Words to Know Vol 3
By Giania • Oct 7th, 2006 at 1:05 am • Category: Fnord| Hot: |  |  | | | |
We had “greek day” here at the office. Several people brought in greek dishes. DEEEEEE-lish. Ian makes fan-freaking-tastic moussaka.
So I read this article here: http://www.seobythesea.com/?p=324
And I was inspired to read up on the “Lonelygirl15″ phenomena. I’d heard of it, but figured it was just some marketing tripe and ignored it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lonelygirl15
They reference the Temple of Hathor in Denderah as part of the plot of this vBlog story series.
So I looked into that.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Dendera_light_001.jpg
There’s speculation that this relief in the temple implies that they had electricity.
Then I thought, well that is a snake in there, what if they had electric eel jars? Are electric eels capable of producing visible electric shocks?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_eel
Well then I noticed that those are native to South American and I realized that without accepting the theory of world travel in early history that my speculation wouldn’t fly.
But in Africa they have electric catfish! Ah-ha!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_catfish
There’s also the battery jars.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baghdad_Battery
And of course, my favorite part about exploring the Baghdad Battery… the related Mythbusters episode!!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MythBusters_%28season_2%29#Baghdad_Battery
I’d provide a YouTube reference but it’s blocked here at work.
Speaking of work, time to get back to work!
