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originally posted by: dashen
a reply to: RadioRobert
The nuclear powered tunnel boring machines Rand Corp displayed during the 1960's would have got there in no time
originally posted by: Guyfriday
a reply to: pheonix358
Well I mean if we're going to go that direction:
According to Richard Shaver:
From: Wiki; Richard Shaver (and yes I know it's wiki, but I'm being lazy, the story hasn't changed, and it's an easily enough site for most to go to)
During 1943, Shaver wrote a letter to Amazing Stories magazine. He claimed to have discovered an ancient language he called "Mantong", a sort of Proto-Human language that was the source of all Earthly languages. In Mantong, each sound had a hidden meaning, and by applying this formula to any word in any language, one could decode a secret meaning to any word, name or phrase. Editor Ray Palmer applied the Mantong formula to several words, and said he realized Shaver was onto something.
According to Palmer (in his autobiography The Secret World), Palmer wrote back to Shaver, asking how he had learned of Mantong. Shaver responded with an approximately 10,000-word document entitled "A Warning to Future Man". Shaver wrote of extremely advanced prehistoric races who had built cavern cities inside the Earth before abandoning Earth for another planet due to damaging radiation from the Sun. Those ancients also abandoned some of their own offspring here, a minority of whom remained noble and human "Teros", while most degenerated over time into a population of mentally impaired sadists known as "Deros"—short for "detrimental robots". Shaver's "robots" were not mechanical constructs, but were robot-like due to their savage behavior.
These Deros still lived in the cave cities, according to Shaver, kidnapping surface-dwelling people by the thousands for meat or torture. With the sophisticated "ray" machinery that the great ancient races had left behind, they spied on people and projected tormenting thoughts and voices into our minds (reminiscent of schizophrenia's "influencing machines" such as the Air loom). Deros could be blamed for nearly all misfortunes, from minor "accidental" injuries or illnesses to airplane crashes and catastrophic natural disasters. Women especially were singled out for brutal treatment, including rape, and Mike Dash notes that "[s]ado-masochism was one of the prominent themes of Shaver's writings". Though generally confined to their caves, Shaver claimed that the Deros sometimes traveled with spaceships or rockets, and had dealings with equally evil extraterrestrial beings. Shaver claimed to possess first-hand knowledge of the Deros and their caves, insisting he had been their prisoner for several years.
SO sure there's everything in there from the why of Space Force, the kids being held in underground tunnels, the weird abusive stories from Little St Johns, everything. I mean if we really want to go there.
A fun fact:
The Mantong Alphabet is fun to play with using normal words. It strangely paints a great picture of the words being converted. The words can be found at this link; unilang.org
Not sure why folks get so totally addicted to certain forms of language as a finality, given it obviously evolves and there are more then one. Strange addiction.
originally posted by: dashen
a reply to: RadioRobert
Free geothermal energy forever
originally posted by: Creep Thumper
a reply to: RadioRobert
The Kola Superdeep Borehole is 7.6 miles deep.
If only heavenly and earthly realms exist, and both have "spiritual forces of evil" in them, then there is no other refuge than the feathered and winged god who promises to save us.
originally posted by: EndtheMadnessNow
✅ The U.S. Space Force is finally ready to turn on its new Space Fence, a ground-based radar built to detect small objects orbiting the Earth.