Your favourite unsolved mystery?

AnonoBoy

44leto wrote: »

The Laetoli Footprints

http://www.decarteret.net/Tanz%20and%20Zanz/Tanzania%20and%20Zanzibar%20Nettest_files/image013.jpg

Footprints preserved in volcanic ash in Tanzania dated from 3.6 million years. The mechanics of the footprints show that this ape/hominid was very bipedal, as balanced as us. No-one is sure what creature made them. Some suggest its proof that the dating of the ascent of man is all wrong.

Mystery 2

What happened to humanity after the Toba super volcano eruption 55,000 years ago. Genetic studies puts the remaining human population back then at around 3000, then from them all us came.

But for the first time in the fossil record art appears, man's tool kit gets more additions like needles harpoons intricate arrow and spear head, man's toolkit becomes more intricate and specialised. Then where ever they went, big mammal and reptile extinctions followed. They were us. Its as if we suddenly sprouted a frontal lobe.

The answer to both those questions is aliens.

44leto

AnonoBoy wrote: »

The answer to both those questions is aliens.

Nah that would suggest intelligent design, we are very stupidly designed. Our thin skulls, our vulnerable necks, our poorly designed joints and spine which always give us trouble. Our very vulnerable infant state and very long gestation period and off course our bipedalism and large cortex's which can kill women just by giving birth to us.

LordSutch

Jill Dando
Maddie Mc Cann

cock robin

Ally Dick wrote: »

Bermuda Triangle disappearances. Hangar 18. Roswell. I'd love to know all about that stuff.

It's all bollox that's all there is to know.

44leto

cock robin wrote: »

It's all bollox that's all there is to know.

Yeah but who killed Cock Robin??

cock robin

The eye ball, even Darwin could'nt explain it. It must have been there from the start. Given that most Darwinians agree on the theory of evolution and the survival of the fittest he could never fully explain how the eyeball developed. Its development would according to his own theories have taken millions of years, but an underdeveloped eye with poor vision would have used massive resourses and been useless and the creatures would obviously have been surviving perfectly well without sight. So it was either there from the beginning or ?

cock robin

44leto wrote: »

Yeah but who killed Cock Robin??

A murderer.

44leto

cock robin wrote: »

The eye ball, even Darwin could'nt explain it. It must have been there from the start. Given that most Darwinians agree on the theory of evolution and the survival of the fittest he could never fully explain how the eyeball developed. Its development would according to his own theories have taken millions of years, but an underdeveloped eye with poor vision would have used massive resourses and been useless and the creatures would obviously have been surviving perfectly well without sight. So it was either there from the beginning or ?

Not true, there is a history of the eyeball right through nature, you can "see" how it evolved. Its interesting that sea creatures also evolved similar eye. An octopuses eye is very similar to ours, yet they are so far removed.

44leto

cock robin wrote: »

A murderer.

I seen it on tele they fight during the mating season so another cock robin killed cock robin..mystery solved.

steddyeddy

44leto wrote: »

The Laetoli Footprints

http://www.decarteret.net/Tanz%20and%20Zanz/Tanzania%20and%20Zanzibar%20Nettest_files/image013.jpg

Footprints preserved in volcanic ash in Tanzania dated from 3.6 million years. The mechanics of the footprints show that this ape/hominid was very bipedal, as balanced as us. No-one is sure what creature made them. Some suggest its proof that the dating of the ascent of man is all wrong.

Mystery 2

What happened to humanity after the Toba super volcano eruption 55,000 years ago. Genetic studies puts the remaining human population back then at around 3000, then from them. all us came.

But for the first time in the fossil record art appears, Man's toolkit becomes more intricate and specialised and gets more additions, things like needles, harpoons, intricate arrow and spear heads. Then where ever they went, big mammal and reptile extinctions followed. They were us. Its as if we suddenly sprouted a frontal lobe.

Im pretty sure the dating of the ascent of man is wrong but I would class those tracks as Australopithecus gracile. I would also say that I find asia a more likely origin for the genus Homo.

cock robin

44leto wrote: »

Not true, there is a history of the eyeball right through nature, you can "see" how it evolved. Its interesting that sea creatures also evolved similar eye. An octopuses eye is very similar to ours, yet they are so far removed.

So your going to argue with Darwin then are you, you can explain something the great man could not.

steddyeddy

The eyeball evolved from photosensitive cells which could distinguish from light and dark gradually progressing to an organ capable of detecting color. Its not really a mytsery. Look at the diversity of life and the different ways in which creatures have evolved to see. There is a level of complexity there.

AnonoBoy

44leto wrote: »

Nah that would suggest intelligent design, we are very stupidly designed.

Stupid aliens?

seanybiker

Jimmy hoffa is a kinda cool mystery.



i would also like to find out Who put the bomp
In the bomp bah bomp bah bomp?

