god damn someone forget to feed ebot fucker ate like 10% of the bread kek
shill one way or the other, even if you had a hack or malicious code or some inline bullshit at play here, dont need 100+ posts to pop an ip.
if they do they certainly arent "taking him out" in this life time. kek.
im a big fan of latinos myself too honestly.
tacos are the shit.
i don't know how yall handle cities man. Honolulu filled me full of bloodlust. granted that's even shittier than sunset boulevard. shit makes my skin crawl. not even the crime and the deucebags and the traffic and just general shitshow, but man an endless sea of buildings is just as claustrophobic to me as a cage. and theres no fresh air. like really. blechk.
what about the original emperors tomb supposedly unopened because its got artsy lakes of mercury just chilling? the fuck that about?
The Secret Tomb of China's 1st Emperor: Will We Ever See Inside?
Buried deep under a hill in central China, surrounded by an underground moat of poisonous mercury, lies an entombed emperor who's been undisturbed for more than two millennia.
The tomb holds the secrets of China's first emperor, Qin Shi Huang, who died on Sept. 10, 210 B.C., after conquering six warring states to create the first unified nation of China.
The answers to a number of historical mysteries may lie buried inside that tomb, but whether modern people will ever see inside this mausoleum depends not just on the Chinese government, but on science.
"The big hill, where the emperor is buried — nobody's been in there," said archaeologist Kristin Romey, curatorial consultant for the Terracotta Warrior exhibition at New York City’s Discovery Times Square.
"Partly it's out of respect for the elders, but they also realize that nobody in the world right now has the technology to properly go in and excavate it."
The Terracotta Warrior exhibition, featuring artifacts from the Qin dynasty and nine life-size statues from the extended burial complex built for Qin Shi Huang, is on display through Aug. 26.
The warring states
Qin Shi Huang (pronounced "chin shuh hwang") was born in 259 B.C., first son to the king of Qin, one of six independent kingdoms inside modern China. These kingdoms had been warring for more than 200 years, but through a combination of military strength, strategy and natural disasters, Qin Shi Huang conquered them all, proclaiming himself not just a king, but also an emperor — the first of China.
Scholars still debate the details of how this occurred, and what unique tactics allowed the Qin emperor to achieve what no one had managed before.
When he died, Qin Shi Huang was buried in the most opulent tomb complex ever constructed in China, a sprawling, city-size collection of underground caverns containing everything the emperor would need for the afterlife. The ancient Chinese, along with many cultures including ancient Egyptians, believed that items and even people buried with a person could be taken with him to the afterlife.
But instead of burying his armies, concubines, administrators and servants with him, the Qin emperor came up with an alternative: clay reproductions.
Shocking discovery
In 1974, a group of farmers digging wells near Xi'an, China stumbled upon one of the most shocking archaeological discoveries of all time. The life-size terracotta solider they dug out of the ground turned out to be just one of an army of thousands, each utterly unique, with individual clothing, hair and facial features.
For almost four decades, archaeologists have been excavating the site. So far, they've uncovered about 2,000 clay soldiers, but experts estimate there are more than 8,000 in total.
"They're going to be digging there for centuries," Romey predicted.
Still, scientists have yet to touch the central tomb, which holds a palace containing the body of Qin Shi Huang.
"It's really smart what the Chinese government is doing," Romey told LiveScience. "When we went into [Egyptian King] Tut's tomb, think about all the information we lost just based on the excavation techniques of the 1930s. There's so much additional that we could have learned, but the techniques back then weren’t what we have now."
"Even though we may think we have great archaeological excavation techniques right now," she said, "who knows, a century down the road if we open this tomb, what they're going to say?"
To open the tomb?
The decision whether to explore the tomb anytime soon, or ever, is up to the government of China. That decision will likely be influenced by the pace of technological progress.
"In archaeological conservation, every year you have major new developments," Romey said. "When we began excavating [the soldiers] in the '70s, the minute they were exposed to air and sunlight, the pigment just flaked off. Now they’ve figured out a new technique where they can actually preserve the paint as they excavate."
Perhaps, if science advances enough, that excavation wouldn't cause serious damage to the burial site, and the tomb will finally be opened. [Album: The Seven Ancient Wonders of the World]
"I wouldn’t be surprised if you had some sort of robotic visual survey going in there at some point," Romey said.
And despite their desire to protect the treasures of antiquity, archaeologists are itching with curiosity to find out what's inside Qin Shi Huang's central tomb.
