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Statues of Tutankhamun
This pair of life-sized statues was found in a small entrance room of Tutankhamun's tomb in the Valley of the Kings, poised like sentries. They've been identified as "Ka" statues, or representations of his soul or spirit.
Both figures are wearing a kilt with some very serious pleating, the one on the left wears a "khat" head dress, the one on the right a "nene" head dress
A side view of the statue which is on the right, above.
It's thought that the black colouring is supposed to invoke the richness and fertility of the black silt which the Nile deposited each year when it overflowed, and which Egypt depended on for its existence. It was the normal convention in Egyptian art for males to be shown with dark skin and females with light skin, presumably to show that they spent their time indoors.
This is a very intriguing and surprising artifact. Apparently it's a mannikin of the young pharoah used by his clothesmakers, as you can see from the roughness of the painting, and the way the paint ends abruptly at his neckline. It seems strange that this would be buried with him.
Now he gets to look at all the tourists going past, which must be one heck of a lot better than being stuck in that dark old tomb with nothing to do for millenia.
This is the only statue I remember seeing where he's actually doing anything except standing around with his best foot forward. It's very rare in classical Egyptian statuary for the pharoah to be shown doing anything - almost without exception the king is shown in a static pose.
Here, he's standing on a small papyrus raft, re-enacting the role of the god Horus hunting the god Seth in the form of a hippopotamus. I have no idea what he has in his left hand.
At the far end of the cabinet you can see a leopard, which carries another small statue, one of four in this display case.
Two more statuettes from the same display case, all made of wood covered in gold. They are part of a set of 32 which were in the tomb, some of which depict Tutankhamun acting out various Egyptian myths.
Both of these show him with a crook in his left hand and a flail in his right hand. Egypt was historically divided into Upper Egypt, roughly south of where Cairo is now, and Lower Egypt, where the Nile spreads across the delta in many separate branches. The image on the left shows Tutankhamun wearing the crown of Upper Egypt, and the image on the right shows him wearing the crown of Lower Egypt. These two crowns were often combined to represent power over the whole of Egypt.
This is the statue which is mounted on a leopard. Here he's back in the crown of Upper Egypt, and looking like a very arrogant little dictator, quite different from the sweet kid portrayed on the face of the mannikin.
The bulging stomach and prominent breasts are reminiscent of the unusual and somewhat androgynist artistic style of Tutankhamun's heretic father or grandfather Akhenaten.
This side view of the same statue shows that he definitely needs to work on his butt, too.
Off at the far end of the cabinet you can see the funny little stylized boat that the spear-wielding figure is standing on.
http://www.richard-seaman.com/Travel/Egypt/Cairo/Museum/Tutankhamun/Statues/index.html
This pair of life-sized statues was found in a small entrance room of Tutankhamun's tomb in the Valley of the Kings, poised like sentries. They've been identified as "Ka" statues, or representations of his soul or spirit.
Both figures are wearing a kilt with some very serious pleating, the one on the left wears a "khat" head dress, the one on the right a "nene" head dress
A side view of the statue which is on the right, above.
It's thought that the black colouring is supposed to invoke the richness and fertility of the black silt which the Nile deposited each year when it overflowed, and which Egypt depended on for its existence. It was the normal convention in Egyptian art for males to be shown with dark skin and females with light skin, presumably to show that they spent their time indoors.
This is a very intriguing and surprising artifact. Apparently it's a mannikin of the young pharoah used by his clothesmakers, as you can see from the roughness of the painting, and the way the paint ends abruptly at his neckline. It seems strange that this would be buried with him.
Now he gets to look at all the tourists going past, which must be one heck of a lot better than being stuck in that dark old tomb with nothing to do for millenia.
This is the only statue I remember seeing where he's actually doing anything except standing around with his best foot forward. It's very rare in classical Egyptian statuary for the pharoah to be shown doing anything - almost without exception the king is shown in a static pose.
Here, he's standing on a small papyrus raft, re-enacting the role of the god Horus hunting the god Seth in the form of a hippopotamus. I have no idea what he has in his left hand.
At the far end of the cabinet you can see a leopard, which carries another small statue, one of four in this display case.
