That vid’s a couple years old, but it still amuses me, especially when I think of all the time-consuming preparation that went into it.
But what’s a magic trick without the set up? Well, lemme tell you – it’s
The Overnight Open Thread.
Posts Tagged ‘Mystery’
Amphibian Magic Trick
by Bunk Five Hawks X ( 54 Comments › )Filed under Evolution, Humor, Movies, OOT, Open thread at January 25th, 2012 - 11:00 pm
The Yeti
by Phantom Ace ( 71 Comments › )Filed under Academia, Entertainment, Open thread at April 21st, 2011 - 8:00 pm
The Yeti is a legendary creature that lives in the Himalayas. The mystery of the Yeti is one that has fascinated many for decades.Nepalese and Tibetans claims it’s a spirit. Many Western hikers claim to have had encounters with the Yeti. They describe it as Ape like and standing erect. There are many theories. Some say it’s an Ape. Others claim it’s a hallucination. The reality is that it’s spotted in a very remote and inhospitable area. It could possibly be some type of Ape like creature. It’s a mystery that hasn’t been solved.
The Himalaya Mountains, the highest range on Earth, have been referred to as the “roof of the world.” If that is so, there is a mystery called the Yeti in our attic. In Tibetan the word means “magical creature” and truly it is a seemingly supernatural enigma in the shape of a hairy, biped creature that resembles a giant ape.
The Himalayas lie on the border between India, Nepal, and Tibet (now part of China). They are remote and forbidding. Large stretches around these rough valleys and peaks are uninhabited. The tallest mountain in the world, Everest, 29,028 feet high, lies half in Nepal, half in China. It is from Nepal, though, that most attempts to climb Everest, and the surrounding mountains, are made.
In Katmandu, the capitol of Nepal, a visitor finds himself immersed in the Yeti legend. He is a commercial money maker for the tourist industry (there’s even a Hotel named the “Yak and the Yeti”) as well as legend, religion and fantasy to some of the Neplaese people.
The first reliable report of the Yeti appeared in 1925 when a Greek photographer, N. A. Tombazi, working as a member of a British geological expedition in the Himalayas, was shown a creature moving in the distance across some lower slopes. The creature was almost a thousand feet away in a narea with an altitude of around 15,000 feet.
Read the Rest: Abominable Snowman of the Himalayas
The mystery of the Yeti may never be solved. Or maybe one day, there will be determinative proof that the Yeti exists. Maybe it’s just a hallucination. What is strange is that legends of this creature have been around for centuries. It’s possible there’s something to this.
The Truth is out there!
Tales from the Climategate Crypt and The Good Charles
by snork ( 101 Comments › )Filed under Climate, Crime at January 15th, 2010 - 6:00 am
Something’s up. I’m not sure exactly what, but the police in the UK may be hitting a brick wall, and are breathing down some necks here. Today, two threads broke on two different blogs. Here, on ClimateAudit, Steve Mc recapped the sequence of events back in November surrounding the release of the leaked files into the internet wilds. His recount of events centered around the involvement of one Steve Mosher, one of the CA regulars, and the other major players.
Meanwhile over at WhatsUpWithThat, a fellow heretofore known as “CTM” (Charles the Moderator) “comes out”. Because of the way the events unfolded, CTM was one of the first people to get his hands on the leaked file, and had to sit on it for a couple of days while Anthony Watts returned from Europe, and could assess the situation.
CTM, as it turns out, is Charles Rotter of San Fransisco. Steve Mosher’s roommate. He had been simply anonymous “Charles”, but circumstances have made him decide to out himself. This, of course, explains how it is that Steve got a copy of the file so early on, and the fact that Charles decided to out himself tells me that someone has been breathing down both of their necks. No need for conspiracy theories; they laid it all out there.
As if this isn’t enough of a detective novel yet (and rumor has it that there’s a book in the works!), Mosher plunked this comment in his thread at CA:
Steven Mosher
Posted Jan 13, 2010 at 2:39 PM | Permalink | ReplyFrom our side of the story we have divulged ll we know.
From Charles first finding the file in moderation at WUWT evening Nov17th His call to me went out at 7:02PM [ PST; 10:02 Eastern: SMc ] to my work with the file from shortly after that time until Nov 19th 11:55 PSt [3:55 pm Eastern] when I posted to lucia.
Steve has told his story. Charles his. Jeff, lucia, Anthony has given me quotes for the book. bender even came forward. No need for the police to do any more interviews. Unless, they are interested in other things like my funding. So, You hear that Norwich police? if you want to “solve” the crime everything I know is now posted on the internet. If you want to know if I’m supported by anybody? well first off none of your damn business, and secondly no.
Now. What does gavin know?
Well, what does Gavin know? It seems like everyone else involved, on four blogs on the skeptical side have placed their cards down on the table. And now they’re openly telling the Norwich police that it’s all out there, and there’s no more. So the only other party involved in the release of the file (as opposed to a different bunch implicated in the emails themselves) is Gavin Schmidt.
Obviously the principals in this tale know things that you and I don’t know, and they’re trying to put Gavin in a corner. What does this all mean? I. Don’t. Know. Not a clue. But this isn’t happening for no reason, and I think it’s a safe bet that the butler’s about to start confessing.
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