Friday Discussion Question

[amberdulen]

I love solving old mysteries. I have a theory on what the Beast of Gevaudan was, I have a theory on what the inscription on the Shugborough Shepherd's Monument means, and I have a theory on who Jack the Ripper was. It's crazy fun, and no one can ever prove me wrong.

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[jd3000]

In the tenth cycle of Its Eminence the Sixteenth Tradelord, a small Franchise ship took a shortcut through the Oblast Arm in order to reach the newly-opened tertiary end of Spacelane Radial-2 before its competitors. Unfortunately, the third sidespace jump they made placed them far too close to a medium white star, misplaced on their charts. The ship's sidespace motivator was disabled by the gravimetric interference of the star's mass, and they were adrift until their backup ion engines managed to carry them to one of the system's planets, which should provide enough of a countermass to reignite the flux and provide a proper coordinate fix for further navigating. Unfortunately, the common side-effect of a forced flux re-ignition is a backburst out of the ship's gamma vents, which would be detrimental to any organic life on the planet's surface, until it was determined that such a blast would do least harm at the boreal region in the upper center of the largest supercontinent. The engines reinitiated, the ship went on its way, in the

[twapa]

... I generally try to make a point NOT to have pet theories...

But I have to confess I'm rather intrigued by the idea that Homer's tales originated in the Baltic rather than the Aegean. >_>

My pet theories:

Most lake monster sightings are waves, seals, large fish, or logs.

The Patterson Film is a hoax.

Nostradamus did not predict 9/11.

Ancient peoples most likely did, in fact, visit the Americas.

There are no space aliens.

Most "out-of-place-artifacts" are either hoaxes or not what they appear to be. (The Crystal Skulls, for instance)

The Tunguska event was a meteor or something (not Tesla).

El Chupacabra is an internet myth. All known "specimens" have been mange-ridden foxes/coyotes. This is not a theory, this is a FACT.

... There's more, I know... Devon and I spend a lot of time reading about stuff like this... I just can't think of any good ones that I actually have an opinion on at the moment. >_>

[amberdulen]

Those aren't theories, they're a stubborn insistence on relying on facts. :P

Do elaborate on the Homer theory though!

[jd3000]

I thought the Homer theory was a grand social concept where alcohol is the cause of and solution to all of life's problems, the dead should not be hassled as they have eerie powers, rock n' roll attained perfection in 1974, good things don't end in 'eum', they end in 'mania' or 'teria', children are the future unless we stop them now, if God didn't want us to eat in church He would have made gluttony a sin, you couldn’t fool your mother on the foolingest day of your life if you had an electrified fooling machine, and facts are meaningless, because you can use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true.

-JD

[twapa]

There may or may not be archaelogical evidence to back it up (to my knowledge not many people have ever tried to study it), but basically the theory goes that the bizarrely incongruous geography described in the Iliad actually makes sense if you impose it over the Baltic sea rather than the Aegean. There is evidence that the mycenaeans migrated down to greece from the north, so it is conceivable that the framework of Homer's epics actually has its roots in Neolithic/Bronze Age scandanavian mythology. An advanced, seafaring civilization would have been possible at the time because of what is known as the "climatic optimal period" which followed the last ice age, during which northern temperatures were far warmer than they were even during the time of the Vikings. There are a few tantalizing textual clues which may or may not hint at northern phenomena such as the aurora, and the general descriptions of the land/seascapes in the stories constantly use terms like "stormy" and "foggy" - sunnyness and warmth are never (allegedly) mentioned

[lookingland]

i want to hear your theories on the Beast of Gevaudan and Jack the Ripper!

i am sure i have theories on a lot of things, but i rarely pursue them in any meaningful way ~ just fun to conjecture.

: D

[twapa]

Beast of Gevaudan - escaped menagerie Hyena or a cover story for a serial killer? YOU decide! XD