Ancient Laos legends tell of the giants who drank water from these enormous mysterious "cups". Similar sites were also found in Thailand and in North India. Their locations are strung along a straight line, which suggests that they were built on some kind of a trade route.
Chris Mitchell from Travel Happy sent us his travelogue about this ancient site:
The Plain Of Jars is probably South East Asia’s most enigmatic tourist attraction. Situated in the remote north east of Laos, the mountainous communist country which has only been open to tourists for just over a decade, are hundreds of huge stone jars scattered across several square miles.
While most ancient Asian sites, such as the Angkor temples in Cambodia, have revealed many of their secrets, historians are still completely baffled as to where the jars came from, how old they are and what they signify. They are, in short, jars of a deeply spooky nature.
There are three key sites to see the Jars, three places where they are clustered together en masse, but there are apparently over 400 locations where they are to be found scattered across the plain.
Gathered together at the top of this hill, there were around 130 of them scattered about beneath the trees, mercifully undeveloped by any tourist organization. Undisturbed amongst the vast wheat yellow and sky blue horizon of the countryside, the jars did indeed seem mysterious, but there was also a sense of serenity too.
They were all at least a couple of metres long, and must have weighed several tonnes each, some upright, some leaning after being embedded in the ground, some completely toppled over:
All of them are virtually black, and their tall, narrow, hefty bodies make them look like crude cannons, pointing in every direction as if fearing attack from all sides. The darkness of the jars’ stone also makes them seem distinctly funereal and a little sinister:
On top of its mystery, the place may be riddled with unexploded bombs
Whatever its ancient history, the Plain Of Jars has had a turbulent recent past. Thanks to its proximity to the North Vietnamese border, this area of Laos became of key significance during the Vietnam War and so was carpet bombed by the Americans. Laos holds the dubious record of being the most bombed country in the world, despite never officially being involved in the Vietnam war at all. The legacy of the war is still being felt, with farmers and their families regularly being killed or injured by the unexploded ordnance which still litters the Plain. The Jars have been fully cleared of all unexploded bombs, but not straying from the designated paths remains imperative.
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(image credit: Gilmar Nascimento / AP)
The site consists of 127 blocks, some as high as 9 feet (2.75 meters) tall. The stones placed at "regular intervals around the hill, like a crown 100 feet (30 meters) in diameter."
Scientists believe the site near the village of Calcoene, just north of the equator in Amapa state in far northern Brazil, could have been built by the ancestors of the Palikur Indians, and could be as old as 2,000 years.
(image courtesy Academy For Future Science, Brazil)
The article is co-written by Chris Mitchell, Travel Happy and A. Abrams, Dark Roasted Blend All images are by permission of respective owners
The logical answer would be linked the earlier note about them possibly being on a trade route, they were probably used to collect rainwater so it would help travelers or some sort of message courier with water so they didn't have to run off path as much trying to find water.
the rainwater thing doesn't really fit, otherwise there wouldn't be any lids also, they would probably be more evenly spaced rather than clustered about. I addition, there used to be lots of smaller ones but the ones that were small enough to be moved have mostly been stolen. There's a fantastic story about how they were used to make sake and covered with the skins of fallen enemies, but the guides keep telling you they really don't know, although their best guess is that they were tombs, either for actual bodies or for ashes
Apparently they were used to store alcohol left for weary travellers along specific trade routes. But some of the other tales are much more entertaining.
I agree with the genius who said they're little tombs for ashes or whatever body parts would fit in them. My uneducated guess is that they were made after a battle. My Buddhist friend from Thailand said that most people are buried in tombs if they can afford it.
My father who is from Laos used to tell stories of ancient armies who would use these jars as containers for grain, however without further evidence one can't really know.
About the STS-75 "Tether Incident" video, what we're seeing are objects close to the camera, which is obvious for a couple of reasons:
Their fuzzy outline, when supposedly moving behind the tether is more in keeping with small particles near the camera going out of focus.
If some of the "ufos" were a mile in size, they would have been visible from the ground. Hundreds of amateur astronomers were watching it, and none of them saw any "ufos" flying around the tether.
There is having an open mind and leaving your mind so open that your brain falls out.
I do not know anything about this dog on the gun, but there seems to be a tradition: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=503870&in_page_id=1811
I do not doubt that the objects in the "Tether Incident" are indeed smaller debris closer to the camera, but why do they appear to go behind the tether? Is the tether image burned into the camera chip (like tube style cameras of old)? You would think that NASA would have better cameras than that.
If you check out the full videos of the tether incident, you can see that the tether breaks and coils up - but in the footage allegedly showing the ufos, the tether is poker straight, and there is no perception of distance or scale. The suggestion is that this is very zoomed in footage of something else. It also appears that the ufo footage is tacked on to the end of the NASA footage, it doesn't look very official
Well, in the documentary "ufo's, the greatest story ever denied" on Google Video, you can hear that they were filming with an infrared camera instead of a normal camera, that may be an explanation why we can't see them with our eyes, I find it a very interesting video, and imo it's not your regular debris... why would debris become translucent and then solid, have a spoken shape which changes sometimes! and they all look the same, It's like you drop food in an aquarium, and all the fish come to see what's new (that's how the former nasa guys says it in the documentary :)
The tether stretched out and is way further than in the beginning, why it is so wide, i don't know :)
After studying the footage more I must admit I'm even more confused. When the tether snapped, it bunched up at one end. There's no evidence of that in the "UFO" footage. All of the UFOs seem to be traveling on linear paths which would be consistant with debris in space, but it's coming from all directions. Weird.
Sinbad was the mascot of the US Coast Guard Cutter Campbell. As for the insignia on the gun, it is not political confusion but a indicator of the number of engagements by the cutter.