Rivers of mercury
Ancient writings say the emperor created an entire underground kingdom and palace, complete with a ceiling mimicking the night sky, set with pearls as stars. Pits full of terracotta concubines have never been discovered, though experts predict they exist somewhere in the complex.
And Qin Shi Huang's tomb is also thought to be encircled with rivers of liquid mercury, which the ancient Chinese believed could bestow immortality.
"It's kind of ironic," Romey said. "This is probably how he died, by ingesting mercury. He was taking all these mercury pills because he wanted to live forever and it killed him by the age of 39."
That moat of mercury also presents another reason why archaeologists are loath to explore the tomb just yet — doing so would likely be very dangerous, according to soil samples around the tomb, which indicate extremely high levels of mercury contamination.
In the end, scientists and historians must always weigh their desire to know more with the damage such inquiry would cause.
"Archaeology, ultimately, is a destructive science," Romey said. "You have to destroy stuff in order to learn about it."
https://www.livescience.com/22454-ancient-chinese-tomb-terracotta-warriors.html
yall know if you irradiate mercury in a nuclear reactor for 24 hours it turns into solid gold? not in here, just think its interesting.
if your just running it for that its insanely expensive, but if youre already running it… free gold?
Qin Shi Huang (pronouncerd "chin shuh huang") remains a mythical figure in China, still laying in rest in the largest unopened tomb in history, said to contain rivers of mercury and a ceiling covered in precious stones.
Get along
When Qin Shi Huang ascended as ruler of the Qin tribe in 246 B.C., China had been at war for 200 years. Seven major states were battling each other for dominance in the land, which was then a patchwork of feudal villages with no central bureaucracy. After a series of victories, Qin absorbed its last rival in 221 B.C., unifying China under one leader.
As head of the new empire of China, Qin Shi Huang didn't hesitate to establish a new law of the land. The Emperor quickly abolished the old feudal system, standardized the Chinese writing and currency systems, built a vast network of roads and canals to link the country and divided China into states with one centralized government.
A noted egomaniac, Qin Shi Huang was also known for building large, extravagant structures. He was also paranoid of attack from insiders. Almost immediately after taking power, he began construction on a large wall that would link up bits and pieces of existing defensive walls throughout the country. This would become the forerunner to the Great Wall that's still in existence, most of which was completed under a later dynasty.
Tomb to rival the pyramids
Whether he had predicted his eventual greatness or just had a big ego from the start, the eccentric Qin Shi Huang set to work on his own massive mausoleum just shortly after taking power of the Qin tribe at the age of 13. It was ready just after his death 36 years later in 210 B.C.
The mausoleum complex covers approximately four square miles near the modern city of Xi'an. Its main burial chamber is as big as the Great Pyramids of Egypt, but has yet to be excavated because archaeologists do not yet have the means to properly protect what they expect to find inside.
According to a historian writing 100 years after the Emperor's death, Qin Shi Huang's burial chamber contains a vast map of the land he conquered, complete with rivers of mercury. The "sky" ceiling is encrusted with stars made of jewels. And, like something straight out of an Indiana Jones movie, the entrance to the tomb is booby-trapped with crossbows.
The historian's accounts of the tomb's grandeur may have been passed off as a tall tale had a family of peasants not stumbled upon one of the greatest archaeological discoveries of the century in 1974. A battalion of 8,000 clay soldiers and horses collectively known as the terra-cotta army was found standing guard near the burial mound, each one life-size and uniquely carved. Thousands more like them may remain underground within the funerary complex, archaeologists think.
What's in a name?
Just three years after Qin Shi Huang's death in 210 B.C., the Qin dynasty was overthrown. The imperial system that he'd set in motion, however, would remain at work in China until 1912, when the last Emperor abdicated and China became a Republic.
https://www.livescience.com/2363-chinese-emperor-changed-world.html
amen.
chinaman probably been sticky everything in our mass produced sell out plastic junk from carcinogens to the one nut hair between the whole assembly line slaves.
KEK yooooo WTF whatever i thought that post linked to, spread pootytang and a lamprey WASNT IT.
fucking wtf one of those nights man.
im just glad we found out after feeling so Truman showy for so long motherfuckers really WERE watching EVERYTHING. i remember a couple times, no bullshit, we would just be all stoned out of our gourds and randomly say I KNOW YOU ARE LISTENING. WE KNOW YOU ARE THERE. kek
how bout some REAL reparations from the husseins bushes and roths of the world.