Posted: 6/1/2016 2:47:40 PM EDT
| Post up the Wikipedia pages of your favorite "unexplained" thing, event, person. My contribution is Skyquakes . Loud cannon like or trumpet like sounds in the sky. Some of the YouTube videos are chilling. |
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I thought those were debunked? Oh I read your link. The boom ones I dont know about, but I thought the trumpet sounding ones were some viral guerrilla marketing for some movie. Didn't hear about that, but this is a good example https://youtu.be/zqRB1TYdamU |
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I thought those were debunked? Oh I read your link. The boom ones I dont know about, but I thought the trumpet sounding ones were some viral guerrilla marketing for some movie. Didn't hear about that, but this is a good example https://youtu.be/zqRB1TYdamU For Cloverfield maybe. Hell for all I know real events inspired the idea for their marketing. |
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No Wiki link but I got a hummer from Susan Reardon (smoking hot) in junior high school. We had only ever spoken in passing and we never spoke in more than passing afterward. It was weird. Totally unexplainable. Me too, she gets around. Did she do that thing with her pinky? |
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Starbrite or starbright Do you maen Starlite? 
10 mindblowing uses for the world-changing substance that never was Starlite has baffled scientific minds for 23 years Starlite could be the most valuable man-made substance ever created. It has the potential to revolutionise industries, save lives and change the course of human history. The applications for it are near infinite, no scientific mind has ever been able to work out how it works – and yet it has never actually been used for anything. So what does it do, and why have you never heard of it? Starlite was invented during the 1980s by the unlikely Maurice Ward, a ladies' hairdresser from Yorkshire. We produced a material that was out of this world. It didn't burn, it didn't produce smoke and it intensified on its strength and its abilities It's a plastic that's able to withstand heat to an almost unimaginable degree. Ward never revealed how it was made, saying merely that it contained 'up to 21 organic polymers and copolymers, and small quantities of ceramics'. In lab tests, it has withstood the heat from a nuclear flash. It can endure temperatures three times hotter than the melting point of diamonds. And it can be shaped and molded into almost any form http://www.techradar.com/news/world-of-tech/future-tech/10-mindblowing-uses-for-the-world-changing-substance-that-never-was-1156955 |
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Starbrite or starbright Do you maen Starlite?  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KP62WMvrNhg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7yVqY-z3fY
10 mindblowing uses for the world-changing substance that never was
Starlite has baffled scientific minds for 23 years Starlite could be the most valuable man-made substance ever created. It has the potential to revolutionise industries, save lives and change the course of human history. The applications for it are near infinite, no scientific mind has ever been able to work out how it works – and yet it has never actually been used for anything. So what does it do, and why have you never heard of it? Starlite was invented during the 1980s by the unlikely Maurice Ward, a ladies' hairdresser from Yorkshire. We produced a material that was out of this world. It didn't burn, it didn't produce smoke and it intensified on its strength and its abilities It's a plastic that's able to withstand heat to an almost unimaginable degree. Ward never revealed how it was made, saying merely that it contained 'up to 21 organic polymers and copolymers, and small quantities of ceramics'. In lab tests, it has withstood the heat from a nuclear flash. It can endure temperatures three times hotter than the melting point of diamonds. And it can be shaped and molded into almost any form http://www.techradar.com/news/world-of-tech/future-tech/10-mindblowing-uses-for-the-world-changing-substance-that-never-was-1156955 Interesting story. I've wondered what ever happened to that stuff. Sad to hear that it might be a dead end because it's a material with tremendous potential. I wonder if the "Not invented here" syndrome has played a part in its failure to catch on? |
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Quoted: Interesting story. I've wondered what ever happened to that stuff. Sad to hear that it might be a dead end because it's a material with tremendous potential. I wonder if the "Not invented here" syndrome has played a part in its failure to catch on? Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Starbrite or starbright Do you maen Starlite? