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Ten Reasons that Doctor Who is like Scooby-Doo!

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And now for something completely different! Here's a fun break for our usual chronologies... Reasons that Doctor Who is like Scooby-Doo! 1. Running 2. The supernatural menace always has a non-supernatural explanation. 3. Occasionally there are annoying companions (i.e. Scrappy-Doo) 4. Shaggy's stomach is bigger on the inside. 5. They are much older than they look. 6. They spend all their time travelling, and very rarely are they looking for trouble. Usually they show up to visit a place and surprise, there's a mystery to be solved. 7. They've both been around since the 60s. 8. Nobody believes in the supernatural, but they don't question a talking dog. Likewise nobody seems to question a big blue box appearing in the oddest places. 9. Alons-y, Geronimo, Zoinks, Jinkies 10. Just like the Doctor, they were the same exact clothes every day. If you'd like to see more posts like this, let u...

The Philadelphia Experiment

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summer of 1943-- The experiment was allegedly based on an aspect of some   unified field theory , a term coined by   Albert Einstein   to describe a class of potential theories; such theories would aim to describe — mathematically and physically — the interrelated nature of the forces that comprise   electromagnetic radiation   and   gravity , in other words, uniting the fields of electromagnetism and gravity into a single field.  According to some accounts, unspecified "researchers" thought that some version of this field would enable using large   electrical generators   to   bend light   around an object via   refraction , so that the object became completely invisible. The Navy regarded this of military value and it sponsored the experiment.   Another unattributed version of the story proposes that researchers were preparing magnetic and gravitational measurements of the   seafloor   to detect anom...