Did the Moghuls of India Really Build the World's Largest Cannon?

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mgb_phys said:
Now a black cat walking backward under a ladder that meant a doomsday comet was on it's way - that would be a sign. Although I think my cat just does it to wind me up!
And if you see the same cat doing it again, then it must be dejavu and the code was altered!
 
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mgb_phys said:
Not really harbingers though...

Unless we see it coming first...

I have often wondered if the myth is based on real events from long ago.
 


The other night one scientist commented on movies that showed people looking up at the sky as a huge fireball of a meteor was about to crash near them, he said that in reality the heat produced would have already incinerated anyone watching from that close. We're talking BIG meteors, like one that would wipe out New York.
 


Evo said:
The other night one scientist commented on movies that showed people looking up at the sky as a huge fireball of a meteor was about to crash near them, he said that in reality the heat produced would have already incinerated anyone watching from that close. We're talking BIG meteors, like one that would wipe out New York.

You wouldn't see the thing coming in as it hit the earth, but it might be seen for days or even weeks before it hit. Comets are often seen while approaching, and again after swinging around the sun.
 


Evo said:
The other night one scientist commented on movies that showed people looking up at the sky as a huge fireball of a meteor was about to crash near them, he said that in reality the heat produced would have already incinerated anyone watching from that close. We're talking BIG meteors, like one that would wipe out New York.

You mean like this one?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zvCUmeoHpw
 


Ivan Seeking said:
You wouldn't see the thing coming in as it hit the earth, but it might be seen for days or even weeks before it hit. Comets are often seen while approaching, and again after swinging around the sun.
He was talking about the people pointing up at a fireball covering half the sky and about to impact. He said no one's going to be pointing up at it at that point. :-p
 


Comets travel really really fast as well so even if one could admire the inferno you wouldn't have long to do it.
 


Evo said:
He was talking about the people pointing up at a fireball covering half the sky and about to impact. He said no one's going to be pointing up at it at that point. :-p

But, but, but, that's how it happens in armageddon movies! And you can hear the roar. And you can outrun the shockwave on a motorcycle. Everyone knows that. Geez.
 


LowlyPion said:
You mean like this one?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zvCUmeoHpw
Oh sure, make it look fun.

Ivan Seeking said:
But, but, but, that's how it happens in armageddon movies! And you can hear the roar. And you can outrun the shockwave on a motorcycle. Everyone knows that. Geez.
Or if you are in an underground tunnel, you will be ok.
 


Evo said:
Or if you are in an underground tunnel, you will be ok.

Or if you are under your desk with your hands over your head.

...oh wait, that was for nuclear attacks.
 


LowlyPion said:
You mean like this one?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zvCUmeoHpw

Look what it did to big ben. :eek:

I like the thought of an English gent in a suit and bowler hat sitting at a table with a cup of tea and commenting with dry wit at the scene of destruction behind him having somehow miraculously survived.

At the end the Earth looked like an evil eyeball.
 


Ivan Seeking said:
Or if you are under your desk with your hands over your head.

...oh wait, that was for nuclear attacks.
Oh, you're going to love this. I was watching a show on Hawaii's volcanos, and guess what they have children do in school in case of an eruption that will cover them in lava before they can evacuate? They go into the hallway and kneel down on the floor head to the wall. Just like we did for atomic bombs at my school. :bugeye:
 


They could at least put them in amusing poses to entertain the archaeologists.
 


Kurdt said:
Look what it did to big ben. :eek:

I like the thought of an English gent in a suit and bowler hat sitting at a table with a cup of tea and commenting with dry wit at the scene of destruction behind him having somehow miraculously survived.

At the end the Earth looked like an evil eyeball.
Why is it in all the disaster movies, Big Ben is damaged, but still standing? I guess if it was flattened beyond recognition, it would have no impact, so it will always stand. :-p
 


Evo said:
Oh sure, make it look fun.

Or if you are in an underground tunnel, you will be ok.

I'm not so sure in that case a tunnel would be safe enough.

I don't think even Dick Cheney would be buried deep enough to escape consequences. It's an ill asteroid indeed that brings no good.

Me, I'd break out the best wine and a beach chair.

After all I'm just a LowlyPion.
 


Evo said:
Why is it in all the disaster movies, Big Ben is damaged, but still standing? I guess if it was flattened beyond recognition, it would have no impact, so it will always stand. :-p

It is built well.

They don't make them like they used to.
 


The Discovery Channel has "Demonic exorcist night".

The first show is "Exorcist Files", followed by "Exorcists: The true story".

What's worse? I'm watching it. :blushing:
 


History channel tonight is Ancient Aliens night.

New show tonight!

Aliens, Plagues and Epidemics - A possible connection between aliens and plagues and epidemics is explored.

Why not?
 


I need to tell my students not to watch tv that sounds educational anymore.
 


Evo said:
History channel tonight is Ancient Aliens night.

New show tonight!

Aliens, Plagues and Epidemics - A possible connection between aliens and plagues and epidemics is explored.

Why not?

[PLAIN]http://www.memedr.com/images/107-ancient-aliens-dollar-goes-in-soda-comes-out-aliens.jpg
 
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micromass said:
[PLAIN]http://www.memedr.com/images/107-ancient-aliens-dollar-goes-in-soda-comes-out-aliens.jpg[/QUOTE]Yep, that's the guy. Looks like he's just seen an alien, eh?
 
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micromass said:
[PLAIN]http://www.memedr.com/images/107-ancient-aliens-dollar-goes-in-soda-comes-out-aliens.jpg[/QUOTE]

Surely I am not the first to notice this.
[URL]http://www.oinc.net/B5/Enc/images/londo.jpg[/URL]
 
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waht said:
It's all about business. They need to attract more viewers.

They're loosing intelligent viewers to attract fogheads? How is that business model working for them?
 


DoggerDan said:
They're loosing intelligent viewers to attract fogheads? How is that business model working for them?

Looks like the general population disagrees with us.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1643266/ratings

"The program had 1.676 million viewers in late October 2010,[11] 2.034M in mid-December (for the "Unexplained Structures" episode)[12] and in late January 2011 it had 1.309M viewers.[13][14]"
-Wikipedia
 


Evo said:
Yep, that's the guy. Looks like he's just seen an alien, eh?

The hardest working hair on cable.
 


whowee said:
the hardest working hair on cable.
lol.
 


The regular documentary type programing is now on H2. Most Cable companies carry it, but for some it is extra.

http://www.history.com/schedule/h2/
 
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edward said:
The regular documentary type programing is now on H2. Most Cable companies carry it, but for some it is extra.

http://www.history.com/schedule/h2/
Nostradamus 2012, Bigfoot. It's the same crap.
 
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Nostradamus: 2012

Whatever is in store--a massive cosmic collision, a global environmental disaster, an Armageddon-lik… TVPG | CC

 


Evo said:
Nostradamus 2012, Bigfoot. It's the same crap.

Awww it is better crap than Swamp People, and some of the other trashy reality shows.:biggrin: