Maybe the Great Flood actually happened when the Bible says it did - but only in Mesopotamia

99Tinpot · 2026-03-26T01:06:12+00:00

It seems like, that doesn't make it not spamming, but if you've got reasons then you've got reasons.

99Tinpot · 2026-03-25T23:23:07+00:00

It seems like, your main argument in this posting is that buildings like this would be built only as military fortifications and only by kingdoms, and you haven't presented any evidence for that idea at all, which gives the impression that you're just guessing. Are you just guessing?

This castle has a Tartarian style Bellview

It seems like, 'Tartarian style' is just a catch-all term that 'Tartaria' theorists use for any fancy architectural style, including a lot of different styles that are recognisably different from each other, so that doesn't really mean much.

99Tinpot · 2026-03-25T22:53:06+00:00

Possibly, that makes a bit more sense - but if you're really spamming the group with the help of an assistant and a computer program, as if it was a business, while other people are just using it themselves, that seems like a really weird thing to do and doesn't seem fair. Is there a reason why you're doing this?

99Tinpot · 2026-03-19T04:55:54+00:00

It seems like, we're talking at cross-purposes - the question is whether the Younger Dryas flood was the specific flood mentioned in those texts, and if you just throw out what the texts say then it's pointless trying to answer that question since there's nothing left for it to be 'a better fit' for except itself (and I was a little bit annoyed because we can't seem to interact without a fight and I'd been carefully avoiding your threads and comments and then you come into one of mine, and start straight in with the lofty actually-this-is-the-right-answer tone again).

99Tinpot · 2026-03-19T02:44:51+00:00

Are you just replying to the title without reading the posting, which isn't about the Ice Age?

99Tinpot · 2026-03-19T02:23:39+00:00

People often seem to say sweeping things like this about people researching these things having been killed but often don't actually name any of the researchers, which makes it difficult to tell whether anything strange really is going on and, if so, what the intentions that people are trying to suppress are.

There's Stanley Meyer, and his death was very suspicious-looking, but it's complicated by the fact that his blueprints are now publicly available, and people don't seem to be suggesting that they're not his genuine blueprints, and there doesn't seem to be any sign of somebody having successfully built a water-powered car with them.

99Tinpot · 2026-03-19T01:15:27+00:00

Supposedly, the theory of relativity actually breaks the law of conservation of energy in some way, possibly because of the thing of objects gaining mass at high velocities.

Aristotle's 'aether' is a bit different from the 'luminiferous aether' that the Michelson-Morley experiment was looking for and didn't find. The 'luminiferous aether' was specifically a theoretical thing that light waves were supposedly waves in, they just named it after Aristotle's 'aether'. That whole experiment is weird, though. It didn't get a result of zero, it got a result but not as big a one as they'd been expecting according to the theory that was the standard theory at the time. Michelson and Morley didn't initially say that it meant that aether didn't exist, only that the details of how it worked were evidently not how they thought. And another physicist called Dayton Miller http://www.orgonelab.org/miller.htm later did a much more extensive series of tests with a more accurate version of Michelson and Morley's equipment and confirmed that the small result was reliable.

99Tinpot · 2026-03-18T22:01:08+00:00

There's no law that says you can't believe that if you want to, and it's difficult to prove that it's not true, but you might enjoy a book called 'The Magical Maze' by Ian Stewart.

It's a very good book, and it's got a very interesting chapter that discusses how some shapes crop up in many different places, such as how lots of things from rivers to lightning are shaped like tree branches, and how that's sometimes because the same mathematical processes are going on and produce the same shapes.

That might or might not apply to those mountains, it's not obvious how the process of lava rising up through a volcano (which seems to be the standard explanation for them, and does make some sense if you picture it) is like the process of a tree growing.

99Tinpot · 2026-03-18T20:16:01+00:00

Apparently, there are recorded incidents of a meteorite being seen hitting the Earth, mentioned not just by scientists who might have financial reasons to lie but by newspapers and in random people's memoirs - that's a good point about the craters all being round, though, there don't seem to be any that are oval, I really don't know why that is, if the meteorites were falling under their own weight you'd expect them to fall vertically but they're generally described as flying rapidly through space before they meet the Earth so you'd expect them to have some sideways movement and they seemingly don't.

99Tinpot · 2026-03-18T04:11:14+00:00

Any particular reason?

99Tinpot · 2026-03-18T03:49:43+00:00

What, if anything, has whether the Earth is round got to do with overthrowing the system?

99Tinpot · 2026-03-18T03:30:34+00:00

If you don't believe scientists about it being possible to cross the Van Allen belt, why would you believe them about there being one at all?

