Word: ancients
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Klimley also discovered what may be the reason the hammerheads school year after year at an undersea mountain known as Espiritu Santo, 15 miles east of the Baja Peninsula. The metal-rich seamount, he found, has a particularly strong magnetic field. So do bands of ancient congealed lava that radiate from the seamount like spokes from a wheel. The hammerheads, he believes, can detect this magnetism and use it for navigation. The seamount is essentially a depot: the hammerheads gather there before going out to their feeding grounds...
...dismissed speculation the crash had anything to do with the fact that the "ancient" plane (they stopped making the DC-8 15 years ago) full of blue jeans bound for the Dominican Republic had been scheduled to take off the previous night. Hannifin pointed out cargo operations such as Fine Air customarily operate "on demand," not sticking to any working schedule...
...investigators are asking why it happened. One factor could be the age of the plane. "The DC-8 is a fine old flying machine," says TIME's aviation expert Jerry Hannifin, "but it's certainly an ancient plane." Furthermore, what was this ancient plane doing taking off in the middle of the day today, when it had been scheduled to take off at 11pm last night...
...aliens are now speaking fluent English. They aren't hostile after all. They're here to cut a deal: if we leave their ancient burial grounds on Mars alone, they'll give us technology that is 15 centuries ahead of our time. It will enable us to eliminate world illness and suffering instantly and to make society so productive that everyone will enjoy peace and prosperity. On Wall Street the bottom falls out. The Pentium chip might as well be a buggy whip; Windows 98 a manual typewriter. As sky-high tech stocks become worthless, everything follows, and from...
...Assessing the church's efforts at overseas expansion, author Joel Kotkin has written that "given the scale of the current religious revival combined with the formidable organizational resources of the church, the Mormons could well emerge as the next great global tribe, fulfilling, as they believe, the prophecies of ancient and modern prophets...