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QuickbreathFinisher
Sep 28, 2008

by reading this post you have agreed to form a gay socialist micronation.
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does anyone have the gadsden flag edit from far upthread with her on it

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PawParole
Nov 16, 2019

Inspector Hound posted:

There's fossil stromatolites that are over a billion years old

those are in special areas where the crust has never recycled. basically the oldest areas.

Marzzle
Dec 1, 2004

Bursting with flavor

Azathoth posted:

reminds me of the whole crystal skull fakery

the best crystal skull discourse

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LDfXMf1oYI

The Chad Jihad
Feb 24, 2007


In this house we believe in the Ica Stones

Wheeee
Mar 11, 2001

When a tree grows, it is soft and pliable. But when it's dry and hard, it dies.

Hardness and strength are death's companions. Flexibility and softness are the embodiment of life.

That which has become hard shall not triumph.


i think you mean

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwJmNaR_4hk

GWBBQ
Jan 2, 2005


Bilirubin posted:

Mind you strong evidence of human habitation in the Americas 35k years ago does fly in the face of a lot of established archaeological doctrine but its consistent with some recent finds and native oral traditions.

The "mammoth kill site" dated at 107k is also problematic fwiw
I went on a research binge on the subject about a year ago and archaeological evidence looks like ~15k years ago, but there was some reasonably strong genetic and possibly archaeological evidence of pre-Clovis settlement in modern-day Peru and Chile around 26k years ago.

Petey posted:

what's the time window during which paleontologists/archeologists agree that we wouldn't likely find remains of anything that existed before them because of the recycling of the earth's crust? i feel like i read a paper on this once and it's in the hundreds of millions of years but i can't remember
The Late Heavy Bombardment period would be an absolute limit.
"For ritual purposes"

Azathoth
Apr 3, 2001

GWBBQ posted:

"For ritual purposes"

For safety, all ritual objects should have a flared base.

Rime
Nov 2, 2011

by Games Forum

GWBBQ posted:

I went on a research binge on the subject about a year ago and archaeological evidence looks like ~15k years ago, but there was some reasonably strong genetic and possibly archaeological evidence of pre-Clovis settlement in modern-day Peru and Chile around 26k years ago.

The Late Heavy Bombardment period would be an absolute limit.

"For ritual purposes"

The problem is that much of the oldest evidence is coming from the coast of BC, on islands which were mountaintops 15k years ago.

https://hakaimagazine.com/news/haida-gwaiis-caves-have-been-hiding-a-huge-secret/

The sea level was a couple hundred feet lower back then, so thriving settlements before the end of the ice age have gone the way of Doggerland.

Objurium
Aug 8, 2009

QuickbreathFinisher posted:



does anyone have the gadsden flag edit from far upthread with her on it

you rang

Petey
Nov 26, 2005

For who knows what is good for a person in life, during the few and meaningless days they pass through like a shadow? Who can tell them what will happen under the sun after they are gone?

Rime posted:

The problem is that much of the oldest evidence is coming from the coast of BC, on islands which were mountaintops 15k years ago.

https://hakaimagazine.com/news/haida-gwaiis-caves-have-been-hiding-a-huge-secret/

The sea level was a couple hundred feet lower back then, so thriving settlements before the end of the ice age have gone the way of Doggerland.

oh word i didn't think of that yeah

Petey
Nov 26, 2005

For who knows what is good for a person in life, during the few and meaningless days they pass through like a shadow? Who can tell them what will happen under the sun after they are gone?
tired: the vikings who left the kensington runestone

inspired: the noble madog, ab owain gwynedd

endocriminologist
May 17, 2021

SUFFERINGLOVER:press send + soul + earth lol
inncntsoul:ok

(inncntsoul has left the game)

ARCHON_MASTER:lol
MAMMON69:lol
there’s a good story about a Viking getting stranded on Greenland and building a boat out of seal bones and sinew and he successfully sailed it back to Iceland and everyone thought it rocked so he went to Norway to show it off but it sunk on the way there

SavageGentleman
Feb 28, 2010

When she finds love may it always stay true.
This I beg for the second wish I made too.

Fallen Rib
Malta is also super intersting for this kind of Antediluvian stuff:

It's clear that Malta was inhabitated for a long time: It contains fascinating temples that are currently estimated to be around 6k years old (but could be older - always a problem if you only have rocks to date) and also holds the Ħal Saflieni Hypogeum, a mysterious underground necropolis that is incredibly hard to date, but interestingly the oldest and deepest parts of it (also at least 6k yeras but also possible much older) also have the best architectural quality:


The thesis that there is more to Malta's history than random dudes starting to build stuff there 4k BC is strengthned by the so-called cart ruts of Malta: mile-long parallel cuts into the rocks that most likely were formed by carts following the same route for centuries or longer. And they seem to be much oder than the first phoenician artifacts on the island (as the phoenician ruins are often build on top of them).



