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Vicky Verma

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Seymour Cray, "the Father of Supercomputing", claimed that Elves often helped him overcome computer design problems.

Seeking a way to cool the machine he built in 1985, at the time the fastest computer in the world, he characteristically chose to immerse it in artificial blood.

Although never a household name, Seymour Cray was a legendary figure in the computing world. His designs for supercomputers were ingenious to the point of miraculous, and the machines he designed and built were, for much of the 60s, 70s and 80s, the most powerful -- and the most expensive -- on the planet.

Cray was born in 1925, in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, and from an early age was fascinated with radios, motors, and electrical circuits. After a spell in the US Army, he graduated with a Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering and a Master's in applied mathematics.

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At his University instructor's suggestion, Cray went to work at a small company building specialized cryptographic equipment for the US Navy. The unlikely home of the company was a converted factory for manufacturing wooden gliders.

It was here that Cray designed his first computer, the 1103. "My guiding principle was simplicity", he said, and throughout his career, this remained the focus of his design philosophy. He was building RISC machines long before IBM coined the term in the 1970s.

In 1957, Cray and some others left to start Control Data Corporation, and it was here that Cray designed the 1604, one of the world's first fully-transistorised computers. The age of the vacuum tube was over.

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He soon became chief architect of the 6600 machine, released in 1963 and regarded by many as the world's first true supercomputer, offering 9 Mflops (million floating-point operations per second) of processing power. The 6600 far outstripped IBM's 7094, until then the fastest machine available, and IBM were understandably upset. There is an apochryphal story that IBM chairman Thomas J Watson berated his staff with a memo asking how it was possible that giant IBM could possibly be outdone by tiny CDC, whose workforce numbered only 34, "including the janitor".

At CDC, Cray's legendary dislike of bureaucracy soon became apparent. Asked to write a five-year plan for the company, his response was: "Five year goal: Build the biggest computer in the world. One-year goal: Achieve one-fifth of the above".

CDC maintained their world lead with the 7600, also designed by Cray, running at 40 Mflops. In 1971 Cray broke to form his own company, and produced the Cray-1 in 1976. Now using integrated circuits in place of transistors, the Cray-1 delivered 170 Mflops. The first Cray-1 was sold to Los Alamos National Laboratory, for nearly $9 million. Sixteen more were subsequently sold, into the scientific number-crunching and intelligence markets.

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Because of his insistence on using the latest technologies, which were sometimes not mature enough for the job, some of Cray's designs ran into trouble. For his next machine, the Cray-2, he intended to shift from the usual silicon chips to faster, but unproven, gallium arsenide technology. Manufacturing difficulties forced him back to silicon, and the Cray-2 arrived, delayed, in 1985. Nevertheless, it broke the giga-flop (one thousand Mflops) barrier. This was the machine that was cooled by being completely immersed in an inert fluorocarbon liquid, the same liquid used as artificial human blood. Ever stylish, Cray included a decorative fountain in the coolant circulation system.

As soon as one machine was completed, Cray would begin on the next, which was to be bigger, better and faster. There was a story that each spring he would build a sailboat to sail on the lake near his home, then burn it in the fall.

Cray's last completed machine was the Cray-3, of which only one demonstration model was ever built. After the only customer backed out, the machine, worth $30 million, was given free to the National Centre for Atmospheric Research in Boulder.

All through his career, fellow engineers marvelled at Cray's uncanny ability to hold every tiny detail of a computer design in his head. One story has it that Cray was called in to fix a baffling problem with a Cray-2. He locked himself in the machine room and after contemplating for 6 hours, eventually called an engineer. Cray pointed to a single wire and asked for it to be replaced. The machine worked again.

In 1995, Cray's company ran into financial trouble, and the planned Cray-4 machine was never completed. In the months before his death, at his new start-up company, SRC Computer Inc, Cray was working on a new supercomputer called the SRC-6.

There are many legends about Seymour Cray. John Rollwagen, a colleague for many years, tells the story of a French scientist who visited Cray's home in Chippewa Falls. Asked what were the secrets of his success, Cray said "Well, we have elves here, and they help me". Cray subsequently showed his visitor a tunnel he had built under his house, explaining that when he reached an impasse in his computer design, he would retire to the tunnel to dig. "While I'm digging in the tunnel, the elves will often come to me with solutions to my problem", he said.

Cray has been called solitary, uncommunicative, secretive, and difficult to get on with. Frank Sumner, Professor of Computer Engineering at the University of Manchester, met Cray on several occasions and refutes suggestions that he was a prickly character: "He was a very friendly man, and perhaps the greatest all-round computer scientist ever", says Sumner.

