The Baghdad Battery: Unearthed terracotta vessels, instances of OOPArt, outfitted with iron rods housed in copper cylinders, which could have been immersed in an electrolyte solution. Egyptian electricity?
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July 28, 2008 by vessels
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by vessels
Earthquake Lights: Are they plasma discharges from gases that become electrically charged in the air when released through the Earth’s surface? Or are they ionospheric radiative recombinations occurring at lower altitudes due to disruptions in the ionosphere and/or the magnetic field brought on by tectonic stress? Or maybe it has something to do with quartz and the intense electric fields that could potentially be created piezoelectrically by abrupt tectonic movements? Do nuclear reactions occur beneath the Earth’s surface during quakes, producing emissions of light similar to those sometimes seen at nuclear test sites? No one knows; some just think they’re UFOs.
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Sigils
July 23, 2008 by ando
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Pizza Party
July 22, 2008 by ando
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July 18, 2008 by petedeeva
commercial esoterica courtesy of ten-plus super cool french dudes
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Magnetic Memory & Orientation
by pdoyleVibrating and heating ferrous metals causes them to realign their magnetism relative to their position. The fabrication of steel ships (like Bernard Moitessier’s “Joshua”) involves vibration and heating in the form of cutting, grinding, riveting and welding. For this reason steel ships all have a memory, and week desire to return to the orientation at which the ship was fabricated. This force interferes with magnetic compass bearings.
Diagram from “Primer of Navigation”, George W. Mixter, based on “Deviation and the Deviascope”, Capt Charles H. Brown
Birds placed in sensory deprived “orientation cages” demonstrated with their “hopping direction” that they do not rely on the sun and stars for navigation. Copper coils placed around the “orientation cages” to alter the magnetic field effected the birds’ behavior, suggesting that they have an internal magnetic compass. (more) A choreographed bird dance is clearly in order. (maybe accompanied by trained wasps)
image courtesy of Dan Au
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July 17, 2008 by vessels
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July 16, 2008 by pdoyle
“My real log is written in the sea and sky; the sails talking with the rain and the stars amid the sounds of the sea, the silences full of secret things between my boat and me, like the times I spent as a child listening to the forest talk.”
Bernard Moitessier, captain of “Joshua”, completed the first solo non-stop circumnavigation under sail. This title is contested, however, becuase he did not stop, and continued to sail even farther around the world to Polynesia instead of returning to the fanfare of England.
History is written in the sky. The light reflected off of the earth is currently traveling at the speed of light into the infinity of space. Just as the light from the nearest star to the earth is 8 million years late in reaching us, that star (which may be extinct) is seeing the earth 8 million years ago. Maybe google will figure out how to retrieve that information, and we’ll have google earth views of Bernard cruising across the roaring 40s in 1968, (the light from which is about 2.35 e14 miles away from earth) maybe not.
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July 10, 2008 by vessels
Incidental Earthworks: the making of one museum means the making of others.
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by vessels
The chief proponent of phrenology in the United States, the interpreter of the bumps on the skulls of President Garfield, Twain and Emerson, the first to publish Leaves of Grass, an advocate of sponge baths and vegetarianism, a feminist and an activist for the eradication of corsets, friend to child labor laws and the forty-hour work week, a campaigner for shorthand in the office, not to mention mesmerism and female sexual enjoyment: introducing Orson Squire Fowler, who also found the time to perfect and popularize the design of the octagon house.
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July 9, 2008 by pdoyle
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July 8, 2008 by ando
