Thee Stranger News for October 21st, 2021

A Liberated Zone on the FM, to enhance alternative culture and cognitive freedom!
Broadcast Thursdays at 89.5 FM KZCT in Vallejo, California, to a worldwide audience. Tune-in online [http://tunein.com/popout/player/s130679].
Convened by Dr.G., a Renegade Illuminati, convening Thee Temple [link], for knowledge, whimsy, and inspiration. Everything is true, nothing is forbidden!
Introductory track: Covenant - Ritual Noise [youtube.com/watch?v=dnlGEQ1NUsk]

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Futurism & Strange Science

* "Earth in 2121: Ex-Kremlin mastermind Surkov predicts grim future with ‘humanless democracies’ where robots will control everything" (2021-10-12, rt.com/russia/537238-ex-kremlin-surkov-prediction/) [archive.is/LZnMu]

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* "Back From Extinction? Company tries to bring back woolly mammoth" (2021-10-12, news.cgtn.com/news/2021-10-12/VHJhbnNjcmlwdDU5NDEw/index.html) [archive.is/l53bY]

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Space News
"NASA Administrator: Alien Life Is More Likely Than We Thought" (2019, futurism.com) [archive.is/d6n46]

* "Australian researchers capture strange radio waves from direction of galactic centre" (2021-10-13, news.cn/english/2021-10/13/c_1310241432.htm) [archive.is/T3Bju]

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Ancient News

* "The Iron Age Diet: Lots Of Blue Cheese and Beer, Poop Study Shows" (2021-10-14, ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/iron-age-diet-0015945) [archive.is/cumGt]

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* "East African Invasions in South America: Tracing Cultural Clues and Artifacts Left by Early Travelers" (2017-07-20, ancient-origins.net/history/east-african-invasions-south-america-tracing-cultural-clues-and-artifacts-left-early-021513) [archive.is/lIKcN]

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* "History of the Azores" (retrieved 2021-07-19, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Azores) [archive.is/SoxEh]

* "Norse Explorers Reached Azores 700 Years Before Portuguese" (2021-10-10, ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/norse-explorers-azores-0015925) [archive.is/iAlOi]

* "Pico: New archaeological evidence reveals human presence before Portuguese occupation – Azores" (2013-08-28, portuguese-american-journal.com/pico-new-archeological-evidence-reveals-human-presence-before-portuguese-occupation-azores/) [archive.is/jfi1G]

- image caption: Some pyramids organized to create a large plaza assumed to be a meeting place. // One of the 140 pyramids observed by the archeologists in the Madalena area of Pico Island, Azores. Some of these structures reach about 13 meters (43 feet) high. // According to the archaeologists studying the pyramids on the island of Pico, Azores, they seem to be oriented to the stars. Some of the pyramids do have inside chambers not yet explored.

* "Carthaginian temples found – Azores" (2011-07-09, portuguese-american-journal.com/carthaginian-temples-found-azores/) [archive.is/ggTwu]

* "Controversy Surrounds Artifacts on Azores Islands: Evidence of Advanced Ancient Seafarers?" (2016-10-16, theepochtimes.com/controversy-surrounds-artifacts-on-azores-islands-evidence-of-advanced-ancient-seafarers_2171870.html) [archive.is/NJWCV]

- image caption: A depiction of the coins purportedly left by Carthaginians on the Azores island, Corzo, that accompanied Johan Podolyn’s 1778 article in the Publications of the Royal Society of Sciences and Letters in Gothenburg.

* "Megalithic monuments of the Azores" (2019-05-01, novoscriptorium.com/2019/05/01/megalithic-monuments-of-the-azores/) [archive.is/7mSG4]

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* "Research on the prehistoric Settlement continued near Sokolac" (2021-09-20, thesrpskatimes.com/research-on-the-prehistoric-settlement-continued-near-sokolac/) [archive.is/5NbKk]

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* "A 1,000-Year-Old Battle Sparks a Fresh War Among Academics, Amateurs; Brunanburh is ancient history. Yet fighting has intensified about where, exactly, it happened" (2021-10-12, wsj.com/articles/england-english-history-battles-war-brunanburh-the-citadel-11634056437) [archive.is/F0TYm]

