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Hawks
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Canada
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Posted - 12/17/2008 : 18:24:42 [Permalink]
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| "Reality" TV. Can't stand that shit. |
METHINKS IT IS LIKE A WEASEL
It's a small, off-duty czechoslovakian traffic warden! |
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Dr. Mabuse
Septic Fiend
Sweden
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 Posted - 12/17/2008 : 18:37:53 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by filthy
Hey, here's one, and right under our noses: Tunguska!
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Since my astronomy classes at the University, I figured it was a carbonaceous chondrite. It's a kind of meteorite that contains a lot of water and carbon. When entering the atmosphere, the friction temperature on the outside of the meteor boils the water inside to extremely high pressure until the water vapour inside makes it explode. The pressure spreads out the carbon thinly in the atmosphere where it starts burning like a fuel bomb (or vapour cloud explosion).
However, I don't know very much about high explosives, so I couldn't say if the Tunguska event is consistent with a fuel bomb-type explosion.
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"Equivocation is not just a job, for a creationist it's a way of life..." Dr. Mabuse
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Chippewa
SFN Regular
USA
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Posted - 12/17/2008 : 20:12:56 [Permalink]
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| Or when a single photon goes through two slits simultaneously, though there's only one photon - one far flung explanation being that there is another you in a parallel universe doing the same experiment and the universes slightly overlap, but only on the quantum level. |
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Simon
SFN Regular
USA
1992 Posts |
Posted - 12/18/2008 : 10:50:51 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Dr. Mabuse
Originally posted by filthy
Hey, here's one, and right under our noses: Tunguska!
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Since my astronomy classes at the University, I figured it was a carbonaceous chondrite. It's a kind of meteorite that contains a lot of water and carbon. When entering the atmosphere, the friction temperature on the outside of the meteor boils the water inside to extremely high pressure until the water vapour inside makes it explode. The pressure spreads out the carbon thinly in the atmosphere where it starts burning like a fuel bomb (or vapour cloud explosion).
However, I don't know very much about high explosives, so I couldn't say if the Tunguska event is consistent with a fuel bomb-type explosion.
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Yes, Tunguska is not all that difficult to explain scientifically, but is sure has a big budget.
Dark Flow is interesting; but I am not convinced that it is not purely an effect of known physical effects. For example that of massive objects outside of the observable universe (probably your mom).
Dark energy is interesting.
But, really, it is the most exotic aspects of quantum physic that really boggles my mind.
Similarly to physic, some aspect of abiogenesis are fascinating and not yet fully understood and yet, nothing there screams 'OMG that should not even been possible!' |
Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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Dude
SFN Die Hard
USA
6891 Posts |
Posted - 12/19/2008 : 01:42:39 [Permalink]
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| But what what is the weirdest phenominon we as a species have come across that we cannot currently explain scientifically |
Gravity.
Dark energy/matter.
The utter willingness of most people to believe in things for which no shred of evidence exists. I mean, I get that this may be a survival trait. As children we have to accept the word of authority figures. Fire is hot. Don't play in traffic. Leave the polar bear alone, it isn't really cute and cuddly.
If we don't unquestioningly obey authority figures our chance for survival is diminished.
Seems that we should all outgrow this as adults though.
Oh yea, and Muppets. There is no rational explanation for Muppets.
Two minutes thirtysix seconds of absolute awesome.
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Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.
-- Thomas Jefferson
"god :: the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument." - G. Carlin
Hope, n.
The handmaiden of desperation; the opiate of despair; the illegible signpost on the road to perdition. ~~ da filth |
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tomk80
SFN Regular
Netherlands
1278 Posts |
Posted - 12/19/2008 : 05:06:28 [Permalink]
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Cathedral of Zeitoun, Egypt, 1960.
There have been theories around about this phenomenon, but as far as I know none that have strong evidence behind them.
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Tom
`Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, `if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.'
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perrodetokio
Skeptic Friend
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Posted - 12/19/2008 : 06:36:22 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by tomk80
Cathedral of Zeitoun, Egypt, 1960.
There have been theories around about this phenomenon, but as far as I know none that have strong evidence behind them.
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1960? Hundreds of professional photographers? And the website shows three or four black & white, low-quality photographs?
Makes me wonder.
Isnīt there any film footage? I Mean, the appearances were there for like two years!
Hmmmmm.... |
"Yes I have a belief in a creator/God but do not know that he exists." Bill Scott
"They are still mosquitoes! They did not turn into whales or lizards or anything else. They are still mosquitoes!..." Bill Scott
"We should have millions of missing links or transition fossils showing a fish turning into a philosopher..." Bill Scott |
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Cuneiformist
The Imperfectionist
USA
4955 Posts |
Posted - 12/19/2008 : 14:40:07 [Permalink]
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Gravity.
[i]Edit: Oh, that's not "paranormal". Oh well. I don't think there's much that's "paranormal" that's unexplainable. |
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Cuneiformist
The Imperfectionist
USA
4955 Posts |
Posted - 12/19/2008 : 14:44:55 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Hawks
"Reality" TV. Can't stand that shit. |
I've said it before, but I'll repeat it here. With the exception of The Real World, the rest of "Reality" TV is nothing but glorified Prime Time game shows. |
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marfknox
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 12/19/2008 : 15:00:29 [Permalink]
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Weirdest? Isn't that totally subjective?
Seems like most people are going with questions in Physics, which was my first thought too, except that I'm so foggy in my understanding of even just the phenomena going on at that level that it doesn't seem right to use any of those mysteries as my answer.
In which case, the Muppets are as good an answer as any. |
"Too much certainty and clarity could lead to cruel intolerance" -Karen Armstrong
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tomk80
SFN Regular
Netherlands
1278 Posts |
Posted - 12/19/2008 : 16:17:58 [Permalink]
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| The amazing coordination the human can achieve at lightbreaking pianospeeds. |
Tom
`Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, `if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.'
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Randy
SFN Regular
USA
1990 Posts |
Posted - 12/19/2008 : 18:01:50 [Permalink]
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Tom, that was jaw-dropping to say the least.
Here's her myspace page....
http://www.myspace.com/hiromimusic
Let more of her fusion music on the page play through.
Thanks for the head's up. |
"We are all connected; to each other biologically, to the earth chemically, to the rest of the universe atomically."
"So you're made of detritus [from exploded stars]. Get over it. Or better yet, celebrate it. After all, what nobler thought can one cherish than that the universe lives within us all?"
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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Posted - 12/19/2008 : 22:57:45 [Permalink]
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OFfC, I gotta thank you for posting one of the best posers ever here. I've been pondering your question for days. Since you specify scientific mysteries, I agree with others that chose quantum entanglement.
Einstein described it neatly, though not precisely as "weird." As part of his objection to accepting its reality, Einstein called it "spooky interaction at a distance."
If it spooked Einstein, that's "weird" enough for me. What's most spooky to me, though, is that Einstein was wrong, and "spooky interaction at a distance" is today accepted as observed reality.
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
Here's a link to Moonscape News, and one to its Archive. |
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On fire for Christ
SFN Regular
Norway
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Posted - 01/08/2009 : 06:31:18 [Permalink]
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| Thanks to everyone who gave non-facetious replies. Although quantum entanglement is weird as heck, I find it too abstract to be really interesting. I'd need to study for years just to begin to understand it, and even then I might not be smart enough anyway. |
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What is the weirdest thing?
