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Friday, January 31, 2014
Unprecedented Storm
Unprecedented Storm
Haiyan brought sustained winds of 235km/h (147mph), with
gusts of 275 km/h (170 mph), with waves as high as 15m (45ft), bringing up to
400mm (15.75 inches) of rain in places. "The world has not seen a
storm like this before," said Senen Mangalile, the Philippines Consul
General to the UK. Steven Godby, a disaster management expert at
Nottingham Trent University, told the BBC the typhoon was "probably the
most intense and strongest storm of this type to make landfall".
"We've seen storms like this perhaps on rare occasions
that have had that kind of intensity out at sea but for it to come ashore with
that kind of strength is almost unprecedented," Dr Godby said.
American military aircraft and ships are being deployed to provide help. US
President Barack Obama has issued a message saying he was "deeply saddened
by the loss of life and extensive damage".
Three days after Typhoon Haiyan hit, aerial photos are
revealing a scene of apocalyptic devastation along a swathe of the central
Philippines.
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Oceans of water in Mars?
Oceans
of water in Mars?
Mars Has “Oceans” of Water Inside?
And volcanoes flooded early Mars with H2O,
meteorite study hints. Water on Mars exists almostexclusively as water
ice. Mars could have entire oceans’ worth of water locked in rocks deep
underground, scientists say.
The finding suggests that ancient volcanic eruptions may have been major sources of water on early Mars—and could have created habitable environments.
According to a new study, Martian meteorites contain a surprising amount of hydrated minerals, which have water incorporated in their crystalline structures.
In fact, the study authors estimate that the Martian mantle currently contains between 70 and 300parts per million of water—enough to cover the planet in liquid 660 to 3,300 feet (200 to 1,000 meters) deep.
“Basically the amount of water we’re talking about is equal to or more than the amount in the upper mantle of the Earth,” which contains 50 to 300 parts per million of water, said study leaderFrancis McCubbin, a planetary scientist at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque.
And if water exists today in the Martian mantle, that means the red planet likely had a lot of water in its interior all the way back to the moment the planet formed.
“We don’t have to rely on sources like comets and asteroids to bring in water afterward,” McCubbin said.
And if that’s the case for Mars, it’s
probably the case for the other rocky planets—Mercury, Venus, and Earth—as well
as for some large asteroids.
“Earth is not unique,” McCubbin said. “We should be finding water nearly everywhere in the solar system.”
Water Boiled Out of Mars Lava
McCubbin’s team found water while analyzing meteorites that had been blasted off the Martian surface by asteroid impacts and sent careening to Earth.
The meteorites are basaltic, which means the rocks must have formed from deep magmas brought to the surface during volcanic eruptions.
By carefully examining a mineral called apatite, McCubbin’s team found hydroxyl ions—a form of water that contains an oxygen atom bound to a hydrogen atom.
The presence of hydroxyl means that standard water—oxygen bound to two hydrogens—was also present in Martian magma. But because the hydroxyl is more tightly bound to rock than ordinary water, the ions remained behind when the rest of the water boiled out of the coolinglava.
From the amount of hydroxyl in the meteorites, it’s possible to reconstruct how much water is in Mars’s interior, McCubbin added.
“We’re using apatite as a hydrometer to record how much water was in the rock before it degassed,” he said. For instance, similar studies of lunar apatite in 2010 found that the moon’s interior is a hundred times wetter than previously thought.
Furthermore, he said, the Mars meteorites examined in the new study came from extremely young basalts, only 150 to 350 million years old.
That means all large Martian eruptions throughout the planet’s history probably carried substantial water to the surface—including eruptions that happened during the Noachian, the period when ancient Mars was warm enough to have possibly hosted liquid water on the surface.
Source : The
Richard Dawkins Foundation
Yaphet Kotto stunned by pyramids
Yaphet Kotto stunned by two giant underwater crystal pyramids discovered in the center of
the Bermuda Triangle. With the use of sonar, oceanographer Dr.
Meyer Verlag discovered giant glasspyramids at a depth of
two-thousand meters. The use of other devices have allowed scientists to
determine that these glass giants are both made of a
crystal-like substance, and are nearly 3 times bigger than the pyramid of
Cheops in Egypt.
