Your favourite unsolved mystery?

juno10353 · 21-05-2017 6:43pm

The murder of British family and local cyclist in tourist spot in France has fascinated me. Family inheritance rows, Sadam Hussein connections, bigamy, spying, it has it all
http://dailym.ai/2qHF4Tq
Al Hilli murders

ligerdub · 21-05-2017 8:28pm

juno10353 wrote: »

The murder of British family and local cyclist in tourist spot in France has fascinated me. Family inheritance rows, Sadam Hussein connections, bigamy, spying, it has it all
http://dailym.ai/2qHF4Tq
Al Hilli murders

I remember that story. It struck me as very odd and tragic. As time went on it left my mind, I had no idea it ended up throwing up wild connections. I just assumed it was solved and explained soon after.

bear1 · 21-05-2017 8:38pm

Talked about a few pages back.

bangkok · 22-05-2017 5:41pm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1976_Tehran_UFO_incident

Micky 32 · 22-05-2017 7:48pm

My favourite one at the moment is Tabby's star. Things are getting exciting because it's dimming again. Even though it's very unlikely to be an alien megastructure it's still a possible theory. It could be solved very soon.

Lady Spangles · 24-05-2017 10:14am

juno10353 wrote: »

The murder of British family and local cyclist in tourist spot in France has fascinated me. Family inheritance rows, Sadam Hussein connections, bigamy, spying, it has it all
http://dailym.ai/2qHF4Tq
Al Hilli murders

Yes! I remember when this first happened and it's a bit of a tangled web, to say the least. All the more strange since the attackers let the two young children live, IIRC.

Suckit · 24-05-2017 12:48pm

I did not follow that after the initial arrests, but i thought it was the Fathers brother? No?

cranefly · 27-05-2017 1:19am

Micky 32 wrote: »

My favourite one at the moment is Tabby's star. Things are getting exciting because it's dimming again. Even though it's very unlikely to be an alien megastructure it's still a possible theory. It could be solved very soon.

Anything that has the astronomers stumped has my attention, its amazing to me that nobody seems to have an idea of what this could be, besides the unbelievable notion that it could be a dyson sphere, aliens harnessing the entire energy of a small star.

Capt'n Midnight · 27-05-2017 6:57pm

cranefly wrote: »

Anything that has the astronomers stumped has my attention, its amazing to me that nobody seems to have an idea of what this could be, besides the unbelievable notion that it could be a dyson sphere, aliens harnessing the entire energy of a small star.

It's not a Dyson sphere.

For objects inside a hollow sphere the gravitational attractions from all directions cancel each other out. So the star would not stay at the centre of the system.

Maximus Alexander · 27-05-2017 7:04pm

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

It's not a Dyson sphere.

For objects inside a hollow sphere the gravitational attractions from all directions cancel each other out. So the star would not stay at the centre of the system.

Dyson never intended for the 'Dyson sphere' to be interpreted as a solid shell. He said himself that such a construct would be impossible and that he had envisaged a "swarm of objects travelling on independent orbits".

Sin City · 29-05-2017 12:14pm

A team from the University of Illinois thinks this explanation is far-fetched and has claimed the strange blinking can be explained by “avalanche statistics”.

The academics argued that the star was simply undergoing a process which meant it pumped out huge amounts of light at some times and smaller amounts at others as it went through a process called a “phase transition”.

“Examples of such transitions are magnetic systems that are slowly driven with a magnetic field, or the slow deformation of somewhat brittle materials where there is often first little crackling that gets louder and louder until there is a big snap when the material breaks,” said scientist Karin Dahmen.

Looks like its not a Dyson sphere

Poor Uncle Tom · 29-05-2017 1:02pm

A team from the University of Illinois thinks this explanation is far-fetched and has claimed the strange blinking can be explained by “avalanche statistics”.

The academics argued that the star was simply undergoing a process which meant it pumped out huge amounts of light at some times and smaller amounts at others as it went through a process called a “phase transition”.

“Examples of such transitions are magnetic systems that are slowly driven with a magnetic field, or the slow deformation of somewhat brittle materials where there is often first little crackling that gets louder and louder until there is a big snap when the material breaks,” said scientist Karin Dahmen.

Sin City wrote: »

Looks like its not a Dyson sphere

If that were the case, shouldn't there be many more than just one example out there?

Just sayin'

Sin City · 29-05-2017 1:05pm

Poor Uncle Tom wrote: »

If that were the case, shouldn't there be many more than just one example out there?

