Wednesday, November 23, 2011

If This Is A Consular Ship, Where Is The Ambassador?

OK, that title is not really related with what I'm writing here but it's close enough.

For years now archeologists have unearthed various artifacts from ancient civilisations, especially of the Aztecs and the Mayans. Some of these artifacts are intriguing such as airplane-shaped objects, 'helmeted' figurines, drawings of a king inside some kind of rocket-propelled vehicles and hieroglyphs of planes, submarines and helicopters. Others even tried to point out higher radioactive counts at certain ancient ruins as evidence of a nuclear war some time in the past....

For some, these are the evidence that ancient civilisations were not as 'backwards' as they were usually portrayed. Still for some, this means Earth were once frequently visited by extraterrestrial beings who shared their superior tech with the ancients.

While I'm quite open about aliens and UFOs, I'm actually quite sceptical about these trinkets, paintings and carvings being the evidence that ancient civilisation tech were just as advanced as the 20th-21st centuries'. I mean come on, we have 65 million (and even older) fossilised bones as the evidence of the existence of dinosaurs but not one of the remains of the actual so-called ancient airplanes, subs or rockets has ever been found. So if they were real, where are the remains? Granted that since they are made of metal, they might have corroded down to nothing from the time of the civilisation's decline until its discovery. But again, not even ONE? I mean, even remains of Egyptian chariots have been found in the Red Sea....To draw an analogy; should humans disappear overnight ( like shown in Life After People), the only evidence of our usage of planes, trains and automobiles are scale models and toys!

Another reason which makes me sceptical is that these people only shows photos of 'airplanes' and 'rockets' but not one land vehicles such as automobiles. So it could be either the ancients were so advanced that there is no need for land vehicles (so how do they commute from house to work - flying cars like airspeeders in Star Wars?); they somewhat look like the German army during WW2 (advanced aircraft and tanks but  most of the artillery and support units were still horse-drawn) or that they (the theorists) actually drew the wrong conclusion?

So, to paraphrase Darth Vader from Star Wars Episode IV :  A New Hope; "If the ancients use planes to commute, where are the remains..and where is the airport?"

Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Muzium Ouessant Melaka

Baru-baru ni (dua hari lepas je) ex-SSK Perancis Ouessant tiba di Melaka untuk dijadikan muzium. Kapalselam bekas Marine Nationale Perancis ini digunakan TLDM melatih kru kapal selam kelas Perdana Menteri dan aku sokong sepenuhnya usaha ni....kat US dah banyak museum ship sebegini dari USS Intrepid di New York sampai USS Missouri di Pearl Harbor. Masa aku kat UK pulak aku berkesempatan melawat HMS Belfast. Walaupun bukan 100% milik kita pada asalnya, sekurang-kurangnya ia boleh membuka minda rakyat tentang teknologi ketenteraan dan juga azabnya berada dalam kurungan besi bawah air demi mempertahankan negara.

Tapi sayang, masih ada 'katak-katak' bawah tempurung yang memilih untuk terus tinggal bawah tempurung, walaupun mereka mampu untuk menolak tempurung tu sendiri. Nak kata dia orang ni bodoh kang marah pulak...tapi bila tengok statement dalam facebook tu terserlah pula kebodohan tu (ke ketaksuban melampau?). Apa2 pun mari kita tengok pilihan terbaik statement mereka ni.....

"Membazir duit aje beli buat perhiasan" (Kalau buat terponggok diam membisu tu ye la jugak, ni dijadikan tourist attraction berbayor, membazir ke? Dan paling ironi kalau si pemberi kenyataan ni akan turut beratur nak masuk!)

"Kapalselam Scorpene ke ni? Yang beli RM4bilion" (ni Ouessant, kelas Agosta la!)

"Hahaha beli buruk 2, free 1 berkarat" (Masih ramai terpengaruh gambar Tunku Abdul Rahman tengah service - berteritip dan nampak buruk; sebab ramai ignorant landlubber, tak tahu apa jadi kat bawah waterline kapal)

"adeyyy..kapal ni dah lama ada kat Lumut...guna untuk latihan di permukaan aje...takleh menyelam" (Yang tu ex Dutch Navy punya Zwaardvis....takkan tak reti beza Belanda dengan Perancis?)

"Ni kot yg dulu yg dulu tak bole selam yg dibeli oleh mindef? Tu yg tukaq scorpene 2 biji, padahal bg duit kat satu org tu beli yg ww2 punya 2nd hand, rupa2nya nilah dia akhirnya muncul gak" (Apa-apahal Ouessant dibina pada 1979, jadi bukan la 'WW2 punya secondhand')

Dan yang paling repetitive "..nak buat tukun" dengan "besi buruk"

Hairan jugak, lagi zaman Information Teknologi berkembang, masih ada yang tak dapat maklumat.....

p.s. Pertanyaan aku cuma satu aje : Apasal cepat na jadi muzium, dalam seminggu sampai dah buka untuk umum...tak buat ubahsuai ke? Apa-apa hal kalau ada kesempatan, aku pun nak pergi jugak!