Monday, June 24th, 2013 08:17 pm

you've been dreaming of this since you found out about mummys, admit it

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I have dreamed of this moment my entire life.

Ancient Egyptian Statue Caught on Camera Rotating on Its Own.

On the one hand, autorotation by inanimate objects = terrifying. Can they do it on your head?????

(At this speed, though, I kind of think you can get away before you get frictions burns, but I'm saying, what if you're tied down for--a couple of years, I think? With this on your head? Well, one, headache, two, possibly starvation if someone's not feeding you, yeah, this is not a clever murder weapon. It's kind of giving everyone a verrrrrryyyy slow cut direct, though. Cold.)

On the other hand--you get this explains every time you lose your work badge, your glasses, or car keys, right?

I believe.

ETA: Better video. Okay, even slo-mo can be made scary in the dark. Really. Really. Slow-mo.
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From: [personal profile] green_grrl Date: 2013-06-25 01:56 am (UTC)
I thought the symbiotes were kept in stasis inside those things.
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From: [personal profile] seperis Date: 2013-06-25 02:01 am (UTC)
Modern manufacturing methods. Old Kingdom Egyptian stasis pods lasted at least fifteen thousand years. Middle Kingdom's standards slipped like whoa.
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From: [personal profile] green_grrl Date: 2013-06-25 02:44 am (UTC)
Fucking second-age goa'uld shoddiness. They never were the same since Ra got booted from Egypt.
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From: [personal profile] hypertwink Date: 2013-06-25 03:14 am (UTC)
Someone was trying to explain in comments from the youtube vid that it was moving because of resonance or something -- like the movement of the people through the museum was making it vibrate and move (which also explains why it moves so much in the daytime and hardly at night).

Still, creepy.
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From: [personal profile] mareen Date: 2013-06-25 04:00 am (UTC)
That was my first thought, too, but I kept wondering why the other statues right beside it aren't moving. Are they heavier? Have a different density? I want to know!
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From: [personal profile] hypertwink Date: 2013-06-25 06:56 am (UTC)
Probably, mass density and weight play a part in the movement. It has to do with the resonance or something. I think (and I'm probably wrong), it's like how glasses emit higher or lower-pitched sounds depending on how much water they have.
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From: [personal profile] libitina Date: 2013-06-25 01:55 pm (UTC)
or gravity? it seemed to just turn to face the back and then stop there. Yeah?

deeply cool, though

From: [personal profile] ex_further369 Date: 2013-06-26 05:07 pm (UTC)
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