Six Ancient Discoveries Science Can’t Explain – What is the Antikythera Mechanism?
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FAIR WARNING: If you have no sense of humor, or need everything in your daily routine to reach some asinine level of political correctness, move along. Andy has a pretty crude sense of humor infused into this piece, and either 1) you’ll find it amusing and read through it, which I did, and see the ancient discoveries for what they are: INSANE; or 2) you’ll run the risk of having your delicate sensibilities “offended.” Keep this in mind though, there is a reason over 20 MILLION people viewed the information he presents, so there just MIGHT be something to it.
Personally, I have heard of the Baghdad Batteries and the Voynich Manuscript on many occasions, but this was my first run-in with the “Antikythera Mechanism.” No doubt, the batteries and the manuscript are mind blowing given the dates of their creation, but the Antikythera Mechanism is in another stratosphere of insane ancient discoveries in my opinion.
In a previous post, I asked if YOU have ever stopped to ask yourself, What If Everything You Were Ever Taught Was A Lie? I cannot help myself. I think about it ALL the time. I freely admit, I am enamored with the subject of these ancient mysteries that modern “science” chooses to ignore, or gives utterly absurd explanations to, but why won’t more people demand stand up and DEMAND further investigation? Why do we knowingly accept the lies we are told? Is it because asking questions is too uncomfortable? Because we don’t want the REAL answers? There is a reason the following posts have been so successful:
People want answers! Most people don’t have enough interest to do serious research into this area, and I don’t know that I would say I have any “serious research” either. I watch, listen to, or read anything I can get my hands on within the subject, but my time is too limited to do much more. How? Why? Who? How long ago? We know so much more today than our institutions teach in academia. Why the cover-ups? Tell me… why?
At Cracked.com, Andy writes:
"We like to feel superior to the people who
lived centuries ago, what with their shit**y mud huts and curing colds
by drilling a hole in their skulls. But we have to give them credit:
They left behind some artifacts that have left the smartest of modern
scientists scratching their heads.
For instance, you have the following enigmas
that we believe were created for no other purpose than to fu** with
future generations."
#6. The Voynich Manuscript
The Mystery:
The Voynich manuscript is an ancient book that has thwarted all attempts at deciphering its contents. And it’s not like some idiot just scribbled a bunch of nonsense on paper and went, “Figure THIS out, fu**wads.” It is actually an organized book with a consistent script, discernible organization and detailed illustrations.-
It appears to be a real language–just one that nobody has seen before. And it really does appear to mean something. But nobody knows what.
Translation:
“…and when you get her to put the tennis racket in her mouth, have her
stand in a fountain for a while. Then draw pictures of her.”
There is not even a consensus on who wrote it, or even when it was written. And we sure as puck don’t know why.
Why Can’t They Solve It?
Could you? Look at this stuff:
Don’t even try. Expert military code-breakers, cryptographers, mathematicians, linguists, people who get paid to find and decipher patterns, have all been left unable to decipher a single word.
As you can imagine, proposed solutions have been all over the board, from reasonable to completely clownish. Some say it’s an unbreakable code that requires a key to solve. Some say it’s a hoax, and a damned fine one if we do say ourselves. Some say it’s glossolalia, which is the fine art of speaking or writing something you don’t understand but that is being channeled to you by God or aliens or whatever (note that the word was chosen specifically to make you sound retarded when saying it).
Our Guess:
It’s written in English, by a person who was extremely bad at writing in English.#5. The Antikythera Mechanism
The Mystery:
Why Can’t They Solve It?
First, no one can agree on where the Antikythera mechanism was made
or who designed it. Popular belief was that it was made by the Greeks
due to its instructions all being in Greek (about a million of our tax
dollars were probably spent arriving at that genius conclusion) but
serious research published in serious places suggested the design came
from Sicily.
And a billion parts with indecipherable instructions suggest it comes from Ikea. Ba-zing!
The mechanism, aside from placing you at serious risk for severing a
finger, was supposedly used to figure out astronomical positions. The
problem with that is that at the time this thing was made, no one had
yet discovered laws of gravity or how heavenly bodies moved.In other words, the Antikythera mechanism appears to have functions that no one alive at that time would have understood, and no single mechanical purpose of that era (such as navigating ships) explains the crazy number of functions and settings this machine has.
Our Guess:
It’s a scrap from a time machine that exploded the moment it arrived in the past.
