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Mysteries of the modern world; Earth's mysteries, monsters and other phenomena
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I can barely handle the heat, these days, thank goodness, this will happen millions of years from now.

Our solar system's sun, categorized as a "yellow dwarf", will someday, far into the future, expand with such energy that Mercury, Venus, and the Earth will be obliterated by the expanding heat and solar energy of the sun, the energy release equivalent to hundreds of billions of H-bomb explosions. freak out The sun will expand, its expansion part of a process in which it will gradually lose energy and eventually "burn out", but not before taking half(or more) of the planets in our solar system with it. This event that will take place, according to scientists, in about a billion years. cross eyed
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One thing this article touches on is the inevitable, and unfortunate reality of our own planet: one day, far into the future, Earth will be nothing more than a desert planet, the result of our oceans literally boiling away as our sun expands, part of a process that our sun, categorized as a "yellow dwarf", goes through in its normal "life" cycle. As our sun expands temperatures here on our planet will rise dramatically. This will happen millions of years from now, so don't sweat it(pun intended tongue-1 ) too much. The article link: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19188532/?GT1=10056


Well isn't that a rosy future to look forward in about a million years...thank goodness I'll be dead before that happens :D
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Well isn't that a rosy future to look forward in about a million years...thank goodness I'll be dead before that happens


I'm also of the feeling I'm happy I won't be around for that little light show! Mr Green
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More Bigfoot clips:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQxlwzWOXFE

Bigfoot is also the subject of some commercials that have been airing, both on TV and the internet, sponsored by Jack Links beef jerky. The ads are slapstick takes and feature human pranks on the creatures and the resulting consequences. They are all called "Messin' With Sasquatch". Here are a couple of good ones:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2d_m2OVa_g

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVM62idO9MA

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Bigfoot is also the subject of some commercials that have been airing, both on TV and the internet, sponsored by Jack Links beef jerky. The ads are slapstick takes and feature human pranks on the creatures and the resulting consequences. They are all called "Messin' With Sasquatch". Here are a couple of good ones:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2d_m2OVa_g

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVM62idO9MA

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Those beef jerky commercials were funny, I haven't seen them on tv anymore I guess they ran their course but definitely good stuff Mr Green
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I still see these commercials, in my area, but only occasionally....I always stop channel surfing, if I come across these. :)
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The Philadelphia Experiment. Many may not be familiar with this phrase. For those of you who aren't it is the name of an alleged event that took place in the Fall of 1943. The event itself: a U.S. Navy destroyer was successfully rendered invisible, while manned, and teleported to the naval base at Norfolk, VA. According to official U.S. Navy archives there is no record of this event, though the destroyer allegedly involved in this experiment was not in Philadelphia when it was supposed to be. Read this article and make your own conclusion(s): http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq21-1.htm
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Read this article and make your own conclusion(s):


I've heard of this story, but never read anything about it, interesting article. thumbs up
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I've heard of this story, but never read anything about it, interesting article.

Interestingly enough, there was an episode from the television series The X-Files that dealt with this alleged event. There has been research into the potential for teleportation and also in invisibility.

Here's another link about this alleged event: http://skepdic.com/philadel.html

I believe it was nothing more, as the article in the above link suggests, than an experiment to optimally "degauss" the U.S. Navy destroyer "Eldridge". The term "gauss", named after mathematician/scientist Carl Friedrich Gauss, is a standard measurement of magnetic induction. By "degauss" I mean the minimization of the ships' magnetic signature. Every U.S. Navy warship, Kimi, by virtue of it's hull(made of metal obviously) and its array of electronics(sonars and radars) generates a magnetic field. Special coils are installed in the hulls of Navy warships as part of the ship's degaussing. The U.S. Navy has always strived to minimize this magetic field around its warships in order to reduce their visibility to an enemy ships' radar, and its own weapons(e.g. torpedoes or mines). The Charleston Naval Base, where I was home ported on my ship(1984-1987), has, like the other major naval bases in San Diego(CA) and Norfolk(VA), a degaussing "range"-the range is an area of the Cooper River, which ships must navigate leaving the naval base, where a nearby shore building's specially designed hardware, in conjunction with the ship's hull "degaussing coils", significantly "demagnetizes" the passing warships.
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The term "gauss", named after mathematician/scientist Carl Friedrich Gauss, is a standard measurement of magnetic induction. By "degauss" I mean the minimization of the ships' magnetic signature. Every U.S. Navy warship, Kimi, by virtue of it's hull(made of metal obviously) and its array of electronics(sonars and radars) generates a magnetic field. Special coils are installed in the hulls of Navy warships as part of the ship's degaussing. The U.S. Navy has always strived to minimize this magetic field around its warships in order to reduce their visibility to an enemy ships' radar, and its own weapons(e.g. torpedoes or mines).


This is very interesting, wasn't this part ot all of what the film, The Philadelphia Experiment was based on?
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This is very interesting, wasn't this part ot all of what the film, The Philadelphia Experiment was based on?