Although Cray said of himself in an interview with the Smithsonian Institute in May 1995, "I was one of those nerds before the name was popular", he will be fondly remembered as the father of the supercomputer, a man whose genius changed the world.

Cray avoided publicity, and there are a number of unusual tales about his life away from work

For Cray, the excavation project is more than a simple diversion. "I work when I'm at home," he recently told a visiting scientist. "I work for three hours, and then I get stumped, and I'm not making progress. So I quit, and I go and work in the tunnel. It takes me an hour or so to dig four inches and put in the 4-by-4s. Now, as you can see, I'm up in the Wisconsin woods, and there are elves in the woods. So when they see me leave, they come into my office and solve all the problems I'm having. Then I go back up and work some more."

Rollwagen knows that Cray is only half kidding and that some of the designer's greatest inspirations come when he is digging. Says the chairman: "The real work happens when Seymour is in the tunnel."

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Vicky Verma

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Pope Francis has died! However, not many people know that the Vatican has over 50 miles of underground archives containing the world’s history. Let that sink in… 50 miles. And this isn’t even a conspiracy theory.

The Vatican’s Secret Archives are real and located in one of the most famous religious and cultural places in the world—the Vatican. These archives stretch across 53 miles of shelving and include 35,000 volumes of catalogs. They hold documents that are over 1,200 years old.

The name “Secret Archives” adds to their mystery and makes people think of hidden secrets or dark stories. Because the indexes aren’t public and access is limited to certain scholars, many people imagine that the archives hold shocking or even strange things. Some even believe the Vatican is hiding aliens there!

But in truth, the archives are not actually meant to be “secret.” The word “secret” comes from a Latin word, secretum, which really means “private.” These archives were always meant to store the Pope’s official documents, letters, and important Church records.

Inside, you’ll also find some of the Church’s most valuable historical papers, with some dating back to the 700s. For a long time, not even religious scholars could read them. That changed in 1881 when Pope Leo XIII, a forward-thinking Pope, opened the archives to researchers. Since then, the documents have helped tell the story of both the Church and the wider world.

One of the most important documents in the Vatican's Secret Archives changed the course of religious history. It’s the official paper that shows the Catholic Church kicking out Martin Luther. Luther was a German man who challenged the Church by writing his famous 95 Theses, which started the Protestant Reformation. In response, Pope Leo X wrote a statement called Decet Romanum Pontificem, officially excommunicating Luther. This allowed Luther to start his own church and created a major split in Christianity that still affects the world today.

Another fascinating document in the archives is called the Chinon Parchment. It records the trial of the Knights Templar, a Catholic military group that was accused of crimes like heresy during the Crusades. The parchment is huge—about the size of a dining table—and was lost for hundreds of years due to a filing error. It wasn’t rediscovered until 2001, hidden in a box with other papers. Once found, it was properly sorted and made available to researchers.

When the Vatican made the Chinon Parchment public in 2007, it revealed something surprising: in 1308, Pope Clement V had actually cleared the Knights Templar of heresy. This new information helped restore the group’s reputation, which had been damaged for centuries.

All these documents—and many more—are stored in a special place near the Vatican Library in Rome. The archives include regular stacks and reading rooms, but also an underground fireproof bunker to protect delicate materials. There’s even a school for clergy to study history, and because it’s the Vatican, there’s sacred art to enjoy as well.

Access to the archives isn’t open to everyone. Only carefully approved scholars are allowed in. Still, the Vatican has become a bit more open in recent years. In 2010, journalists were allowed to visit for the first time—partly due to public interest after Dan Brown’s book Angels and Demons. In 2012, the Vatican held a public exhibition for the archives’ 400th anniversary, showing off some of its most important documents.

In 2019, Pope Francis announced that the Vatican would open up its archives on Pope Pius XII. During an event honoring the 80th anniversary of Pius’s election, Francis said, “The Church is not afraid of history.”

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This is a new image representation of the face of Lucy, our human ancestor from 3 million years ago, whereas the second image shows a modern blonde female.

There’s a big conspiracy theory that the shift from Image A to Image B isn’t evolution at all—but genetic manipulation by a more advanced race.

In 1975, an American scientist named Donald Johanson found a skeleton in Ethiopia. It was of a small female, only about 3.5 feet tall. The skeleton showed that early human ancestors were already walking on two legs around 3 million years ago.

The skeleton was given the name “Lucy,” inspired by the Beatles song “Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds.” She was part of a species called Australopithecus afarensis. Lucy is one of the best-preserved skeletons of early human ancestors that scientists have ever found.

