Strange Facts!

[rinselberg]

During World War Two, Nazi mass murderer and war criminal extraordinaire Heinrich Himmler thought that the church bells of Oxford exerted a mystical influence or charm that protected the famous English university town from damage by the German Air Force; or at least, so says one site on the Internet.


Heinrich Himmler: A strange ringing in his ears?


Credit: http://dchipaux.free.fr/_syl_/_txt_/...e%20Occult.txt

[rinselberg]

More about the bizarre ideas of the major Nazi war criminal (chief of the Nazi SS) Heinrich Himmler …

Quoting from the website
http://dchipaux.free.fr/_syl_/_txt_/...e%20Occult.txt

The centre of the SS "cult" became the castle of Wewelsburg in Westphalia, which Himmler bought as a ruin in 1934 and rebuilt over the next 11 years at a cost of 13 million marks. The central banqueting hall contained a vast round table with 13 throne-like seats to accommodate Himmler and 12 of his closest "apostles" - making, as some occult writers have pointed out, a coven of 13. Beneath this hall was a "Hall of the Dead", where plinths stood around a stone table. As each member of the inner circle of the SS died, his coat of arms would be burned and together with his ashes, placed in an urn on one of these plinths for veneration. In this slightly ludicrous atmosphere of theatricality, Himmler instigated the systematic genocide carried out by the Third Reich in its last years.



Wewelsburg Castle


I have not been able to find any Internet reference for this, but I remember reading previously on the Web that Himmler believed that the decapitated heads of the deceased members of his SS inner circle were capable of channeling: Communicating across the ages with long dead historical figures that Himmler viewed as Germanic heroes, such as King Heinrich I "Hammer of the Slavs" and Frederick the Great. (As far as I know, this channeling idea was never put to a test!) So there you have it -- decades before the advent of 24 hour cable news channels like MSNBC and political commentators like former DCI James Woolsey (a personal favorite of mine), former presidential candidate Pat Buchanan (another favorite), Rudy Giuliani, Mary Matalin; even Bill Clinton on occasion; etc. TALKING HEADS!

If it’s true, it’s a strange fact. If it’s only another fable on the Internet, that’s also a strange fact. And if it’s only something I think I read, but never was on the Internet – well, that also would be a strange fact. That's a WRAP!




Wewelsburg Castle: Hall of the Dead


Wewelsburg Castle photo tour
http://www.wwiirelics.com/wevelsburg.htm

[rinselberg]

Wewelsburg: Castle of Evil. Take the complete photo tour at http://www.wwiirelics.com/wevelsburg.htm. See my brief photo essay Talking Heads! at http://www.optiboard.com/forums/show...&postcount=552.



Eye on history ...

[Sean]

Chocolate syrup was used for blood in the famous 45 second shower scene in Alfred Hitchcock's movie, Psycho, which actually took 7 days to shoot.

[Sean]

A 1,200-pound horse eats about seven times it's own weight each year.

[Sean]

A father Emperor penguin withstands the Antarctic cold for 60 days or more to protect his eggs, which he keeps on his feet, covered with a feathered flap. During this entire time he doesn't eat a thing. Most father penguins lose about 25 pounds while they wait for their babies to hatch. Afterward, they feed the chicks a special liquid from their throats. When the mother penguins return to care for the young, the fathers go to sea to eat and rest.

[rinselberg]

Using a laboratory device called a "diamond anvil cell", geophysicists and other scientists are able to simulate the same extreme high pressures and temperatures that are believed to prevail at the very center of the earth, or 4000 MILES below sea level! The device has many applications. It is currently being used to explore a theory that petroleum is being generated deep inside the earth's mantle, directly from rocks -- as opposed to the widely accepted idea that petroleum comes only from the effects of high pressures and temperatures on fossilized plants/animals. In theory at least, if not in practice, it may turn out that (some) petroleum is actually a renewable resource. There is evidence that some of the petroleum industry's oil reservoirs are actually refilling with crude oil even as oil is being pumped out for use.


Diamond Anvil Cell: schematic
Argonne National Laboratory



reprinted from the Laramy-K World News Forum
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[hcjilson]

This could be the best news we've had in a long time! We might even be able to stop fighting wars over it! Thank you Ron!

hj

[rinselberg]

It would just be an elevator.

An elevator anchored to a platform in the middle of the ocean and rising some 25,000 MILES to geosynchronous orbit! GOING UP --???? As crazy as it sounds, NASA is giving it some serious thought, as a radical alternative to the Space Shuttle and other rocket-based launching platforms. NANOTECHNOLOGY may make it possible.

The Space Elevator: Artist's concept
http://www.mondolithic.com/Images/06_SpaceElevator.jpg

The Space Elevator comes closer to reality:
http://www.space.com/businesstechnol..._020327-1.html

Thanks to Keith Benjamin, who clued me to this latest update.

