Your favourite unsolved mystery?

odyssey06 · 30-05-2017 9:47pm

What happened the Viking colony on Greenland... where did people go? Lost at sea? Returned to their homeland in dribs and drabs?
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/why-greenland-vikings-vanished-180962119/

bear1 · 30-05-2017 11:16pm

tomwaterford wrote: »

There was a car discovered in the blackwater up around there last year....missing similar time frame

Two cars wasn't it?
One was for some businessman missing since 1990 but it was empty and then one car which was reported missing a few days prior with a body inside.
Can't remember fully.

fxotoole · 02-06-2017 7:51am

Here's one from the Tinfoil Hat Department.

Was Avril Lavigne replaced by a robot? &#55357;&#56881;&#55357;&#56881;&#55357;&#56881;

http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-39921209

Persephone kindness · 02-06-2017 8:13am

Why was Newgrange built?

The Antikythera mechanism.

The Voynich Manuscript.

The WOW signal heard by SETI. What was it?

cranefly · 02-06-2017 8:22pm

Why does fair city constantly have car noise at every indoor scene. total mystery.

Syphonax · 02-06-2017 8:25pm

cranefly wrote: »

Why does fair city constantly have car noise at every indoor scene. total mystery.

Its to hide the bad acting, which is pretty much in every scene.

odyssey06 · 02-06-2017 8:26pm

fxotoole wrote: »

Here's one from the Tinfoil Hat Department.
Was Avril Lavigne replaced by a robot? ��
http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-39921209

Replaced by a robot? You mean the original wasn't???

Syphonax · 02-06-2017 8:28pm

Persephone kindness wrote: »

Why was Newgrange built?

The Antikythera mechanism.

The Voynich Manuscript.

The WOW signal heard by SETI. What was it?

It was the nightclub of its day, think of a mini Vegas with no electricity, just the stars! trippy

Capt'n Midnight · 02-06-2017 11:54pm

Persephone kindness wrote: »

The WOW signal heard by SETI. What was it?

Sometimes the answer embarrassing.

http://www.nature.com/news/microwave-oven-blamed-for-radio-telescope-signals-1.17510

After more than four years of searching, researchers using the Parkes radio telescope in New South Wales, Australia, have identified the source of some mysterious signals: a microwave oven in the facility’s break room.

SPDUB · 03-06-2017 1:16am

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

Sometimes the answer embarrassing.

http://www.nature.com/news/microwave-oven-blamed-for-radio-telescope-signals-1.17510

Especially when that's the answer to one signal picked up by a radio telescope but not the WOW signal .

Jesus Wept · 03-06-2017 2:58am

fxotoole wrote: »

Here's one from the Tinfoil Hat Department.

Was Avril Lavigne replaced by a robot? ��

http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-39921209

#NotMyAvril

Capt'n Midnight · 03-06-2017 6:03pm

SPDUB wrote: »

Especially when that's the answer to one signal picked up by a radio telescope but not the WOW signal .

It took years and years to work out the microwave link.

If it's not repeatable it's not science.

SPDUB · 03-06-2017 9:22pm

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

It took years and years to work out the microwave link.

For that signal at that radio telescope which was in 1998

The WOW signal was at a different telescope in 1977

If it's not repeatable it's not science.

That quote is for when you claim to explain a phenomenon but nobody else can repeat the work that you claim explains it

How it's supposed to apply to this situation where we noticed something but haven't been able to explain it I don't know .

Capt'n Midnight · 03-06-2017 10:39pm

The WOW signal was a once off event. 6 readings 12 seconds apart in a smooth amplitude curve. Either a local signal rising and falling or a remote signal being picked up as the scope moved. And todays electonic and computery kit is much better than 1977

At the other observatory perytons* occurred more than once and so could be traced.

* the name peryton was chosen from mythology to be unassociated with an exact physical phenomenon, due to the ambiguous origin of the detections. Perytons are winged elk that cast the shadow of a man[

Panrich · 05-06-2017 11:01pm

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

The WOW signal was a once off event. 6 readings 12 seconds apart in a smooth amplitude curve. Either a local signal rising and falling or a remote signal being picked up as the scope moved. And todays electonic and computery kit is much better than 1977

At the other observatory perytons* occurred more than once and so could be traced.

* the name peryton was chosen from mythology to be unassociated with an exact physical phenomenon, due to the ambiguous origin of the detections. Perytons are winged elk that cast the shadow of a man[

You'd have thought that they would have been looking to rule out obvious interference or local phenomena in the wake of the WOW signal. I may have missed where the concensus is that this can be attributed to such mundane events as the movement of the scope. I'd have thought that such signals would be repeatable too.

stimpson · 07-06-2017 10:55pm

Panrich wrote: »

You'd have thought that they would have been looking to rule out obvious interference or local phenomena in the wake of the WOW signal. I may have missed where the concensus is that this can be attributed to such mundane events as the movement of the scope. I'd have thought that such signals would be repeatable too.