Image: soundofheart.org
Dr. Verlag believes that further investigation into the secrets in
the pyramids center could reveal more information regarding the cases of
mysterious disappearances associated with the Bermuda Triangle. In
a press conference held in the Bahamas, the scientist presented a
report with the exact coordinates of the pyramids, and made note that the
technology at use is unknown to modern science. A more detailed study may
bring results that are difficult for us to imagine. Who knows what will
be discovered about these underwater architectural anomalies – perhaps
something of shocking significance.
Built on Land – Lost During Last Pole Shift?
There are several Western scholars who argue that
the pyramid on the seabed may have been initially made on the mainland, after
which a devastating earthquake struck and changed thelandscape completely.
Other scientists argue that a few hundred years ago the waters of the
Bermuda Triangle area may have as one of the cornerstone activities
of the people of Atlantis, and Pyramids on the sea floor may be a supply
warehouse for them.
A more detailed study over time will give results that are
difficult to imagine. Scientists have processed all of the data and concluded that
the surface is perfectly smooth for it to look like glass or ice. The size of
the pyramids are nearly three times the size of the pyramids of Cheops. This
news wassensational, and was discussed at aconference inFlorida and
even reported
to local Florida newspapers.. The journalists present in it, have a lot of
pictures and high resolutioncomputerized data, which show three-dimensional pyramids
perfectly smooth, without being covered with a surface free of debris or algae
or cracks.
Pyramid Discovery Challenges Current Archaeological Theory
A gigantic structure, initially identified by a doctor in
the 1960s, has recently been independently verified by diving teams from France
and the U.S.
The discovery has rocked scientists around the world. Will
they rush to investigate it? No, they’re more likely to studiously ignore it.
If pressed, they’ll officially position themselves as highly
skeptical—especially in light of the potential ramifications.
The pyramid could confirm someengineers’ contentions that
pyramids were originally created as massive power sources, support the
claim that the ancient city-state of Atlantis did exist, or even provide
answers to the mysterious goings-on that have been recorded since the 19th
Century in the region of the Atlantic dubbed the Bermuda Triangle.
Image: soundofheart.org
According to the history, the pyramid was accidentally
discovered during 1968 by adoctor of naturopathy, Ray Brown of Mesa, Arizona.
Brown was in the Caribbean on vacation and making dives with
friends in a region off the Bahamas known as “the Tongue of the
Ocean.” The area acquired that name because a tongue-shaped portion of the
seabed extends out from the island before sharply dropping off into much
greater depths.
When relating his discovery, the doctor explained he became
separated from his diving friends underwater. While attempting to rejoin
them he came upon a massive structure rising from the ocean floor: a black,
hulking object silhouetted against the lighter sun-filtered water. The object
was shaped like a pyramid.
Because he was low on air, he didn’t spend much time
investigating the pyramid, but did find a strange crystal sphere.
Image: soundofheart.org
He brought it to the surface with him and later when the
ancient crystal was studied researchers were astonished by its properties.
Properties of Crystal Pyramids
Some theories of Atlantis propose the island
city’s power pyramids were made of crystal, or their tops were capped with a
crystalline substance.
Could such a thing actually generate, store, and distribute
energy on demand? Yes.
Image: soundofheart.org
Experimenters discovered decades ago that pyramids do tend
to act in some ways like a natural electrical capacitor gathering and storing
energy around them. The larger the pyramid, the greater the capacity of
gathering and storing energy. A pyramid’s composition is important too. Having
one made of crystal, or an apex made of crystal, could vastly increase its
power.
Crystal has long been known to have energy applications and
exhibits natural piezo-electrical properties.
Early radio used germanium crystals to capture the radio
waves and convert them into electrical signals that could be processed and
broadcast through headphones into sound waves duplicating the human voice,
music, and other sounds.
Pyramid power, say investigators, is intrinsic to the
pyramid shape. It’s an architecture that’s proven to function as an energy
accumulator and amplifier of energetic force.
As if to prove the investigators’ assertions true, recently
some of the worlds pyramids began discharging beams of raw energy into space.
[See:World's Pyramids Beaming Energy]
The bottom line? Pyramids are intrinsically natural
generators of power.
Pyramids and the ‘Cavity Structural Effect’
Barry
Carter calls attention to another property that pyramids exhibit
called the “Cavity Structural Effect” (CSE) by its discoverer, Dr. Viktor S.
Grebennikov. The scientist employed the CSE to construct a
rudimentary anti-gravitic platform.
