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Delta-Wye posted:even the most 'pedestrian' of explanations is fascinating imho. i love the idea that people really haven't changed in thousands of years and we are still running a lot of the same 'wetware' for better or worse It's true, the ancients were drawing crude dicks and laughing at them just like us
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Oct 1, 2021 19:39
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Anthropologist: it's uh, another fertility idol
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Oct 1, 2021 19:40
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PokeJoe posted:Anthropologist: it's uh, another fertility idol it had ritual purposes
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Oct 1, 2021 19:41
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bedpan posted:it had ritual purposes they only say that poo poo because excavating a "temple" looks way more impressive to a grant committee than excavating an ancient hot dog stand  . i would hope most archaeologists are well aware that most of the small structures and items they designate as "unknown purpose, probably for some religious thing" are just mundane objects
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Oct 1, 2021 19:45
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Anyone who wants to try being paralyzed in their sleep, try asking to experience it before you go to sleep.
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Oct 1, 2021 19:53
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Riot Bimbo posted:lmao i don't want to be dismissive, but this seems like the sort of situation Buddhism might be really good at clearing up. it might seem hostile to some of your core identity i guess, but it's more like you can let go of your attachment to God, and find the true God is still there afterwards. you have to do the letting go of essence part, but once you do there really isn't a difference between God/not God anymore and a lot of things clear up. we tend, for example, in the West, to assume that being is better than non-being. however, existing as nothingness is something God is quite capable of doing, and in many ways nothingness is better than being. granted, there are many other paths that can be helpful. if the rational emphasis and/or zen style turn you off, you might find any number of other approaches.
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Oct 1, 2021 20:12
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if desire is the root of all suffering, and it certainly seems so, then i desire to have no desire.. poo poo
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Oct 1, 2021 20:21
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Going back to a discussion from a few weeks ago, a recent survey using the ALMA telescope found that 4/5 protoplanetary discs contained organic molecules that are precursors for life on earth. A lot of it is probably single celled organisms, but it's inevitable that life is pretty much everywhere. It also suggests that at least some ET life could be DNA-based. https://www.leeds.ac.uk/news-science/news/article/4915/how-planets-may-be-seeded-with-the-chemicals-necessary-for-life bedpan posted:it had ritual purposes GWBBQ has issued a correction as of 20:32 on Oct 1, 2021 |
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Oct 1, 2021 20:24
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GWBBQ posted:Going back to a discussion from a few weeks ago, a recent survey using the ALMA telescope found that 4/5 protoplanetary discs contained organic molecules that are precursors for life on earth. A lot of it is probably single celled organisms, but it's inevitable that life is pretty much everywhere. It also suggests that at least some ET life could be DNA-based. Amazing how every indication we get of the actual numbers in the Drake Equation push the answer upwards. Of course, that just makes Fermi's Paradox more interesting.
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Oct 1, 2021 21:05
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Ffs for the last time, there is no paradox, we just aren't looking or able to see anything meaningful. The whole thing hinges on the scifi wank idea that if you can build Dyson spheres you inevitably will.
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Oct 1, 2021 21:15
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GWBBQ posted:Going back to a discussion from a few weeks ago, a recent survey using the ALMA telescope found that 4/5 protoplanetary discs contained organic molecules that are precursors for life on earth. A lot of it is probably single celled organisms, but it's inevitable that life is pretty much everywhere. It also suggests that at least some ET life could be DNA-based. is this thread aware that the interstellar medium and much of space in general in fact contains complex carbon molecules in the form of C60 arranged in buckyballs? https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2019/soccer-balls-in-space
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Oct 1, 2021 21:17
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*peers into the ocean from the beach* hmm the numbers say it should be teeming with life, but I can't see evidence of even a single fish, how strange I'll call it the slavvy paradox
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Oct 1, 2021 21:19
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GWBBQ posted:These two women lived together and were buried together like a married couple. They must have been really good friends. This seems to come up a lot and in every culture for some reason I remember reading some old thing translated in like 1800 or something about Cyrus the great or somebody & they were like "truly they embraced and kissed like REALLY GOOD FRIENDS YOU GUYS" 
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Oct 1, 2021 21:21
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Hodgepodge posted:is this thread aware that the interstellar medium and much of space in general in fact contains complex carbon molecules in the form of C60 arranged in buckyballs? Balls are stored in the space
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Oct 1, 2021 21:22
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Hodgepodge posted:is this thread aware that the interstellar medium and much of space in general in fact contains complex carbon molecules in the form of C60 arranged in buckyballs? "a carbon ion can have a charge of anywhere from -4 to +4, depending on if it loses or gains electrons" The Saucer Hovers has issued a correction as of 21:26 on Oct 1, 2021 |
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Oct 1, 2021 21:23
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Total derail but I like how the super old cultures have like gilgamesh wearing makeup and openly weeping when he's sad and smooching bros when he's happy and stuff, it's v manly and valorous to have your culture heroes pulling this poo poo. Must have been the annunaki influence.
