Fortean Blogscan 09-06-2009
Posted by Greg at 11:53, 09 Jun 2009A strange assortment to get you through the week...
- This week's Binnall of America podcast interview is with Tracy Twyman discussing everything from secret societies to the UFO phenomenon.
- Nick Redfern asks, what if the Air Force doesn't actually know what happened at Roswell?
- The latest Skeptiko podcast interview features Marilynn Hughes discussing an out-of-body travel experiment.
- Andy Gough asks, "Who Was Khufu?" on his Arcadia blog.
- At Cabinet of Wonders, Emps has a gallery of the crop glyphs raining down upon the English countryside.
- The good folk at Magonia continue to post archival articles at a furious rate: the latest additions include "Imaginary Reality" by Patrick Harpur, "Abduction Absurdities" by Willy Smith, and "Roswell: The Search for the 'Real' UFO" by John Harney.
- The latest Skeptics' Guide to the Universe podcast features an interview with Simon Singh as well as discussion of Newsweek vs Oprah, volcanoes and UFOs.
- Robert Temple asks "What is Wrong with the Sphinx?" over at Graham Hancock's website.
- Michael Prescott discusses consciousness a-rovin'.
- This week's eSkeptic newsletter features Harriet Hall's article "Vaccines and Autism: A Deadly Manufactroversy".
- The latest Paracast interview is with UFO researcher and pundit, Greg Bishop.
- Histories and Mysteries investigates "The Van Eyck Cryptogram".
- Jon Downes investigates the saga of the Peruvian Giant Anaconda at the Fortean Zoology blog.
- Philip Coppens shows you "A Sardinian Step Pyramid".
- UFO Casebook #362 is now online.
- The Psychedelic Salon features a podcast of Bruce Damer's lecture "The Boundaries of the Human Mind".
- At Paranormal Review, Roy Stemman discusses "Two Boys and Two Past Lives".
Enjoy!
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23 December 2008
2 years 10 weeks
A minor, irrelevant, early Cold War very likely staged military intelligence event only important now to a small cottage industry of "researchers" and the town of Roswell for whom it serves as a reliable cash cow.
1 May 2004
17 hours 50 min
I have wondered if the Mediterranean was partially/mostly dry in the ancient past. At some point, rising sea levels in the Atlantic poured into the basin isolating places like Sardinia, Malta, and Cyprus. Such an event could have led to the Black Sea flood that has been much commented on.
Communities could have been wiped out or left with a small island compared to their previous lands. Maybe there are lost civilizations laying in the mud and sand under all those cool Roman and Greek shipwrecks.
The Sardinians could have been left with only their highest pyramid/site and the remnants of their former culture. It would go a long way toward explaining anomalies like those in the article.
22 November 2004
2 weeks 13 hours
I believe that some considerable time ago, most of the Med was in fact dry. Both Gibraltar and the Bosporus were closed. I don't recall the source for this, it was a long time ago that I read this.
With the current climate, and I believe most past climates, the Med evaporates more water than the various rivers put into it. Hence the water level would me much lower, and some of the islands would be connected to the mainland. That's how elephants got to some of them. But if I remember correctly, the Gibraltar straight opened a very long time ago, as in millions of years. The Bosporus only about 7000 years ago, or was it 7000 BC?
The current fashion of dating things in years BP (Before Present) seems silly to me. Present it not a fixed point in time.
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It is not how fast you go
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10 August 2004
6 hours 38 min
As far as I know "Before Present" is a date fixed (for reasons unknown) as 1957. Books and/or articles that persist in using this arbitrary time marker instead of standard measure p**s me off as one has to continually calculate the period to which they are referring.
Regards, Kathrinn