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"Morning," Tyler said from his perch atop his desk. "Hope you all had a good break week. We're switching it up this week with a little critical thinking exercise."

He moved down in one fluid motion and started handing out printouts of an article (with the lovely comments section removed). "There is some very weird stuff in this world. You live in Fandom; you know that. But there's also weird stuff in the completely normal everyday world most -- well, at least half of us -- call reality. That is an article about things that exist in my world that no one can explain yet. it's modern technology that looks thousands of years older than it should be; it's a manuscript no one can decode; it's giant stone balls that no one can explain."

That stack distributed, he was back with more paper. "They left off Roswell, Stonehenge and the Moai statues on Easter Island, probably because they're too well-known and Stonehenge has turned out to be a graveyard anyhow." Spoilsport scientists.

"Anyhow, your assignment for the day is to read over this stuff and discuss your own, non-supernatural explanation for at least one of the things in your handouts." A beat. "'Aliens did it' could be true, but it still counts as supernatural."

[OOC: If your workplace filters the bastion of taste and sense that is Cracked.com, here are alternate links: Voynich manuscript - antikytheria mechanism - Baigong pipes - stone balls of Costa Rica - Baghdad battery - The Bloop.]

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Like you just got back from vacation.

Calvin

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Listen. Read. Take notes if you must.

The Voynich manuscript: Unknown alphabet, hoax, or just proof someone was totally insane? Pick a scientific argument explaining that or another of the "insane discoveries" and defend it. Ping off each other for maximum chaos!

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Calvin flipped through the description of the Voynich manuscript, when he got to the part about the various sections he frowned. "Isn't it obvious?" he said. "It's a women's magazine. A really old one."

"It's handwritten," Tyler pointed out.

Though it wasn't a bad theory, all things considered.

"Maybe a magazine with a tiny subscription base?"

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"It's biology notes from an old Fandom student," Ben said with a nod, "and they were writing in their native dialect."

"Beautiful answer, Ben. Thanks."

//Reality-hopping botanists,// Jonothon agreed, nodding. //Not even a mystery, once yer've been a student on this island, really, is it?//

Of course, even before he'd come to Fandom, his theories might have included anything from space aliens to fairies. Earth 616 kind of broke people into these sorts of things right from the get-go.

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"Ancient Egyptian night lights," Jennifer said with a nod.

"For which one?" Tyler asked. "Batteries or antikytheria?"

He only stumbled a tiny bit in pronouncng that second one.

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This was just cool. "I'm thinking the Bloop is either underwater volcanic activity... or maybe one of those Portalocity portals opened underwater. Ooops."

"You might be onto something there," said Lion-o, nodding. "Some of those portals have dropped me off in some strange places. When I traveled home last week, the portal dropped me in a pit some of the natives had dug to capture an animal."

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"I kinda like the fishing thing for the pipes. As for the bloop, I'd say the Earth farted. Giant air bubble."

Momoko nodded excitedly. "I totally believe the sea noise is just a natural thing." She wasn't sure about 'farting' but... yeah. "Or it could be a sea monster? Like Gojira?"

Hush. She was from Japan; any mystery in the sea was Gojira.

He is present and relatively attentive.

After they have tagged in, of course.

Calvin was there, in body if not mind.

Jonothon was there, in mind if not completely in body.

I love this kind of stuff. My favorite (horribly sad but VERY WEIRD) story: Kaspar Hauser.

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Reason: This category is filtered: Tasteless.

Stoopid work filters. D:

(That was to cracked.com, not wikipedia, or I would be very very sad.)

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Ack, sorry. I'll add a note to that effect and try to find Wiki links for the things in the article.

Thanks for the heads up!

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Oh man, the 'Bloop' just makes me wish Hurley was in this class.

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Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand my productivity today is shot.

So many crazy lists!

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