November 19, 200816 yr David, what the hell is this? I don't see anything. This whole thread! lol Oh, in that case. David, what the hell is this? Adam's brain on drugs.
November 20, 200816 yr Urban Legends ALUM DROPS HIROSHIMA BOMB A UC alumnus piloted the Enola Gay aircraft in 1945, dropping the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima. True. Before the war, Paul Tibbets attended UC intending to study medicine, but enlisted as a cadet in the Army Air Corps in Fort Thomas, Ky. The pilot and commander of the 509th Group retired as a brigadier general, was inducted into the National Aviation Hall of Fame and received the Distinguished Service Cross, the Distinguished Flying Cross, the Air Medal, the Purple Heart, the Legion of Merit, the European Campaign Medal, the Joint Staff Commendation Medal, the American Defense Service Medal, the WWII Victory Medal, the Air Force Outstanding Unit Award and the American Campaign Medal. Tibbets died in 2007 at the age of 92. GHOST HAUNTS BLEGEN A ghost haunts Blegen. Maybe. Although the common rumor puts the spirit in the stacks, unnamed witnesses say the ghost of a short male, around 60 years of age, in a tweed cap and jacket, roams the rare book room. Legend credits the apparition as being a former classics professor who died in the early ’60s, archivist Kevin Grace says. Because the rare book room is dark and kept at a low temperature, it does have an eerie feeling of its own. Grace admits that working in there can be “unnerving” when one is alone. “You hear many strange noises, and it definitely feels as if someone is looking over your shoulder,” he confesses. STONE LIONS GROWL McMicken Hall’s stone lions, Mick and Mack, roar when a virgin walks by. Guess for yourself. UC’s longest-living urban legend, dating to before World War II, is so infamous that it is documented on the Urban Legend Reference Page of Snopes.com. We happen to share the mention with the stone lions at the universities of Missouri and Michigan, which apparently have the same predisposition. WORKER ENTOMBED Crosley Tower was poured as a single piece of concrete. As the concrete was flowing, a workman fell in, but because they couldn’t stop pouring, he is entombed there. True (poured as a single piece of concrete) and False (no one fell in.) The similar story that workers dropped a Volkswagen into the mix while pouring is also false.
November 20, 200816 yr * * * NSFW (though damn funny) AUDIO * * * just so there is no ef'ing doubt we landed on the ef'ing moon! :laugh: or read thee classic front page from the onion here: http://members.shaw.ca/rlongpre01/moon_tiny.jpg * * * NSFW (though damn funny) AUDIO * * * "Jesus H. Christ in a chicken basket!" That's just about the funniest thing I've ever heard!
November 20, 200816 yr i know. that's the best line! i also like the more laconic line: "the moon.....the ef'ing moon." but really the whole thing cracks me up. i bet they probably would at least slip up once with something like one of those lines in a modern moon landing.
November 21, 200816 yr I haven't taken the time to read the thread, but I'm hoping it's tongue in cheek, right? Please? Jesus I sure hope so. On the off chance it's not...I work with NASA, particularly the Constellation Program which has been tasked to return to the Moon and then on to Mars. After innumerable discussions with astronauts and Apollo-era engineers I can assure you the Apollo missions were completely on the up-and-up. You might like to look around the Apollo Lunar Surface Journal to look at the extensive photographic, motion imagery and audio data captured during the missions.
November 23, 200816 yr jax i would be more interested to learn if the constellation project wasn't tongue in cheek. i assumed it was just bush blowing smoke he had no intention of financially backing. is it a for real go -- with a real timetable? are we really going back to the moon? btw great link, thx. i look at apod regularly, you probably know about that one, but if no: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/
November 23, 200816 yr In a sense, you are correct about Bush not backing it financially. He maintained a nearly static budget for NASA these past 8 years, while redirecting them to focus on Constellation. The net effect of this was what I personally believe was his real goal -- large scale hard science and aviation research at NASA have essentially been killed off. Almost all resources have been poured into Constellation. The new crew vehicle has already begun high fidelity verification & validation testing. And unless Obama does something dramatic, yes, we are on track to have boots on the moon ~2020. We are currently planning for "lunar sorties" which are short duration stays similar to Apollo missions as well as "lunar outpost" which will include a permanent, ISS-style presence on the surface. Mars is a different question. There are a lot of people highly skeptical we'll be able to meet the human safety requirements wrt radiation and micro meteoroid protection, much less be able to deal with the 20 minute communication delay to Earth safely.
November 26, 200816 yr Allegedly, Neil Armstrong videotaped this video of ancient structures on the moon.
November 26, 200816 yr OK, does he climb through a window in his spacesuit at 2:20? Still, this would make a great viral marketing campaign for a sci-fi/horror movie.