Viktor S. Grebennikov demonstrates anti-gravity
platform
Carter explains that “Grebennikov also claimed that he could
feel energies emitting from the apex of a pyramid: ‘You will soon pick up an
active zone, a “clot”, where the Egyptians had their tombs. Another active zone
(a “flame”) above the top of the pyramid is also well-perceived by the
indicator if you drag its end over the top. The “clot” and the “flame” are
well-felt by the finger inserted into the pyramid, or your palm moved above it
after some practice. The pyramid effect, which generated many scary and
mysterious stories over the centuries, is one of the CSE manifestations.’”
A Bermuda Triangle ‘Energy Vortex’
Another phenomenon pyramids may create: an energy vortex
Besides the time and spatial anomalies reported in the
Triangle, some survivors of terrifying incidents there have reported huge,
swirling vortices suddenly appearing and disappearing .
Evidence exists that some missing ships may have gone
missing because of this phenomenon.
Observations of some of the submerged pyramids reveals they
sporadically generate intense vortices in the ocean water flowing around them.
Those vortices may be caused by a discharge of internal energy.
If those submerged pyramids also discharge massive energy
through their apexes, that could account for the formation of deadly vortices
on the surface of the sea that swallows up whole ships along with their doomed
crews.
Future expeditions to these mysterious pyramids may finally
uncover the truth and reveal amazing ancient technology.
Thursday, January 30, 2014
The Taos Hum
The Taos Hum
The ‘Taos Hum’ is a low-pitched sound heard in numerous
places worldwide, especially in the USA, UK, and northern europe. It is usually
heard only in quiet environments, and is often described as sounding like a
distant diesel engine. Since it has proven indetectable by microphones or VLF
antennae, its source and nature is still a mystery.
In 1997 Congress directed scientists and observers from some
of the most prestigious research institutes in the nation to look into a
strange low frequency noise heard by residents in and around the small town of
Taos, New Mexico. For years those who had heard the noise, often described by
them as a “hum”, had been looking for answers. To this day no one knows the
cause of the hum.
The Hum
The Hum is a phenomenon, or collection of phenomena,
involving a persistent and invasive low-frequency humming, rumbling, or droning
noise not audible to all people. Hums have been widely reported by national
media in the UK and the United States. The Hum is sometimes prefixed
with the name of a locality where the problem has been particularly publicized:
e.g., the "Bristol Hum",
the "Taos Hum", or the "Bondi Hum".
Data from a Taos Hum study suggests that a minimum of two
percent and
perhaps as many as 11 percent of the population could detect
the Taos Hum and the Daily Telegraph in 1996 likewise reported a
figure of two percent of people hearing the Bristol Hum. For those who can hear
the Hum it can be a very disturbing phenomenon and it has been linked to at
least three suicides in the UK. However, amongst those who cannot hear the
hum and some specialists, there has been skepticism about whether it, in fact,
exists.
Image: nature.com
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Description
The essential element that defines the Hum is what is
perceived as a persistent low-frequency sound, often described as being
comparable to that of a distant diesel
engine idling, or to some similar low-pitched sound for which obvious
sources (e.g., household appliances, traffic noise, etc.) have been ruled out.
There are a number of audio reproductions of the Hum available on the web.
Other elements seem to be significantly associated with the
Hum, being reported by an important proportion of hearers, but not by all of
them. Some people hear the Hum only, or much more, inside buildings as compared
with outdoors. Some perceive vibrations that can be felt through the body.
Earplugs are reported as not decreasing the Hum.
The Daily Telegraph reported that two percent of people
could hear the Bristol Hum. Research into the Taos Hum indicated that between
two percent and 11 percent of people could hear the hum, with the actual figure
likely being at the lower end of the range. The hum does appear to be
geographically focused, i.e. it does appear to be possible for hearers to move
away from it; the range of the Taos Hum was reported to be 48 km to
72 km. Women may be more likely to be affected than men. Age does appear
to be a factor, with older people being more likely to hear it.
On November 15, 2006, Dr. Tom Moir of the Massey
University in Auckland, New Zealand made
a recording of the Auckland Hum and has published it on the university's
website. The captured Hum's power spectral density peaks at a frequency of
56 hertz. The
Taos Hum was between 40 to 80 hertz. Higher-pitched tones have also been
reported; the Hueytown (Alabama) Hum has been compared the sound to that made
by a dentist’s drill or the sound made by a fluorescent light bulb near the end
of its life.
In 2009, the head of audiology at Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge, Dr
David Baguley, said that he believed people's problems with hum were based on
the physical world about one-third of the time and the other two-thirds stemmed
from people focusing too keenly on innocuous background sounds.
