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http://blog.world-mysteries.com/science/ancient-weapons-of-mass-destruction-and-the-mahabharata/

Too bad no one seems to be able to use this technology to make a Moray Valve (link).

See: "Joke".
Reference ancient Egypt and the finds regarding electricity.

The ancient Egyptians performed some impressive feats of engineering (exactly how they went about building the pyramids is still up for debate). They also had good insights in many sciences, but electricity is not part of it.

Some battery-ish bottles have been found near Baghdad, these were extremely weak and just might have been used for gilding or metal-plating. As for the nutcases who claim that all the "schoolbook experts" are wrong and the Egyptians had what we know as electricity and electric light, well... the nutcases are wrong. See this article for a thorough refutation based on numerous impossibilities with the hypothesis.

I agree that their stone reliefs will last longer than any computer, though :)

If you put sand on a plate and subject it to sound waves, you can make shapes at certain harmonics. This look familiar? http://www.world-mysteries.com/sci_cym3.gif I wouldn't be surprised at all if these were related phenomena.

You're ALL irrational.

This really is interesting, though. The Fibonacci sequence shows up all the time in nature, but this is, to my knowledge, the first time in a non-biological function.

Pre-Inca skulls from the Paracas area of Peru have been estimated to have a cranial capacity of 2500ccs.

Of course, it cannot possibly be the case that a culture of humans somewhere at some time in the past had the intelligence to develop breeding techniques and then got the bright idea that maybe breeding for even greater intelligence was desirable. For them to have done so would have required that they be either Jews or Nazis and we all know Jews and Nazis didn't exist until WW II.

...we already find one of those?

Why is it that a few million jews have contributed more to science and the arts than a billion muslims?

Errr, strange question. Granted, the middle east (obviously mainly muslim) hasn't contributed a great deal to science in recent years but a great deal of scientific foundation is owed to the middle east (probably muslim but clearly I can't account for each individual!). Babylonian mathematics including algebra, early arithmetic and geometry for one, then there's this story. And what about the world's first battery?.

It seems like your views are somewhat narrow-minded and blinkered.

There a loads of resources about this on the internet. Do a google search on "Planet X" and you get 75,800,000 Results.

This stuff is too sensitive, so I must post it anonymously.

The missing Link is called Anunnaki!

They created us in their image by mixing their seed with the chimps.

Find out more in Zecharia Sitchin!!!

Zecharia Sitchin's key ideas are based on the assumption that ancient myths are not myths but historical and scientific texts. According to Sitchin, ancient Sumerian clay tablets reveal that gods from another planet (Nibiru, which orbits our Sun every 3,600 years) arrived on Earth some 450,000 years ago and created humans by genetic engineering of female apes.

Wood frame houses may be better than some other options, but the Incas really knew how to build earthquake-proof buildings. The great Cusco quake of 1950 destroyed most of the colonial and modern buildings but left the ancient Inca buildings intact. The stones comprising the walls were very tightly fitted together in an interlocking pattern without the benefit of mortar. Ollantaytambo has some good examples of the Inca stone work.

Actually a number of strange artifacts have been found, such as the so-called Baghdad Battery or ancient designs that bear a strong resemblence to modern aircraft, or giant figures that are unrecognizable unless viewed from the air, or ancient computing devices long before Charles Babbage, among others. Also fascinating are ideas about what things like the Ark of the Covenant or the Holy Grail actually were.

If you pay attention, you will notice that the less discoveries like this fit in with our existing ideas of how things were, the less likely anyone is to have heard of them. If we really valued the purpose of science then we would focus the most attention on the oddball discoveries that seem to defy our theories, rather than the current focus which is on research that is the most likely to be commercially useful and thus the most likely to receive funding. It disturbs me that the mainstream knee-jerk response to anomalies is to find a way to dismiss them based on what we think we know. I would much rather see the fascination with the unknown. Scientific skepticism means you do not draw unfounded conclusions or rely on assumptions; it does not mean that you make excuses for not investigating.

To give credit, the name I believe to be first associated with this theory is Joseph Davidovits. He's been claiming poured ("geopolymerized") pyramids for a long time.