Two more statuettes from the same display case, all made of wood covered in gold. They are part of a set of 32 which were in the tomb, some of which depict Tutankhamun acting out various Egyptian myths.
Both of these show him with a crook in his left hand and a flail in his right hand. Egypt was historically divided into Upper Egypt, roughly south of where Cairo is now, and Lower Egypt, where the Nile spreads across the delta in many separate branches. The image on the left shows Tutankhamun wearing the crown of Upper Egypt, and the image on the right shows him wearing the crown of Lower Egypt. These two crowns were often combined to represent power over the whole of Egypt.
This is the statue which is mounted on a leopard. Here he's back in the crown of Upper Egypt, and looking like a very arrogant little dictator, quite different from the sweet kid portrayed on the face of the mannikin.
The bulging stomach and prominent breasts are reminiscent of the unusual and somewhat androgynist artistic style of Tutankhamun's heretic father or grandfather Akhenaten.
This side view of the same statue shows that he definitely needs to work on his butt, too.
Off at the far end of the cabinet you can see the funny little stylized boat that the spear-wielding figure is standing on.
http://www.richard-seaman.com/Travel/Egypt/Cairo/Museum/Tutankhamun/Statues/index.html
Earthquake lights
As far back as 373 BC people have claimed to see weird lights in the sky during earthquakes, and sometimes for minutes before the shaking actually starts, as seen in this video
Naga Fireballs
A phenomenon in Thailand in which balls of fire apparently rise from the Mekong river, float high into the sky and dissappear.
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Possibly the world's only immortal animal
The turritopsis nutricula species of jellyfish may be the only animal in the world to have truly discovered the fountain of youth.
Since it is capable of cycling from a mature adult stage to an immature polyp stage and back again, there may be no natural limit to its life span. Scientists say the hydrozoan jellyfish is the only known animal that can repeatedly turn back the hands of time and revert to its polyp state (its first stage of life).
The key lies in a process called transdifferentiation, where one type of cell is transformed into another type of cell. Some animals can undergo limited transdifferentiation and regenerate organs, such as salamanders, which can regrow limbs. Turritopsi nutricula, on the other hand, can regenerate its entire body over and over again. Researchers are studying the jellyfish to discover how it is able to reverse its aging process.
Because they are able to bypass death, the number of individuals is spiking. They're now found in oceans around the globe rather than just in their native Caribbean waters. "We are looking at a worldwide silent invasion," says Dr. Maria Miglietta of the Smithsonian Tropical Marine Institute.
The turritopsis nutricula species of jellyfish may be the only animal in the world to have truly discovered the fountain of youth.
Since it is capable of cycling from a mature adult stage to an immature polyp stage and back again, there may be no natural limit to its life span. Scientists say the hydrozoan jellyfish is the only known animal that can repeatedly turn back the hands of time and revert to its polyp state (its first stage of life).
The key lies in a process called transdifferentiation, where one type of cell is transformed into another type of cell. Some animals can undergo limited transdifferentiation and regenerate organs, such as salamanders, which can regrow limbs. Turritopsi nutricula, on the other hand, can regenerate its entire body over and over again. Researchers are studying the jellyfish to discover how it is able to reverse its aging process.
Because they are able to bypass death, the number of individuals is spiking. They're now found in oceans around the globe rather than just in their native Caribbean waters. "We are looking at a worldwide silent invasion," says Dr. Maria Miglietta of the Smithsonian Tropical Marine Institute.
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Possibly the world's only immortal animal
The turritopsis nutricula species of jellyfish may be the only animal in the world to have truly discovered the fountain of youth.
Since it is capable of cycling from a mature adult stage to an immature polyp stage and back again, there may be no natural limit to its life span. Scientists say the hydrozoan jellyfish is the only known animal that can repeatedly turn back the hands of time and revert to its polyp state (its first stage of life).
The key lies in a process called transdifferentiation, where one type of cell is transformed into another type of cell. Some animals can undergo limited transdifferentiation and regenerate organs, such as salamanders, which can regrow limbs. Turritopsi nutricula, on the other hand, can regenerate its entire body over and over again. Researchers are studying the jellyfish to discover how it is able to reverse its aging process.
