h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Contrary to popular opinion, I am not the only weird person in the world.

And I'm getting suspicious about you h2g2ers.

I would like to point out that the moving Egyptian statuette of the god Osiris, dating from 1800 BCE, is NOT in MY neighbourhood.

It's in PASTEY'S.

What are you up to, Pastey?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23029507

Have you been smuggling beer into that museum? Is that a drunken deity?

I also note that the museum people are milking this for all it's worth. I don't really blame them. Don't anybody figure out why only that statue is rotating - it would totes spoil the fun.

It's a symptom of greater religious integration.

There have been reports of saints' statues all over Ireland moving for years. Clearly the Egyptians are picking up their bad habits...

Heh heh! (Sorry, not very articulate right now!)

That, KB, is an acute observation. Perhaps we require a thaumaturgical therapist?

This has just been on The One Show. They had a seismic expert on, demonstrating that vibrations from passing tourists are causing the statue to move. He demonstrated how it was happening using a mobile phone on a glass surface, and thanked Prof Brian Cox for the explanation.



I was really hoping to have another Egyptian curse to write about!

Well, we'll just ignore those party-poopers and hold onto our tinfoil hats, so there.

My first thought had been: was the material of the statue meteorite? Was so joker using a magnet some way?

Every 42 years the sun shines through the door of an ancient temple and reaches a small stone pedestal you have to put the statue into a depression on the pedestral. The shadow of the head of the statue will then fall on a certain stone in the wall. If you push this stone a secret door will open at a nearby wall. Behind the door there is a dark corridor, full of spider nets, leading down into the darkness...


... does anyone want to write a script for a movie?

That's a good idea, Tav.

Although I've taken both my kids to that museum, it was just after my daughter started crawling.
It wasn't them, they're both well behaved children, honest...

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I can't believe no one has blamed 2legs yet

I couldn't figure out the connection between mummies and cheese...

There's a connection between mummies and cheese? Must be something to do with bog butter.

That must be it.

Maybe Osiris is trying to help his friends rise from the bog...now THAT'S a possible movie plot.

Mummyfied marinated in rum and served with chopped raw onions and jelly of stock is a delicacy