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* "Coal mine in Serbia gives up new Roman treasure" (2020-06-01, thesrpskatimes.com/coal-mine-in-serbia-gives-up-new-roman-treasure/) [archive.is/gwwVC]

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Like "Noah's Ark", the idea of finding the ruins of "Atlantis" under the water belongs in Miscellany & Errata, but for this article, there is shown evidence of a temple on the sea-bottom of the Caribbean, which lends itself not to the reality of mythology, but to the fact of catastrophe. A Mayan-style temple has not been found on any Caribbean island because, at some point early in the previous millennium, a large earthquake and tsunami inundated the Yucatan, and the severe effect shown there may have overtook any advanced civilization that extended across the Caribbean Sea. However, a temple on the bottom of said Sea is possible through a rapid subduction into a now-empty magma chamber...

* "Atlantis Unearthed – Do Surprising Underwater Scans Show Lost Architecture on the Sea Floor?" (2017-06-29, ancient-origins.net/ancient-places-americas/atlantis-unearthed-do-surprising-underwater-scans-show-lost-architecture-sea-021468) [archive.is/war51] [begin excerpt]:

Following the Underwater Trail

In 1998 and again in 2007, ARE funded underwater research on target areas which had been discovered using the latest satellite and airplane imagery. Following the path of the immense Bimini wall, a massive series of underwater stones which formed a road that may have been part of an ancient harbor, archaeologist William Donato, with Michael Pateman and a team of sonar scanning technicians, made a startling discovery.

On the Target 1 sonar imagery, at approximately 130 feet (40 meters) underwater, what seems to be a series of buildings were visible that are similar to those found in the Yucatan Peninsula. One series (pictured in never-before-published images below), is similar in style to the Puuc Maya pyramid complexes found on the Gulf of Mexico side of the Peninsula. When side-scanning sonar results are introduced, we can see the complete front facade of a series of buildings, including staircases, doorways, and columns.

- image caption: Underwater scanned image of structures off the coast of Bimini. (Image provided by William Donato).

When I interviewed William Donato, he mentioned that at the time that he was surprised at the style of the pyramids in the color scans, as well as its similarity to Maya-style complexes. Further investigation would be ideal, but because of funding issues and the great expense of using underwater scanning equipment, follow-up dives have not taken place.

- image caption: Building complex similar to Maya buildings in Yucatan Mexico. Image scanned at approximately 130 feet under the ocean off the coast of Bimini. (Image provided by William Donato).

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A reconstruction of what Ancient Greece would have looked like - Curetes Street in ancient Ephesus.

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* "The Hephthalite Empire" (1996, by B. A. Litvinsky, UNESCO) [http://web.archive.org/web/20210519221819/https://en.unesco.org/silkroad/sites/default/files/knowledge-bank-article/vol_III%20silk%20road_the%20hephthalite%20empire%20BIS.pdf]

* Tang Chinese painting about the Hephthalites, which ruled southern Central Asia, specifically what is today Uzbekistan

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Miscellany & Errata

* "Archaeologists claim to have found true location of Noah's Ark; The discovery was made using advanced 3D scans of an area in eastern Turkey, believed to be the location of Mount Ararat – the mythical resting place of Noah's Ark, as described in the Book of Genesis. 'Such angles below the surface is something you would not expect to see in a natural, geologic formation', researcher says" (2021-10-04, israelhayom.com/2021/10/04/archaeologists-claim-to-have-found-true-location-of-noahs-ark/) [archive.is/YVeMX]

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Curiata

* "Numberblocks: Number Comparison (Zero to Beyond Infinity)" (2021-06-24, youtube.com/watch?v=ff44aWj0ddA) [archive.is/A6QlT]:

This video took me a while to do. But it’s finally out! Seven weeks were spent working on this, while I did take some breaks in between.

I’m not the biggest NB fan out there, but watching these Numberblocks number to number videos really gave me the urge to make one of these. In fact, I’ve think I’ve done a much better job than most people have done their NB Comparisons, as I’ve put a bit more effort into this!

Keep in mind: This is updated as of season 8, and NO fanmade figured out Numberblocks were used, except for the changes that were seen past 10^3003. And I made a mistake when I calculated the size of Numberland: see a bit further down below.