Because they are able to bypass death, the number of individuals is spiking. They're now found in oceans around the globe rather than just in their native Caribbean waters. "We are looking at a worldwide silent invasion," says Dr. Maria Miglietta of the Smithsonian Tropical Marine Institute.
Wow. Finally, something truly amazing!
Top Ten Unexplained Phenomena
http://www.livescience.com/strangenews/top10_unexplained_phenomena-1.html
10.The Body/Mind Connection
Medical science is only beginning to understand the ways in which the mind influences the body. The placebo effect, for example, demonstrates that people can at times cause a relief in medical symptoms or suffering by believing the cures to be effective - whether they actually are or not. Using processes only poorly understood, the body's ability to heal itself is far more amazing than anything modern medicine could create.
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IMO, this trumps EVERYTHING.
9. Psychic powers and ESP
Psychic powers and extra-sensory perception (ESP) rank among the top ten unexplained phenomena if for no other reason than that belief in them is so widespread. Many people believe that intuition (see #3) is a form of psychic power, a way of accessing arcane or special knowledge about the world or the future. Researchers have tested people who claim to have psychic powers, though the results under controlled scientific conditions have so far been negative or ambiguous. Some have argued that psychic powers cannot be tested, or for some reason diminish in the presence of skeptics or scientists. If this is true, science will never be able to prove or disprove the existence of psychic powers.
8. Near-Death Experiences and Life After Death
People who were once near death have sometimes reported various mystical experiences (such as going into a tunnel and emerging in a light, being reunited with loved ones, a sense of peace, etc.) that may suggest an existence beyond the grave. While such experiences are profound, no one has returned with proof or verifiable information from "beyond the grave." Skeptics suggest that the experiences are explainable as natural and predictable hallucinations of a traumatized brain, yet there is no way to know with certainty what causes near-death experiences, or if they truly are visions of "the other side."
7.UFOs
There is no doubt that UFOs (Unidentified Flying Objects) exist - many people see things in the skies that they cannot identify, ranging from aircraft to meteors. Whether or not any of those objects and lights are alien spacecraft is another matter entirely; given the fantastic distances and effort involved in just getting to Earth from across the universe, such a scenario seems unlikely. Still, while careful investigation has revealed known causes for most sighting reports, some UFO incidents will always remain unexplained.
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Key-word, IMO, is "identity"...
6.Deja vu
Deja vu is a French phrase meaning 'already seen,' referring to the distinct, puzzling, and mysterious feeling of having experienced a specific set of circumstances before. A woman might walk into a building, for example, in a foreign country she'd never visited, and sense that the setting is eerily and intimately familiar. Some attribute deja vu to psychic experiences or unbidden glimpses of previous lives. As with intuition (see #3), research into ,human psychology can offer more naturalistic explanations, but ultimately the cause and nature of the phenomenon itself remains a mystery.
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http://www.livescience.com/strangenews/top10_unexplained_phenomena-1.html
Medical science is only beginning to understand the ways in which the mind influences the body. The placebo effect, for example, demonstrates that people can at times cause a relief in medical symptoms or suffering by believing the cures to be effective - whether they actually are or not. Using processes only poorly understood, the body's ability to heal itself is far more amazing than anything modern medicine could create.
^^^^
IMO, this trumps EVERYTHING.
Psychic powers and extra-sensory perception (ESP) rank among the top ten unexplained phenomena if for no other reason than that belief in them is so widespread. Many people believe that intuition (see #3) is a form of psychic power, a way of accessing arcane or special knowledge about the world or the future. Researchers have tested people who claim to have psychic powers, though the results under controlled scientific conditions have so far been negative or ambiguous. Some have argued that psychic powers cannot be tested, or for some reason diminish in the presence of skeptics or scientists. If this is true, science will never be able to prove or disprove the existence of psychic powers.
People who were once near death have sometimes reported various mystical experiences (such as going into a tunnel and emerging in a light, being reunited with loved ones, a sense of peace, etc.) that may suggest an existence beyond the grave. While such experiences are profound, no one has returned with proof or verifiable information from "beyond the grave." Skeptics suggest that the experiences are explainable as natural and predictable hallucinations of a traumatized brain, yet there is no way to know with certainty what causes near-death experiences, or if they truly are visions of "the other side."
