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Originally posted by billybob
The Mahabharata (composed between 300 BC and 300 AD) has the honor of being the
longest epic in world literature, 100,000 2-line stanzas .....
Certainly, the Mahabharata exists. The text with the "effects of the 'atomic weapon'" does NOT exist in the Mahabharata.
Though this text certainly appears:
� Various omens appeared among the gods: winds blew, meteors fell in thousands, thunder rolled through a cloudless sky.
� There he saw a wheel with a rim as sharp as a razor whirling around the soma... Then taking the soma, he broke the whirling machine...
The "radioactive layer in Rajasthan" article comes from one source (the "World Island Review") which is not a magazine/newspaper that currently exists and is the ONLY thing quoted from that... making it a rather suspicious document. There are, however, a LOT of citations showing that there is natural radioactivity there (radioactive oligomicticconglomerates ).
www.mlsu.org/geobotany_biochem/geobotany_index.htm
No part of the area is cordoned off. In fact, they have one nuclear reactor there already. It was the site of an "incident" in 1993: www.animatedsoftware.com/hotwords/memories/memory.htm
Beyond that one report, cited everywhere, there is no other mention of "radioactive ash layer" and so forth. When looking for confirmation of an item, it's usually best to get two different sources, niether of which relies on the other one.
I don't see any. I just see that one article. I see lots of others indicating some natural radioactivity but not at the levels hysterically mentioned in the article. Perhaps you can show some other INDEPENDANT sources that would tend to support that one article?
Originally posted by MuaddibBut there is more proof that has been corroborated by an Egyptian Phd,
There are also problems about the account of the object�s discovery. I have been unable to find a mention of a French archaeologist called Lauret, although there was one called Victor Loret (1859-1946) who was Director of the Egyptian Antiquities Service and who conducted excavations at Saqqara in 1898, where he discovered the tomb of Khuit, a wife of the sixth-dynasty pharaoh Teti. I have found several individuals named Padiamun (the person in whose tomb it was supposedly found), but all seem to have lived during the Third Intermediate Period, up to eight hundred years earlier than this individual.
(Muaddib) But there is more proof that has been corroborated by an Egyptian Phd,
Who was, in fact, a professor of anatomy for artists and an airplane enthusiast. Not archaeology:
www.catchpenny.org...
Note that the original story becomes embellished.
On this page referenced above, people actually studied and built the model and it does NOT fly.
Another source who duplicated what many of us found:
kjmatthews.users.btopenworld.com...
There are also problems about the account of the object�s discovery. I have been unable to find a mention of a French archaeologist called Lauret, although there was one called Victor Loret (1859-1946) who was Director of the Egyptian Antiquities Service and who conducted excavations at Saqqara in 1898, where he discovered the tomb of Khuit, a wife of the sixth-dynasty pharaoh Teti. I have found several individuals named Padiamun (the person in whose tomb it was supposedly found), but all seem to have lived during the Third Intermediate Period, up to eight hundred years earlier than this individual.
I don't see any real proof that the object was ever labeled an airplane by the Cairo museum. I checked the science search engine and my university libraries online and there is no mention in journals anywhere (this includes Science and Nature and other scientific journals) of the thing being an airplane.