The Interesting Thread 2017 - Mudlarking in the Thames

Who had the time and the stomach to build with bones? And why???

I couldn’t find much info on that. It is known that this awful job was given to one of the monks in 1511 who also happened to be half blind. The fact that his sight was not good must have helped his miserable job a little but still….what a nightmare!!! Scrub 40,000 human skeletons (there are 206 bones in an adult human body) and then on top to also build benches out of them!! Too bad they didn’t have Starbucks back then, some good espresso would probably help during those busy days (or years)…
I heard of two reasons why this whole ordeal was done:

1/ The bones had to be dug out and compacted (but did they really have to be compacted into chandeliers??) to leave more space for the “newcomers”

2/ By scrubbing them clean, the bones were rid of their sins hence it was believed that will give them an easier ride to heaven.

http://czechmatediary.com/2008/03/25/bo ... -veledilo/

Ew.

Bone church is awesome. That lamp is enchanting. Creepy gooseberry fool.

Very interesting thread, Hulohot.

Part 4: Creepy Recordings

The following clip is believed to be one of the first sound recordings ever taken.

It has only just been able to be played back because no one realized that it was a recording at all. In 1860 Frenchman Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville invented the phonautograph. It could transcribe sound to a visible medium, but had no means to play back the sound after it was recorded.

this is the voice of a woman singing “Au clair de la lune” and it was recorded 149 years ago. The recording was initially believed to be a woman but it is now thought that it should be played at a lower speed – in which case it sounds like a man who is suspected to be the inventor himself.

The Missing Cosmonaut

http://listverse.files.wordpress.com/20 ... _woman.mp3

During the late 1950’s and early 1960’s, the space race between the United States and the Soviet Union was hot. People around the world watched and listened. Some, most notably amateur radio operators, listened more closely than others. And of these, a pair of young brothers from Italy, Achille and Giovanni Judica-Cordiglia, reigned supreme. The brothers used home-made equipment to listen in on the Soviet launches. They recorded the heartbeat of the dog Laika who was launched in the one way Sputnik 2 voyage. But then, in 1961, they recorded something eerie. It was the sound of a woman who appeared to be a woman who may have been involved in testing of the ability for humans to cope with space. The audio (in Russian) says: “Isn’t this dangerous? Talk to me! Our transmission begins now. I feel hot. I can see a flame. Am I going to crash? Yes. I feel hot, I will re-enter…” The audio stopped at that point.

It's kind of creepy thinking the Russians might have sent human test subjects into space. :shifty:

Above: The sounds of Jupiter.

“The complex interactions of charged electromagnetic particles from the solar wind , planetary magnetosphere etc. create vibration ’soundscapes’. The winds of Jupiter are a thousand metres per second relative to the rotating interior. Jupiter’s magnetic field is four thousand times stronger than Earth’s, and is tipped by 11° degrees of axis spin. This causes the magnetic field to wobble, which has a profound effect on trapped electronically charged particles. This plasma of charged particles is accelerated beyond the magnetosphere of Jupiter to speeds of tens of thousands of kilometres per second. It is these magnetic particle vibrations which generate some of the sound you hear on this recording.”

Sources: Copy and pasted from http://listverse.com/2009/10/09/top-10- ... ecordings/ :fp:

See more at the link.

The cool thing about the Jupiter 'sounds' is that they sound so 'spacey'. Like 1970's synthesizer space sounds.

Find more cool stuff Hulo, you know you can do it!

Excellent thread. Keep it up.

Thanks guys. :wub:

This thread scares and interests me.

Part 5: Strange Human Deaths

These guys managed to go out in style. Just a warning that one of them is very graphic and disturbing, and will be spoilered accordingly.

Austrian Hans Steininger was famous for having the world’s longest beard (it was 4.5 feet or nearly 1.4 m long) and for dying because of it.