There is no doubt that UFOs (Unidentified Flying Objects) exist - many people see things in the skies that they cannot identify, ranging from aircraft to meteors. Whether or not any of those objects and lights are alien spacecraft is another matter entirely; given the fantastic distances and effort involved in just getting to Earth from across the universe, such a scenario seems unlikely. Still, while careful investigation has revealed known causes for most sighting reports, some UFO incidents will always remain unexplained.
^^^^
Key-word, IMO, is "identity"...
Deja vu is a French phrase meaning 'already seen,' referring to the distinct, puzzling, and mysterious feeling of having experienced a specific set of circumstances before. A woman might walk into a building, for example, in a foreign country she'd never visited, and sense that the setting is eerily and intimately familiar. Some attribute deja vu to psychic experiences or unbidden glimpses of previous lives. As with intuition (see #3), research into ,human psychology can offer more naturalistic explanations, but ultimately the cause and nature of the phenomenon itself remains a mystery.
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Project MKULTRA, or MK-ULTRA, was the code name for a covert, illegal CIA human research program, run by the Office of Scientific Intelligence. This official U.S. government program began in the early 1950s, continuing at least through the late 1960s, and it used U.S. and Canadian citizens as its test subjects.[1][2][3] The published evidence indicates that Project MKULTRA involved the surreptitious use of many types of drugs, as well as other methods, to manipulate individual mental states and to alter brain function.
Project MKULTRA was first brought to wide public attention in 1975 by the U.S. Congress, through investigations by the Church Committee, and by a presidential commission known as the Rockefeller Commission. Investigative efforts were hampered by the fact that CIA Director Richard Helms ordered all MKULTRA files destroyed in 1973; the Church Committee and Rockefeller Commission investigations relied on the sworn testimony of direct participants and on the relatively small number of documents that survived Helms' destruction order.[4]
Although the CIA insists that MKULTRA-type experiments have been abandoned, 14-year CIA veteran Victor Marchetti has stated in various interviews that the CIA routinely conducts disinformation campaigns and that CIA mind control research continued. In a 1977 interview, Marchetti specifically called the CIA claim that MKULTRA was abandoned a "cover story."[5][6]
Revelation
1977 United States Senate report on MKULTRA
In 1973, CIA Director Richard Helms ordered all MKULTRA files destroyed. Pursuant to this order, most CIA documents regarding the project were destroyed, making a full investigation of MKULTRA impossible.
In December 1974, The New York Times reported that the CIA had conducted illegal domestic activities, including experiments on U.S. citizens, during the 1960s. That report prompted investigations by the U.S. Congress, in the form of the Church Committee, and by a presidential commission known as the Rockefeller Commission that looked into domestic activities of the CIA, the FBI, and intelligence-related agencies of the military.
In the summer of 1975, congressional Church Committee reports and the presidential Rockefeller Commission report revealed to the public for the first time that the CIA and the Department of Defense had conducted experiments on both unwitting and cognizant human subjects as part of an extensive program to influence and control human behavior through the use of psychoactive drugs such as LSD and mescaline and other chemical, biological, and psychological means. They also revealed that at least one subject had died after administration of LSD. Much of what the Church Committee and the Rockefeller Commission learned about MKULTRA was contained in a report, prepared by the Inspector General's office in 1963, that had survived the destruction of records ordered in 1973.[35] However, it contained little detail.
The congressional committee investigating the CIA research, chaired by Senator Frank Church, concluded that "[p]rior consent was obviously not obtained from any of the subjects". The committee noted that the "experiments sponsored by these researchers ... call into question the decision by the agencies not to fix guidelines for experiments."
Following the recommendations of the Church Committee, President Gerald Ford in 1976 issued the first Executive Order on Intelligence Activities which, among other things, prohibited "experimentation with drugs on human subjects, except with the informed consent, in writing and witnessed by a disinterested party, of each such human subject" and in accordance with the guidelines issued by the National Commission. Subsequent orders by Presidents Carter and Reagan expanded the directive to apply to any human experimentation.
