screwed up and, when the President of the company bailed for whatever reason, she flopped me over to one of the (whatever it's called it was his reservation) little 'duplex' type 'rooms'. It was soooo kicka... I was there for five days, sitting right next to one of the greens, away from the main hotel.
Needless to say I forgave her so long as I kept getting the good rooms :D