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KP62WMvrNhg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7yVqY-z3fY10 mindblowing uses for the world-changing substance that never was Starlite has baffled scientific minds for 23 years Starlite could be the most valuable man-made substance ever created. It has the potential to revolutionise industries, save lives and change the course of human history. The applications for it are near infinite, no scientific mind has ever been able to work out how it works – and yet it has never actually been used for anything. So what does it do, and why have you never heard of it? Starlite was invented during the 1980s by the unlikely Maurice Ward, a ladies' hairdresser from Yorkshire. We produced a material that was out of this world. It didn't burn, it didn't produce smoke and it intensified on its strength and its abilities It's a plastic that's able to withstand heat to an almost unimaginable degree. Ward never revealed how it was made, saying merely that it contained 'up to 21 organic polymers and copolymers, and small quantities of ceramics'. In lab tests, it has withstood the heat from a nuclear flash. It can endure temperatures three times hotter than the melting point of diamonds. And it can be shaped and molded into almost any form http://www.techradar.com/news/world-of-tech/future-tech/10-mindblowing-uses-for-the-world-changing-substance-that-never-was-1156955 Interesting story. I've wondered what ever happened to that stuff. Sad to hear that it might be a dead end because it's a material with tremendous potential. I wonder if the "Not invented here" syndrome has played a part in its failure to catch on? Very interesting. Makes me think it was either hoaxed somehow or maybe he couldn't reproduce the results after the first accidental discovery? It's hard to imagine something that generated that much interest was never brought to market, at any cost. |
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Starbrite or starbright Do you maen Starlite? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KP62WMvrNhg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7yVqY-z3fY
10 mindblowing uses for the world-changing substance that never was
Starlite has baffled scientific minds for 23 years Starlite could be the most valuable man-made substance ever created. It has the potential to revolutionise industries, save lives and change the course of human history. The applications for it are near infinite, no scientific mind has ever been able to work out how it works – and yet it has never actually been used for anything. So what does it do, and why have you never heard of it? Starlite was invented during the 1980s by the unlikely Maurice Ward, a ladies' hairdresser from Yorkshire. We produced a material that was out of this world. It didn't burn, it didn't produce smoke and it intensified on its strength and its abilities It's a plastic that's able to withstand heat to an almost unimaginable degree. Ward never revealed how it was made, saying merely that it contained 'up to 21 organic polymers and copolymers, and small quantities of ceramics'. In lab tests, it has withstood the heat from a nuclear flash. It can endure temperatures three times hotter than the melting point of diamonds. And it can be shaped and molded into almost any form http://www.techradar.com/news/world-of-tech/future-tech/10-mindblowing-uses-for-the-world-changing-substance-that-never-was-1156955 Interesting story. I've wondered what ever happened to that stuff. Sad to hear that it might be a dead end because it's a material with tremendous potential. I wonder if the "Not invented here" syndrome has played a part in its failure to catch on? Very interesting. Makes me think it was either hoaxed somehow or maybe he couldn't reproduce the results after the first accidental discovery? It's hard to imagine something that generated that much interest was never brought to market, at any cost. Carbon nanotubes and aerogel are the future. |
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Quoted: Quoted: Starbrite or starbright Do you maen Starlite? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KP62WMvrNhg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7yVqY-z3fY10 mindblowing uses for the world-changing substance that never was Starlite has baffled scientific minds for 23 years Starlite could be the most valuable man-made substance ever created. It has the potential to revolutionise industries, save lives and change the course of human history. The applications for it are near infinite, no scientific mind has ever been able to work out how it works – and yet it has never actually been used for anything. So what does it do, and why have you never heard of it? Starlite was invented during the 1980s by the unlikely Maurice Ward, a ladies' hairdresser from Yorkshire. We produced a material that was out of this world. It didn't burn, it didn't produce smoke and it intensified on its strength and its abilities It's a plastic that's able to withstand heat to an almost unimaginable degree. Ward never revealed how it was made, saying merely that it contained 'up to 21 organic polymers and copolymers, and small quantities of ceramics'. In lab tests, it has withstood the heat from a nuclear flash. It can endure temperatures three times hotter than the melting point of diamonds. And it can be shaped and molded into almost any form http://www.techradar.com/news/world-of-tech/future-tech/10-mindblowing-uses-for-the-world-changing-substance-that-never-was-1156955 That's what I meant! Thanks! |
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Quoted: Very interesting. Makes me think it was either hoaxed somehow or maybe he couldn't reproduce the results after the first accidental discovery? It's hard to imagine something that generated that much interest was never brought to market, at any cost. Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Starbrite or starbright Do you maen Starlite? