The one I call "The falling woman". Everytime a woman gets rescued and they have to escape, run away, or a group of people flee from an attacker, a disaster or whatever there's always the woman who slips and falls, or trips over a tree root, branch, stone... or one of the high heels snaps, or get's stuck... the…
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I don't get it. Isn't the Force supposed to be omnipresent, no matter what? How could it be asleep for it to awaken? I would understand if it would mean that somehow the Jedi are resurrected to manipulate and use the Force, but if so: wouldn't that be the better title? "The Jedi Resurrection"? Or something similar?…
When it's safe again to travel there, I would really recommend going there, just to see it with your own eyes. It's unbelievable, and yet... there it is. Now, I live in a place which has prehistoric monolithic monuments of its own. In the province of Drenthe in the Netherlands there are "dolmens", we call "hunebedden"…
We haven't looked long enough, far away enough. And, I wouldn't be suprised if some alien civilizations are already aware of us, for quite some time and don't want anything to do with us. Because as a species, as a civilization, we suck.
LOL. Yes... George Tsoukalos, the Ancient Alien guy. Brilliant!
No evidence, that's just a hypothesis. And just as crazy as any other hypotheses. I've read those ideas but they make no sense. In the case of Ollantaytambo there is evidence of a quarry from which the large standig stones have come... but its on the other side of the vally: the same stone. That stone does not come…
Ever since I first heard of Dark Matter and Dark Energy I suspected it could be the source of something else that has been lurking at the fringes of science: zero-point energy. It would be fantastic if we could tap into that resource.
Good! At least somebody here paid attention. I thought the Orpheus theme was as obvious as Red Riding Hood thing last week, but that too was hardly noticed on io9.
Dr. Teller remains silent on the subject.
What have these texts to with Islam? Retorical question, I know the answer: NOTHING. They're not religious, not islamic, and a lot of them not even original, but translations of earlier Greek, Roman, Persian and Indian manuscripts.
Fascinating "theory", but easily disproved, with (at least) 3 facts:
1. There are written historical sources outside of Europe (primarily Byzantine history) with a continious chronology.
2. Dendrochronology (tree rings)
3. Carbon dating (C14)
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There's only one problem with the solution to last week's puzzle: There are no bears of any color in the Antarctic.
I think it depends heavily on the so-called expert. There are experts who are consistently wrong, or with whom you always disagree. So, if such an expert writes a bad review I know it's probably brilliant.
I agree, the Riding Hood theme alone would have made a much better episode. Perhaps with a twist in which the girl Maebh being "possessed" by alien parasites who need forests to survive or something. Whatever the idea, folk legends, faery tales and mythology are wonderful source material for a Doctor Who episode (case…
Too many ideas packed into these 45 minutes. The outset is brilliant: a forest overnight, across the globe, but from there it's a bit of a mess. The interaction between Clara and the Doctor is the only thing that made up for it. Oh, and the reference to Little Red Riding Hood was nice. (girl, alone in a forest with a…
Well... in that case they'd still need to flip the "image" of the stars of Orion's Belt, in order for it to work. That's the basic criticism. Bauval's answer was something like: they had to flip it, because of the Nile. They couldn't reroute the river to represent the Milky Way, but they could flip the "image" of the…
With simple a sextant and no telescopes 10 degrees is not a lot. Just try it yourself with a sextant. Get a fix on all stars of Orion's belt and calcute how much the top or bottom star is out of alignment with the other two. It's not that easy if you nothing else than your eyes. The ancient Egyptians didn't have…
I know it's just a convention. There are several maps of the Netherlands in the 15th, 16th and 17th century which have the west on top. The modern citymap of The Hague today still does that.