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The Real River Styx…
A version of Dante’s hellish vision, captured on camera in all its morbid beauty…
(Images: Nick Brandt)
by Rowan Hooper
“ACCORDING to Dante, the Styx is not just a river but a vast, deathly swamp filling the entire fifth circle of hell. Perhaps the staff of New Scientist will see it when our time comes but, until then, Lake Natron in northern Tanzania does a pretty good job of illustrating Dante’s vision.
Unless you are an alkaline tilapia (Alcolapia alcalica) – an extremophile fish adapted to the harsh conditions – it is not the best place to live. Temperatures in the lake can reach 60 °C, and its alkalinity is between pH 9 and pH 10.5.
The lake takes its name from natron, a naturally occurring compound made mainly of sodium carbonate, with a bit of baking soda (sodium bicarbonate) thrown in. Here, this has come from volcanic ash, accumulated from the Great Rift valley. Animals that become immersed in the water die and are calcified…”
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The Book of the Damned
in the Bay Area is a group that meets to discuss, you guessed it, the Odd. They are an excellent inspiration for all things mysterious and post-worthy, and in a recent meeting, they spoke about by Charles Hoy Fort (1874 – 1932) — a treatise on “science” but really more of a tome of poetry and mania describing the unexplained phenomena he felt was being ignored or excluded by standard scientific study. (UFOs, the universe, mythological creatures, etc…) If you have not already delved into this piece of writing, we recommend exploring it.
“The Book of the Damned was the first published nonfiction work of the author Charles Fort (first edition 1919). Dealing with various types of anomalous phenomena including UFOs, strange falls of both organic and inorganic materials from the sky, odd weather patterns, the possible existence of creatures generally held to be mythological, disappearances of people under strange circumstances, and many other phenomena, the book is historically considered to be the first written in the specific field of anomalistics.” – Summary from Wikipedia
LibriVox has an audio version of the book here. The perfect background for a mysterious mood!
Project Gutenberg offers the complete text of Fort’s The Book of the Damned, here.
Scientists Confirm Planet X?
We must admit, our minds are slightly blown that mainstream science is now confirming the existence of additional planets in our solar system. The concept of a Planet X has been speculated upon for years — according to the ancient Sumerians, a mysterious planet called Nibiru was the origin of their “gods” (AKA ancient aliens?) the . Could it be that the ancients knew something about our solar system that we are only just beginning to understand?
Far Out: Astronomers Say Two Unknown Planets May Lurk Beyond Pluto (NBC News)
“Planet X” might actually exist — and so might “Planet Y.”
“At least two planets larger than Earth likely lurk in the dark depths of space far beyond Pluto, just waiting to be discovered, a new analysis of the orbits of “extreme trans-Neptunian objects” (ETNOs) suggests.
Researchers studied 13 ETNOs — frigid bodies such as the dwarf planet Sedna that cruise around the sun at great distances in elliptical paths…”
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