Mor information is availabe here: http://www.uscg.mil/history/faqs/Sinbad.html
The debris "translucent and then solid" because it's coming in and out of focus. Try it yourself if you don't believe it - stick a small spot on the window and take pictures of the world beyond. If you focus on the spot it'll be sharp and solid, if you focus in front or behind it'll appear translucent.
The tether clearly coiled up as it relaxed - so what we're seeing isn't twelve miles long but a much shorter coil which appears straight because the turns of the coil are closer together than can reasonably be resolved at that distance.
Does anyone know about some analysis of the tether video? I googled the incident but all I found was a lot of people blindly screaming at UFOs without any kind of analysis.
Look again, and look closely, i don't mean translucent when zooming in or out, they are actually changing from transparent to semitransparent and solid, like you see in some under water creatures too, there's this "glow" going through them. Not all of them show this behavior but some do, and you can also see this happening as in some "dots" (the smaller ones) just appear out of nowhere and disappear into nowhere, inside the camera-angle...
I know things become sort-of transparent of blur if you zoom in next to a near-by object. Just look closely again, and you'll see what I mean with translucency
Yes, the debris is probably floating in and out of shadows, causing the appearing disappearing act, and as for going 'behind' the tether, it's simply the sensitivity of the camera being very high. The tether is really bright, but the sensitivity isn't really uniform, and the over-saturation of the tether blots out the less bright debris. The same noise was made over the black crosses on the camera lens on the moon, they disappeared over white astronaut suits because of the over-saturation, and people claimed they were on the set background.
I think the pulsating, blinking effect in the video is just those pieces of debris rotating in the sunlight. They reflect different amounts of sunlight as they rotate.
OldSailor from www.marinebuzz.com: If possible delegate your job. Train persons under you or your team mates also. Many times we try to do all jobs ourselves as we feel the other person may not do it correctly. By training your team mates and by instilling confidence in them jobs can be completed successfully in time.
1) Don't do much 2) Take cigarette breaks 3) Do small things not big ones 4) Spend more time at the water cooler 5) Solve problems instead of finding them 6) Sleep in
@oldsailor: great point about delegation. Some people finds it hard to delegate because they feel that no one else can do it as well as they do - which is probably right.
But if you don't give others a chance to try, then they'll never have a chance to improve and you'll continue to be stressed out with too much to do.
That picture which is labled incomprehensible,it is in czech lang. and I suppose it could be from MFF UK,where I study.It is by the way mathematic.(Most probably math. analysis)
The uncomprehensible picture is almost surely from the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics in Prague. Apart from this I heared there is also one professor who writes on the blackboard with chalk in his right hand and straight after he cleans it with a sponge in his left hand. The students really have to write fast...
I'm sure that in ten or fifteen years we'll get to see the array of PDA, laptop, blackberry and cellphone pistols currently deployed against the supervillains of the world.
(Once they've been replaced by nano-gadgets, of course)
Looking at the instruction manual for the "gun inside the suspenders", it seems that it was meant to be fastened to the underside of the forearm, and worn underneath a suit or similar. From this position, it would be fired by tilting the hand back, presumably with the aid of a wire connecting the trigger to the button it is shown with.
Any chance of getting a wider shot of the "saddle clasp pistol" in use? I can't figure out where it is mounted or how it operates. It looks in the second photo like it's mounted in back of the cantle, which makes no sense to me unless you want to shoot your "podner."
Coho blackberry,pda,and cell phone stun guns already exsist. I am shore someone has already made one of the above into a gun, the flashlight shot guns are pretty cool too. http://wwwShopStunGuns.com
Those clouds occur a couple of times a year (source: SMHI, Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute) over scandinavia and in Sweden they're called "pärlemormoln". Here's an article with picture in swedish: http://www.dn.se/DNet/jsp/polopoly.jsp?d=147&a=736636&rss=1399
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I`m guessing... toilets?
The logical answer would be linked the earlier note about them possibly being on a trade route, they were probably used to collect rainwater so it would help travelers or some sort of message courier with water so they didn't have to run off path as much trying to find water.
Ye olde warp zone.
the rainwater thing doesn't really fit, otherwise there wouldn't be any lids
also, they would probably be more evenly spaced rather than clustered about.
I addition, there used to be lots of smaller ones but the ones that were small enough to be moved have mostly been stolen.
There's a fantastic story about how they were used to make sake and covered with the skins of fallen enemies, but the guides keep telling you they really don't know, although their best guess is that they were tombs, either for actual bodies or for ashes
They're drums. Stretch a skin, tie it in place and bang it with a stick. Woomba-loomba! Woomba-loomba! Boombadoomba BOOM BOOM BOOM!
They where used by MACV-SOG to capture demons.
Apparently they were used to store alcohol left for weary travellers along specific trade routes. But some of the other tales are much more entertaining.
Definately ovens. Clustered about where there were farming villages. The remains of the housing just eroded over the years.
Toilets IMHO
I agree with the genius who said they're little tombs for ashes or whatever body parts would fit in them.
My uneducated guess is that they were made after a battle. My Buddhist friend from Thailand said that most people are buried in tombs if they can afford it.
My father who is from Laos used to tell stories of ancient armies who would use these jars as containers for grain, however without further evidence one can't really know.
After watching the Alien movies it's pretty obvious what these are for. Wonder if there are still some in the ones with the lids.
I'd go with either ovens or storage of some sort. I doubt it's rain water, but it's possible that water was collected for crops
Ancient India humans (royality)were cloned in Jars . Kuravas 100 brothers born on the same day but process described from jars.
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