It appears we don't support animated GIFs. I'll go ask at the back.

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No problem :-)

I must say that is a very plausible explanation. Unfortunately you had to go & ruin the post (Well, it's to be expected by now as it's your signature tune). Your biggest problem with your views is that it's your view & no one else can have one.

As for the static? That's well deserved, often a picture is must better than words. As your Boincverse history shows, whenever there is an interesting thread for many (but not you) you type 4 letters of the alphabet (probably a post count boost)...

...YAWN.

What did catch my eye :-) ""Satan was cast out of heaven" could that be the ringleader that was left behind we call the Devil?" I'm just wondering if he settled on a little island off the coast of Europe called England.

Nope, back handed compliments not needed. Thought the same 40 years ago when reading "Chariots of the Gods". One good thing though is your indirect acceptance of a word you hate :-) Yep. it even applied to the cavemen back in the days.

Out of a matter of interest, which country is the closet to the coast of Europe? England Scotland or Wales?

Nobody really likes a smart-alec, so I'll rephrase the question:
Which country on the Main Island is the closest to the coast of Europe? (I'm pretty sure that the ringleader wouldn't have settled on a dot in the sea).

Just for no reason, did you know that here we call the land on the other side of the Solent "North Island" :-)

Just for no reason, did you know that here we call the land on the other side of the Solent "North Island" :-)

Mavrick

Nobody really likes a smart-alec,

Some people just can't take being intellectually outsmarted, so take to flogging the proverbial dead horse.

Real intellects do not denigrate the beliefs or views of others. They certainly do not conspire to marginalise those that disagree with them.

BTW, calling another poster who happens to be approx. the same age "daddy" is not intellectually smart boyo :-)

edited for spelling error :-)

although a combined local authority with Portsmouth and Southampton is being considered.

No fell through, as the towns on the North Island wanted too much control :-)

and as such the community tend to keep themselves to themselves.

Well I wasn't going to mention this but if you are here for more than two weeks complete strangers start to say good morning, shopkeepers ask your name. Quite charming, but a bit too much for a south Londoner born and bred, much more used to the bland stare and minimum conversation of the big towns.

It appears we don't support animated GIFs. I'll go ask at the back.

So boinc is a part of the illuminati of static images then?
*strokes beard*
Interesting.

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No - he's just on TV!

Giorgio trumps you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvRx_oIBBk4

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It was added during the 1992 renovations and is documented as being added then.

Among the ornate carvings on the façade are those of a faun eating an ice cream and of an astronaut added during restoration work in 1992, when one of the artisans engaged in the project chose to carve strange figures into the stone.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Cathedral_of_Salamanca#Restoration_in_1992

Built between 1513 and 1733, the Gothic cathedral underwent restoration work in 1992. It is a generally a tradition of cathedral builders and restorers to add details or new carvings to the facade as a sort of signature. In this case after conferring with the cathedral, quarry man Jeronimo Garcia was given the go-ahead to add some more modern images to the facade including an astronaut floating among some vines. Among the other recently added images are a dragon eating ice cream, a lynx, a bull, and a crayfish.
http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/cathedral-of-salamancas-astronaut

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Explain that one!

There's not much difference in form and function (but a big difference in materials) between an astronaut's suit and a diving suit. According to Wikipedia:

The first diving suit designs appeared in the early 18th century. Two English inventors developed the first pressure-proof diving suits in the 1710s.

- so the concept was known before the end of the first construction period for the cathedral

Your comments have been noted, Mr S.

In light of a much welcomed improvement in your spirits since they were communicated, Sir. I shall leave things unremarked upon.

The responses offered with regard the Galactic Connection's article: UFO visitors: Alien astronaut created in ancient stone carving mystery grows (Education and News, Environment Physical and Etheric, Metaphysics and Beliefs, Consciousness, News, Media, Ufology, UFO's) is appreciated, gentleman, as is the original call for an explanation.

A fine weekend is wished to all. :-)

I was very 50/50 ... which is why I put it up for discussion

A mere half hour wait to dispel doubt, and a source link fine enough to grace one of your own posts, Sir ... Ageless did us proud, did he not? :-)

@Sir Rodney - Yes I have moved on from Tanqueray to Tanqueray No.10, a nice improvement. The sea change in your demeanour is also most welcomed Sir.

My demeanour rarely varies, Mr S. :-) I neither post nor act with malice, nor ill-humour, Sir. That is indeed how our discourses here and on another board were conducted by us both, I thought? I look forward to their resumption. :-) An instinct to seek for facts amongst rhetoric, rubbing up against an instinct to preserve the latter as stated, is where the sea-change you mention will derive.

Ah the Wiki :-) Came across a good summary of it by a good doctor recently (not Dr Who) which I agree with.

Wikipedia is nonsense. Always was and will be. Peer reviewed could simply mean one idiot has checked another. Not being corrected/contradicted does not equate to being true. Wikipedia has neither the processes nor access to actual domain specific expertise that would even begin to promote factual accuracy. Truth is not a matter of acclamation, eminence, repetition, group agreement or disagreement, nor mode of presentation. As a common repository of the world's knowledge it is an epic fail. It has deceived many people into the delusion of relevance and co-opts by manipulating emotion devoid of intellect. It is the modern day archetype of form replacing substance. At best it might be accidentally true in any given instance.

It is however a freely available public collection of beliefs. Belief is what is inside people's heads or hearts ie. what they personally hold to be true. If you want to know what truly exists outside of people's heads then you'd best search elsewhere.

To add to that, the Wiki was created by those in power to keep pseudo-intellectuals entertained. & that has to be among the top 10 conspiracies.

Crop circles anyone?

Heeee heeeeee heeeeeee ;-)

Naw just a bored cook on board E.T's ship using these to pass the time :-)

Crop Circle makers