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Danny Way Big Air Contest Crash, X Games 14 2008

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This is extreme skating at its most extreme, the air that these guys get is absolutely amazing. It’s a far cry from my cruising down the end of my street on my HANG TEN skateboard in the early eighties.

What ancients did for us - The INDIANS 5/6

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It’s altogether too easy to underestimate the capabilities of the Ancients, and perhaps affix credit for the Pyramids etc. to ‘Off worlders’, rather than giving credit to the Ancients ability, in this case to move blocks of stone which we would have problems moving, even with our present day mechanical technology.

The Indian Ayurveda and Yoga, along with the Chinese Acupuncture and Herbal Medicine, which are still practiced thousands of years later, are also too much underestimated. I think it’s worth mentioning here also, that the Egyptians of the Pharaohs time, along with the Ancient Chinese, Greeks, South Americans and who knows how many others, also carried out quite complex surgical operations that, from archaeological evidence, are shown to have been successful.

I have a theory… that the ‘ancients’ were far more observant and thoughtful about what they saw or experienced, largely because of the absence of the mind numbing TV’s ‘Big Brother’ & ‘So you think you can dance’ etc.

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

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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.

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