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[Modelmaker]

New person, have watched way too many episodes to not ask, how can a human dig with pick and shovel 130 some feet deep with a 13' circumference hole, how do you dig a flood tunnel out to the ocean underground. What happens when you break out into the water, die?
I have a feeling that the commercial money is enough to sucking us all in?
What am I missing?

 

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[SSR]

You should not be using reason on unreasonable suggestions that come to you verbally. We are only called to apply reason onto reliably demonstrable facts. Nullius in Verba.

 

[Blackfoot58]

It’s like watching Superman;
Never question how a pair of eyeglasses can work as an effective disguise.

 

[SD51]

I mentioned this before...as a teenager, I read the article about Oak Island in the "Readers Digest" magazine and I wondered, "Who buries something of value that deep and expects to someday recover it"?

 

[SSR]

I mentioned this before...as a teenager, I read the article about Oak Island in the "Readers Digest" magazine and I wondered, "Who buries something of value that deep and expects to someday recover it"?

Someone who is representing what was misrepresented to them might suggest that foolishly to a public known to gobble up that sort of thing. The writer who did that years ago reported what story details he amassed from sources that have no reputable origin. Because we have been given so many precise numerical details in the evolving story it is quite probable that there's a mathematical allegory at play of the sort that were becoming popular in the mid 19th century. That may be the gist of it. Work out a little math based story and discover a proof for some well known Euclidian geometric theorem that some smart ass is teasing you with. There's way too much numerical detail in this story for it to be anything but a tempting puzzle, imo. You don't solve a puzzle by digging holes even if the numbers came to you from an alleged hunt for a treasure involving alleged vanishing holes. Lewis Carrol was doing stuff like this in the 1860s. You don't solve his math based riddles by actually following a rabbit down a hole. You just grab the numerical details from the story and go from there. I was rereading "Brave New World" the other day and noticed that Aldous Huxley did exactly that in the first chapter of that work. In the numerical details of the chapter there is a math puzzle.

 

[SSR]

It’s like watching Superman;
Never question how a pair of eyeglasses can work as an effective disguise.

It's a actually a bit of clever commentary by the creator of that story detail. It suggests that we see what we want to see or that we are often oblivious to things that are clearly in front of us. Same is true with suggestions. We believe what we want to believe, facts be damned.

 

[Blackfoot58]

It's a actually a bit of clever commentary by the creator of that story detail. It suggests that we see what we want to seem or that we are oblivious to things that are clearly in front of us. Same is true with suggestions. We believe what we want to believe, facts be damned.

Yes. Does Superman need the cape to fly, or is it just an odd fashion statement? 😀

 

[SSR]

Yes. Does Superman need the cape to fly, or is it just an odd fashion statement? 😀

The cloak is a symbolic detail from the magic tradition. The cape confers special powers. In superman's case it allows him to fly. If you look it up, the trend of depicting circus strongmen wearing capes is apparently what led comic book heroes to be shown that way, or so thy say. There's probably a lineage of ideas here that goes back all the way to the magi. In the story he may need it to fly, but the choice of having that detail appear may be a relic of very old pop culture.