We start this episode with a recount of a daytrip we took to a
nearby extinct volcano that we totally did not know was there even
though we've lived here for decades. Usually volcanoes are pretty
noticable because mountain, but this volcano is eroded flat,
nothing but a small knob of igneous material remains where the
volcano once stood. Still, we were excited to see it and do some
geololololology.
Turns out it is entirely on private property. So we still haven't
seen it. Instead, we went to McKinney Falls nearby, where we
discovered an ancient dry-laid stone wall that bisected the park
going directly east-west, atop a massive tounge of catastrophically
deposited limestone(that in turn rested atop igneous materials,
probably deposited by eruptions of the elusive mountainless
volcano). Plus, evidence of massive flooding, giant oyster fossils,
and creature shadows trapped in clay.
Then we got eaten by fish and started a microcult.
For the rest of the show, we discuss how to hear light and see
sound, the almost total rejection of Russ' Yellowstone
SuperColliding SuperVolcano Hypothesis by mainstream science, the
complete rejection of Russ' Lithophonic Longhouses
Low-hanging-fruit hypothesis by mainstream science, and how a steel
drum is like an obelisk, but with dents.
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| Geological Cross
Section of Pilot Knob, the extinct volcano we couldn't find |
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| Strange stuff in
the igneous boulders we found, these look like....
veins?? |
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| Yep. Those look
like veins. Note relative-size quarter for scale. |
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| Looks like... a
tiny footprint.... with teeth stuck in it?? Right after taking this
pic, we found an abandoned shoe, so we noped outta there |
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| The limestone
shows signs of enduring severe erosional flooding at several
bottleneck areas at McKinney Falls |
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| Erosion damage
is clear from overhead images; note the widespread occurrence of
"potholes", holes drilled into the stone by whirlpools in
torrential floods |
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| Screenshot from
a video taken in Williams Creek at the back of McKinney Falls
park. |
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| Williams Creek:
The odd layer of gray-blue clay can be clearly seen on the
left |
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| STEP BACK FROM
THE EDGE, TREE!! YOU HAVE TOO MUCH TO LIVE FOR |
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| Everything above
the gray layer is river sediment deposit: a mix of limestone,
caliche, flint, and lots of small rounded stones....river
gravel |
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There is naught left of them but Shadows.....SHADOWS IN
THE CLAY |
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| Weird
semi-spiraling bivalve / cephalopods ?? |
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| Beneath the
limestone characteristic of McKinney Falls, we discovered evidence
of volcanism....pyroclastic deposit layers |
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| Closeup of
pyroclastic layers hidden beneath the limestone, note the
crystalline structures |
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| Some of the
layers have a strange latticework structure |
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| Graph of human
hearing frequency range. Below the wavy line, the sounds are too
quiet for us to hear them, above the line are audible
sounds. |
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| The human visual
spectrum and where it lies on the full range of the electromagnetic
spectrum. |
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| Harmonics. Just
picture these as guitar strings. The first one at the top shows the
guitar string vibrating all across its length, making the
Fundamental note. The next one has been touched lightly in the
middle, splitting the vibration in half and silencing the
fundamental, bringing out the harmonic. The next has been touched
at the 1/3 spot, and so on. |
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| This is an
absolutely awful image depicting how redshift/blueshift
works. |
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| Sky view of
Malta temples, which are very organic looking, everything is round,
no sharp corners anywhere. |
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| Malta temple
megaliths. Uncut, unworked, unfinished, yet stacked and arranged so
skillfully that they still stand, 7,000 years later |
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| Interior of one
of the Maltese temples. Note the doorway on the right... all temple
doors in Malta are made this way, as a hole cut through a large
stone, rather than a more conventional approach with just two
supports holding up a lintel stone. Haven't the faintest idea
why. |
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| Interior shots
of the Hypogeum on Malta |
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| Hauntingly
beautiful. Why did they build it? Who built it? |
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| Looking through
another round dooway piercing a stone slab in the Hypogeum.
Remember that every room in this place was found 2/3rds filled with
rubble and soil that had no stratigraphy(was not layered, implying
it all was deposited at once), and scattered throughout the soil
were the bones of upwards of 7,000 people, all of whom had
anomalous elongated skulls. |
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| Interior diagram
of the Pyramid of Khufu/Cheops(The Great Pyramid), to show how far
away the subterranean chamber is from the King's Chamber |
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| 3D diagram of
the Great Pyramid. Because why not. |
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| The Ringing
Rocks of Ringing Rocks Park. Note how tightly clustered they
are.... trees don't even grow between them |
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| The infamous,
slightly foreboding Black Mountain |
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| Slopes of Black
Mountain, which is obviously not a mountain but an enormous pile of
granite boulders that are so similar in size they look like
gravel. |
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This is just
incredibly strange, very difficult to explain how so many similar
sized boulders came to be piled up so high in this one spot
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| And of
course....... snakes |