November 26, 200816 yr The crew would be delighted if we could build a space suit that would allow the range of motion that would be necessary for such smooth footage during a surface EVA. As it is now we basically put them in an inflated, semi-rigid bladder and they're forced to "hop" around to get from point A to point B.
November 26, 200816 yr Took the fam to see "Fly Me to the Moon" at COSI. It's the crappy story of flies that stow away aboard Apollo 11, but it's worth the price of admission to see the 3D animation of the launch, deployment of the LEM, landing on the lunar surface and the Neil Armstrong-eye view of the lunar landscape. To deny the moon landings is to deny that America was ever capable of producing heroes. Here's the trailer in French: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6pyul_fly-me-to-the-moon_shortfilms
December 3, 200816 yr ^ That may belong on the conspiracy theory thread. A 5000-year-old painting of something that looks like a brontosaurus is the "scientific" evidence that man and dinosaurs lived together? First of all, 5000 years ago man was living in civilizations with no sign of dinosaurs. The cave paintings were long, long before that (unless you subscribe to the silly idea that the Earth is only 6,000 years old). And nobody knows what a brontosaurus looks like, for sure. We have modern depictions that are based on fossil records. Anthropologists can take a skull and accurately recreate someone's face. Our perception of what a Brontosaurus looks like, probably isn't far off. I don't know how old those paintings are but not all humans lived in civilization even 5000 years ago. There is certainly a difference between giving and taking thousands of years, vs. giving or taking millions. I also remember hearing we've found fossilized dinosaur DNA that hasn't been broken down and decayed, which should take a matter of something like 10k years for it to do so. That makes sense to me since isolated DNA is probably fragile. I'm no scientist and I don't pretend to be, but I question the validity of carbon dating and other methods that can supposedly tell us how many tens of millions of years old a fossil is. I don't know why we take a scientists word as the end all be all, when Science has and always will have a long way to go.
December 3, 200816 yr ^^ Yes. Hundreds of years of hypotheses, experiments, recording of data, all done by people who, as Isaac Newton said, "stood on the shoulders of the giants who came before me." You may have your hunches, but for centuries scientists have had their hunches and rigorously examined them, building a body of knowledge. There's still a long way to go, but we won't get there without building on the rigorous methods of the existing scientific record.
December 3, 200816 yr Midwestern Bigfoot sightings/encounters http://www.bigfootforums.com/index.php?showforum=74 Baby mummified El Chupacabra "goat sucker". Drunken Irish Leprechaun
December 3, 200816 yr Midwestern Bigfoot sightings/encounters http://www.bigfootforums.com/index.php?showforum=74 Now that's just pathetic! Really! I'm a geek, but damn!
December 4, 200816 yr this is the best photo i have ever seen of astronauts in arizona...whoops i mean on the moon. :laugh: its a pano so make sure you scroll right. wow! http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap081130.html An Apollo 15 Panorama: Astronaut Exploring Credit: Apollo 15 Crew, USGS, NASA Explanation: What would it be like to explore the Moon? NASA's Apollo missions gave humans just this chance in the late 1960s and early 1970s. In particular, the Apollo 15 mission was dedicated to better understanding the surface of the Moon by exploring mountains, valleys, maria, and highlands. Astronauts David Scott and James Irwin spent nearly three days on the Moon while Alfred Worden orbited above in the Command Module. The mission, which blasted off from Earth on 1971 July 26, was the first to deploy a Lunar Roving Vehicle. Pictured above in this digitally stitched mosaic panorama, David Scott examines a boulder in front of the summit of Mt. Hadley Delta. The shadow of James Irwin is visible to the right, while scrolling to the right will reveal a well-lit and diverse lunar terrain. The Apollo 15 mission returned about 76 kilograms of moon rocks for detailed study. In the future, NASA and other space agencies plan to continue to lead humanity's exploration of the Moon, Mars, and beyond.
December 28, 200816 yr I saw an ad for "Nostradamus: 2012" on the History Channel last night. Even the history channel tries to scare people to get ratings. Apparently we're all going to die in 2012 because Nostradamus probably has a poem validating the alleged end of the Mayan calendar in 2012. Here is a poem by Nostradamus allegedly predicting the 9/11 attacks: "In the City of God there will be a great thunder, Two brothers torn apart by Chaos, while the fortress endures, the great leader will succumb", The third big war will begin when the big city is burning" - Nostradamus 1654 The problem with Nostradamus is that absolutely everything he says is incredibly vague and can be interpreted a million different ways. 400 years have gone by, of course a few of his writings are gonna be adaptable to historic events. Wtf is the city of God? Shouldn't it be Jerusalem or Mecca? New York City isn't a holy city by any means. "Two brothers" is suppose to represent the WTC towers. The problem is that more than 2 buildings collapsed! Nostradumb@ss.
