Surprised noone compared this thing, flying out of a barrel to an RPG grenade, or a contemporary mortar. It's all about the tech, right? The painting is dated with c. 1700.
Title: Silo
Genre: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama
First aired: 2023-05-04
Creator: Graham Yost
Cast: Rebecca Ferguson, Common, Harriet Walter, Chinaza Uche, Avi Nash, Rick Gomez, Tim Robbins
Overview: Silo is based on the Wool series of novels by author Hugh Howey. In a ruined and toxic...
Watched all 3 videos. The last one is talking about something we can relate to, for we see certain things with our own eyes. Parts of the second one are kinda understandable for certain things can be scientifically explored, or at least that’s what some scientists can claim they are capable of...
This part is truly fascinating:
Tell me also your country, nation, and city, that our ships may shape their purpose accordingly and take you there.
For the Phaeacians have no pilots.
Their vessels have no rudders as those of other nations have, but the ships themselves understand what it is...
While replying to the article published by @Recognition, ran into the following 1902 publication.
TACOMA, July 1, 1902. - W. A. Reid, secretary of the Skagway Young Men's Christian Association, has returned from the interior of Alaska, where he talked with Indians, whose earnest statements he...
Thought of the Millennium Falcon for some reason.
Could be something like this instead, I guess.
Considering that the history of the tech prompts its own article.
Forlanini hydrofoil on Lake Maggiore circa 1911.
Enrico Forlanini - Wikipedia
Side view of the Kolovri Rock.
Here are...
Well, we have the written narrative not matching multiple instances of physical evidence. Kinda like the narrative was superimposed onto the evidence, or vice versa. Yet, certain things in the narrative correspond to the physical evidence, but do not match.
I am not sure it is logistically...
I have hard time processing the concept of the Tower of Babel as it is presented to us in the Old Testament.
For whatever reason I keep on thinking of the consequences where people would have to use translators to translate speech, aka data, information.
It’s hardly possible to reach God by...
Some of these can be found in older publications.
The issue that I see is a mismatch between the available technology we see in the texts dated with "ancient" times and up to about 1850s, and the physical evidence primarily related to architecture and various pieces of infrastructure. Not...
Celebration for the Coronation of Tsar Nicolas II. Arrival of the Cortege in Red Square, from Le Petit Journal, 31st May 1896 (coloured engraving) by Henri Meyer.