I’ve long been skeptical of this claim. I can remember back when writing The Facade reading articles about how the military-industrial complex was working on electronic means to convey messages directly to a person’s auditory mechanisms or brains....
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Quadrocopters as Mistaken UFOs
Stuart Robbins has an interesting post about how quadrocopters can (and have been) mistaken for UFOs. In case you’re not familiar with quadrocopters, here are some YouTube videos:
BBC’s Head-in-the-Sand Report on “New” Pyramid Building Theory
Ah, the archeo-pundit media. To quote Time Bandits, one of my favorite college-years movies, “You are so mercifully free from the ravages of intelligence.” A BBC reporter published this clueless piece today: “Newport Man’s Theory Turns Pyramid...
Another Ancient Alien Fail: Moving 300 Ton Stones to Build China’s Forbidden City
The Live Science blog reported recently that Jiang Li, an engineer at the University of Science and Technology Beijing, has successfully translated an ancient Chinese document that reveals how stones in excess of 300 tons were moved over 70 miles without the wheel to...
Ancient Nanotechnology: Glass-Blowers from Space?
Just read this very interesting article - it's about how ancient Roman glass makers ground up silver and gold to the size of 50 nano-meters in diameter (less than 1000th the size of a grain of table salt) to produce a goblet that appears green when lit from the front...
Extraterrestrial Hippies? New Research on Egyptian Technology Tries to Get Noticed Online
A few days Biblical Archaeology Review (BAR) posted a link online to an article entitled, “Extraterrestrial Elements in Egyptian Equipment.” Ancient astronaut believers (and Giorgio Tsoukalos’ hairdresser) no doubt saw the title and got pretty...
Baghdad Battery, the Saqqara Plane, and Other Not-So-Mysterious Artifacts
I just discovered the Archaeological Fantasies blog, a site that warmed my PaleoBabbling heart. The author has a short series entitled, “The 10 Most Not-So-Puzzling Ancient Artifacts” in which many of you will be interested. Two caught my eye right away:...
Antikythera Mechanism Report
Thanks go to Charles Jones at Ancient World Online for posting this “pre-print” article, “ The Cosmos in the Antikythera Mechanism ” (due to the size, it is best to right-click and “Save File As”; you will also have to re-size the...
More Logic Lessons and UFOs: Russia De-Classifies its UFO Sightings Records
Several people have emailed me about the news that the Russians have de-classified their UFO records (we actually do NOT know how many, yet the claims make it sound like all of them or the motherlode–a logic lesson in itself). I’ve read a few different...
Recent Scholarly Article on Antikythera Mechanism
The major scientific journal Nature published an article on the famous Antikythera Mechanism in 2006. You can access the article as a PDF file here. For a bibliography on the mechanism, check out this page at the very cool website devoted to it. Editor's note:...