One day in 1567, there was a fire in town and in his haste Hans forgot to roll up his beard. He accidentally stepped on his beard, lost balance, stumbled, broke his neck and died!

After the Civil War, controversial Ohio politician Clement Vallandigham [wiki] became a highly successful lawyer who rarely lost a case.

In 1871, he defended Thomas McGehan who was accused of shooting one Tom Myers during a barroom brawl. Vallandigham’s defense was that Myers had accidentally shot himself while drawing his pistol from a kneeling position.

To convince the jury, Vallandigham decided to demonstrate his theory. Unfortunately, he grabbed a loaded gun by mistake and ended up shooting himself!

By dying, Vallandigham succeeded in demonstrating the plausibility of the accidental shooting and got his client acquitted.

In 1911, French tailor Franz Reichelt decided to test his invention, a combination overcoat and parachute, by jumping off the Eiffel Tower. Actually, he told the authorities that he would use a dummy, but at the last minute decided to test it himself. It was no surprise that he fell to his death.
Youtube clip of his fatal fall.

In 1991, artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude put up an environmental installation art of thousands of giant yellow and blue umbrellas in California and Japan. Less than two months after the installation opened, Lori Rae Keevil-Mathews, a 33-year-old woman drove out to see the umbrellas in California. A wind gust uprooted one of the umbrellas and blew it straight at her, crushing her against a boulder and killing her.

Warning: A picture taken at the scene of the death.

NSFW

This is the disgusting one. The live televised suicide of American politician Budd Dwyer.

On January 22, 1987- during a televised press conference-Robert "Budd" Dwyer shot himself in the mouth.

Why did the Polish guy piss on the electrified rail? According to reports, the 41-year-old Polish man was visiting London to improve his English. While at Vauxhall station in south London, he was observed on closed-circuit TV cameras walking into a recessed area, from which he failed to reappear.

It is there that officials believe our luckless Pole answered the call of nature, urinating on a live rail surging with 750-volts. You already know how this story ends.

What a shocking way to go.

Sources:
http://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/12/30- ... n-history/
http://www.hahayoudied.com/2009/04/pole-shock.html

That is it for now, something a bit more cheerful and fascinating for part 6 I think.

Budd Dwyer's death is horrific. There's a good chance he may have been innocent all along.

It was also the inspiration for Filter's ace track 'Hey Man, Nice Shot', and definitely NOT Kurt Cobain.

Just so we're clear on that.

Why did I watch that :shock:

That's just awful.

I watched it once. Never again.

This thread is mindblowing. Well done good sir.

Moving on from the last depressing update, onto Strange Satellite pictures.
This one is difficult, as there are generally no descriptions or theories to what the following pictures are so it really will be up for discussion. I will post a link to the area co-ordinates.

The Nevada Desert

The first image is one I found myself when scanning the Nevada Desert. These types of lines and patters are quite common and I stumbled across a few of them when scanning the sand, but this one stood out the most.

As you can see, when zoomed, there are unusual holes and marks in the pattern.

http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ie=UT ... 38581&z=15

This second image I found on a website.

"And the conspiracy is that there are more weird shapes to be found in the same region - and also that, allegedly, some 'sensitive' map images are missing from the zone?"

If you search just to the south east, you can see an elaborate airfield with what looks like fighter jets.

http://maps.google.com/maps?t=k&hl=en&i ... 09645&z=17

Sedan (Nevada) Nuclear Test Site

This part is spoilered for size.

This strange triangle formation can be found in Badginarra National Park, Australia. Looks like there is a tower in the middle, projecting a shadow to the west, possibly a radio tower?

"Many have paid attention to the dark triangle near Cervantes, but few look further... but the area surrounding the "Triangle" has some other interesting features... In the image above you can see a crater with radiating cracks just to the right... and as we see below on zooming out a little further we get grid lines... perhaps layouts for another HAARP like facility?"

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q ... 7&t=k&om=1

There is another explanation for the above crater picture in the spoiler box.