Image: strangesounds.org
History
Only a handful of articles have been published in the
scientific literature including Deming, 2004; Broner, 1978; Cowan, 2003;
Fox, 1989; Leventhall, 2003; Mullins & Kelly, 1995, 1998; Hanlon,
1973; Vasudevan & Gordon, 1977; Wilson, 1979.
The World Hum Database and Mapping Project was launched in
December 2012, in order to build detailed mappings of hum locations and to
provide a database of Hum-related data for professional and independent
researchers.
London and Southampton, United Kingdom 1940s
More than 2,000 people reported hearing sounds dating back
to the 1940s in the London and Southampton areas of Great Britain. Deming cited
Glasgow, Scotland's Sunday Herald 1995 report claiming that the Hum
was, "first reported in the late 1950s when people in Britain began to
report hearing a most unusual noise—a combination of a humming, droning, and
buzzing sound."
Bristol Hum, Bristol, Britain 1979
In Britain, the most famous example was the Bristol Hum that
made headlines in the late 1970s.
Largs, Scotland 1980s
Since the 1980s, the Hum has been bothering people living in
coastal towns in the west coastal area of Scotland including Largs, a coastal
town about 31 km west of Glasgow.
Taos Hum, Taos, New Mexico, USA 1992
It was in 1992 that the Hum phenomenon began to be reported
in North America following complaints from many
citizens living near the town of Taos,
New Mexico.
The University of New Mexico undertook studies of hum
sufferers in Taos. One of the researchers reported that the Hum was close
to 66 hertz, two octaves below middle C, although it could go as low as the
lowest E on a piano.
An ongoing low frequency noise, audible only to some, is
thought to originate somewhere near this town and is consequently sometimes
known as the Taos Hum. Those who have heard the Hum usually hear it west of
Taos near Tres Orejas. The Taos Hum was featured on the TV show Unsolved Mysteries, and it was also briefly
mentioned in an episode of The X-Files.
Kokomo, Indiana, USA 1999
Kokomo, a city of 47,000, allocated $100,000 in 2002 to
investigate a hum after nearly 100 complaints were made since 1999. Some
sufferers blamed physical symptoms on the hum, including headaches, nausea,
diarrhea, fatigue, and joint pain, with one reporting that her health improved
when she moved out of the town. In November 2002, Acentech was hired by
the Board of Public Works and Safety of the City of Kokomo to investigate the Hum.
Following a public meeting held 2 December 2002, Acentech investigation of
acoustic sources did not find any conclusive cause and suggested non-acoustic
phenomena, such as microwave (radio frequency) hearing, electrosensitivity,
chemical sensitivity, hypersensitivity to natural geomagnetic phenomena may
cause the "types of symptoms that these people are experiencing."
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada pre-2003
The Hum has also been heard since before 2003 by residents
on Canada's southwest Coast in the region around the city of Vancouver.
Woodland, County Durham, England 2011
In June 2011, residents of the small rural village of Woodland, England reported experiencing
a hum that had already lasted for over two months.
Windsor, Ontario, Canada 2011
This phenomenon, first noticed in 2009, has also been
reported since 2011 throughout Windsor and Essex County in Ontario,
Canada. A 2011 study by Earthquakes Canada indicated
that it may be originating from the heavily-industrialised Zug Island area
on the US side of the Detroit river. A two-hour telephone town hall
meeting in 2012 received calls from 13,000 residents, with another 9,000
leaving comments over the next week, although not all of those were from people
who could hear the hum.
In 2013 the Canadian Government allocated $60,000 for
research by the University of Windsor to determine the
source of the noise. As of April 2013, a Canadian scientist is using
sound-level meters and a portable "pentangular array" of cameras and
microphones to try and precisely identify the source of the sound, in order to
know who exactly to ask to fix it.
Calgary, Alberta, Canada 2008
The volunteer Ranchlands Noise Investigation Team began
investigating the Ranchlands hum in 2008. Marcia Epstein, an acoustic ecologist
at the University of Calgary and a member of
the Ranchlands Noise Investigation Team, described the hum as "a
concentration of frequencies around 40 hertz, and 40 cycles per
second", sometimes described as a "vibrational
feeling", affecting "12 to 20 per cent of the community."
County Kerry, Ireland 2012
The Hum has also frustrated residents in County
Kerry, Ireland. This led to it being raised in the Irish Parliament by Michael
Healy-Rae, who personally heard the Hum. The official response was
described by Healy-Rae as "away with the fairies gobbledygook."
