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Thing's That Science Can't Explain

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 PinGUY	Aug 20, 2009 4:56pm
This is just going to be a light hearted thread about things that Science can't explain.

Naga Fireballs

Along the Mekong river every year in October it suddenly begins burping up egg-sized balls of red light.



youtube.com/watch [youtube.com/watch]

The Voynich Manuscript

The Voynich manuscript is an ancient book that has thwarted all attempts at deciphering its contents. It is actually an organized book with a consistent script, discernible organization and detailed illustrations.

It appears to be a real language--just one that nobody has seen before. And it really does appear to mean something. But nobody knows what.



Star Jelly

During a meteor shower sometimes people find what looks like a jellyfish that splattered down from outer space.



There have been reports for over a century of people finding what the Germans call sternenrotz (which literally means "star snot") in conjunction with meteors falling from the sky. It's usually clear or yellowish, smells awful and disintegrates after being handled. Despite being described thoroughly in numerous newspaper and police accounts for over 150 years, no one has ever really been able to study it in depth because the substance falls apart too quickly to allow for a sample to be obtained.

The Baigong Pipes

In an area of China not known to ever contain people, let alone industry, there are three mysterious triangular openings on top of a mountain containing hundreds of ancient rusty iron pipes of unknown origin. Some of the pipes go deep into the mountain. Some of them go into a nearby salt water lake. There are more pipes in the lake, and more still running east-west along the lake shore. Some of the larger pipes are 40 cm in diameter, are of uniform size and are placed in what seems like purposeful patterns.



Blue Jets and Red Sprites

Blue jets and red sprites are the names of what occurs above the clouds during a lightning storm. Only visible from space or from an airplane.

Sprites and jets are always associated with lightning storms. Sprites are red most of the time and happen as high as 50 miles off the surface of the ground, while jets shoot directly out of the tops of storm clouds, sometimes traveling as far as 30 miles up into the Ionosphere.



The Giant Stone Balls of Costa Rica

Costa Rica and a few surrounding areas are scattered with giant stone balls. They are smooth and perfectly spherical, or nearly so. Some of them are quite small, a few inches in diameter, but some of them are as large as eight feet in diameter weighing several tons.



Earthquake Lights

As far back as 373 BC people have claimed to see weird lights in the sky during earthquakes, and sometimes for minutes before the shaking actually starts, as seen in this video:

They seem to occur in China quite a bit but have also been witnessed during the recent earthquakes in Peru.



The Baghdad Batteries

The Baghdad Batteries are a series of artifacts found in the area of Mesopotamia dating from the early centuries AD. When archaeologists stumbled upon the batteries, they assumed they were just regular old clay pots for storage, but that theory quickly went out the window since they each contain a copper rod that shows evidence of acid corrosion.



Raining Animals

For centuries, people have reported seeing animals falling from the sky in places all over the world. Frogs and toads rained off and on for an extended time in Japan, worms rocketed to the earth in Louisiana, fish fell in Singapore and Rhode Island and in California, what they were pretty sure was at one time a cow.



The Bloop

in 1997 the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration recorded a strange sound in the ocean. Strange and LOUD. So loud that it was picked up by two separate microphones 3,000 miles apart. The sound, dubbed "The Bloop," doesn't sound like anything at normal speed. However, the speed up the recording to 16 times the normal speed, causing it to sound like a Bloop!



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 Vortexfugue	Aug 20, 2009 5:03pm
Cool, but science has some pretty good ideas about some of them, like raining animals. Magnolia is a cool movie.

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 PinGUY	Aug 20, 2009 5:10pm
The raining animals theory is a pretty good one apart from it doesn't say why only one type of animal rains, you would of thought if a tornado or strong winds swept up a lake it would have more then one type of animal in it.

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 Vortexfugue	Aug 20, 2009 5:15pm
Yeah, I know. One must not think, though, that because science cannot yet explain some of these fully, that the explanation is other worldly or beyond the scope of science.

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 PinGUY	Aug 20, 2009 5:22pm
Oh no, we have a thread for that that already

This is just things that science cannot yet explain. Interesting , yes, other worldly, no. These are just things that we don't fully understand yet, and I love a mystery.

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 DeepSix	Aug 20, 2009 5:32pm
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unsolved_problems_in_physics [en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unsolved_problems_in_physics]

first thing I thought of when i read the title. Personally, I really like the OMG particle.

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 Vortexfugue	Aug 20, 2009 5:33pm
That's one of my favorite links!

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 karolus-magnus	Aug 22, 2009 7:07am
Really cool thread, PinGuy!

 argonpicnic	Aug 22, 2009 10:33am
Love the fireballs. What?!
TonyIN317	Aug 22, 2009 2:48pm
EQLs are not really a mystery. The fact they are not frequently discussed on public forum really means nothing. If one is inclined information is ready
economicexpert.com/a/Earthquake:lights.html [economicexpert.com/a/Earthquake:lights.html] That is only an OK starting point.

Raining fish is absolute bullshit.

Sprites are fairly well understood.

I find big balls no more mysterious than testicles, pyramids or stone henge. There is much information about them as well. A good starting point:
web.ku.edu/~hoopes/balls/index.htm [web.ku.edu/~hoopes/balls/index.htm]

There is absolutely no mention of The Baigong Pipes in any primarily 'English speaking' or translatable Chinese peer reviewed journal. Well, none I came across after checking 40..... Although Baigong China is on Google Earth(Plus) nothing remotely resembles this amazing discovery. There is no information on any type of study, interest or research into these pipes from any respected scientist . Google Images and other searches show the same out of focus, distance or otherwise weird pictures over and over. What can be found though is hundreds of pages which talk about UFOs, alien anal implants, big foot or talking snakes that give the same vague accounts(almost verbatim) with the same questionable references referring you back to UK or USA wiki. Google Images and other searches show the same out of focus, distance or otherwise weird pictures over and over.

All of these pages about strange facts of science are rarely(never) made by scholars, discuss the same things and have similar article names: "6/10/12 things science can not explain" or "Mysteries of Science" seem to be most common

The majority of mysteries in these articles seem to have gone viral within a niche. No effort is made to validate them or keep them up to date. The biggest issue is they all seem to rely on WiKi for the majority or all of their information. Wiki is good for grade school
reports or to tease the brain for an HS Essay. However, to rely on it for the lion share of evidence in any vertical of science is bad news.


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