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Oct 1, 2021 21:30
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SniperWoreConverse posted:Balls are stored in the space the balls are ufos chemtrails from burning fossil fuels as they fly through space
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Oct 1, 2021 21:42
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Can't trust any religion that puts a name on any paranormal phenomenon imo
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Oct 1, 2021 21:43
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Log082 posted:Amazing how every indication we get of the actual numbers in the Drake Equation push the answer upwards. Of course, that just makes Fermi's Paradox more interesting. Here's a neat video that explores some aspects of the Fermi Paradox in an interesting way: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3whaviTqqg Basically, humanity is in the first 10% of civilizations that will ever exist in the universe because as civilizations survive through the eons they smother opportunities for new civilizations to exist.
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Oct 1, 2021 21:50
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Fried Watermelon posted:How do you kill an extra dimensional being you bring it down to your dimension and beat it with experience
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Oct 1, 2021 22:17
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Pooky posted:TBH if I was forced to make a guess on what they are it would be on space whales plus some extra-dimensional nonsense. you know how like some birds will have feather patterns and people say “oh it’s because it tricks their predator into thinking a bigger predator is nearby”? it’s just a scale pattern to us lower life forms
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Oct 2, 2021 00:57
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BeefThief posted:Here's a neat video that explores some aspects of the Fermi Paradox in an interesting way: Nothing like conjecture piled on top of more conjecture for concluding that we're cool and special
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Oct 2, 2021 01:07
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Hodgepodge posted:have we considered that some birds may be yogis, or perhaps jewish mystics operating merkabah? I can't find the post, but earlier someone recounted seeing a UAP with a ring of dead birds over a lake or cabin and afterwords their partner freaking out about it and demanding they sleep. This merkabah stuff seems very bird-with-bird-ring adjacent. Pooky has issued a correction as of 01:42 on Oct 2, 2021 |
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Oct 2, 2021 01:39
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 that was me. your title is dumb pooky.
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Oct 2, 2021 01:54
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Pooky posted:I can't find the post, but earlier someone recounted seeing a UAP with a ring of dead birds over a lake or cabin and afterwords their partner freaking out about it and demanding they sleep. This merkabah stuff seems very bird-with-bird-ring adjacent. sounds like perhaps a cherubim or ophanim e: the ophanim are particularily associated with the merkabah, being the wheels of the chariot:  e: the source of these ideas, in particular, being ezekiel's vision of the chariot:  in the bottom left are the hayyoth, the four living creatures, once the highest of angels and associated with the four directions, forgotten by christianity except in the parallel form of the archangels. Hodgepodge has issued a correction as of 02:08 on Oct 2, 2021 |
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Oct 2, 2021 02:00
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Hodgepodge posted:sounds like perhaps a cherubim or ophanim Man that book is some hosed up poo poo. My parents wouldn't let me bring other reading materials in for Sunday services so I just constantly read Ezekiel and Revelations because the ministers were so pedestrian and boring
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Oct 2, 2021 02:36
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Bilirubin posted:Man that book is some hosed up poo poo. My parents wouldn't let me bring other reading materials in for Sunday services so I just constantly read Ezekiel and Revelations because the ministers were so pedestrian and boring you were in much good company there
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Oct 2, 2021 02:40
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Bilirubin posted:Man that book is some hosed up poo poo. My parents wouldn't let me bring other reading materials in for Sunday services so I just constantly read Ezekiel and Revelations because the ministers were so pedestrian and boring fortunately, i only had to attend church-style services for awhile at around six while staying with my aunt's family (their services are held in the homes of respected members of their faith). i was too young to appreciate the biblical stuff at all, but i appreciate the insight into the beliefs and way of living of that side of my family. (my mother broke from their church due to feeling a spiritual calling towards the new age movement and genuine engagement with people of different faiths, which lead me to have some positive experiences with Indian (Sikh primarily) people and some very close personal relationships and in general greater understanding and experience with local First Nations people than would otherwise have been possible).