Seattle, Washington, USA 2012
The phenomenon was also recorded in 2012 in Seattle, where
some residents report having heard it in previous years.
Wellington, New Zealand 2012
In Wellington, New Zealand the City Council was flooded with
complaints about a mysterious hum.
Italian National Research Council, ISTI, Pisa, Italy, 2013
In Pisa, Italy the ISTI institute for Science and Technology of the
Italian CNR researchers
are reporting of a very disturbing hum especially in the area of the High
Performance Computing Laboratory. After some investigations, people from the
maintenance department have declared the problem solved. The hum remains and
annoyed people remain as well.
Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, 2013
Loud sounds were heard in many places of this city, these
noises commonly are heard by the night
Colima, Colima, Mexico, 2013
Loud industrial sounds were heard mostly in downtown at
afternoon.
Possible explanations
Some explanations of hums for which no definitive source has
been found have been put forth. These include:
Tinnitus
A suggested diagnosis of tinnitus, a
disturbance of the auditory system, is used by some physicians in response to
complaints about The Hum. Tinnitus is generated internally by the auditory and
nervous systems, with no external stimulus. However, the theory that the Hum is
actually tinnitus fails
to explain why the Hum can be heard only at certain geographical locations, to
the degree those reports are accurate. There may exist individual differences
as to the threshold of perception of acoustic or non-acoustic stimuli, or other
normal individual variations that could contribute to the perception of the Hum
by some people in the population and not by others.
While the Hum is hypothesized by some to be a form of low
frequency tinnitus such as the venous hum,
some sufferers claim it is not internal, being worse inside their homes than
outside. However, others insist that it is equally bad indoors and outdoors.
Some people notice the Hum only at home, while others hear it everywhere they
go. Some sufferers report that it is made worse by soundproofing (e.g., double
glazing), which serves only to decrease other environmental noise, thus
making the Hum more apparent.
People who both suffer from tinnitus and hear the Hum
describe them as qualitatively different, and many hum sufferers can find
locations where they do not hear the hum at all. An investigation by a team of
scientists in Taos dismissed the possibility that the Hum was tinnitus as
highly unlikely.
Spontaneous otoacoustic emissions
Human ears generate their own noises, called
spontaneous otoacoustic emissions, which affects between
38 percent to 60 percent of people, although the majority are unaware of these
sounds. The people who hear these sounds typically hear a faint buzzing or
ringing, especially if they are otherwise in complete silence. However,
these emissions occur with equal frequency across age groups within the
population, and the Hum typically occurs in regional clusters and to older
people. Recordings of sounds that appear to be the Hum, such as that made
in Auckland, would indicate that otoacoustic emissions cannot explain all
occurrences of the Hum.
Colliding ocean waves
On early June, 2008 an article published in Proceedings of the Royal Society announced
the location of a "hum hotspot", an "energetic source area
stretching from the Labrador Sea to south of Iceland, where wind patterns are
especially conducive to generating oppositely traveling waves of same period,
and the ocean depth is favourable for efficient microseism generation
through the ‘organ pipe’ resonance of the compression
waves." Researchers from the USArray Earthscope have tracked down
a series of infrasonic humming noises produced by waves crashing
together and thence into the ocean floor, off the North-West coast of the USA.
Potentially, sound from these collisions could travel to many parts of the
globe.
Mechanical devices
In the case of Kokomo,
Indiana, a city with heavy industries, the origin of the hum was thought to
have been traced to two sources. The first was a pair of fans in a cooling
tower at the local DaimlerChrysler casting plant emitting a 36 Hz
tone. The second was an air
compressor intake at the Haynes International plant emitting a
10 Hz tone. After those devices were corrected, however, the hum
persisted.
Fish
A hypothesis put forward by the Scottish Association for Marine
Science blames a nocturnal humming sound heard in Hythe,
Hampshire in the UK on the male Midshipman
fish's mating call. Although this can not be the cause because the
Midshipman fish is not native to the Solent.
Media coverage
The Taos Hum was featured on the TV show Unsolved Mysteries. It was also featured
in LiveScience's
"Top Ten Unexplained Phenomena", where it took tenth place.
In popular culture
In a 1998 episode of The X-Files titled
"Drive", Agent Mulder speculates that extremely low frequency (ELF) radio
waves "may be behind the so-called Taos Hum".