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If you are into the controversial stories of Zecharia Sitchin, then according to him, the Anunnaki were intellectually superior beings who shared a wide range of knowledge with the ancient Sumerians, including arithmetic, geometry, calculus, medicine, and metalworking, and taught them writing.

Sitchin believed that current Homo Sapiens was the result of genetic manipulation and that the Anunnaki created the Sumerians by mixing the DNA of a hominid with theirs.

The Enuma Elish tells the story of the great god Marduk’s victory over the forces of chaos and his establishment of order at the world’s creation. The story begins like this:

“When in the height heaven was not named,
And the Earth beneath did not yet bear a name,
And the primeval Apsu, who begat them,
And chaos, Tiamut, the mother of them both
Their waters were mingled together,
And no field was formed, no marsh was to be seen;
When of the gods none had been called into being,
And none bore a name, and no destinies were ordained;

Then were created the gods in the midst of heaven,
Lahmu and Lahamu were called into being….”
Note: All creation myth tablets can be found in the Ashur, Kish, and Ashurbanipal libraries at Nineveh. Intriguingly, imprints on the tables indicate copies of much older versions of the narrative that date back to well before the fall of Sumer around 1750 BCE.

According to the cuneiform tablets, human-like gods governed the Earth initially. When they first landed on Earth, they made it habitable by cultivating the soil and extracting the minerals. The passage also mentions the revolution between the gods and their workers.

“When the gods like men
Bore the work and suffered the toll
The toil of the gods was great,
The work was heavy, the distress was.”

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This Man claimed that he was told by Ancient spirits of Atlantis that the Sphinx has secret chambers, tunnels, and an artificial lake linked to Atlantis. He drew maps of it.

In the 1990s, people started to wonder if the Great Sphinx of Egypt was much older than historians believed. Some also thought there might be hidden rooms and tunnels beneath it.

This idea partly came from Edgar Cayce, a psychic from the 1930s, who claimed that the Sphinx and Pyramids were built around 10,500 BCE. He also said that beneath the Sphinx’s paws was a secret "Hall of Records" from Atlantis.

A 1993 TV special, Mystery of the Sphinx, helped make these ideas popular, and later books, like Keeper of Genesis (also called Message of the Sphinx in the U.S.), explored the possibility of hidden chambers beneath the monument.

Interest in this mystery grew when people rediscovered old mystical and occult writings. Some of these texts had maps and diagrams showing underground chambers beneath the Sphinx.

One such text was The Symbolic Prophecy of the Great Pyramid (1936) by H. Spencer Lewis, the founder of a mystical group called the Rosicrucians. Another lesser-known figure who wrote about this was H. C. Randall-Stevens, a British mystic.

Randall-Stevens was a singer and a war veteran who later became a spiritual leader, forming a group called the Knights Templar of Aquarius.

He claimed that, starting in 1925, he received psychic messages from ancient spirits, including people from Atlantis and Egypt. He wrote down these messages using automatic writing, which supposedly revealed lost knowledge about Egypt’s past.

According to Randall-Stevens, his psychic sources included several beings who had lived in ancient Egypt and Atlantis.

One of these was the Atlantean figure whom the Egyptians later worshiped as the god Osiris. These entities told him that Egypt was once a colony of Atlantis and became a refuge for survivors after Atlantis was destroyed.

They also revealed that the pyramids and underground tunnels were built as sacred initiation temples dedicated to Osiris. The entrance to these tunnels, according to his writings, was beneath the paws of the Sphinx.

Randall-Stevens described a process where initiates would pass through a series of underground chambers, each containing trials and rituals. He also mentioned an artificial lake in one of these hidden temples, a detail that would later become significant. His version of history had many similarities with Edgar Cayce’s, even though they were developed separately.

In the 1960s, researcher John Anthony West recalled seeing Randall-Stevens’s book Atlantis to the Latter Days, which contained diagrams of these underground chambers.

Later, an online Egyptology group found a 1966 version of the book and shared its diagrams. People were surprised to see that these diagrams closely resembled those in H. Spencer Lewis’s earlier book. This raised questions about whether one author had copied the other’s work.

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There is a Great legend told by Ancient Hopi that when we see a Blue Star Kachina in the night sky, the Day of Purification will begin. Then, the Fourth Age will end, and the Fifth Age will begin (5D Ascension).

According to Frank Waters, 'The Blue Star Kachina' is a spirit in Hopi legends. It is believed that when it appears as a blue star, it will signal the start of a new world. This is said to be the last sign before a big disaster that will destroy the world.

The origin of the Kachinas remains a profound mystery for scholars. No one knows where they come from, but according to local legends of the Hopi, the Kachinas are benevolent spiritual beings who came to the Hopi tribe through the underworld.

