Archive for September, 2012

The Mysterious Human Catharsis of Crying

So, did you know that crying is pretty mysterious?

 

 

 

Why We Cry: The Science of Sobbing and Emotional Tearing

by Maria Popova

 

Why it’s easier to prevent a crying spell than to stop one already underway.

 

The human body is an extraordinary machine, and our behavior an incessant source of fascination. In Curious Behavior: Yawning, Laughing, Hiccupping, and Beyond (public library), psychology and neuroscience professor Robert R. Provine undertakes an “analysis and celebration of undervalued, informative, and sometimes disreputable human behavior” by applying the lens of anthropologically-inspired, observational “Small Science” — “small because it does not require fancy equipment and a big budget, not because it’s trivial” — to a wealth of clinical research into the biology, physiology, and neuropsychology of our bodily behaviors.

 

Take, for instance, the science of what we call “crying,” a uniquely human capacity — a grab-bag term that consists of “vocal crying,” or sobbing, and “emotional tearing,” our quiet waterworks. Provine explains:…

 

Click here for the complete piece from Brain Pickings.

 

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Apollo 20: Did NASA Go Back? And What Weirdness Did They Find?

More about the moon…

 

Do you know about the claim that an alien body was found intact inside a giant mothership on the moon? There’s quite a bit of video of the female so-called “Mona Lisa” extraterrestrial. Apparently there was a clandestine moon mission called Apollo 20, during which the astronauts found and explored the alien space ship and brought this frozen alien back to earth…

 

I am very torn on this Apollo 20 stuff. Some of it seems so real – the Soviet and American flag on the astronaut’s console, the way the frozen alien’s face is slightly decomposed around the mouth just like it should be, the odd “tubes” connecting the alien’s mouth, eyes, nose and forehead – this detail seem so odd to be nearly impossible to invent. What do you think?

 

Below, check out one of the videos regarding the Apollo black ops mission to the moon (and what they found there!). More details and the history of this rumored mission are included below the video.

 

 

The text below is copied from the YouTube page.

 

“On April of 2007, several videos apparently taken by NASA have emerged showing a city on the moon and a close up of an alien cigar shaped vessel in Deporte crater. These videos were from the Apollo 20 mission. Apollo 20 was a covert Apollo missions to the moon to retrieve ancient alien technology. I’ll be the first to admit this really seems ridiculous on first glance, but if you do a little research into William Rutledge’s story, then you begin to see that NASA has been hiding the truth for a long time, editing what we are allowed to know and not know. When researching this story, I hoped to learn the truth about the covert missions to the moon. What I learned instead stunned my imagination, strengthened by beliefs and amplified my fears. 

Rutledge does show that he has an extreme knowledge of Geology, Chemistry, and space exploration, which can be seen in his vocabulary that he uses during his interview for a UFO magazine. Another reason that Rutledge seems credible is that he didn’t gain money from the UFO interview, nor has he so far. So what could be his motive? Perhaps it is to bring out the truth about the existence of alien technology on the moon.

William Rutledge is a seventy-eight year old man currently living in Rwanda. He claims to be an astronaut that traveled to the moon on a mission called Apollo 20. Now Apollo 17 was supposedly the last mission at NASA. At that point, NASA cancelled the next three missions, claiming that their budget currently was not capable of funding such an exploit. William Rutledge said that NASA’s Apollo 14 mission took photographs as they flew over the polar region of the dark side of the moon, recording numerous ships, odd shaped buildings, and ancient towering cities, most appearing abandoned for million years. As I investigated, I found that all Apollo missions from 14 to 17 flew over that polar region of the dark side of the moon. Each of those missions landed within a few hundred miles of each other, indicating that something in the area was of high scientific value. The main mission of Apollo 20 was to explore a mother ship long since abandoned, but discovered in Apollo 14 photographs. The mission took place near Deporte Crater…”


Some incredible and detailed “footage” of the space ship, here.

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How The Moon Was Born

Our moon is a true enigma that baffles even modern astronomers –

 

 

How The Moon Was Born

world-mysteries.com

 

“How scientists believe our moon came into existence.

 

Several mechanisms have been proposed for the Moon’s formation 4.527 ± 0.010 billion years ago, some 30–50 million years after the origin of the Solar System. These included the fission of the Moon from the Earth’s crust through centrifugal force, which would require too great an initial spin of the Earth, the gravitational capture of a pre-formed Moon, which would require an unfeasibly extended atmosphere of the Earth to dissipate the energy of the passing Moon, and the co-formation of the Earth and the Moon together in the primordial accretion disk, which does not explain the depletion of metallic iron in the Moon. These hypotheses also cannot account for the high angular momentum of the Earth–Moon system…”

 

So, what really happened? And how did the ancient Sumerians know so much about it thousands of years ago? Read the complete article here.

 

 

An idea! If You Blog:  Why not write a post about the mysteries you have encountered recently?  Send a trackback to this blog and leave a comment below so we can share the mystery!

 

This post was written by Emily, co-editor of the blog.

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