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Topic: How the Ancients measured the Earth | |
Ishtar Replies: 276 Views: 135807 |
Forum: Megalithic Posted: 7:46 pm Subject: How the Ancients measured the Earth |
Could they have signaled with a mirror?
This makes me think of the myth of fire-breathing dragons. Like a light that might precede the day. |
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Topic: Origins of....Species | |
Ishtar Replies: 250 Views: 199244 |
Forum: Life Sciences Posted: 2:56 pm Subject: Origins of....Species |
Maybe a warthog diet is a better comparison than a walrus | |
Topic: Hill Forts | |
Ishtar Replies: 1328 Views: 402250 |
Forum: British History Posted: 5:56 pm Subject: Hill Forts |
However Hill forts have ramparts and ditches which suggests a fort-type structure?
Could these ditches be some kind of herding path? Today we use fences. |
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Topic: Flying Chaucers | |
Ishtar Replies: 1119 Views: 400291 |
Forum: Linguistics Posted: 3:51 pm Subject: Flying Chaucers |
Strange... I had a thumbs down next to one of my comments, which has now disappeared.
It means someone thumbed it up |
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Topic: Origins of....Species | |
Ishtar Replies: 250 Views: 199244 |
Forum: Life Sciences Posted: 7:41 pm Subject: Origins of....Species |
All this talk of crows reminds me of the book I read as a kid, Wild Animals I Have Known which was written over 100 years ago. In it is a story of the author's observations of a crow and his band.
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Topic: Global Warming | |
Ishtar Replies: 905 Views: 360088 |
Forum: Geophysics Posted: 6:56 pm Subject: Global Warming |
Night time air density at sea level -- is it lower than daytime air density? Density is so varied based on temperature, pressure, and humidity. If the temperature and humidity are lower probably ... |
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Topic: War on Terrorism | |
Ishtar Replies: 1618 Views: 385968 |
Forum: Politics Posted: 8:49 pm Subject: War on Terrorism |
Can you tell us why ?
Some child pornography laws are very strict, the taking of pictures of anyone under 18 that shows them naked would be a violation. As a result the scanners ordered for Canadia ... |
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Topic: War on Terrorism | |
Ishtar Replies: 1618 Views: 385968 |
Forum: Politics Posted: 3:20 pm Subject: War on Terrorism |
The near miss on Christmas Day means that bodyscanners will soon be in use at airports in UK and US.
There is a big problem with those scanners, in some countries (ex. Canada) it would be illegal t ... |
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Topic: Global Warming | |
Ishtar Replies: 905 Views: 360088 |
Forum: Geophysics Posted: 3:46 pm Subject: Global Warming |
Is it because of its narrowness?
I wondered about its lack of tides (no seaweed sitting on the beach) but I don't think there is much special about an eastern tide. |
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Topic: Global Warming | |
Ishtar Replies: 905 Views: 360088 |
Forum: Geophysics Posted: 5:36 pm Subject: Global Warming |
I was starting to wonder about Algae for a little while, it's just like sea weed and the Arctic goes though an Algal bloom every summer. 6 months of sun might help with that.
Krill feed on algae t ... |
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Topic: Going Walkabout | |
Ishtar Replies: 644 Views: 265607 |
Forum: British History Posted: 4:00 pm Subject: Going Walkabout |
White is associated with purity.
White horses are not albino, there is actually no such thing as an albino horse. White horses have to be bred specifically to get the white color. Maybe there is ... |
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Topic: Global Warming | |
Ishtar Replies: 905 Views: 360088 |
Forum: Geophysics Posted: 3:05 pm Subject: Global Warming |
Well according to Chad clouds hover over islands and apparently he's right. A thin strip of land or peninsula is similar to an island in that respect presumably. Perhaps it causes air to rise? But the ... | |
Topic: Going Walkabout | |
Ishtar Replies: 644 Views: 265607 |
Forum: British History Posted: 5:15 pm Subject: Going Walkabout |
Dragon could look like boats with sails for wings and ores for arms and legs.
That's rather good. Ores, as opposed to oars, are associated with the underground. LOL! You know, I tried really har ... |
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Topic: Global Warming | |
Ishtar Replies: 905 Views: 360088 |
Forum: Geophysics Posted: 4:03 pm Subject: Global Warming |
Perth and Fremantle are in turn green because of the Easterly Effect of the Great Australian Bight. However there are two caveats here. First of all the GAB does not produce a full easterly effect a ... |
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Topic: Going Walkabout | |
Ishtar Replies: 644 Views: 265607 |
Forum: British History Posted: 4:35 am Subject: Going Walkabout |
...Tsar-Khan/Dragon = Kinship/Legal Division
States (Tsar-tsars?) and Counties (Khan-tsars) are political kinship divisions established by surveyed lines. ok. Then how did they get associated w ... |
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