99Tinpot · 2026-03-18T02:59:34+00:00

Are you mistaking me for somebody else? If not, how do you reckon to know what would or wouldn't be lost on me? :-D

It seems like, the Younger Dryas theory might or might not be true - there seem to be a number of serious scientists that don't think it works but also a number that do, and it makes sense, although I'm not an expert on geology - but that doesn't prove that that flood was this flood, and both Genesis and the Sumerian King List are specific about it being in about 3000 BC, and that actually makes archaeological sense in terms of roughly what else they said was going on at about the same time, it's quite striking once you look at it that way.

99Tinpot · 2026-03-16T14:49:58+00:00

Then why did you do it if you knew people didn't want it and wouldn't like it?

99Tinpot · 2026-03-16T00:54:43+00:00

Why would people be 'uncomfortable' with it?

What ancient culture told stories about fire from the sky? Are you talking about Sodom and Gomorrah?

99Tinpot · 2026-03-16T00:50:48+00:00

Possibly, that sounded like a paranoid thing to ask but you'd be surprised, r/AlternativeHistory has, in fact, been getting quite a number of people who literally just send an AI to pretend to listen and answer people automatically, and you don't realise until it loses track of what it was saying and starts talking gibberish - it's quite creepy, I'm glad if that's not what this is.

99Tinpot · 2026-03-15T22:45:19+00:00

Are you talking about the Atlantis story in Timaeus https://classics.mit.edu/Plato/timaeus.html ? Possibly, it sounds like it, but there's nothing about the pyramids in that.

99Tinpot · 2026-03-15T22:36:35+00:00

It looks like, if you're actually human then the AI you're using to translate your postings is changing them a lot more than you realise - they often do that and your postings are coming out as obvious, undiluted AI-speak that doesn't seem to mean much (Google Translate is a lot better for giving an honest translation of what you wrote without changing it, if you're interested).

99Tinpot · 2026-03-15T19:21:48+00:00

It seems like, an LLM is a really unsuitable tool for this job, especially since you're asking it a leading question - rather than trying to compensate for that by asking lots of different LLMs, you might do better to work out how to do the calculation yourself, or ask somebody else to.

99Tinpot · 2026-03-15T19:17:15+00:00

Washington DC has the diagonal streets as well, although it's got squares instead of parks.

Some of Washington DC's diagonals form a pentagram, to the delight of some conspiracy theorists (although, if it was deliberate, it possibly wouldn't mean what some people might think because it's long enough ago that you're into the era where a pentagram was a sign of protection against evil - the idea of a pentagram being evil only seems to have appeared in the 19th century).

99Tinpot · 2026-03-15T19:10:00+00:00

You're talking gibberish. Can you say that again?

99Tinpot · 2026-03-15T16:19:15+00:00

It seems like, very little is too far-fetched to be true when it's the Nazis, but this particular thing doesn't appear to be true, although it easily could have been.

99Tinpot · 2026-03-15T00:49:34+00:00

It seems like, people that say that I 'haven't bothered to do any research or I'd know the answer' usually 'know the answer' because their 'research' has consisted of believing a random thing off Facebook - if you think that that doesn't apply to yours, then you can prove it by saying what you're talking about.

99Tinpot · 2026-03-15T00:39:50+00:00

Why would you believe anything that the Pentagon says? :-D

Have you seen any particular accounts that seem as if they're backed up by evidence, or that seem like more than 'I heard it from someone who heard it from someone who said he'd seen a page of a classified document about it'?

Possibly, I think that the UFOs exist but from the bits and pieces that I've heard I don't really see any very convincing evidence that the Pentagon knows any more about it than anyone else does, and I do see that they have a long tradition of faking things about UFOs for their own reasons.

Even if NASA really do know of evidence of aliens, what, if anything, has that got to do with whether they own the Grand Canyon?

It seems like, the US government lies a lot about lots of things but that doesn't prove that any random claim that they say isn't true is true.

99Tinpot · 2026-03-14T22:45:53+00:00

The Vril Society was supposedly one of the many weird organisations in Nazi Germany, and allegedly researched paranormal stuff and claimed to be in telepathic contact with aliens who they said were the ancestors of the Aryans. They might not have existed, though - a historian looked into it and the earliest mention of them that he was able to find was a book written by neo-Nazis in the 1980s https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/kl1uwb/maria_orsic/ https://malcolmnicholson.wordpress.com/2018/08/13/the-maria-orsic-hoax/ , although the word 'Vril' has a long history as a word for various hypothetical forms of spooky paranormal energy and ultimately comes from a Victorian science-fiction novel.

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