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KP62WMvrNhg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7yVqY-z3fY10 mindblowing uses for the world-changing substance that never was Starlite has baffled scientific minds for 23 years Starlite could be the most valuable man-made substance ever created. It has the potential to revolutionise industries, save lives and change the course of human history. The applications for it are near infinite, no scientific mind has ever been able to work out how it works – and yet it has never actually been used for anything. So what does it do, and why have you never heard of it? Starlite was invented during the 1980s by the unlikely Maurice Ward, a ladies' hairdresser from Yorkshire. We produced a material that was out of this world. It didn't burn, it didn't produce smoke and it intensified on its strength and its abilities It's a plastic that's able to withstand heat to an almost unimaginable degree. Ward never revealed how it was made, saying merely that it contained 'up to 21 organic polymers and copolymers, and small quantities of ceramics'. In lab tests, it has withstood the heat from a nuclear flash. It can endure temperatures three times hotter than the melting point of diamonds. And it can be shaped and molded into almost any form http://www.techradar.com/news/world-of-tech/future-tech/10-mindblowing-uses-for-the-world-changing-substance-that-never-was-1156955 Interesting story. I've wondered what ever happened to that stuff. Sad to hear that it might be a dead end because it's a material with tremendous potential. I wonder if the "Not invented here" syndrome has played a part in its failure to catch on? Very interesting. Makes me think it was either hoaxed somehow or maybe he couldn't reproduce the results after the first accidental discovery? It's hard to imagine something that generated that much interest was never brought to market, at any cost. NASA and others tested it. |
That is a mystery of epic proportions! |
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No Wiki link but I got a hummer from Susan Reardon (smoking hot) in junior high school. We had only ever spoken in passing and we never spoke in more than passing afterward. It was weird. Totally unexplainable. Me too, she gets around. Did she do that thing with her pinky? No, but if you ask nicely, I hear she does amazing things with her thumb... Txl |
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We have the brown mountain lights here in nc |
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No Wiki link but I got a hummer from Susan Reardon (smoking hot) in junior high school. We had only ever spoken in passing and we never spoke in more than passing afterward. It was weird. Totally unexplainable. Me too, she gets around. Did she do that thing with her pinky? No, but if you ask nicely, I hear she does amazing things with her thumb... Txl Man, she does get around.... |
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I have a lot of "favorite mysteries" but here's one off the top of my head.
Vela Incident |
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Voynich Manuscript
The Voynich manuscript is an illustrated codex hand-written in an unknown writing system. The vellum on which it is written has been carbon-dated to the early 15th century (1404–1438), and it may have been composed in Northern Italy during the Italian Renaissance. The manuscript is named after Wilfrid Voynich, a Polish book dealer who purchased it in 1912. The Voynich manuscript has been studied by many professional and amateur cryptographers, including American and British codebreakers from both World War I and World War II. No one has yet succeeded in deciphering the text, and it has become a famous case in the history of cryptography. The mystery of the meaning and origin of the manuscript has excited the popular imagination, making the manuscript the subject of novels and speculation. None of the many hypotheses proposed over the last hundred years has yet been independently verified. 
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Damn. That's a good one. Never heard about it. |
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Damn. That's a good one. Never heard about it. Might have been a malfunction in the satellite itself - i.e., a phantom flash that was never really there. |
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No Wiki link but I got a hummer from Susan Reardon (smoking hot) in junior high school. We had only ever spoken in passing and we never spoke in more than passing afterward. It was weird. Totally unexplainable. Me too, she gets around. Did she do that thing with her pinky? I taught her that |
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I lived in a haunted house growing up. The funny thing was, nobody in my family talked about it until we moved out of the house.
Once we moved, we all talked about it one night, and all had similar stories. Nobody ever experienced these things when someone else was in the room with them, so we all thought we were crazy. Ever since that conversation, my parents deny ever thinking it was haunted, and deny the conversation we all had about it. It wasn't anything crazy, we were just aware that something was there. We even had countless guests that would comment how their hair stood up every time they were on our stairs, and a lot of people would get the urge to run down as quick as they could for no reason. Everybody got a creepy feeling on our stairs for no reason. I used to hear progressive creaks across the floor upstairs, obviously something moving from one side of the room to the other. Papers would blow around the desk that no fan or AC was close to. There were a lot more little things like that, but the thing that really stuck for me, was when I would pick up the phone to make a call, and hear the phone on the other side of the house off the hook (I could hear the AC unit running right outside that door). I would hang up the phone, immediately pick it back up, and the phone in the other room would be back on the hook. I know for a fact I wasn't just hearing static or something, and it happened quite often when I was home alone. I also used to have random electronics turn on in my room in the middle of the night. |