In the Hopi culture, the meaning of Kachina is a “carrier of life” which could be anything that exists in the natural world. The life of Hopis is mostly centered around the legendary Kachinas, whom they call “highly respected knowing ones” or “Watchers,” which became part of their everyday life. For the native American tribe Zuni, Kachinas are the Gods who came down from heaven, leading the Zunis to Earth.

There are three different aspects that make the Kachina concept: “the supernatural being, the kachina dancers (masked members of the community who represent kachinas at religious ceremonies), and kachina dolls, small dolls carved in the likeness of kachinas given as gifts to children.”

The masked individuals represent the Hopi legend of the return of these spirit beings (Kachinas) every year. The pueblos Indians celebrate the Kachinas’ arrival on Earth by organizing a ceremony when they dress in traditional costumes. The colorful masks worn by them during the ceremony represent the bringers of life. According to ancient astronaut theorists, the Kachina masks and costumes resembles a type of suit that reflected the appearance of the otherworldly visitors.

“The Hopi remember three worlds.
The First World, Tokpela, was destroyed by fire.
The Second World, Tókpa, was destroyed by a pole shift and a subsequent ice age.
The Third World, Kuskurza/Kásskara, was destroyed by water.”

But there is a fourth world, according to the “Book of Hopi” by Frank Waters, that we currently inhabit.

Hopi said that they had been brought to the fourth world by the Kachinas because they had obeyed the laws since the first world. Austrian NASA engineer Josef F. Blumrich once asked the Hopi where the Kachinas had come from. They looked at the sky and pointed at the Ursae Majoris (Polar Bear star constellation). The tribe believed that the Kachinas had come from another planetary system.

In his book, “Kásskara und die sieben Welten (Kásskara and the Seven Worlds), Blumrich explained: “The Kachinas can be visible, but sometimes they are invisible. They come to us from outer space. They do not come from our own planetary system, but from other planets far away. It would take generations for our astronauts to get there. The Hopi name for these planets is Tóonáotakha; this means that they belong closely together, not in a physical sense, but in a spiritual sense, because all their inhabitants have the same responsibility, they all work closely together.”

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This Man, clinically dead, claims he saw the other dimension filled with massive, glowing, colorful stars. These appeared to him as energetic beings. He found that life on Earth is like an illusion—a trick or a game designed to forget who humans truly are. He saw Aliens similar to those shown in the film Communion.

Bill Letson is a retired firefighter living on the Central Coast of California. He talks about having a powerful near-death experience (NDE) in 1994 while he was on duty. At the time, he didn’t know how to explain it or where to find answers, so he kept it to himself for about 15 or 16 years.

After retiring, the memory of the experience came back strongly, pushing him to start searching for answers. His search led him to explore ancient knowledge, including the teachings of shamans and Native American beliefs. He mentions that these older traditions seem to tell a different story from the history, religion, and science we've been taught in the last few hundred years.

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Bill then begins to describe what happened during his NDE. He was working as a paramedic firefighter at Station 11 in Goleta, California, during a flu epidemic that overwhelmed Santa Barbara’s hospitals. He and his team were constantly responding to emergency calls.

One call brought them to a woman trapped in a dark room with the curtains shut, suffering badly. Bill acted quickly to help her. He climbed over her to put an oxygen mask on her face. Just as he adjusted the mask, she exhaled, and he accidentally inhaled her breath. He immediately felt something was wrong.

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There is another wild theory that says you can control things if you understand which frequency they vibrate at & the same they did with huge Pyramid stones.

On the Joe Rogan show two years ago, Randall Carlson explained that everything vibrates at a certain frequency—a fundamental truth in physics. He gave an example: if you turn on an electric razor and place it on a table, it vibrates and moves around. That movement happens because of the vibrations.

He suggests that if you can determine the right frequency for an object, you might be able to control it—maybe even move or shape it. Carlson hints that ancient civilizations might have used this method to move or cut massive stones, possibly using some lost knowledge or technology based on understanding these vibrations.

He also mentions that this idea ties into "ancient numbers," suggesting that old civilizations might have discovered and used these frequencies in ways we don’t fully understand today.

Carlson suggests that ancient civilizations might have understood and even used levitation — not as magic, but as a kind of advanced science we don’t fully understand yet. He talks about the Ark of the Covenant, a sacred object described in the Bible, which was covered in gold and incredibly heavy. It was carried on long poles, and no one was allowed to touch it directly, or they’d supposedly die.

He points out something interesting: the only tribe allowed to carry the Ark was the Levites. He plays with the word “Levites” and connects it to "levity" or "levitation," hinting that maybe the Ark could float or become lighter somehow — perhaps using lost technology or scientific principles that people back then might have known.

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