Sources: listverse.com,
Wikipedia
The Top 10 Unsolved Mysteries
The Top 10 Unsolved Mysteries
This list comprises the most famous
unsolved mysteries known to man that really defy rational explanation
or are just outright strange. Mysteries have been a
constantly popular subject on Listverse and searching for “mysteries” will give
you a huge number of extra lists to satisfy your curiosity.
Use the comments below to tell us what mysteries you think
are missing or worthy of a mention so we can include them in future lists.
10 The taos hum
The ‘Taos Hum’ is a low-pitched sound heard in numerous places worldwide,
especially in the USA, UK, and northern europe. It is usually heard only
in quiet environments, and is often described as sounding like a distant diesel
engine. Since it has proven indetectable by microphones or VLF antennae, its
source and nature is still a mystery.
In 1997 Congress directed scientists and observers from some
of the most prestigious research institutes in the nation to look
into a strange low frequency noise heard by residents in and around
the small town of Taos, New Mexico. For years those who had heard the noise,
often described by them as a “hum”, had been looking for answers. To this day
no one knows the cause of the hum.
9 Black Dahlia
In 1947 the body of 22 year old Elizabeth Short was found in two pieces in a parking
lot in Los Angeles. According to newspaper reports shortly after the
murder, Short received the nickname “Black Dahlia” at a Long Beach drugstore
in the summer of 1946, as a play on the then-current movie The Blue Dahlia.
However, Los Angeles County district attorney investigators’ reports state the
nickname was invented by newspaper reporters covering the murder. In either
case, Short was not generally known as the “Black Dahlia” during her lifetime.
Many rumours and tales have spread about the Black
Dahlia, and the investigation (one of the largest in LA history) never found
the killer.
8 Comte de Saint Germain
The Count of St. Germain (allegedly died February 27, 1784)
was a courtier, adventurer, inventor, amateur scientist, violinist,
amateur composer, and a mysterious gentleman; he also displayed some skills
with the practice of alchemy. He was known as ‘Der Wundermann’ — ‘The
Wonderman’. He was a man whose origin was unknown and who disappeared without
leaving a trace.
Since his death, various occult organizations have
adopted him as a model figure or even as a powerful deity. In recent years
several people have claimed to be the Count of St. Germain. (Note that St
Germain was never regarded as a saint by the Roman Catholic Church –
the “st.” before his name refers to his alleged home).
7 Voynich manuscript
The Voynich Manuscript is a medieval document written in an unknown
script and in an unknown language. For over one hundred years people have
tried to break the code to not avail. The overall impression given by the
surviving leaves of the manuscript suggests that it was meant to serve as a
pharmacopoeia or to address topics in medieval or early modern medicine.
However, the puzzling details of illustrations have fueled many theories about
the book’s origins, the contents of its text, and the purpose for which it was
intended.
The document contains illustrations that suggest
the book is in six parts: Herbal, Astronomical, Biological, Cosmological,
Pharmaceutical, and recipes.
6 The Zodiac Killer
The Zodiac killer was active in Northern California for ten months in the late
1960s. He killed at least five people, and injured two. He comitted the first
two murders with a pistol, just inside the Benecia border. In his second
shooting in Vallejo, he attempted to kill two people, but one survived despite
gunshots to the head and neck. 40 minutes later the police recieved an
anonymous phone call from a man claiming to be their killer and admitting to
the murders of the previous two victims. One month three letters were sent to
Newspapers in California containing a cypher that the killer claimed would give
them his name. They cypher was decrypted to read:
“I LIKE KILLING PEOPLE BECAUSE IT IS SO MUCH FUN IT IS MORE
FUN THAN KILLING WILD GAME IN THE FORREST BECAUSE MAN IS THE MOST DANGEROUE
ANAMAL OF ALL TO KILL SOMETHING GIVES ME THE MOST THRILLING EXPERENCE IT IS
EVEN BETTER THAN GETTING YOUR ROCKS OFF WITH A GIRL THE BEST PART OF IT IS THAE
WHEN I DIE I WILL BE REBORN IN PARADICE AND THEI HAVE KILLED WILL BECOME MY
SLAVES I WILL NOT GIVE YOU MY NAME BECAUSE YOU WILL TRY TO SLOI DOWN OR ATOP MY
COLLECTIOG OF SLAVES FOR MY AFTERLIFE EBEORIETEMETHHPITI” The last eighteen
letters have not been decrypted.