Mizuno has often talked about the prehistory of cold fusion. Most great discoveries are visited and revisited many times before someone stakes a permanent claim. People sometimes stumble over a new discovery without even realizing what they see. Mizuno did his graduate and post graduate work on corrosion using highly loaded metal hydrides. His experiments were almost exactly like those of cold fusion, but they were performed for a different purpose. In retrospect, he realized that he saw anomalous events that may have been cold fusion. At the time he could not determine the cause, he did not imagine it might be fusion, and he had to leave the mystery unsolved. No scientist has time to track down every anomaly. I expect many people saw and disregarded evidence for cold fusion over the years. Mizuno makes a provocative assertion. He says that long before 1989 he wondered whether the immense pressure of electrolysis might produce "some form of fusion." He says: "This kind of hypothesis would occur to any researcher studying metal and hydrogen systems. It is not a particularly profound or outstanding idea. It never occurred to me to pursue the matter and research this further." He appears to downplay the role of Pons and Fleischmann. Perhaps he exaggerates when he says "any researcher" would think of it, but on the other hand Paneth and Peters and others did investigate this topic in the 1920s. ...

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I really wouldn't underestimate mankinds ability to turn anything into a weapon, especially balls of sizzling plasma. Actually, what this put me in mind of was the ancient "batteries" discovered a while back. FTA

The tank contains two electrodes, one of which is insulated from the surrounding water by a clay tube.

Sounds remarkably similar. A lightshow, the remnants of some yet earlier technology, or a weapon of the ancients? Or just a battery? The scientists note that they produced this effect by mimicking the effects of lightning and water; is it far fetched to wonder if the ancients noted the same correlation?

Edgar Cayce predicted this would happen and castrophes would ensue.
End of the world:)

Unfortunately, Kasparov in real life is also into history, and rather close to crackpot science. For instance, he doesn't believe there was 1000 years between the Roman empire and Newton, he thinks history has been artificially expanded by 1000 years.

See e.g. http://www.world-mysteries.com/garrykasparov.htm.

I also vaguely remember that he tried to form a political party after the fall of the USSR, and was voted down as chairman on the first day of his own party! Add to that all the political problems that always surrounded him in the chess world (PCA, FIDE, etc), and I think he's not all that much better than them at politics.

Err... I thought only the Atlantian island capital was lost? Plato (supposedly) never claimed that the entire continent was lost. This has led many to suggest that the Americas were the lost continent of Atlantis. The island capital could have easily been lost in a disaster such as a tidal wave.

Ancient Hindu texts may confirm this theory, as they refer to great wars in arial and orbital machines. Some have suggested that their enemy was the Atlantians, who were actually the Aztecs. This has been corroborated by some pretty strange artifacts like these. It's hard to look at those and not believe that they're planes.

According to ancient Indian texts, the people had flying machines which were called "Vimanas." The ancient Indian epic describes a Vimana as a double-deck, circular aircraft with portholes and a dome, much as we would imagine a flying saucer.

It flew with the "speed of the wind" and gave forth a "melodious sound." There were at least four different types of Vimanas; some saucer shaped, others like long cylinders ("cigar shaped airships"). The ancient Indian texts on Vimanas are so numerous, it would take volumes to relate what they had to say. The ancient Indians, who manufactured these ships themselves, wrote entire flight manuals on the control of the various types of Vimanas, many of which are still in existence, and some have even been translated into English.

The Samara Sutradhara is a scientific treatise dealing with every possible angle of air travel in a Vimana. There are 230 stanzas dealing with the construction, take-off, cruising for thousand of miles, normal and forced landings, and even possible collisions with birds. In 1875, the Vaimanika Sastra, a fourth century B.C. text written by Bharadvajy the Wise, using even older texts as his source, was rediscovered in a temple in India. It dealt with the operation of Vimanas and included information on the steering, precautions for long flights, protection of the airships from storms and lightening and how to switch the drive to "solar energy" from a free energy source which sounds like "anti-gravity."

The Vaimanika Sastra (or Vymaanika-Shaastra) has eight chapters with diagrams, describing three types of aircraft, including apparatuses that could neither catch on fire nor break. It also mentions 31 essential parts of these vehicles and 16 materials from which they are constructed, which absorb light and heat; for which reason they were considered suitable for the construction of Vimanas. This document has been translated into English and is available by writing the publisher: VYMAANIDASHAASTRA AERONAUTICS by Maharishi Bharadwaaja, translated into English and edited, printed and published by Mr. G. R. Josyer, Mysore, India, 1979 (sorry, no street address). Mr. Josyer is the director of the International Academy of Sanskrit Investigation located in Mysore.

Sources: Ancient flying machines (Contains diagrams/details).
Wikipedia reference to the term-Vimanas

Acidic batteries in ancient Baghdad: http://www.world-mysteries.com/sar_11.htm

The Persians may not have known why batteries worked, but it appears that they knew how to make them.

bullshit in a bottle

• Condon Report
• project blue Book
• More Blue Book
• Area 51 weather
• Alien Fish
• Deformed skulls

The ancient Greeks invented the computer over 2000 years ago.