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10 Discoveries Unexplained By Science (Original Post) yuiyoshida Apr 2014 OP
I got a bridge for you. hobbit709 Apr 2014 #1
WTF? mike_c Apr 2014 #2
I thought the 'mysterious building' was a pile of ballast stones from AtheistCrusader Apr 2014 #15
The Taos Hum isn't just in Taos Warpy Apr 2014 #26
Woooooooooooooo MNBrewer Apr 2014 #3
They forgot the tides. Kablooie Apr 2014 #4
Fuckin' magnets. lumberjack_jeff Apr 2014 #6
A friend of mine actually married the inventor of the Magna Bloc. Walk away Apr 2014 #9
Is that a joke? Wasn't it Romney that said nobody can explain the tides? n/t doc03 Apr 2014 #10
Bill O'Reilly Kablooie Apr 2014 #12
The moon uwep Apr 2014 #18
The Moon is the main factor but the Sun plays a role Jim Lane Apr 2014 #19
Galileo also wrote about this. Kablooie Apr 2014 #21
Wow! How fast is "breakneck speed"? Is that faster than the speed of light in a vacuum? xocet Apr 2014 #5
One would assume that yuiyoshida Apr 2014 #7
Jeeze! That music gave me a headache! I better get some Homeopathic medication right away or..... Walk away Apr 2014 #8
Bad title kenfrequed Apr 2014 #11
The only mystery is where thay found that bad creepy music zebonaut Apr 2014 #13
I happen to like that music :) Amonester Apr 2014 #16
Great selection!!! DeSwiss Apr 2014 #14
Someone alerted on your OP darkangel218 Apr 2014 #17
oh my...I would have never thought it would have fallen yuiyoshida Apr 2014 #22
You wouldnt know if you had a post alerted on darkangel218 Apr 2014 #23
Do you know what the complaint was? yuiyoshida Apr 2014 #24
I PMed you darkangel218 Apr 2014 #25
Thanks, pmed you back... yuiyoshida Apr 2014 #28
First class WOO-WOO!!! SkyDaddy7 Apr 2014 #20
I was going to reply with "...as of yet". Then... Democracyinkind Apr 2014 #27
You have to admit...it was fun... yuiyoshida Apr 2014 #29

mike_c

(36,281 posts)
2. WTF?
Wed Apr 16, 2014, 07:47 PM
Apr 2014

I only got through the first few, all of which had their actual scientific explanations, more-or-less, described in the captions, e.g. the Antikythera mechanism, "built to calculate the movements of the planets," or the mysterious building in the Sea of Galilee, built by people and "covered by rising waters". Oh the Taos Hum that only 2% report and no one else can even detect.

AtheistCrusader

(33,982 posts)
15. I thought the 'mysterious building' was a pile of ballast stones from
Thu Apr 17, 2014, 10:55 AM
Apr 2014

fishing vessels that used that port?

Warpy

(111,267 posts)
26. The Taos Hum isn't just in Taos
Thu Apr 17, 2014, 08:25 PM
Apr 2014

There are other places where clusters of people report hearing it. It might be a new viral disease that affects hearing but not much else.

I'd love to see an explanation for the Seneca Guns. So far everything, even deep seismic activity, has come up empty.

Walk away

(9,494 posts)
9. A friend of mine actually married the inventor of the Magna Bloc.
Wed Apr 16, 2014, 10:11 PM
Apr 2014

Amway sells it so right away you know it's bullshit. The guy is a medical doctor from Vanderbilt University. Now they are, apparently, off selling his latest invention...the clean coal machine. Every time someone mentions magnets it sort of freaks me out that so many people fall for this stuff. Now New Zealand is biting on a coal treatment that renders it's waste product as harmless as water. People are investing serious money.
All you need is balls and an idea and you can make a Woofortune!

uwep

(108 posts)
18. The moon
Thu Apr 17, 2014, 01:10 PM
Apr 2014

The moon's attraction to the earth causes the tides. This is
a simple explanation, at least that is what I learned in a high
school science class. If I was a tea party person and believed
the earth was flat or that the sun revolved around the earth or
that the earth was only 6000 years old I probably would be
wrong.

 

Jim Lane

(11,175 posts)
19. The Moon is the main factor but the Sun plays a role
Thu Apr 17, 2014, 04:00 PM
Apr 2014

The Moon's effect is stronger:

More precisely, the lunar tidal acceleration (along the Moon–Earth axis, at the Earth's surface) is about 1.1 × 10?7 g, while the solar tidal acceleration (along the Sun–Earth axis, at the Earth's surface) is about 0.52 × 10?7 g, where g is the gravitational acceleration at the Earth's surface.[29]


(from the "Forces" section of the Wikipedia article on "Tides&quot

yuiyoshida

(41,831 posts)
7. One would assume that
Wed Apr 16, 2014, 09:35 PM
Apr 2014

Breakneck speed is the speed a human faces, when his or her head is whipped backwards to the point of massive injury... I guess. Love all the responses here. Wooooo~ Its fun.

Walk away

(9,494 posts)
8. Jeeze! That music gave me a headache! I better get some Homeopathic medication right away or.....
Wed Apr 16, 2014, 09:58 PM
Apr 2014

better yet, just get some water.

kenfrequed

(7,865 posts)
11. Bad title
Wed Apr 16, 2014, 11:05 PM
Apr 2014

Very poor title for this video actually. Science is a process not merely all that is currently known. To say that these items are unexplained by science is a misnomer. One could say that there isn't currently an explanation for these phenomena, but you can't simply say that it is "unexplained by science."

 

DeSwiss

(27,137 posts)
14. Great selection!!!
Thu Apr 17, 2014, 02:02 AM
Apr 2014
- And my Ignore Box thanks you for all the fundamentalists you exposed!

K&R


''Modern science is based upon the principle, ''Give us one free miracle and we'll explain all the rest.'' ~Terrence McKenna

yuiyoshida

(41,831 posts)
22. oh my...I would have never thought it would have fallen
Thu Apr 17, 2014, 08:01 PM
Apr 2014

into a category that was mean, spiteful, hurtful or disruptive. It was meant to be entertaining. I have never had a posting alerted on ever. I hope people know that.

 

darkangel218

(13,985 posts)
23. You wouldnt know if you had a post alerted on
Thu Apr 17, 2014, 08:05 PM
Apr 2014

Onless it was hidden or someone who served on the jury told you.



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