While Arthur Leigh Allen was the prime suspect, all of the
evidence was against him being the killer. To this day the Zodiac murders have
not been solved.
5 The Babushka Lady
During the analysis of the film footage of the assasination
of John F. Kennedy in 1963, a mysterious woman was spotted. She was wearing a
brown overcoat and a scarf on her head (the scarf is the reason for her name as
she wore it in a similar style to Russian grandmothers – also called
babushkas). The woman appeared to be holding something in front of her face
which is believed to be a camera. She appears in many photos of the scene. Even
after the shooting when most people had fled the area, she remained in place
and continued to film. Shortly after she is seen moving away to the East up Elm
Street. The FBI publically requested that the woman come forward and give them
the footage she shot but she never did.
In 1970 a woman called Beverly Oliver came forward and
claimed to be the Babushka Woman, though her story contains many
inconsistencies. She is generally regarded as a fraud. To this day, no one
knows who the Babushka Woman is or what she was doing there. More unusual is
her refusal to come forward to offer her evidence.
4 Mary Celeste
Mary Celeste was launched in Nova Scotia in 1860. Her original name was
“Amazon”. She was 103 ft overall displacing 280 tons and listed as a half-brig.
Over the next 10 years she was involved in several accidents at sea and passed
through a number of owners. Eventually she turned up at a New York salvage
auction where she was purchased for $3,000. After extensive repairs she was put
under American registry and renamed “Mary Celeste”.
The new captain of Mary Celeste was Benjamin Briggs, 37, a
master with three previous commands. On November 7, 1872 the ship departed New
York with Captain Briggs, his wife, young daughter and a crew of eight. The
ship was loaded with 1700 barrels of raw American alcohol bound for Genoa,
Italy. The captain, his family and crew were never seen again. The ship was
found floating in the middle of the Strait of Gibraltar. There were no signs of
struggle on board and all documents except the captain’s log were missing.
In early 1873, it was reported that two lifeboats grounded
in Spain, one with a body and an American flag, the other containing five
bodies. It has been alleged that these could have been the remains of the crew
of the Mary Celeste. However, the bodies were apparently never identified.
3 Jack the Ripper
In the later half of 1888, London was terrorrised by a series of murders in the
east end (largely in the Whitechapel area). The name Jack the Ripper was taken
from a letter sent to a newspaper at the time by someone claiming to be the
killer. The victims were typically prostitutes who had their throats cut and
bodies mutilated. In some cases the bodies were discovered just minutes after
the ripper had left the scene.
The police at the time had many suspects but could never
find sufficient evidence to convict anyone. In modern times there has even been
some speculation that Prince Albert Victor was the murderer. Even with modern
police methods, no further light has been shed on the murders in recent times.
To this day no one knows who the ripper was.
2 Bermuda Triangle
The Bermuda triangle is an area of water in the North Atlantic Ocean in which a
large number of planes and boats have gone missing in mysterious circumstances.
Over the years many explanations have been put forward for the disappearances,
including bad weather, alien abductions, time warps, and suspension of the laws
of physics have Although substantial documentation exists to show that many of the reports been
exaggerated, there is still no explanation for the unusually large number of
disappearances in the area.
The shroud of Turin is a linen cloth bearing the image of a
man who had apparently died of crucifixion. Most Catholics consider it to be
the burial shroud of Jesus Christ. It is currently held in the Cathedral of St
John the Baptist in Turin, Italy. Despite many scientific investigations, no
one has yet been able to explain how the image has been imprinted on the shroud
and despite many attempts, no one has managed to replicate it. Radiocarbon
tests date it to the middle ages, however apologists for the shroud believe it
is incorrupt – and carbon dating can only date things which decay.
Prior to the middle ages, reports of the shroud exist as the
Image of Edessa – reliably reported since at least the 4th century. In
addition, another cloth (the Sudarium) known even from biblical times (John
20:7) exists which is said to have covered Christ’s head in the tomb. A 1999
study by Mark Guscin, a member of the multidisciplinary investigation team of
the Spanish Center for Sindonology, investigated the relationship between the
two cloths. Based on history, forensic pathology, blood chemistry (the Sudarium
also is reported to have type AB blood stains), and stain patterns, he
concluded that the two cloths covered the same head at two distinct, but close
moments of time. Avinoam Danin (a researcher at the Hebrew University of
Jerusalem) concurred with this analysis, adding that the pollen grains in the
Sudarium match those of the shroud.
