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In January 1992, a shipping mishap turned into an unexpected scientific breakthrough when the cargo ship Ever Laurel lost a container carrying 29,000 plastic toys—mostly rubber ducks—into the Pacific Ocean.
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A Journey Across the Seas: Months later, these tiny travelers began washing up on Alaska’s shores, over 3,270 km (2,030 miles) from where they were lost.
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A Unique Ocean Experiment: Oceanographers tracked the ducks’ movements, using them as floating markers to study ocean currents and how objects disperse at sea.
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Ducks Across the World: Some of these adventurous toys traveled astonishing distances, with reports of them reaching Europe years later, providing valuable insights into oceanic flow patterns.
What started as an accident became a groundbreaking study, proving that even a lost rubber duck can help unlock the mysteries of the ocean!

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Luckytrim said:
In January 1992, a shipping mishap turned into an unexpected scientific breakthrough when the cargo ship Ever Laurel lost a container carrying 29,000 plastic toys—mostly rubber ducks—into the Pacific Ocean.
🔹
A Journey Across the Seas: Months later, these tiny travelers began washing up on Alaska’s shores, over 3,270 km (2,030 miles) from where they were lost.
🔹
A Unique Ocean Experiment: Oceanographers tracked the ducks’ movements, using them as floating markers to study ocean currents and how objects disperse at sea.
🔹
Ducks Across the World: Some of these adventurous toys traveled astonishing distances, with reports of them reaching Europe years later, providing valuable insights into oceanic flow patterns.
What started as an accident became a groundbreaking study, proving that even a lost rubber duck can help unlock the mysteries of the ocean!

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Wow, how cool!

Lee
 
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The two islands—Big Diomede (Tomorrow Island, Russia) and Little Diomede (Yesterday Island, USA)—are only about three miles (4.8 km) apart but lie on opposite sides of the International Date Line. Because of this, there is a 21-hour time difference between them, meaning they are almost a full day apart!

You can see one island from the other, and in winter, when the sea freezes, you could even walk across the ice—from today to yesterday or vice versa! Standing on one island, you are literally looking at yesterday or tomorrow, just a few miles away.
 
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The two islands—Big Diomede (Tomorrow Island, Russia) and Little Diomede (Yesterday Island, USA)—are only about three miles (4.8 km) apart but lie on opposite sides of the International Date Line. Because of this, there is a 21-hour time difference between them, meaning they are almost a full day apart!

You can see one island from the other, and in winter, when the sea freezes, you could even walk across the ice—from today to yesterday or vice versa! Standing on one island, you are literally looking at yesterday or tomorrow, just a few miles away.
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Read about this again and found that there's a village in the Little Diomede! 82 is the population. And the pictures show a small beach area at the foot of a hill. So isolated!
 
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The Great Pyramid of Cheops contains an enigma that no historian or archaeologist likes to talk about. All archaeologists agree that the structure of the pyramid is composed of some 2,400,000 rock blocks weighing between 2 and 70 tons. Each of these rock blocks was positioned with absolute precision, as the pyramid has a margin of error of only 1 centimeter at the base, and only 1 degree of alignment to the north. A similar result can only be achieved today with laser-guided construction systems.
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But it is not the precision with which the Great Pyramid was built that is impressive. Nor do we want to go into how the blocks were transported. Instead, the 'hundred-gun question' is another: how long did it take them? Why is this 'the question of all questions' to be asked?
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Assuming that Egyptian workers managed to cut, transport and place 1 block a day, it would have taken exactly (2,400,000 : 365) years to build the Great Pyramid, i.e. 6,575 years to finish it. This means that the pyramid, given for completion in about 2,500 B.C., would have been started in at least 9,000 B.C. But according to archaeologists, the Great Pyramid was built in only 10 years around 2,500 B.C. What does this statement imply?
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To be built in about 10 years, as official archaeology teaches, calculating that work was only done in daylight and thus 10 hours a day, each block of the pyramid must have been cut, transported and placed at the rate of minus 1 every minute, i.e. one every 60 seconds or so. (1 block x 60 minutes x 10 hours x 365 days x 10 years) = 2,190,000. Can you imagine a group of workers with tools as soft as copper, who do not even know the wheel in that time, cutting blocks from 2 to 70 tons, transporting them on logs via ramps and placing 1 every minute without interruption, every day, every week, every month, every year, for 10 years?
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The Great Pyramid was certainly built by people who lived in the place where it was found. But it is quite evident that the time it was built, and perhaps also the people who built it, are probably not what many people think.
 
