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fandomhigh2009-10-19 08:29 am
tyler_gone) wrote in fandomhigh2009-10-19 08:29 am
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Applied Science | Monday | 10.19
"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.]
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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