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Not sure about the rest of you, but I’m the kind of person who works best with sound in the background, so it doesn’t feel too quiet. Most use music, I use documentaries. Lately, I’ve been watching one in particular called Mummies Revealed.

In it, they take a cadaver and using ingredients from Egypt, Libya, etc, they mummify the body to find out how the Egyptians went about mummification. After 35 days, the body looked much like the mummies of Egypt did. So time wasn’t the factor in their distorted image.

In another place, a cache of mummified royalty was found.

In yet another, a tomb was left unfinished when the Pharaoh died before it’s completion. On the walls, you can see the red grid lain out to show the artist where to draw all the images…An outline of a figure that was later drawn smaller because it was the size of a god instead of a mortal…partially chiseled images which halfway down the wall weren’t complete. The day the Pharaoh died.

Further on, they show Lenin mummifed in Russia. The best maintained mummy who now is either buried or will be buried, since the Russian government no longer pays for those services.

It was a very enjoyable documentary, so I thought I’d put the embeds here. If they no longer work by the time you read this (After August 24th, 2009), let me know by commenting. I’m trying to find out who exactly sells the DVD for it, so others can go ahead and buy it if they want to.

If you love mummies, you’ll love this.

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Gotta love RSS feeds, I found this really random one earlier from a while back, not sure when it was posted but anyways!…

Before the rest, there’s an interesting link about this and the documentary that it comes from. Check out the link here.

So this is the stealth fighter that was designed during the second world war, but it arrived too late to make it to production, probably a good thing.  According to tests that were done, this was the result they gave :

The team tested the re-created Nazi jet against World War II-style radar. With its radar-resistant design and 600-mile-an-hour (970-kilometer-an-hour) speed, the team concluded, the Ho 2-29 would have allowed British antiaircraft forces only 9 minutes to respond, versus 18 with a conventional World War II fighter.

For more images visit this National Geographic News page

I was just watching this documentary earlier called Aftermath on the History Channel. I’d get totally into the very core of the documentary, but this is one you really should see for yourself. I couldn’t even begin to give it justice by explaining all that it encompassed. Basically, the whole thing is to show how awesomely capable the planet is at rejuvenating itself back to it’s once majestic status, before Human’s destroyed most of it. Within 150 years…we barely leave any trace. All that to say the world doesn’t need us. We need it. We only kill it.

Find out more about Aftermath : The World After Humans from the History Channel website