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Oct 2, 2021 02:54
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Slavvy posted:Nothing like conjecture piled on top of more conjecture for concluding that we're cool and special I mean sure but conjecture on top of conjecture is like the soul of the thread
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Oct 2, 2021 03:05
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Revelations owns, its just so clearly a gnarly loving trip that guy had from eating funny fungus in his cell
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Oct 2, 2021 03:27
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I just watched my first episode of Ancient Aliens. Are there any sites/whatever that filter out the crackpot stuff and leave the “well he’s got a point” bits?
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Oct 2, 2021 04:12
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we aren't "special" at all in any ultimate sense, although we have distinct value and cannot begin to respect other life until we manage to at least on the aggregate learn how to respect ourselves and others; it is rather that all that lives, and even that which doesn't, is holy. especially with inanimate things and things with limited awareness (ie, plants and equivalents), we may make use of them, and with proper respect this extends to animals to various degrees. but the fact that our respect towards even our own future while doing these things in the present and recent past has been gravely insufficient is at this moment quite clear.
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Oct 2, 2021 04:24
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Hodgepodge posted:is this thread aware that the interstellar medium and much of space in general in fact contains complex carbon molecules in the form of C60 arranged in buckyballs? i mean it's not called the marvel cinematic local system for a reason
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Oct 2, 2021 04:42
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Hodgepodge posted:is this thread aware that the interstellar medium and much of space in general in fact contains complex carbon molecules in the form of C60 arranged in buckyballs? I dont think we can even synthesis these? even though they are theorized to have all sorts of special properties
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Oct 2, 2021 05:41
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Pontificating rear end posted:I dont think we can even synthesis these? even though they are theorized to have all sorts of special properties while C60 is named Buckminsterfullerene after the popular and beloved scientist who theorized it, recent developments have led to a practical method of creating soot which contains it and then extracting it: quote:In 1989 physicists Wolfgang Krätschmer, Konstantinos Fostiropoulos, and Donald R. Huffman observed unusual optical absorptions in thin films of carbon dust (soot). The soot had been generated by an arc-process between two graphite electrodes in a helium atmosphere where the electrode material evaporates and condenses forming soot in the quenching atmosphere. Among other features, the IR spectra of the soot showed four discrete bands in close agreement to those proposed for C60.[20][21] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckminsterfullerene as is often (though not always the case) with me, this post is brought to you more by my curiosity and search engine technology than expertise e: oh, i totally missed: quote:Buckminsterfullerene was first generated in 1984 by Eric Rohlfing, Donald Cox and Andrew Kaldor[12][13] using a laser to vaporize carbon in a supersonic helium beam. In 1985 their work was repeated by Harold Kroto, James R. Heath, Sean O'Brien, Robert Curl, and Richard Smalley at Rice University, who recognized the structure of C60 as buckminsterfullerene.[14] Kroto, Curl and Smalley were awarded the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their roles in the discovery of buckminsterfullerene and the related class of molecules. I guess Buckminster Fuller was more of a futurist whose ideas were influential amoung scientists and contained some actual practical work with parallels to the molecule. The actual molecule was theorized by [okay correction] others at an earlier point. Still looking up who named it, but I've probably revised this post enough times. Hodgepodge has issued a correction as of 07:39 on Oct 2, 2021 |
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Oct 2, 2021 07:22
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The Saucer Hovers posted:me: are you the demiurge?
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Oct 2, 2021 07:44
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Oct 2, 2021 08:23
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What is the best ufo podcast?
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Oct 2, 2021 13:19
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congrats! people are gonna get "ascended" today, what ever that means https://twitter.com/sandiawisdom/status/1444271891498348548 
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Oct 2, 2021 13:50
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