This is cool - Cracked.com 6 Insane Discoveries That Science Can't Explain

[Heddi]

http://www.cracked.com/article_16871_6-insane-discoveries-that-science-cant-explain.html

What 'chall think

[uriel1972]

1. I didn't spend too much time on the science one

but I clicked a few links and was most amused. Funny guys

[semillama]

2. 1 out of 6 ain't bad

Voynich Manuscript: Probably a hoax. http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/Hoaxipedia/Voynich_Manuscript/

Antikythera Mechansim: An ancient orrery used in astrology. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism - scroll down to section 4.1

Baigong Pipes: natural hematite formations which occur within sandstones. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baigong_Pipes

Stone Balls of Costa Rica: Manmade. http://web.ku.edu/~hoopes/balls/faq.htm

Baghdad Battery: Indeed a battery, but used in electroplating. http://www.smith.edu/hsc/museum/ancient_inventions/battery2.html

The Bloop - This is the only true mystery. We still have no idea what produced The Bloop. http://archives.cnn.com/2002/TECH/science/06/13/bloop/

[Heddi]

4. Damn!

I had found this last night (this morning? today? last year?) at work and I loved cracked.com/....their comments are like "omg I was just thinking that!"

KNEW I should have researched before I put it in here. The bloop sounds interesting. A giant whale fart?

[semillama]

7. That's ok - it was funny, and that's what counts!

and hey, I had never heard of "the Bloop" before - that's truly interesting.

[John Gauger]

8. I remember seeing a show on those stones.

They figured out how to make one using only another small stone and two pieces of bamboo. What they couldn't figure out was why anyone would want to make one. I mean, really, it's big stone ball. Why?

[csziggy]

9. Wonder what the Bloop sounds like at normal speed?

Here, along the Gulf of Mexico, we get unexplained "sonic booms" that the military assures the public are not related to any of their planes. I am fifty miles from the coast and I sometimes hear them - they sound very much like when the Space Shuttle is landing, which is the only time I hear sonic booms from a known source.

They generally only happen in the winter during cold spells and one theory I read was that they are caused by some phenomenon involving cold masses of air interacting with warm air rising from the surface of the ocean.

[Silent3]

3. OMG! Someone found something that SCIENCE CAN'T EXPLAIN!

Therefore I must conclude that Reiki massage channels "healing energy", dead relatives perform helpful miracles for living loved ones, and the Lock Ness monster is real.

[PVnRT]

5. Which is not the tone of the article

In fact, they mock the crazier theories for some of the items on the list.

[Silent3]

6. Yes, I know that's not the tone of the article.

Just my reaction to the phrase "science can't explain", and the intention with which that phrase is often uttered.

[drm604]

10. Check this out also.

6 Famous Unsolved Mysteries (With Really Obvious Solutions)
http://www.cracked.com/article_16671_6-famous-unsolved-mysteries-with-really-obvious-solutions.html

[Q3JR4]

11. I prefer this one:

http://www.cracked.com/article_16301_6-most-badass-stunts-ever-pulled-in-name-science.html

Q3JR4