On the heels of the revelations about CIA experiments, similar stories surfaced regarding U.S. Army experiments. In 1975 the Secretary of the Army instructed the Army Inspector General to conduct an investigation. Among the findings of the Inspector General was the existence of a 1953 memorandum penned by then Secretary of Defense Charles Erwin Wilson. Documents show that the CIA participated in at least two of Department of Defense committees during 1952. These committee findings led to the issuance of the "Wilson Memo," which mandated—in accord with Nuremberg Code protocols—that only volunteers be used for experimental operations conducted in the U.S. armed forces. In response to the Inspector General's investigation, the Wilson Memo was declassified in August 1975.
With regard to drug testing within the Army, the Inspector General found that "the evidence clearly reflected that every possible medical consideration was observed by the professional investigators at the Medical Research Laboratories." However the Inspector General also found that the mandated requirements of Wilson's 1953 memorandum had been only partially adhered to; he concluded that the "volunteers were not fully informed, as required, prior to their participation; and the methods of procuring their services, in many cases, appeared not to have been in accord with the intent of Department of the Army policies governing use of volunteers in research."
Other branches of the U.S. armed forces, the Air Force for example, were found not to have adhered to Wilson Memo stipulations regarding voluntary drug testing.
In 1977, during a hearing held by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, to look further into MKULTRA, Admiral Stansfield Turner, then Director of Central Intelligence, revealed that the CIA had found a set of records, consisting of about 20,000 pages,[36] that had survived the 1973 destruction orders, due to having been stored at a records center not usually used for such documents.[35] These files dealt with the financing of MKULTRA projects, and as such contained few details of those projects, but much more was learned from them than from the Inspector General's 1963 report.
In Canada, the issue took much longer to surface, becoming widely known in 1984 on a CBC news show, The Fifth Estate. It was learned that not only had the CIA funded Dr. Cameron's efforts, but perhaps even more shockingly, the Canadian government was fully aware of this, and had later provided another $500,000 in funding to continue the experiments. This revelation largely derailed efforts by the victims to sue the CIA as their U.S. counterparts had, and the Canadian government eventually settled out of court for $100,000 to each of the 127 victims. None of Dr. Cameron's personal records of his involvement with MKULTRA survive, since his family destroyed them after his death from a heart attack while mountain climbing in 1967.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MKULTRA
great thread
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very good stuff
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Possibly the world's only immortal animal
The turritopsis nutricula species of jellyfish may be the only animal in the world to have truly discovered the fountain of youth.
Since it is capable of cycling from a mature adult stage to an immature polyp stage and back again, there may be no natural limit to its life span. Scientists say the hydrozoan jellyfish is the only known animal that can repeatedly turn back the hands of time and revert to its polyp state (its first stage of life).
The key lies in a process called transdifferentiation, where one type of cell is transformed into another type of cell. Some animals can undergo limited transdifferentiation and regenerate organs, such as salamanders, which can regrow limbs. Turritopsi nutricula, on the other hand, can regenerate its entire body over and over again. Researchers are studying the jellyfish to discover how it is able to reverse its aging process.
Because they are able to bypass death, the number of individuals is spiking. They're now found in oceans around the globe rather than just in their native Caribbean waters. "We are looking at a worldwide silent invasion," says Dr. Maria Miglietta of the Smithsonian Tropical Marine Institute.
INCREDIBLE!!!!!!
WOW...i bet a physicist would NEVER have expected that one....
Anymore of this guy Jonathan Gray?
http://www.disclose.tv/action/viewvideo/2440/Hidden_Discoveries_Pt__1_9/
I would like to see some of his photos of some of his adventures - Are there anything out there? Any more of this guy?
http://www.disclose.tv/action/viewvideo/2440/Hidden_Discoveries_Pt__1_9/
I would like to see some of his photos of some of his adventures - Are there anything out there? Any more of this guy?
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Well? nothing on Jonathan Gray? I listened to that series above and now I'm interested in more... does he only write books...?
interestin'....
That Double Slit Thread is VERY interesting.
2ble slit what?
but how can observation affect the path of an object and further why did observation not affect the larger particles or even the sound waves ?.............wait a minute what is the definition of observation or measurment? Yea Quantum Physics, you wonder how these guys get paid since really all they do is come up with more questions.
intresting thread.
intresting thread.
You should look up the next generation of computer security AKA Quantum Security..Beastly!
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