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Bush Memorial

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Since he makes a big thing about his religion:

Matthew 7:12
“So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets.”

I’m at best an agnostic, and though I do do my best to live by the rule above, I’m a fan of Karma… and more than willing to give Karma a helping hand.

Hey mum meet the new girlfriend

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Man getalookatthis, you see some weird things on The Net… now what do you suppose is going on here, anybody got any ideas?

Everest Summit Panorama

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It’s totally freezing with almost no air, being just a couple of thousand feet below the hight that international jets fly at. As for the danger aspect, it’s relatively overrated, since only 150 people have been killed climbing Everest… whilst countless millions die every year from tobacco. Needless to say the vast majority wont see this view first hand, but the view is worth the look.

What ancients did for us - The INDIANS 3/6

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Yet another important thing to come out of early India, and contra to accepted thoughts… it was India not the Arab world that came up with our current numbering system, but more importantly, the Indians it seems were the first to also come up with the number ‘0′.

What ancients did for us - The INDIANS 2/6

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Archeology has always intrigued me. About 4,500 years ago in present day Pakistan, the Harappan civilization (3,000–1,500 BCE) built what’s thought to be a remarkably advanced, extensive city built on a grid system, of some 30,000 people, totally unheard of before the Roman Empire 2,500 years later.

In this ancient planned city, homes had their own wells, drains and toilets, complete with an underground sewer system comprising of earthenware pipes, a first it seems on our planet. They also had developed an advanced method of casting intricate Bronze statues.

A gift from a friend

Just yesterday a good friend of mine gave me a gift. A gift that I will treasure, and if you could allow a little indulgence I will tell you a story about how they don’t make things like they used to.

The friend is Ed Simmonds and along with his wife Liz they would have to be one of the nicest couples I have ever had the pleasure of calling my friends. Anyway back to the story about the gift, It is a wrist watch and that’s it in the picture below.

Photo: Craig Williams

Lets hear Ed’s brief description of the watch.

The Wrist Watch

When I enlisted in the RAAF at the end of 1941, having been on the RAAF Reserve for about six months, my parents gave me this watch for my 21st birthday, even though that was two years away.

My father was a leading hand millwright on a weekly wage of slightly less than seven pounds whereas the watch cost about eight pounds.

I went to Darwin towards the end of 1942 but the leather wristbands did not last long in the humid climate. To replace the them a mate gave me part of a monel cowling from a Jap aircraft downed nearby. So I made a metal wristband in two parts which clipped together . This was used until it wore out the pins on the watch. Luckily we had a good welder at No.1RIMU and he welded two pins onto the watch case so that being back in civilization I could revert to using a leather band.

The watch survived the tropics, high intensity magnetic fields and high radio frequency electromagnetic fields while I served for four years as a radar mechanic. I got a new watch about 1950.

Ed Simmonds

PS. When the watch was wound it ticked over straight away, not having been wound for something like 25 years. Given that this watch is almost 70 years old and it survived the rigours of world war 2 service, they sure don’t make things like they used to!

Reptilian & Annunaki History

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What to believe, the story of a pregnant virgin or the bohemian slaves of the Reptilian planet X?

SARCOS half human half robot

Video: YouTube

It’s sad that inventions such as this are more likely to get support, if they have a military application, rather than provide a service… say like helping the countless thousands of paraplegics.

Rewriting History

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Well in the realm of taking things literally… I’m going to have to revisit terms such as ‘impossible’, ‘beyond any possible doubt, all pyramids were designed to project a powerful beam of energy’…, ‘no longer speculation’, ‘it can now be proven beyond all reasonable doubt’.

No doubt the pyramids are magnificent structures, as to whether or not they were constructed with the help of aliens, I’d say… probably not. Perhaps it’s more likely that we underestimate the capabilities of our ancestors.

The Star-nosed mole

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The Star-nosed Mole (Condylura cristata) is a small mole found in in eastern Canada and the north-eastern United States. It is the only member of the tribe Condylurini and the genus Condylura.

The Star-nosed mole lives in wet lowland areas and eats small invertebrates, worms, insects and mollusks. The mole is a good swimmer and can also forage along the bottom of streams and ponds. The mole digs shallow tunnels that it can use to forage for food.

The Star-nosed mole is covered in a thick black/brown water repellent fur, has large scaled feet and a long thick tail. It is the mole nose though which is it’s most distinctive feature, it has a circle of 22 mobile, pink, fleshy tentacles at the end of the snout, which is used to identify food by touch.

That Nose

“The incredibly sensitive nasal tentacles are covered with almost one hundred thousand minute touch receptors known as Eimer’s organs. These were first described in the European Mole in 1871 by German zoologist Theodor Eimer. Other mole species also possess Eimer’s organs, though they are not as specialized or numerous as in the Star-nosed Mole. Because the Star-nosed Mole is functionally blind, it had long been suspected that the snout was used to detect electrical activity in prey animals[3][4], though there is little, if any, empirical support for this contention. It appears the nasal star and dentition of this species are primarily adapted to exploit extremely small prey items. A report in the journal Nature gives this animal the title of fastest-eating mammal, taking as short as 120 milliseconds (average: 227 milliseconds) to identify and consume individual food items. Its brain decides in the ultra short time of 8 ms if a prey is comestible or not. This speed is at the limit of the speed of neurons. They also possess the ability to smell underwater. It is done by exhaling air bubbles onto objects or scent trails and then inhaling the bubbles to carry the smell back through the nose.”

“The star of tentacles is formed in a unique way so far not seen other places in the animal world. Instead of growing in the same way fingers grow outward on a hand, they start as swellings on the face around the nose, and some days after birth they break free and move forward in the same way a banana is peeled.”

The Star-nosed mole is just one of the many amazing, yet not so well known creatures that inhabit this world, we will from time to time be showing more of these amazing inhabitants of this place we call home.

Website: Star-Nosed Mole

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