Four Amazing Oddities from Around the World, Which Science Still Hasn't Figured Out

First, any rational scientist, and we their cheerleaders, are going to be the ones to admit while science might eventually explain anything, it hasn't explained everything, yet. So, while research within the confines of the known laws of nature and reality has answered many questions, unfathomable to primitive humans, the ancient world has left a variety of gifts, to challenge us today. Following are four items of real interest from history, which still have the brightest minds anyone knows scratching their heads in confusion.

Four Amazing Oddities from Around the World, which science still hasn't figured out number one: The Bloop. Those nice folks down at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration share with us all, an amazing, mysterious discovery. I share this one first, since it's not really from ancient history, but maybe some mystery which has just "always been there."

According to scientists, "the Bloop," was picked up on two sensors simultaneously, although they were 5,000 km (approx 3,000 miles) apart! Whatever it is which made the noise, did one hell of a loud job, in doing so!. Experts who've examined the sound insist only an animal is able to make such a noise, but no creature is known to exist, either big enough, or loud enough, to be heard over such a great distance.

Four Amazing Oddities from Around the World, which science still hasn't figured out number two: The Baigong pipes. Not exactly the sort of story any conspiracy theorist like myself should even be reading, the Baigong Pipes are exactly what they sound like. They're a collection/assemblage of tons of steel pipes. Not so mysterious, you say? Well, you should know, they're inside of a mountain in China, where people have never been known to exist before.

Not only are they unlikely for sheer geography, but archeologists date the pipes back to a time when many humans were probably still chasing down their dinner, and maybe knew how to drop bunny in the fire. These pipes have been here longer than many of our ancestors have been civilized. These pipes range in size from 40 cm exactly, to as thin as a toothpick.

These mysterious pipes aren't just in a big pile, either. There seems to be some sort of assembly, or design, to their installation. Some speculate extra-terrestrial involvement, or possibly an earlier version of advanced human intelligence, wiped out, somehow. In either case, they're certainly worth studying.

Four Amazing Oddities from Around the World, which science still hasn't figured out number three: The Baghdad Battery. Discovered in 1936, the Baghdad battery was at first believed to be just another vase, destined to be shattered by Ivanka Trump, while screaming at The Donald. But, scientists being the squirellous bunch they are, while looking for a convenient place to hide Swiss Rolls from other researchers, discovered the vase had something inside.

That "something inside" was a sealed up unit containing a steel rod, contained within a copper cylinder, which showed signs of being reacted to by the very sorts of acids, which would produce an electrical charge. The Baghdad battery is believed to be the world's oldest battery. This device was used for some purpose, thousands of years before the known invention of a battery, anywhere. What a difference a marketing consultant could have made, eh?

Speculation as to its use has ranged from practical applications, or perhaps it was used to shock "followers" of some sort of clever religious charlatan. But, more likely, this may have been used to power gold and silver electroplating onto various relics of the past. While some reverse engineering demonstrates this to certainly be a valid possibility, other options also seem possible, and science may never know their purpose absolutely. Personally, I'd rather see our future time-travelers quit screwing around with ancient man, and just teach them how to make Playstations.

Four Amazing Oddities from Around the World, which science still hasn't figured out number four: The Voynich Manuscript. Straight out of the "WTF Department," we have, the Voynich Manuscript. Few mysteries from the ancient world, have ever stumped so many brilliant minds of modern science.

Of all of these amazing oddities from around the world, which modern science still has yet to figure out, the Voynich Manuscript, aka MS 408, is perhaps the most intriguing of them all. Estimated to have been written sometime in the mid-to-latter 15th century, by an unknown author, the 234 pages which make up the apparent details, diagrams, questions, and instructions, are written in a language noone can identify.

Not one word, in the past 364 years, has successfully been translated, ever. As of the time of this post, so little is known about the Voynich Manuscript ( only two other verified known owners of the tome) some even consider it possibly an example of hand-written alien dialect. The earliest known, recorded attempt was in 1634, by the well-known Jesuit scientist Athanasius Kircher, at the request of one Georg Baresch.

Of all texts on Earth, this document has confounded scientists, mathematicians, cryptanalysts, and other great, deep-rooted thinkers of our times. Speculation as to the meaning of the text, and whether it even has any meaning, has ranged from the extra-terrestrial, to being a prayer book written in a pidgin version of a Germanic-Romance creole, to being a hoax.

Modern analysts confirm the paper's age to being from the mid-15th century, so being a forgery has been ruled out, and since there seems to be some sort of potentially useful information, Earth's greatest minds have long considered the Voynich Manuscript to be one of the world's greatest, long-standing mysteries.