Okay, let’s talk about what happens:

We first start at Zero, who is nothing. She says her name, then we go to One, who says her name, and the cycle repeats: 2, 3, 4, 5, … Since not all NBs have been figured out, most will have to be shown as compounds, like 34.

A bit later, we reach 125. Counting by 1s takes a while, doesn’t it? Well, we start counting by tens! 130, 140, 150, …

At 300 to 500, we start to increase the number by 100s, so 600, 700, 800, 900…

1000! At this point, we increase it by 1000s. They’re bigger than the regular ones, as you can see that each block equals 1000. At 30 000, we go up by 10 000, while passing the infamous 97 104. At 100 000, we go up by 100 000s, and then we reach 1 Million.

Now every time we reach the next Order or Magnitude, we increase the number 1 OoM more than the previous OoM. So it’s 1M, 2M, 3M, … 10M, 20M, 30M, …

At One Billion, the background changes to get a bit of sense of scale. That’s where the mistake comes in: I made Numberland around the size of planet Earth in this, but as seen in What If?, 1 Billion was almost the size of it. If one NB equals 1 metre, 1000 would be 10m (As it’s 10x 10x 10x), 1M would be 100m and 1B would be 1000m/1km. Numberland is supposed to be 2-4km, not 10 000km.

By 1 Quintillion, the NB is around the size of Numberland, so it goes off into space. Around this point, we start to 10x the Numberblock, as the previous method would take a while. By 1 Decillion it’s the size of a Solar System (I made it based off the NB planets from Flights of Fancy), and by Vigintillion it is the size of a Galaxy.

Also at 1 Vigintillion, we start to multiply it by 1000 each time to make it go even faster. The NB outgrows the (observable) universe at Sexvigintillion, and grows into the unknown cosmos beyond that point. We past Googol (10^100).

Notice that the shape of the NB’s eye changes from circular to square for every -illion: It’s because that the square eyed-NBs are square numbers, and the Circular eyed-NBs are not.

After a while, we reach Centillion (10^303). Then a change happens: the voices start to get deeper and deeper, and we grow even faster, up to multiplying by 10^300 every time. Then we reach Millinillion (10^3003).

For a brief moment, One comments how she’s seen a number that’s so big (Which is taken from One Thousand and One), then we continue. But at this point, the NB’s voices are too deep, so almost every number after that is accompanied by a text-to-speech voice. To make it less boring, I decided to put music over this point.

New changes start happening, as the background and the NBs start to change colours. Their eyes are completely square, and they’re either blue, green purple, or even black.

We pass humongous numbers like Googolplex, Killillion, and Skewe’s Numbers. Then I use a base for the NBs after Multillion, as we reach into the Tetrational stage.

Even later, we pass Graham’s Number, TREE(3), and lots of others. The background starts to change into lots of different colours, as we travel through the world of colossal numbers.

After passing the Giant Rayo’s Number and Utter Oblivion, we reach Infinity! The background changes back into the first one, but it’s color shifted, like if it’s a higher-level reality version of Numberblocks.

And finally, we end this video by going past all of the infinite ordinals in set theory.

I had to make around 38 videos for this, then put them all together in Splice, then wait for them to save. It took a long time to make all 38, plus I had to update some of them to fit in with the new NBs coming out, or other things.

Credits:

- Huge Credit to Numberblocks, which is owned by BlueZoo/BBC.

- Also small credit to Arifmetix, for some of the faces for the large numbers.

Music:

- Numberblocks Theme Intrumental (At the beginning and end)

- Newtonia I (After 10^3003)

- Rubix Cube (Near the end of the video)

I’ve also got a Googol Drive file for all of the NBs in this video, plus some other things! Check it out here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1M5jC1vtO053oR7S6Gcj9NaQWbPd3TMqY

There might be some mistakes I haven’t seen in the video, so tell me in the comments.

Enjoy! -DoDeca D. (2021)

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Ongoing research

[https://archive.org/details/161VariousArticlesOnEMEtc2]

[https://www.thelivingmoon.com/43ancients/02files/Moon_Images_Menu.html] 01) Image Information

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