Coincidentally this popped up on google news this evening. Looks like the Wow! signal was caused by a hydrogen cloud accompanying a comet, a phenomenon that was only discovered 10 years ago. Experiments on comets between Nov 2016 and Feb 2017 show the same type of signature as seen in the Wow signal and it explains why it wasn't seen in the same spot again.

https://m.phys.org/news/2017-06-wow-mystery-space.html

Beyondgone · 07-06-2017 10:56pm

Why does Take-away rice block the dishwasher nozzels like some sort of exotic ceramic/Titanium alloy?

New Home · 07-06-2017 10:57pm

So, are the aliens getting piggy-backs from comets, then?? :pac:

Cervantes2 · 06-07-2017 2:00pm

Amelia Earhart is back in the news...

http://news.sky.com/story/could-photo-solve-mystery-of-aviator-amelia-earharts-disappearance-10938863

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-40515754

fxotoole · 07-07-2017 1:37pm

Cervantes2 wrote: »

Amelia Earhart is back in the news...

http://news.sky.com/story/could-photo-solve-mystery-of-aviator-amelia-earharts-disappearance-10938863

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-40515754

I'm skeptical that the people in the photo are Amelia and her navigator. It's almost impossible to make out their faces. Apparently they used facial matching software on the photo, but I don't see how they could done this if their faces are not easy to make out in the photo?

ohnonotgmail · 07-07-2017 1:40pm

fxotoole wrote: »

I'm skeptical that the people in the photo are Amelia and her navigator. It's almost impossible to make out their faces. Apparently they used facial matching software on the photo, but I don't see how they could done this if their faces are not visible in the photo?

completely impossible given that one of them has their back to the camera.

Owryan · 07-07-2017 1:44pm

fxotoole wrote: »

I'm skeptical that the people in the photo are Amelia and her navigator. It's almost impossible to make out their faces. Apparently they used facial matching software on the photo, but I don't see how they could done this if their faces are not visible in the photo?

There is a news video doing the rounds on Fb showing how they did the matching. Fred was "identified by his hairline and he is at least partly facing the camera. As for Amelia they looked at her profile and compared it to other photos of her.

The Japanese ship identified in the photo has been linked to the disappearance before and this particular theory has plenty of support, far more likely than tighar's claims to have found her on howland island.

Astonishing Legends did a very good podcast on her, going through all the theories and this was one they thought possible.

ToddyDoody · 07-07-2017 1:48pm

https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=share&v=hAAlDoAtV7Y

Cheerful Spring · 07-07-2017 2:17pm

LordSutch wrote: »

I will always be curious about the 5% of UFO / Flying saucer stories that can't be explained.

I am not talking about the sensationalist stories that hit the front pages of the tabloids, but those few sightings that remain a mystery.

It's likely only 2%. The best cases are always the UFO's witnessed by pilots, military and seen on radar.

Rendelsam Forest UFO encounter still to this day, is one of the best. 30+ US military soldiers at the base and the deputy base commander of Nato- Nuclear base in the UK (1984) witnessed a craft, lights, beams coming to the ground, just outside the base. The deputy commander even recorded real time (voice) some of the events on hes tape recorder. This is real time , not after the fact years later.

Yes "X files" occurrences really do happen

Ipso · 07-07-2017 3:16pm

fxotoole wrote: »

I'm skeptical that the people in the photo are Amelia and her navigator. It's almost impossible to make out their faces. Apparently they used facial matching software on the photo, but I don't see how they could done this if their faces are not easy to make out in the photo?

I'm more skeptical that it was produced by The History Channel. I suppose now that 2012 has past they need to turn their attention to something else.

As for mysteries, who the hell was Jack the Ripper?

ohnonotgmail · 12-07-2017 10:27am

Cervantes2 wrote: »

Amelia Earhart is back in the news...

http://news.sky.com/story/could-photo-solve-mystery-of-aviator-amelia-earharts-disappearance-10938863

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-40515754

an update on this. It couldnt possibly be her. the picture was taken 2 years before she disappeared.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jul/11/blogger-discredits-claim-amelia-earhart-was-taken-prisoner-by-japan?CMP=share_btn_tw

kylith · 12-07-2017 10:33am

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

an update on this. It couldnt possibly be her. the picture was taken 2 years before she disappeared.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jul/11/blogger-discredits-claim-amelia-earhart-was-taken-prisoner-by-japan?CMP=share_btn_tw

History Channel in crappy research shocker.