Based on that last photo, it looks like it was an old world power station with the "church" as the power plant. The houses probably were drawing off the excess charge.
What's interesting, is that if we are on a larger realm that is frozen in 3/4 of it's surface area always, it means we as a species are constantly setting out on an Age of Discovery every 7,000 years or so to find the new lands that are old that are thawing out.
Is the mars mission a cover for...
I liked the section where they electrify isolated gases from the air and show that the colors are the same as a clouded sunset. Really well presented and edited. Took be a bit to get the accent. Is that a british russian hybrid? I cant tell, but after hearing it for 7 videos, it's grown on me as...
They could have been aetheric power substations perhaps. Or possibly designed to light up and be amazing for that alone.
I do like the thought of them being gates between themselves or to other realms. Even as an energy technology, though, they are quite interesting.
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Here's an old world building that lights up with electricity in the right conditions. Possibly this is why the hats and umbrellas were necessary. Everything was charged up, perhaps.
I found this article on concussion rainmaking - Rainmaking by Concussion in the Rocky Mountains - that mentions that John Aitken of Scotland was an early proponent of artillery fire making rain because of the dust particles that gets distributed in the atmosphere.
Wikipedia has him as a...
I read that Anglo American magazine you cited. While the info may be solid regarding Apollyon/Napoleon (I don't know), the story itself, "A Case Of Clairvoyance" looks like it's a fictional tale of a guy who traveled to the 31st century and listened to historians of the time discuss his time...
Intuition points me more towards there being two distinct kingdoms here. After the New Madrid Earthquake the northern and coastal Vatican supported group attacked west, mopping up survivors.