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Topic: So very interesting...
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Wed 12/02/09 11:26 PM
Edited by Atlantis75 on Wed 12/02/09 11:27 PM
Four.

The free world already knew the world was round BEFORE 1492 when Columbus was proclaimed to have proven its validity. The globe was already invented prior to. (Though it didn't include America, because that wasn't known to exist yet.)



Duh... The vikings knew it, the Middle East knew it.

Here is the world famous "Piri Reis" map, according to the cartographer (Piri Reis) he made this map (in 1513) drawing from sources dating back the 4th centuries BC. (that's 400 years before Christ)



It is drawn on a skin of a gazelle, shows the polar circles and America and every continent, even Antartica, which wasn't even mapped until the 20th century, but amazingly it shows it without ice on it and accurately

(wasn't even done until the first satellite mapping in the pas few decades)


Write it up as one of the worlds' biggest mysteries.



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Thu 12/03/09 12:00 AM
What I learned tonight on Mythbusters:

If a Mark VII diver's air supply is cut off with a faulty return valve, his innards WILL implode into the helmet at 300 ft. depth

If your left thumb is next to the gap in the barrel of a 357 Magnum or greater pistol when firing, the exploding gases will sever your thumb.

You can safely jump from a 20 foot building into a dumpster full of foam rubber and safely run away.

A really loud car stereo of over 160 decibels will NOT set off the firing mechanism of an SKS rifle, only a C-4 explosion shock wave will, and even then only a 1 in 4 chance

If you were a prisoner in a concrete cell and saved up a 10 year supply of antacids, about 22,000 of them, you would not survive in a break out attempt by adding water to them in a plastic-wrapped cell.

You cannot successfully smuggle contraband Canadian maple syrup into the U.S. by driving in the dark with no headlights on.

Thermite and ice are apparently not a good combination.

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