The opening scene in the 2012 science fiction horror film Prometheus displays a visually elegant portrayal of a humanoid alien who generates a biogentic reaction with his DNA. With this reaction, life on earth begins. Director Ridley Scott’s said his film was, in part, influenced by Erich von Däniken’s 1968 book, Chariots of the Gods? Däniken’s book proposes that […]
Ancient Astronauts
In updating and bringing forward previous posts, I find that I interchange the terms Ancient Astronauts and Ancient Aliens. They are the same, but Ancient Astronauts seems a better fit. Theorists believe Earth was visited by extraterrestrials who manipulated and guided human evolution from the time we crawled from the depths of the oceans, and maybe […]
Lost City–Victim of The Great Year?
Part of our study into Plato’s concept of The Great Year involves a look at ancient civilizations. In this week’s post we will examine a sunken lost city, found in 2001, that challenges previously held archeological beliefs about the timeline of our Earth and man’s progression. From our post last week, we learned that The Great Year can […]
Bathysphere and Its Pioneers of the Deep
I like science so weird it resembles fiction, which is the essence of my blog, The Probe . While researching anglerfish, I ran across the Bathysphere and found it fascinating that on August 15, 1934, two men descended into depths of the ocean never before traveled. The Short of It The first marine biologist to penetrate the perpetual darkness […]
The Brain. The Only Organ That Can Think About Itself.
Do you see a rabbit or a duck in the above illustration? Or do you see both? The ability to flip between the two images indicates an individual’s creative aptitude. Persons who can make the switch appear to have a creative edge as discovered by Psychologist Dr. Joseph Jastrow in 1899. In his findings, those who […]
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