[coda]

See: http://msnbc.msn.com/id/7280483/

NASA has at least two active competitions in the area already. They have the 'climber' contest and the 'belt' or 'cable' contest. I believe the 'cable' contest has gone through an iteration already. The advances in carbon nanotube technology over the past three years has been astounding, the technology for the cable is probably achievable within about 10 years.

[Sean]

Although construction of the Notre Dame Cathedral in Strasbourg started in 1015, it was not until 1439 that the spire was completed.

[Don Lee]

Originally Posted by rinselberg

It would just be an elevator.

An elevator anchored to a platform in the middle of the ocean and rising some 25,000 MILES to geosynchronous orbit! GOING UP --???? As crazy as it sounds, NASA is giving it some serious thought, as a radical alternative to the Space Shuttle and other rocket-based launching platforms. NANOTECHNOLOGY may make it possible.

I read about this last night in Popular Mechanics. My brain hurts.

Don

[coda]

The moon faithfully reflects the suns full spectrum of light but at 1/1,000,000 of the intensity. Therefor, under optimum conditions, it is possible to see rainbows at night (named moonbows for some reason). Waterfalls in areas with little or no artificial light are apparently the optimum condidtion. Because of the greatly reduced intensity of moonlight the bows generally appear to be light grey or even 'black' rather than the intense colors we're used to during the day.


(this fact brought to you as a result of Chris Reyser's post about photochromic lenses, thanks Chris)

[rinselberg]

New fossil evidence suggests that flying dinosaurs like this pterosaur could have grown to almost the same 64-foot wingspan as the Navy's F-14 carrier plane (image below).



For more, see TheTimesOnline report:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...icle564394.ece

[rinselberg]

Space elevator robot passes 1,000-foot mark
LiftPort’s balloon-based test marks milestone on long road to orbit

By Leonard David
Senior space writer
Updated: 3:37 p.m. ET Sept. 23, 2005

A private group has taken one small step toward the prospect of building a futuristic space elevator.

LiftPort Group Inc., of Bremerton, Wash., has successfully tested a robot climber — a novel piece of hardware that reeled itself up and down a lengthy ribbon dangling from a high-altitude balloon.

The test run, conducted earlier this week, is seen as a precursor experiment intended to flight validate equipment and methods to construct a space elevator. This visionary concept would make use of an ultra-strong carbon nanotube composite ribbon stretching up to 62,000 miles (100,000 kilometers) from Earth into space ...

MSNBC's complete report
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9454786/

LiftPort Group Inc. home page
http://www.liftport.com/


Space Elevator (artist's concept)
credit: http://www.monolithic.com



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[izzybrewer]

There are as many planets in the universe as there are grains of sand on the beach

[rinselberg]

In 2002, Kevin Millar joined Ruppert Jones, Ricky Lee Nelson, Dave Kingman, Jose Canseco and Alvaro Espinoza as the only players in Major League Baseball history to hit a fair ball that got stuck in a stadium obstruction.


credit: Kevin Millar - Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia



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[rinselberg]

In 1970, Columbia recording artists Simon and Garfunkel received a Grammy award for their hugely successful single "Bridge Over Troubled Water".



RIAA Gold Record Award


The legendary duo was so impressed that they put the gold-plated award disc on their stereo record player.

They were more than a little surprised at what they heard coming from their speakers!


Make sure that your PC speaker volume control is set for listening and CLICK on the loudspeaker icon. If you don't instantly recognize this audio track, you can look it up at the end of another OptiBoard post: Hitler's anatomy and a bridge in Thailand. And for more background information see: No "hum bridge" was taken!


Credit: http://440.com/twtd/archives/feb27.html

[hcjilson]

The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as a substitute for
blood plasma.

[amoura_0]

Originally Posted by hcjilson

The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
>

haha....that's very amazing... if its that easy to invent something, i'd better start from now..

[Sean]

A rat can last longer without water than a camel can.

[amoura_0]

More money is spent on gardening than on any other hobby

A person uses approximately fifty-seven sheets of toilet paper each day!


Honolulu is the only place in the United States that has a royal palace!


One gallon of used motor oil can ruin approximately one million gallons of fresh water!



More money is spent on gardening than on any other hobby!
In 32 years. there are about 1 billion seconds!

Rice paper does not have any rice in it!

[Sean]

A Holstein's spots are like a fingerprint or snowflake. No two cows have exactly the same pattern of spots.

[Sean]

Elvis Presley made only one television commercial - an ad for "Southern Maid Doughnuts" that ran in 1954.

[amoura_0]

Blind Spot In Eye
The optic nerve exits the retina as a single bundle. The exit point within the retina has no receptor cells. This location forms a blind spot in each eye. We rarely notice these spots because they do not overlap within the image formed by the two eyes. Your ophthalmologist can only detect your blind spots by having you close the eye not being tested.