By: Jamie Frater
Source: listverse.com
Source: listverse.com
Saturday, March 16, 2013
Hindu Weapons
Hindu Weapons
A self-guided missile with sophisticated artificial intelligence, powerful nonetheless classified as weapons of mass destruction, capable of destroying everything with a highly focused antimatter explosion.
The Brahmastra never misses its mark and must be used with very specific intent against an enemy, whether an individual or army, as the target will face complete annihilation. Brahmastra is said to be obtained by meditating on Lord Brahma, and can be used only once in a lifetime. The user would have to display immense amounts of mental concentration in order to get sanction to arm and use the weapon. Since Brahma is the Creator in Sanatana Dharma, it is understood that Brahmastra was created by him for the purpose of upholding Dharma and Satya.
Chakram - is
the circular weapon of diameter about 4.7-12 inches and has sharp cuts at the
outer edge. The enemy is attacked by throwing the weapon at him. It is also
known as circles or chalikar.
This weapon is used against the enemy by twirling it in the index finger and thrown out with spin to add more power and vigor.
This weapon is used against the enemy by twirling it in the index finger and thrown out with spin to add more power and vigor.
Gada - The mace, popularly known as the Gada, is a weapon from the weapon time and holds an important position in the history of Hindu religion. It was carried by Lord Hanuman, Bhim, and others who were symbols of power and strength. The mace is said to be representing the concentrated Prana. As the Earth revolves round the sun and derives life force from it and then stores it, similarly, the Gada also moves around the user’s body to gather life force. It is the shape of a ball which symbolizes the earth rotating on its axis, the handle. It is a symbol of great power, valor, bravery and strength.
Kaumodaki - the divine mace weapon of vishnu; invincible and without parallel. It is the source of Vishnu’s divine power, his physical strength, mental strength. This weapon represents Vishnu’s power to end all the ‘anarths inside a person’s mind and hinders them from reaching the God. He used this weapon to purify the spirits within us and uplift us from materialistic bonds. It is a mace which is omni-potent and heavy powered weapon which is impossible to defeat.
Narayanastra (or
Narainastra) - was the personal weapon of lord Vishnu in
his Narayana
(or Naraina)
form. This astra ("weapon" in Sanskrit) in
turn fires a powerful tirade of millions of deadly missiles simultaneously. The
intensity of the shower increases with increase in resistance. The only way of
defense towards this missile, is to show total submission before the missiles
hit. This in turn will cause this weapon to stop and spare the target.
When
fired, usually appear as a spiky ball of energy of varying
colours, such as red, orange, yellow, blue, or green. 
Pashupatastra - in Hindu History, is the crescent-shaped irresistible and most destructive personal weapon of Kali and Shiva, discharged by the mind, the eyes, words, or a bow. Never to be used against lesser enemies or by lesser warriors, the Pashupatastra is capable of destroying creation and vanquishing all beings.
It could stun entire city blocks full of people destroy cities and even destroy entire asteroids up to a given size, it is also said to be capable of destroying continents.
Shiva Dhanush - also known as Pinaka (Ajagav), in Hindu mythology, was the divine bow of Lord Shiva gifted to King Janaka by Sage Parashurama for safe-keeping while the sage performed penances. The bow is 8.5 feet in length as mentioned in the Dhanurveda.
A directed-energy weapon (DEW) emits energy in an aimed direction with or without the means of a projectile. It transfers energy to a target for a desired effect. Intended effects may be non-lethal or lethal.
The more energy in each strike, the greater the damage will
be.
Trishula - is a type of Indian trident but also found in Southeast Asia. It is commonly used as a Hindu-Buddhist religious symbol. The word means "three spear" in Sanskrit and Pali.
The trishula symbolism is polyvalent and rich.
Vajra - The thunderbolt weapon of Indra, who is the God of Thunder and Lightning, akin to Zeus and Jupiter. It petrifies living tissue almost instantly.
Varunastra - is the water weapon (a storm) according to Hindu mythology, incepted by Varuna. In stories it is said to assume any weapon's shape, just like water. In Hindu myths or Puranas this weapon is said to have been obtained by great warrior characters such as Arjuna, Satyaki, Dhrishtadhuymna,
Dronacharya, and many other illustrious warrior characters. Mythology says this weapon was obtained by meditating on Varuna or Shiva, and was to be used with great care and skill. The usage of weapon was not possible for any inexperienced warrior, as a slight mistake committed, and the user himself could be destroyed.
Source : OMG Top Ten, Wikipedia
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