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:redface: Okay. Here's a what if... (Strictly for fun.) Imagine you were contacted by someone and they said to you, "Hi. I'm a UFO pilot." So of course you do all the checking, and it turns out to be true. Yup. This guy is a UFO pilot. And he / she / it wants to do an interview. You've...

Well certainly there are Pacific Islands disappearing even with the gradual rise of sea-levels today. And for the tsunami -- even Google was issuing possible high wave / tsunami warnings all over the Pacific rim (I live in New Zealand). I intend one of these days to look through Plato's...

Google changed its logo on that day as it does for a lot of fully awesome anniversaries. Fifty years: What a landmark in our history this has been! In response to the question regarding jet-packs, however... Check out some of the idiots who end up with driver's licences these days. Do you...

mm I've heard those theories too. The most compelling theory re. Atlantis is that it may have been an island that erupted at about the time of the Minoan civilisation. Although honestly it is also possible that Plato just made it up.

It's still very interesting information though -- cheers. Also the language of the Basque is one of the few in Europe that is not part of the Indo-European language group. (Finnish is another, and also Ancient Etruscan) which suggests a separate origin for at least a part of the Basque language...

Hi! My understanding of "ghost" vs "spirit" is that a ghost is specifically the manifestation of a being (human or whatever else) that was once living and corporeal but is now deceased or divided from its physical existence / life. (Was alive. Now dead.) A "spirit" on the other hand, is a being...

:(--<"Noooooooooo !!!") You are destroying my innocent world!:frown: Actually that might be an interesting question for anyone to ask -- even just as an exercise. What would it take to prove you (convincingly) wrong?

Curious. However Tutenkhamun, the son of the "heretic Pharoah" Akhenaten, did not actually live for long enough to become a "Great Pharoah"... The only reason he is so well known today, why his grave was so well preserved, was that he was too obscure during and immediately after his lifetime to...

I agree -- indeed they can. There is a distinction, however, between something which can have only one possible explanation; and something which must. Example: One UFO sighting is proven to be a hoax. This does not automatically mean that they are all hoaxes. Or alien life is discovered, but...

LOL. Either works for me. A friend of mine made the very good point that the Mayans were not predicting the end of the world, actually but the end of their time-cycle. After that, a new cycle would begin. Or perhaps they just got tired and thought "We'll get back to it later. After we see...

I can't fast forward either but occasionally get a chuckle at the expense of some of the nutters who end up advertising. It's a great podcast guys by the way and I totally understand that the commercials are necessary. They're good for a laugh (people are so loopy) if nothing else.

Indeed. Key word: Un-identified. Or alternatively, you might all be correct. Why must there be only one plausible explanation?? :rolleyes:*hmmmm*

In other words, "Eat, drink, and be merry -- for tomorrow we die."

LOL. I am reminded at this point of a short story by Isaac Asimov: An alien visitor arrives with a message attached, which the scientists are having problems decrypting. So the army steps in, and eventually a high ranking military man convinces the gov't that the alien is most likely a threat...

:cool: Perhaps you will be shaking tentacles or some other appendage. (Or riding a flying bicycle... hehehe.) But being a "space cadet" sounds like fun!!! Can I join?? For my part I tend not to be able to think of the skeptic / believer continuum without being reminded of three simple words...

1. Hera was also Zeus' sister but then there weren't a lot of potential spouses for him to choose from!! 2. Zeus was also married to Methis (the mother of Athena) before he married Hera but then he swallowed his first wife, so... Bigamy is the least of his legal troubles. lol. 3. Of course...

Does the UFO phenomenon deserve study? Yes. Everything deserves study if you can find out more about it -- even just for the sake of finding out more! (Curiosity, and all that.) However... There are priorities. * Sort out welfare, education, and public health insurance. * Make sure your kids...

This also doubles as a "hello" thread, as it is only my second post. I am a little overwhelmed by the depth of knowledge that is going into some of what I read here, and as very much a novice, with a background mostly in folklore and mythology and a passing interest in related topics, I am not...

You mean nothing at all in the year 3000??! (For those of us who are around to see it, of course.) Yep something will happen in December 2012. It's called "Christmas"!! ^_^ Edit: Recently there was a really good comment that somebody made in another forum (unrelated to this one.) I will...