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I’m on a train, I have three hours. What - safe sensible content - can I find to read of some inteligent informative nature? I like conspiracies, psychology, Aztec, Greek mythological & Egyptian theories, space and brain twisters.
Come on STW I’m relying on you... go.
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This is rather interesting - https://www.nature.com/news/cosmic-ray-particles-reveal-secret-chamber-in-egypt-s-great-pyramid-1.22939
There's also meant to be a couple of secret chambers in Tutenkhamun's tomb.
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What about some mini Animated CGI movies?
There are some crackers out there on YouTube..
Its what I watch when in your situ..
(I started a thread on here about them if you want to google em’)
Drac, after you've given Matty a ban, give yourself one.
"<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 16px;">No posts, including links to other sites that are deemed to be of a sexual or distasteful nature" </span>
On a more serious note, Kryters, have you read Metamorphoses?
http://classics.mit.edu/Ovid/metam.html
You spin me right round baby etc
Drac, after you’ve given Matty a ban, give yourself one.
No posts, including links to other sites that are deemed to be of a sexual or distasteful nature”

And the more serious suggestion, I like to look up words that I picked up as a child but never really worked out what they meant or where they came from. Last week's one was 'glebe'
2 billion year old nuclear reactors
http://www.bldgblog.com/2009/10/fossil-reactors/
Giant underground batteries
http://www.bldgblog.com/2016/01/rings/
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Worst train crashes .....ever.
Torwood Blue Pool - tell me what you think it was for...
Thanks chaps, all very interesting so far. I lack the knowledge to make an assumption regarding the Blue Pool but it makes for interesting reading!
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"2 billion year old nuclear reactors
> http://www.bldgblog.com/2009/10/fossil-reactors/ <
Giant underground batteries
> http://www.bldgblog.com/2016/01/rings/ <
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That is, indeed, really interesting!!
Wonderland murders
I'm finding the Numberphile videos on YouTube very addictive.
The H.H.Holme’s Murder Castle.
Sorry for my first suggestion, more seriously look into thorium reactors, and why we now have dirtier nuclear reactors.
Or the Radioactive Boy Scout
Or the work the US is still having to tidy up after they accidentally dropped 3 atom bombs on Spain in 1966. Or how they dropped an atom bomb on then us mainland and haven’t managed to find it again.
Wikipedia's List of People Who Disappeared Mysteriously is a cracker.
Torwood Blue Pool – tell me what you think it was for…
It's a dogleg air shaft as explained here: http://torwoodbluepool.co.uk/2011/10/27/mining-consultant-assesment/
No it isn't, all other evidence needed for that isn't present...no inspection hatch and no shift at end of chamber...
Read all the details (unsure if that site has the detail from the diver who went into chamber and didn't find anything (although he did say the 'roof' was just the overlying vegetation I.e. No brick work for the roof))...it is interesting as the mineshaft maps also don't have any detail.
I think it is for gas - similar structure in the ruins of a nearby big 'hoose' - about 3/4 miles away with the same circle structure and that was used for gas...
Thing with gas is there are no buildings or ruins of buildings near this, also nothing on any maps...
<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 16px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">“Or the work the US is still having to tidy up after they accidentally dropped 3 atom bombs on Spain in 1966”</span>
Say whaaaaaat?
Didn't know about Spain but had heard about the missing one in US
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Brilliant videos about maths and science
RE: Torwood Greeny-Bluey Pool. I'd have to go with the dogleg air shaft theory as well Dick, sorry. On a bright sunny day, when the light is shining into the pool you can see a horizontal shaft with vertical bars covering the entrance, down near the bottom of the pool on the western side. To be honest though, I've never really researched it. Just admired it and thought, "That'll be a mining airshaft". My dad worked in t'mine over in Longannet and he reckoned the shafts extended way under the Forth, from Fife to Stirlingshire. Bloody Fifers, always trying to sneak in, eh?
I'd love to believe it was something exotic. Didn't someone once propose it was a bathhouse or something? But the fact that Plean Coal mine was barely a mile away from the shaft kinda gives a big nod in favour of it being an airshaft.
Finally, just to be fair, there's always the Hyperspace Caverns theory? Could it be a gateway to another dimension?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/2061393.stm
Occam's razor dude! 😉
Nope, not an airspace, the mining plans (Herbertshire no. 3, I think) have nothing on them - they had to be detailed for anything being done on the ground above - your house will either be above or very close to a shaft - Longannet stuff does indeed go right under the Forth.
<span style="font-size: 0.8rem;">A diver did go into the other 'room' and there was no evidence of a shaft, nor an inspection hole, nor indeed and actual roof...</span>
Say whaaaaaat?
they actually dropped 4 but only 3 landed on Spain proper and the 4th landed in the med so didn’t explode.
Sorry, not sure what 'other room' you're talking about that a diver could swim into Richard. The times I've poked around there, the only thing I've noticed is the arched entrance to what I'd say was a horizontal shaft, mostly buried in goo and debris at the bottom of the pool and blocked with bars. I obviously need to have a read up on stuff. Any links? I've got a two and a half hour bus commute home at the moment because of roadworks in Cumbernauld for the next 10 fracking weeks (been rewatching Galactica), so I have a lot of time to brows on my phone!
This might be some fun...
we have a very particular idea about Christmas based on Charles Dickens’ novels. He witnessed the ‘year without summer’ - a global drop in temperature as a result of a volcanic eruption - so his memories of Christmas were of deep show, a frozen Thames etc as he was living in a mini ice age- but the image he created you still see on Christmas cards all over the world even in countries where they celebrate Xmas in the middle of summer on the beach.
Theres a remarkable number of cultural artefacts from that period though - the red sunsets in Turner’s paintings are the result of the same eruption, ‘Frankenstein’ was dreamed up by Shelley as part of a parlour game - her and her friends st indoor thinking up scary stories because it was too dark and horrible to go out. ‘In the bleak mid winter’ was written that year too. Meanwhile as global harvests failed a shortage of oats for feeding horses expedited the invention of the bicycle.
Millions of people died too, of course.
it would be interesting to draw up a comprehensive list of how much of our modern world was shaped by that one erruption
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