December 28, 200816 yr ^ I've never bought into the Nostradamus thing but if the poem is being quoted then it sounds like he was just pointing out the targets of the attack. Not so much all the damage.
February 7, 200916 yr My older brother Brandon has gone mad. He watches a lot of those shows on cable and youtube videos about the illuminati, stone masons, 9/11, etc. My other brother sat down next to him and started watching one of the shows and asked him "What's the illuminati?" Brandon turned the tv off before he told him, so that they wouldn't 'hear' him (because electronics are tapped). He wants people to watch youtube videos about it and he won't even tell you the address, he has to write it down on a piece of paper and show it to you. The other day he scratched the visa emblem off of his credit card and a grid appeared. He said he thinks it represents a calendar (like the mayan calendar or something). He has lost his mind! I'm making him a tin foil hat for his birth day. It has to be some kind of paranoia; distrust of the outside world.
February 7, 200916 yr David...older brothers are crazy. My brother is scared of Clowns. This is a 6'8" 43 year old man. lol Ahh...the memories of torturing him. :evil:
February 7, 200916 yr LOL.....yes. LOL That clown and the chuckie doll scares him sh!tless. I can remember when he pee'd on himself at my cousins bday party, when the clown showed up. ahh good times.
February 7, 200916 yr I wet myself every time Robert Stack had an alien rendering on Unsolved Mysteries. I believe in aliens, but I don't think anyone has seen them. I am not sure if that qualifies as an urban legend. What was that horrible movie...Fire in the Sky or something?
February 7, 200916 yr I wet myself every time Robert Stack had an alien rendering on Unsolved Mysteries. I believe in aliens, but I don't think anyone has seen them. I am not sure if that qualifies as an urban legend. What was that horrible movie...Fire in the Sky or something? And if you wet yourself while wearing the Polyester suit. :| Wooooo.
February 7, 200916 yr I was rocking that sucker at the Grotto the other night. Mad compliments. Lawd....I'm just going to pray for you and that suit.
February 7, 200916 yr Pretty funny ad to show while viewing this thread: I think, probably along with many others, that this whole December 21, 2012 thing is a big crock of propaganda sh!t. It's so ridiculous. And yet, I know people who swear by it. I don't know, maybe I'm wrong. Maybe the world will end, but I sincerely doubt it. It's just another one of those stupid ploys that people love to give in to. Also to make profit from it. I laugh at all these websites and other crap that promote it.
February 10, 200916 yr The 2012 theory sounds better when it's explained as a 4-dimensional hypersphere. I'm not doing that here today. It doesn't necessarily predict an end but a change. I give it more credence than most other astrology, which is still very little. Edit: My ad says "Latino Romance," although 2 of 3 pictures are females, so it should say "Latina Romance."
February 10, 200916 yr Now mine does too, but it's a different ad. "They" are definitely watching this thread, and every thread of everything you've ever looked at. Welcome to the future!
February 10, 200916 yr From one of my Top 5 absolute favorite-ist websites on the whole world wide web, Cracked.com: http://www.cracked.com/article_16721_6-more-creepy-urban-legends-that-happen-be-true.html Go. Read. Discuss.
February 17, 200916 yr Edit: My ad says "Latino Romance," although 2 of 3 pictures are females, so it should say "Latina Romance." Nope, en Espanol, if there is one male present the entire group is given the male word. I've gone off-topic once again.
February 17, 200916 yr The conspiracy theory that I hate the most is that the cancer researchers won't find a cure for cancer because, if they did, they would be out of a job.
February 17, 200916 yr ^I actually believe there's some truth to that, or at least that the pharmaceutical industry does not always have our best interests at heart and would rather prolong our conditions rather than cure.
February 17, 200916 yr ^I actually believe there's some truth to that, or at least that the pharmaceutical industry does not always have our best interests at heart and would rather prolong our conditions rather than cure. That's what makes the for-profit sector inappropriate for health care. Same reason we don't have for-profit firefighters.
February 17, 200916 yr It's just a feeling I have - perhaps Big Pharmacy has more an 'understanding' than a true conspiracy with its members
February 17, 200916 yr The CEO of Fox News Network used to write memos to his producers and writers telling them how to lie and slant stories to promote the Republican agenda. Oh, wait, just to be sure I want to state that that was not an urban legend, it was actually attested to by his employees in the film "Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism" by Robert Greenwald. www.outfoxed.org/
February 17, 200916 yr It's just a feeling I have - perhaps Big Pharmacy has more an 'understanding' than a true conspiracy with its members Um... that's what a conspiracy is. Technically, every government and every corporation is a conspiracy. Whether the conspiracy is evil, as the word connotes, depends on what their concerted effort leads to for everyone else.
February 17, 200916 yr So, would a grad student be told to shred his thesis paper because it might lead to the cure?
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