The Mystery:
In an area of China not known to ever contain people, let alone industry, there are three mysterious triangular
openings on top of a mountain containing hundreds of ancient rusty iron
pipes of unknown origin. Some of the pipes go deep into the mountain.
Some of them go into a nearby salt water lake. There are more pipes in
the lake, and more still running east-west along the lake shore. Some of
the larger pipes are 40 cm in diameter, are of uniform size and are
placed in what seems like purposeful patterns.
Why Can’t They Solve It?
Oddly, the pipes are clean of debris despite being older than Zeus.
This suggests that they were not simply shoved into the ground for the
hell of it, but actually used for something. Oh, and did we mention the
mountain is completely inhospitable to human life?As usual, a faction of nutjobs believes the Baigong Pipes to be an ancient astronomy lab or even spacecraft launching site left by extraterrestrials. This is possible, since the pipes contain a proportion of silica close to what occurs on Mars. Of course, the manhole cover outside your house does also, so take that with a grain of salt.
Some say they are a hoax. We must politely remind those people that you can’t wipe your ass in China without the government knowing, let alone set up an iron forge and start burying pipes in the ground for the purpose of confusing passers-by.
Our Guess:
Long ago, a group of frustrated fishermen with lots and lots of spare
time spent their whole lives building a plumbing system to drain that
nearby lake. Then they figured they’d just walk right down there with
wheelbarrows, scoop up the fish and eat like kings.#3. The Giant Stone Balls of Costa Rica
The Mystery:
They have been chiseled to perfection by persons unknown, despite the fact that Costa Rica is still not scheduled to enter the Bronze Age until 2013. There are balls everywhere and serve no apparent purpose, like a swing club on Gentlemen’s Night.
And God said, “It’s nice, but could use some more purposeless balls.
”
Some of the balls have been blasted apart by locals hoping to find
gold, coffee beans, or even babies. Some have been rolled around, but
some are too heavy to move even with a bulldozer. Not that they have
bulldozers in Costa Rica.”
Why Can’t They Solve It?
About the most useful information anyone has gotten is that there are
not, under any circumstance, any quarries anywhere near the balls. This
information is actually useless considering the balls are carved from
volcanic rock.
Our Guess:
#2. The Baghdad Batteries
The Mystery:
When archaeologists stumbled upon the batteries, they assumed they were just regular old clay pots for storage, but that theory quickly went out the window since they each contain a copper rod that shows evidence of acid corrosion. Now, in case you weren’t the biggest nerd in school, this means that the pots probably contained a liquid that would interact with the copper and produce an electrical charge. If true, they predate the first known modern battery by hundreds of years.
Why Can’t They Solve It?
Well, it’s not like we keep digging up ancient camcorders over there.
Some stone reliefs called the “Dendera light”, depict what some believe
to be electrical arc lights, which would require something like the
Baghdad Batteries to power. Others believe that theory is incredibly
retarded.More reasonable types say the batteries may have been used to electroplate items with gold. Others say medicine men could have used the batteries to shock people (giving the impression they had mystical powers or whatever).
It doesn’t help that the batteries are currently located in the Baghdad Museum, which means potential researchers have a sporting chance of being blown to shit on any given day.
Our Guess:
#1. The Bloop
The Mystery:
In that year, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration recorded a strange sound in the ocean. Strange and LOUD. So loud that it was picked up by two separate microphones 3,000 miles apart. The sound, dubbed “The Bloop,” doesn’t sound like anything at normal speed. However, the NOAA did us the favor of speeding up the recording to 16 times the normal speed, causing it to sound like a turd dropping into the toilet. Bloop! Except, you know, awesomely loud.
Scientists determined that its wave pattern indicates it was made by an animal, and not a giant electromagnet sucking a plane out of the sky, as the creators of Lost were no doubt hoping.
Why Can’t They Solve It?
There is no animal big enough or loud enough to make that kind of
noise, not by a long shot. Not a blue whale, not a howler monkey, not a
startled teenage girl.Not long after the NOAA posted the sound to their web site, some HP Lovecraft fans on the internet quite reasonably decided that The Bloop must have been made by Lovecraft’s Cthulhu, a giant, murderous squid-dragon-thing.
Our Guess:
Yeah, we’re also going with Cthulhu.
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2 comments:
The queen is a reptillian David icke does a great follow up about that
Do you have a link to that by David Icke? Since he has done so much, I am unsure which link or factoid you maybe referencing. Please give us a link so we can pursue it. Thanks.
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