The fun part: Many of these lead straight into the sea and continue there further downwards, in the direction of where the coast once was- before the sea leavels rose duting the end of the last Ice Age.


There's also indication of big artificial rock structures around the Maltese coast, but whatever stood there seems to be very damaged by some kind of prior event/catacylsm - so once again it's easy to argue that these are natural structures or modern stone slabs dumped into the ocean.

SavageGentleman has issued a correction as of 15:42 on Dec 10, 2021

Rime
Nov 2, 2011

by Games Forum
New York Times: Birds Aren’t Real, or Are They? Inside a Gen Z Conspiracy Theory.

:tinfoil:

Good Soldier Svejk
Jul 5, 2010

Fun thread speculating skinny bob is a repurposed Mars Attacks puppet (and it goes through some more overlay stuff explaining the filter/fonts)
https://twitter.com/likeitmatters3/status/1469287230631858177

my bony fealty
Oct 1, 2008

Good Soldier Svejk posted:

Fun thread speculating skinny bob is a repurposed Mars Attacks puppet (and it goes through some more overlay stuff explaining the filter/fonts)
https://twitter.com/likeitmatters3/status/1469287230631858177

thats pretty cool but ehhh feels a bit stretching considering nothing really looks like the puppet except the eye size and maybe the hands (which don't have the same number of digits). still, any explanation is a good one considering the sheer dearth of info. the fingernails are the most convincing part

im a skinny bob truther now

also what about the video where there's like 6 of them walking around

Wheeee
Mar 11, 2001

When a tree grows, it is soft and pliable. But when it's dry and hard, it dies.

Hardness and strength are death's companions. Flexibility and softness are the embodiment of life.

That which has become hard shall not triumph.

pretty sure skinny bob is a fake because, you know

but it's a really fuckin good fake, none of the proposed cgi examples look as natural

The Demilich
Apr 9, 2020

The First Rites of Men Were Mortuary, the First Altars Tombs.



Marzzle
Dec 1, 2004

Bursting with flavor


I'm reeling from the charisma whiplash going from dan to phil!

Pontificating Ass
Aug 2, 2002

What Doth Life?

Good Soldier Svejk posted:

Fun thread speculating skinny bob is a repurposed Mars Attacks puppet (and it goes through some more overlay stuff explaining the filter/fonts)
https://twitter.com/likeitmatters3/status/1469287230631858177

There's a bunch of upscaled/stabilized videos on the subreddit; they make it look like obvious CGI that someone tried to cover up with shaky camera movements and messy filters

guessing some aspiring 3D artist made the models and scenes, and tried to make them look real

although the guy posted a video saying basically "it's totally real bros"

Failson
Sep 2, 2018
Fun Shoe
Water bird:

https://twitter.com/AventuraObscura/status/1466480767488434180

Wheeee
Mar 11, 2001

When a tree grows, it is soft and pliable. But when it's dry and hard, it dies.

Hardness and strength are death's companions. Flexibility and softness are the embodiment of life.

That which has become hard shall not triumph.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZtwEHpIY4M

Slavvy
Dec 11, 2012

my bony fealty posted:

also what about the video where there's like 6 of them walking around

The what now

Rickshaw
Apr 11, 2004

just a coconut going for a stroll

Good Soldier Svejk posted:

Fun thread speculating skinny bob is a repurposed Mars Attacks puppet (and it goes through some more overlay stuff explaining the filter/fonts)
https://twitter.com/likeitmatters3/status/1469287230631858177

See, I don't understand this impulse. We don't need to explain skinny bob in terms of puppets or anything elaborate like that because when you look at the videos with your eyeballs and your brain, you can see that they are CGI with pretty amateurish animation. There's no mystery, nothing deeper needs to be uncovered.

my bony fealty
Oct 1, 2008

Slavvy posted:

The what now

https://youtu.be/a6TLGkrfNKI

starts at 1:12

:tinfoil:

Pontificating Ass
Aug 2, 2002

What Doth Life?

Rickshaw posted:

See, I don't understand this impulse. We don't need to explain skinny bob in terms of puppets or anything elaborate like that because when you look at the videos with your eyeballs and your brain, you can see that they are CGI with pretty amateurish animation. There's no mystery, nothing deeper needs to be uncovered.