Just sayin'

Who says there arent

Due to extensive media coverage on this matter, KIC 8462852 has been compared by Kepler's Steve Howell to KIC 4150611,another star with an odd light curve (which proved, after years of research, to be a part of a five-star system).

Thing about space is ., its big, lots happening that we havent seen yet

Poor Uncle Tom · 29-05-2017 1:16pm

Sin City wrote: »

Thing about space is ., its big,

This is why aliens won't talk to us, they don't get sarcasm!

Sin City · 29-05-2017 1:23pm

Poor Uncle Tom wrote: »

This is why aliens won't talk to us, they don't get sarcasm!

Highly intelligent beings who dont get sarcasm?
Are the aliens German ??:D

mirwillbeback · 29-05-2017 4:00pm

Loved this thread, started last week and up to page 80ish. But can someone please explain the constant repetitions of
9/11
Dyatlov Pass ( at least 50 mentions )
Appalling Fig Roll, Cookie Jar and Who Let Dogs Out jokes (not remotely funny the first time)
Thread could be so much easier to navigate !

Maximus Alexander · 29-05-2017 4:10pm

mirwillbeback wrote: »

Loved this thread, started last week and up to page 80ish. But can someone please explain the constant repetitions of
9/11
Dyatlov Pass ( at least 50 mentions )
Appalling Fig Roll, Cookie Jar and Who Let Dogs Out jokes (not remotely funny the first time)
Thread could be so much easier to navigate !

I don't know about any of that, but DB Cooper is a fascinating mystery.

oneilla · 29-05-2017 5:15pm

mirwillbeback wrote: »

Loved this thread, started last week and up to page 80ish. But can someone please explain the constant repetitions of
9/11
Dyatlov Pass ( at least 50 mentions )
Appalling Fig Roll, Cookie Jar and?Who Let Dogs Out jokes (not remotely funny the first time)
Thread could be so much easier to navigate !

Some people were trying to be funny hence the fig rolls. There was a poster who made a mega post with links broken down into categories but it's lost amongst the rest somewhere

Dylatov Pass is an infamous mystery about some hikers in the Ural mountains tore up their tents, left their campsite naked, later died and at least one if them was missing their tongue.

There's a podcast here about the Dylatov Pass incident

http://www.unexplainedpodcast.com/episodes/2017/4/20/s02-episode-4-when-the-snow-melts

loriexxx · 29-05-2017 7:21pm

The Disappearance of William Tyrrell in Australia is interesting. Also the case is unusual as the parents cannot be identified for legal reasons.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_William_Tyrrell

Mam of 4 · 29-05-2017 8:33pm

loriexxx wrote: »

The Disappearance of William Tyrrell in Australia is interesting. Also the case is unusual as the parents cannot be identified for legal reasons.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_William_Tyrrell

That is sad and strange . I wonder are the parents in a witness protection programme or something , and that's why they can't be identified ?

Poor child either way

eviltwin · 29-05-2017 9:37pm

Mam of 4 wrote: »

That is sad and strange . I wonder are the parents in a witness protection programme or something , and that's why they can't be identified ?

Poor child either way

They are actually the foster parents, they can't be identified to protect his sister apparently.

Mam of 4 · 29-05-2017 9:45pm

eviltwin wrote: »

They are actually the foster parents, they can't be identified to protect his sister apparently.

Thank you for clarifying that , you'd feel sorry for them all .

bangkok · 29-05-2017 10:17pm

Barney and Betty hill

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barney_and_Betty_Hill

Itssoeasy · 29-05-2017 11:34pm

I see I'm not the only one who is fascinated by the whole DB cooper stuff. I mean the fact that a guy jumps out of a plane and is never seen again bar some of the ransom money is amazing.

eviltwin · 30-05-2017 12:00am

A recent enough Irish mystery that never gets much attention.

http://m.independent.ie/irish-news/news/the-couple-who-vanished-without-trace-from-fermoy-30672202.html

Kauto0709 · 30-05-2017 6:17am

eviltwin wrote: »

A recent enough Irish mystery that never gets much attention.

http://m.independent.ie/irish-news/news/the-couple-who-vanished-without-trace-from-fermoy-30672202.html

Very strange....

Persephone kindness · 30-05-2017 6:22am

NESSY!

DopeTech · 30-05-2017 6:29am

Women

tomwaterford · 30-05-2017 6:34am

eviltwin wrote: »

A recent enough Irish mystery that never gets much attention.

http://m.independent.ie/irish-news/news/the-couple-who-vanished-without-trace-from-fermoy-30672202.html

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

Persephone kindness · 30-05-2017 7:00am

FrostyJim wrote: »

Women

:D

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?

Your favourite unsolved mystery?

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