Followed closely by the person Who put the ram
In the rama lama ding dong?

steddyeddy

cock robin wrote: »

So your going to argue with Darwin then are you, you can explain something the great man could not.

Well he was a great man but in science no matter how great a man criticisim is essential. He was right about evolution but he didnt get a lot of things right. How could he have known about the workings of the eye without molecular biology?

steddyeddy

AnonoBoy wrote: »

Stupid aliens?

Actually made me laugh.

AnonoBoy

cock robin wrote: »

So your going to argue with Darwin then are you, you can explain something the great man could not.

Darwin thought his wife loved him but everyone else knew she was mad for Herbert Spencer. So he didn't know everything!

Oh she loved to ride the 'Spencer Train' so she did! Choo! Choo! All aboard!

IvaBigWun

Shakespeare. Did he really write all those works?

44leto

cock robin wrote: »

So your going to argue with Darwin then are you, you can explain something the great man could not.

Off course Darwin died in 1882, he was a founding figure of the theory, but he knew nothing about genetics. Yet Greger Mandel's published his paper on genetics in1866 but it was largely ignored. But knowledge of genetics is a mechanism of evolution.

Anyway the science has moved on since Darwin. So has theories on the ascent of man and the evolution of the eyeball.

But there is a mystery, evolution works in a small advantage say in a predator, then the prey evolves a countermeasure and the arms race continues. But man's advantage no creature could evolve a defence, which is why we are an extinction event.

Osgoodisgood

ToddyDoody wrote: »

The mystery of existence if you're thinking big, how does a bumble bee (not that you'd see one these days) fly, how does the moon effect the seas, the turin shrowd and how did pat kenny pass for an entertainer.

evolution, gravity, someone made stuff up, now thats a mystery. call interpol quick

Osgoodisgood

Osgoodisgood wrote: »

evolution, gravity, someone made stuff up, now thats a mystery. call interpol quick

Don't worry, interpol already know.

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Icepick

sunflower27 wrote: »

Why the hell would they head off out into the cold in their underwear...

It's a common thing actually.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypothermia#Paradoxical_undressing

shuffles88

What happens after they all go over the top in the last episode of Blackadder Goes Forth

44leto

shuffles88 wrote: »

What happens after they all go over the top in the last episode of Blackadder Goes Forth

As brit actors go they all went on to be mega stars.

kincsem

Karona wrote: »

Hanging Rock
http://www.profilingtheunexplained.com/mysterious_happenings/hanging_rock.html

Solved. The film Picnic At hanging Rock was based on a novel of the same name by Joan Lindsay.


Wiki
In fact, Lindsay's original draft included a final chapter in which the mystery was resolved. At her editor's suggestion, Lindsay removed it prior to publication. Chapter Eighteen, as it is known, was published posthumously in 1987 as The Secret of Hanging Rock by Angus & Robertson Publishing.[3]
The novel is written in the form of a false document, implying that it is based on a true story, and even begins and ends with a pseudo-historical prologue and epilogue, adding to the overall feeling of mystery.

Mal-Adjusted

enfant terrible wrote: »

The Thunderbird Photograph

The Thunderbird Photograph has become a phenomenon unto itself -- a photo that so many have seen but no one can find.

you don't mean this thing do you? i thought it was a hoax.
http://www.boudillion.com/Moth/thunderbird.jpg



edit. just looked it up now, yeah, it's not that

steddyeddy

Mal-Adjusted wrote: »

you don't mean this thing do you? i thought it was a hoax.
http://www.boudillion.com/Moth/thunderbird.jpg

Aparantly it was a pic of a giant bird nailed to a barn. That pic in your link is of a real creature sadly extinct called Argentavis magnificens. It was the biggest bird that ever lived and likely inspired the legend of the giant roc.

Capt'n Midnight

cock robin wrote: »

The eye ball, even Darwin could'nt explain it. It must have been there from the start.... but an underdeveloped eye with poor vision would have used massive resourses and been useless and the creatures would obviously have been surviving perfectly well without sight. So it was either there from the beginning or ?

First in the kingdom of the blind the one eyed is king.

next http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euglena it's a single celled organism so it's smaller than an eye but it uses a photosensitive area to swim towards the light because it's got chlorophyll

Capt'n Midnight

steddyeddy wrote: »

Aparantly it was a pic of a giant bird nailed to a barn. That pic in your link is of a real creature sadly extinct called Argentavis magnificens. It was the biggest bird that ever lived and likely inspired the legend of the giant roc.

Elephant birds survived until historical times. Aepyornis was the world's largest bird, believed to have been over 3 metres tall

steddyeddy

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

Elephant birds survived until historical times. Aepyornis was the world's largest bird, believed to have been over 3 metres tall

Ah right I should have specified that it was the largest bird that ever flew!