I can't even tell what that guy is talking about... initially I thought he was simply saying "it's a CGI model that used the mars attacks alien as a reference" but then I remembered it's UFO twitter


Fell asleep watching this, I think it's by design

QuickbreathFinisher
Sep 28, 2008

by reading this post you have agreed to form a gay socialist micronation.
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I am in your debt

skewetoo
Mar 30, 2003


Covered my 1986 model bird van in stickers of this

pancake rabbit
Feb 21, 2011




uh

this interview has multiple absolutely wild disclosures? like often more than one per paragraph???

https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7nzkq/stanford-professor-garry-nolan-analyzing-anomalous-materials-from-ufo-crashes?utm_source=reddit.com

quote:

Dr. Garry Nolan is a Professor of Microbiology and Pathology at Stanford University. His research ranges from cancer to systems immunology. Dr. Nolan has also spent the last ten years working with the US Department of Defense analyzing materials from Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon.

quote:

That ended up bringing me to the attention of some people associated with the CIA and some aeronautics corporations. At the time, they had been investigating a number of cases of pilots who'd gotten close to supposed UAPs and the fields generated by them, as was claimed by the people who showed up at my office unannounced one day.

quote:

We started to notice that there were similarities in what we thought was the damage across multiple individuals. As we looked more closely, though, we realized, well, that can't be damaged, because that's right in the middle of the basal ganglia [a group of nuclei responsible for motor control and other core brain functions]. If those structures were damaged, these people would be dead. That was when we realized that these people had an over-connection of neuronal pathways between the head of the caudate and the putamen [The caudate nucleus plays a critical role in various higher neurological functions; the putamen influences motor planning, learning, and execution].

quote:

One of the materials from the so called Ubatuba event [a UAP event in Brazil], has extraordinarily altered isotope ratios of magnesium. It was interesting because another piece from the same event was analyzed in the same instrument at the same time. This is an extraordinarily sensitive instrument called a nanoSIMS - Secondary Ion Mass Spec. It had perfectly correct isotope ratios for what you would expect for magnesium found anywhere on Earth. Meanwhile, the other one was just way off. Like 30 percent off the ratios. The problem is there's no good reason humans have for altering the isotope ratios of a simple metal like magnesium.

Good Soldier Svejk
Jul 5, 2010


what the gently caress

the alien brain-enhancing rays are real?!

how does this just casually get printed

Jazerus
May 24, 2011


havana aitee syndrome

Slavvy
Dec 11, 2012


This is an absolutely insane article. Interesting how he can't say if people's brains are altered by the interactions, or if their already-altered brains led to the interactions.

The magnesium bit is loving crazy.

The Saucer Hovers
May 16, 2005

i dont understand it

Hooplah
Jul 15, 2006


that's loving bizarre. as someone with a bio background working in academia, it's super obvious this guy is speaking as an expert in his field. i won't buy he's loving around for personal gain. if he's lying, it's gotta be in service of power, or he's being pretty badly hosed with.

the linked yt interview is pretty good too. epstein thread heads will notice Chaos on the host's little book stack
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzTZbSNsKV8

Think Less
Dec 29, 2016

Slavvy posted:

This is an absolutely insane article. Interesting how he can't say if people's brains are altered by the interactions, or if their already-altered brains led to the interactions.

The magnesium bit is loving crazy.

About 6:50 into the interview hooplah linked above, he says that it's genetic. family members of the "victims" had the same structure. answers the first part of your question but not the second

Orbis Tertius
Feb 13, 2007


ohhh yeah, that’s the stuff

Jazerus
May 24, 2011


Slavvy posted:

This is an absolutely insane article. Interesting how he can't say if people's brains are altered by the interactions, or if their already-altered brains led to the interactions.

The magnesium bit is loving crazy.

Hooplah
Jul 15, 2006


The average is 5 observables? I thought it was 4. This is deeply unsettling.

Log082
Nov 8, 2008


Lol at the bits where he points out similarities to Havana syndrome, then says he got taken off all the Havana cases because they think it's a state actor.

I'm really curious about the part where he mentions quantum analysis to get atomic structures. I'm probably missing details about his claim that have been simplified for media,but we can look at atomic structures already. I've seen HRTEM images of crystalline structures. (And as far as I know that should work for amorphous structures too though I've never dealt with them in that context)

As someone with a materials background though, gently caress if I have an explanation for the isotope thing. Nothing about that makes sense.

Actually, unless maybe its some form of isotopic battery? Those are a fascinating bit of history on their own; parts of the dod git taken for an absolute ridd on promises they could release more energy than a nuke, but one or two of the groups involved weathered the scandal and kept plugging along and there seems to be some valid science for energy storage, though its going to be batteries and not bombs. I have a good book on the whole topic but I can't remember the name and aren't at home to check.

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Wheeee
Mar 11, 2001

When a tree grows, it is soft and pliable. But when it's dry and hard, it dies.

Hardness and strength are death's companions. Flexibility and softness are the embodiment of life.

That which has become hard shall not triumph.

Hooplah posted:

The average is 5 observables? I thought it was 4. This is deeply unsettling.

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