Thought it would be best after all the serious tuff this morning to take a break and move right along to the WuJo – our mental martial arts school where reality/scientific meets reality/other on the mat of mental combat.
Today we wander into the Grand Canyon. Don’t know if you have ever seen the story, or not, but there was a rather well publicized report (predating the net) that back in 1909 the Smithsonian Institution sent a crew to the Grand Canyon where Egyptian artifacts were purportedly found.
One of the earlier versions of the story traces back to Keelynet circa 1993 and reads in part:
“The latest news of the progress of the explorations of what is now regarded by scientists as not only the oldest archeological discovery in the United States, but one of the most valuable in the world, which was mentioned some time ago in the Gazette, was brought to the city yesterday by G.E. Kinkaid, the explorer who found the great underground citadel of the Grand Canyon during a trip from Green River, Wyoming, down the Colorado, in a wooden boat, to Yuma, several months ago.
According to the story related to the Gazette by Mr. Kinkaid, the archaelogists of the Smithsonian Institute, which is financing the expeditions, have made discoveries which almost conclusively prove that the race which inhabited this mysterious cavern, hewn in solid rock by human hands, was of oriental origin, possibly from Egypt, tracing back to Ramses. If their theories are borne out by the translation of the tablets engraved with heiroglyphics, the mystery of the prehistoric peoples of North America, their ancient arts, who they were and whence they came, will be solved. Egypt and the Nile, and Arizona and the Colorado will be linked by a historical chain running back to ages which staggers the wildest fancy of the fictionist….”
The story then goes on to describe the findings in the cave and since then there have been reported efforts here and there to get the Smithsonian to reveal its role in all this – which seems to have led to denials – as might be expected.
How much stock you put in the story depends on what you think of the whole field of hidden archeology, I suppose. Nevertheless, the Phoenix Gazette seems to have been real.
All of which gets me to this interesting site “WingMakers” which landed in my inbox this morning with a note that I should take some time and read the whole site – even make a copy in case it disappears from the net again; apparently it has gone missing in the past…and be sure to read the philosophy attached to it.
No endorsement, but any site that begins with…
“An amazing story of the discovery of a time capusle store deep inside a canyon wall for over a millennium…”
…gets me to thinking about that purported Phoenix Gazette story I heard in about 1996 or ’97 back when I was reading Graham Hancock’s Fingerprints of the Gods
A lot of people won’t even begin to consider that earth has a much richer and [hidden] history than is ‘officially let on’. But, evidence of how scientists in a strict peer review setting skewered data on climate change that didn’t fit a desired outcome has me reconsidering the possibilities.
The problem is, however, like we were talking about last week, if earth really does have this hidden history and if there’s anything to it, then the odds of something like our gap in linguistic data in October of 2011 or the reputed Mayan calendar problems in 2012 becomes a lot more possible.
Just wanted to throw that out there are brain food and a place to go researching in case Monday turns out to be terribly boring.
Robert Nelson Had IT!
I forgot to ask my friend Robert Nelson of www.rexresearch.com about that bootstrap gravity engine design I wrote about a few months back. Thanks to reader AF for sending the link to the right page: HERE. “Mysterious new Aircraft powered by Reaction motor”. Out of a January 1935 Popular Science. But there was another one and it was powered with an electric drill….
If you have a sponge-like mind, going to Nelson’s Rex Research site can soak up days and days with interesting reading and grist for the home3\ science lab to test… but that gets us to the next item which is:
Say What? Department
Urban Dictionary’s got a good one as their featured word of the day: “Time Vampire” – which is someone who sucks time out of your life like a vampire sucks blood. More at their website: urbandictionary.com.
Nice Theory…But…
Reader wants to know:
“Understood from reading your website couple weeks ago that, the only way to slow the dollar death was to have another war.
Last night I had a WHAT IF moment, what if Chavez is not making a mistake and is actually correct on his accusation, what if the PTB mastered Tesla’s work and actually launched an attack in Haiti, in a cold no human way it would make sense, (will explain my DIASPORA THEORY), WHAT IF the reports are talking about a money Diaspora instead of a Human one? Isn’t it interesting economical wise to get some billions of USD out of the US territory, wouldn’t that at least put on hold the “de + inflationary” process?
Just want to finish it up with just one more WHAT IF, what if we see in the next couple of weeks another >7 earthquake in South America (other regions could be saved with different currencies and would not be so effective).
Your opinion on it is highly wanted.
In a word: No. Money bouncing around in model space would accrue in the ‘Markets” portion of the model. besides, when the six great quakes come later this year (>July 7th) they appear in the GlobalPop(ulation) area. Sorry…this is gonna hurt a little.
The .MP3 Test
If you click over here: www.independencejournal.com/mp3/20100125.mp3 after about 8:30 or so, you should be able to hear a test of a daily .MP3 podcast. Style is conversational/sitting having a cup of coffee with you and maybe 10-minutes worth.
Comments are welcome on anything related: length, approach, theme and so forth. Probably will have a different music intro for each day of the week and the one this morning is something I \whipped out in Finale’ & GPO 4 in about 10-seconds. Some day, I’d like to have time to spend learning how to drive the music software. But there’s only one of me and zillions of music software outfits.