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The Great Pyramid of Cheops contains an enigma that no historian or archaeologist likes to talk about. All archaeologists agree that the structure of the pyramid is composed of some 2,400,000 rock blocks weighing between 2 and 70 tons. Each of these rock blocks was positioned with absolute precision, as the pyramid has a margin of error of only 1 centimeter at the base, and only 1 degree of alignment to the north. A similar result can only be achieved today with laser-guided construction systems.
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But it is not the precision with which the Great Pyramid was built that is impressive. Nor do we want to go into how the blocks were transported. Instead, the 'hundred-gun question' is another: how long did it take them? Why is this 'the question of all questions' to be asked?
...
Assuming that Egyptian workers managed to cut, transport and place 1 block a day, it would have taken exactly (2,400,000 : 365) years to build the Great Pyramid, i.e. 6,575 years to finish it. This means that the pyramid, given for completion in about 2,500 B.C., would have been started in at least 9,000 B.C. But according to archaeologists, the Great Pyramid was built in only 10 years around 2,500 B.C. What does this statement imply?
...
To be built in about 10 years, as official archaeology teaches, calculating that work was only done in daylight and thus 10 hours a day, each block of the pyramid must have been cut, transported and placed at the rate of minus 1 every minute, i.e. one every 60 seconds or so. (1 block x 60 minutes x 10 hours x 365 days x 10 years) = 2,190,000. Can you imagine a group of workers with tools as soft as copper, who do not even know the wheel in that time, cutting blocks from 2 to 70 tons, transporting them on logs via ramps and placing 1 every minute without interruption, every day, every week, every month, every year, for 10 years?
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The Great Pyramid was certainly built by people who lived in the place where it was found. But it is quite evident that the time it was built, and perhaps also the people who built it, are probably not what many people think.
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But it is quite evident that the time it was built, and perhaps also the people who built it, are probably not what many people think.

Absolutely!

Lee
 
Doc said:
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The Great Pyramid of Cheops contains an enigma that no historian or archaeologist likes to talk about. All archaeologists agree that the structure of the pyramid is composed of some 2,400,000 rock blocks weighing between 2 and 70 tons. Each of these rock blocks was positioned with absolute precision, as the pyramid has a margin of error of only 1 centimeter at the base, and only 1 degree of alignment to the north. A similar result can only be achieved today with laser-guided construction systems.
...
But it is not the precision with which the Great Pyramid was built that is impressive. Nor do we want to go into how the blocks were transported. Instead, the 'hundred-gun question' is another: how long did it take them? Why is this 'the question of all questions' to be asked?
...
Assuming that Egyptian workers managed to cut, transport and place 1 block a day, it would have taken exactly (2,400,000 : 365) years to build the Great Pyramid, i.e. 6,575 years to finish it. This means that the pyramid, given for completion in about 2,500 B.C., would have been started in at least 9,000 B.C. But according to archaeologists, the Great Pyramid was built in only 10 years around 2,500 B.C. What does this statement imply?
...
To be built in about 10 years, as official archaeology teaches, calculating that work was only done in daylight and thus 10 hours a day, each block of the pyramid must have been cut, transported and placed at the rate of minus 1 every minute, i.e. one every 60 seconds or so. (1 block x 60 minutes x 10 hours x 365 days x 10 years) = 2,190,000. Can you imagine a group of workers with tools as soft as copper, who do not even know the wheel in that time, cutting blocks from 2 to 70 tons, transporting them on logs via ramps and placing 1 every minute without interruption, every day, every week, every month, every year, for 10 years?
...
The Great Pyramid was certainly built by people who lived in the place where it was found. But it is quite evident that the time it was built, and perhaps also the people who built it, are probably not what many people think.
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"As to the question of how over two million blocks could have been cut within Khufu's lifetime, stonemason Franck Burgos conducted an archaeological experiment based on an abandoned quarry of Khufu discovered in 2017. Within it, an almost completed block and the tools used for cutting it had been uncovered: hardened arsenic copper chisels, wooden mallets, ropes and stone tools. In the experiment replicas of these were used to cut a block weighing about 2.5 tonnes (the average block size used for the Great Pyramid). It took four workers 4 days (with each working 6 hours a day) to excavate it. The initially slow progress speeded up six times when the stone was wetted with water. Based on the data, Burgos extrapolates that about 3,500 quarry-men could have produced the 250 blocks/day needed to complete the Great Pyramid in 27 years.

A construction management study conducted in 1999, in association with Mark Lehner and other Egyptologists, had estimated that the total project required an average workforce of about 13,200 people and a peak workforce of roughly 40,000."
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In the summer of 1950, parents kept their children indoors for fear of a devastating and contagious virus: polio. That year alone, more than 33,000 Americans fell victim to the disease—half of them under the age of ten.
But tireless advocates, teams of scientists, and everyday Americans donating their dimes led to the development and rollout of a life-saving vaccine, one of the most important medical breakthroughs in U.S. history.
 
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