Yes. Click the link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087910/
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This is very interesting, wasn't this part ot all of what the film, The Philadelphia Experiment was based on?

I was just about to say that after reading the articles
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Touching once more on the subject of time travel, I came across this link, which is very good, regarding this phenomena, and discusses the possibility of time travel as well: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/time/through.html

Having done some research of my own, through the library and internet, on the subject of time travel, it is currently the consensus among most scientists that time travel into the future is theoretically possible, and that traveling in time into the past is not.
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I recall the first time I ever saw, The Time Machine, on TV as a kid, I thought that would be the neastest thing...to travel back in time as well as into the future. I'd want to have the ability, but not to be seen by anyone or anything, though. I was so interested in dinosaurs at the time, I wanted to travel back and really see them in action.
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The subject of time travel has always fascinated me, Kimi. There have also been some very good movies that have touched on the subject.

Some that I thought were good:

The Time Machine(1960)
The Final Countdown(1980)
The Time Machine(2002)(the remake of the 1960 film)
Millenium(1989)

And some that weren't so good:

A Sound Of Thunder(2005)
Timeline(2003)
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Is this the film starring that Paul Walker....I believe he was in one or perhaps more of those, Fast and Furious films? Carol rented this one through NetFlix and with only about 15 minutes or so left in the film, the disc stopped playing....I thought it was rather a merciful thing to do for us. <_<
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Is this the film starring that Paul Walker....I believe he was in one or perhaps more of those, Fast and Furious films?

Yes, the very same. I happened to catch this film on television not too long ago. I didn't like the storyline at all. I also thought the film, overall, stank. shifty eyes

Scientists are mounting another expedition into parts of Canada in search of Bigfoot. Click the link for more info: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19443010/?GT1=10056
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Scientists are mounting another expedition into parts of Canada in search of Bigfoot. Click the link for more info: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19443010/?GT1=10056

You know what's really interesting about that link you posted, that same article was sent to my cell phone as a news alert confused
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Know anyone who's had a near death experience? I don't, but there many people out there that claim they have had one. Descriptions of these experiences vary from person to person, obviously, though one recurring theme of many who openly talk of their experience is a bright light. Click this link for more info, subjective and not so subjective, on this phenomena: http://www.near-death.com/
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No, I don't know anyone, either, but I do find this phenomena or whatever you may call it, quite interesting.
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Tidbits:

-here's a video of National Geographic's Brady Barr, a wildlife biologist, trying to measure huge crocodiles: http://video.msn.com/v/us/fv/fv.htm??g=da6...l&fg=&gt1=10056

Click the link to see various articles about unusually large skeletal remains found here in the U.S. and abroad, some of the skeletons measuring over eight feet in length: http://www.geocities.com/TheTropics/Lagoon/1345/giants.html

This link discusses the alleged discovery, in Kentucky, of a perfectly preserved skeleton measuring eight feet nine inches long. It is theorized that this skeleton may have belonged to a deformed native-American Indian: http://www.geocities.com/TheTropics/Lagoon...5/kentucky.html ... freak out
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The articles are very interesting. I want to see that video clip, so I just E-mailed that to Mom, so next time I visit her, I can watch it. thumbs up
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If the word bloop doesn't mean anything to you right now it might, after you've checked out this website: http://www.bloopwatch.org/thebloop.html

When I was in the U.S. Navy I heard stories from submarine officers, over drinks at the Charleston Naval Base Officer's Club, about the various "biologic" audio signals picked up by U.S. Navy submarines that could not be identified. More than a few of these submarine officers told me they believed the deepest recesses of our world's oceans probably were inhabited by large, and presently unseen, marine animals. freak out
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More than a few of these submarine officers told me they believed the deepest recesses of our world's oceans probably were inhabited by large, and presently unseen, marine animals.


I think that's why I enjoy some fantasy style films so much, that go into the depths and always encounter some huge, ghastly sea beasties. thumbs up
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Here's an interesting link that extrapolates on the oceans of our planet and what may be lurking in the deepest depths: http://marinebio.org/Oceans/Mysteries/
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I've saved that article to read more fully, later, but that is neat. I also loved that photo of what I believe is a 'sea horse'.....very colorful.
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Ever wondered how the internet got started? Or its history? I have. It would appear from this article that the origins of the internet can be traced back to around 1961 or 1962. Click the link for more info: http://www.isoc.org/internet/history/brief.shtml#Origins
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Ever wondered how the internet got started? Or its history? I have. It would appear from this article that the origins of the internet can be traced back to around 1961 or 1962. Click the link for more info:


Wow, that is very interesting!
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Black holes are also something that I have always found interesting-objects in outer space with a gravitational field so powerful that not even light can escape their influence. Click the link for more info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_hole
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Ever wondered how the internet got started? Or its history? I have. It would appear from this article that the origins of the internet can be traced back to around 1961 or 1962. Click the link for more info: http://www.isoc.org/internet/history/brief.shtml#Origins

As a computer geek (IT major), I was forced to learn about the creation of the internet...it's good stuff though. Did you know they are working on the "Internet 2"?
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