Holes or patterns in a desert in Libya. What could this be? Could it be Desert Irrigation?

A ridge that looks like a human face.

http://maps.google.com/maps?ie=UTF8&hl= ... 01929&z=16

And finally, the Richat Structure, also known as the eye of the earth.

I could quite literally go on with this but decided to cut it here. Maybe have a Part 6.2 at a later date.

Sources:

http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum9/9110.htm
http://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/fo ... maps&st=15
http://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/fo ... 106482&hl=
http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2007/09 ... th_12.html

That last one looks amazing, :shock:

On a similar theme, check out the Nazca Lines in Peru.

Saturn's mysterious hexagon.

An odd, six-sided, honeycomb-shaped feature circling the entire north pole of Saturn has captured the interest of scientists with NASA's Cassini mission.

The hexagon is similar to Earth's polar vortex, which has winds blowing in a circular pattern around the polar region. On Saturn, the vortex has a hexagonal rather than circular shape. The hexagon is nearly 25,000 kilometers (15,000 miles) across. Nearly four Earths could fit inside it.

Here, brightness indicates the amount of 5-micron (seven times the wavelength visible to the human eye) radiation, or heat, generated in the depths of the warm interior of Saturn that escapes the planet. Clouds at a depth equivalent to 3-Earth-atmospheres pressure block the light radiating from below, revealing themselves in dark silhouette against the background thermal glow of the planet. These deep clouds lie some 75 kilometers (47 miles) underneath the typical ammonia hazes and clouds seen in visual imagery and are likely composed of ammonia-hydrosulfide, although some may be composed of water, as on Earth. A prominent feature seen in this polar view is a strange hexagon wave feature circumscribing the north pole. This nighttime movie was acquired over a one-hour period on Nov. 10, 2006, from an average distance of 1.03 million kilometers (621,000 miles) above Saturn's clouds.

The six-sided shape remains a mystery. Scientists think the hexagon is a meandering jet stream at 77 degrees north latitude, but they don't know what controls the path the stream takes. These images also show new phenomena for scientists to decipher, such as waves that can now be seen radiating from the corners of the hexagon where the jet takes its hardest turns. These images confirm the presence of a multi-walled structure in each of the hexagon's six sides, and the structure now can be seen extending to the top of Saturn's cloud layer. The images show that the inside of the hexagon is darker than the outside. The new images also show a large spot inside the hexagon that could be related to a dark spot seen inside the hexagon in 2006 in an image taken by Cassini's VIMS instrument. An earlier Voyager mosaic showed a large spot outside the hexagon. That spot existed at least until 1991 before disappearing into the long winter polar night.

NASA's Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft imaged the feature over two decades ago. The fact that it has appeared in Cassini images indicates that it is a long-lived feature. A second hexagon, significantly darker than the brighter historical feature, is also visible in the Cassini pictures. The spacecraft's visual and infrared mapping spectrometer is the first instrument to capture the entire hexagon feature in one image.

"The longevity of the hexagon makes this something special, given that weather on Earth lasts on the order of weeks," said Kunio Sayanagi, a Cassini imaging team associate at the California Institute of Technology. "It's a mystery on par with the strange weather conditions that give rise to the long-lived Great Red Spot of Jupiter."Scientists are still trying to figure out what causes the hexagon, where it gets and expels its energy and how it has stayed so organized for so long. They plan to search the new images for clues, taking an especially close look at the newly identified waves that radiate from the corners of the hexagon -- where the jet takes its hardest turns -- and the multi-walled structure that extends to the top of Saturn's cloud layer in each of the hexagon's six sides. Scientists are also particularly intrigued by a large dark spot that appeared in a different position in a previous infrared image from Cassini. In the latest images, the spot appears in the 2 o'clock position.

Sources:

Thats a pretty damn good huge Hexagon right there. God must be behind it. 8-)

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