Mystery as museum statue starts turning in display case - Polidicks

[QUOTE]Even eminent television physicist Professor Brian Cox has weighed in on the mystery of Manchester Museum's moving statuette, which dates back to 1800 BC. The 10-inch tall statue of Neb Sanu was discovered in a mummy’s tomb and has been with the Museum for eighty years, but has only recently been noticed moving. Prof Cox, who teaches physics at the city's university, claims the movement is due to the "differential friction". However, Manchester Museum's resident Egyptologist Campbell Price suggested something more sinister, an Egyptian curse. [/QUOTE] Source - [url]http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newsvideo/weirdnewsvideo/10137556/Mystery-as-museum-statue-starts-turning-in-display-case.html[/url] (Video in source) It's creepy af. Probably ghosts of something :v:

Weeping angels are real...

“In Ancient Egypt they believed that if the mummy is destroyed then the statuette can act as an alternative vessel for the spirit. Maybe that is what is causing the movement.”. Maybe it's Egyptian immortal midgets inside the statue hand-cranking the thing.

It only moves when the lights are on...

Its the night guard having a goof. The sailing stones in death valley? Night guards.

These people have never noticed rugs in their houses slowly move over the course of days due to walking on it, have they? It's the same thing; it's only moving because of the vibrations from all the visitors. It just ends up rotating backwards because of a slight tilt or bend in the shelf. What a non-story.

Notice how it didn't move when visitors were gone, and how it moved less as time went on. It's really due to vibrations causing it to shift slightly until it settles in a place where it can't move anymore.

[QUOTE=Emperorconor;41154528]Notice how it didn't move when visitors were gone, and how it moved less as time went on. It's really due to vibrations causing it to shift slightly until it settles in a place where it can't move anymore.[/QUOTE] Nah it's alive it moves when people don't look at it directly When it didn't move at night it was just sleeping

[I]When hinges creek in doorless chambers, and the air is deathly still, this is the time when ghosts are present.[/i]

[QUOTE=danelo;41154452]It only moves when the lights are on...[/QUOTE] maybe one side warms up while the shaded area stays cool and the warm area vibrates.

[QUOTE=Fangz;41154716][I]When hinges creek in doorless chambers, and the air is deathly still, this is the time when ghosts are present.[/i][/QUOTE] [I]Practicing their terror with ghoulish delight.[/I]

WAKE UP SHEEPLE ALIENS ARE WALKING AMONG US [editline]24th June 2013[/editline] And since you facepunchers are so great the museum should hire you guys

My guess is the vibrations from the people or vehicles going past is causing it to move, it seems to only move when the lights are on and people are in the room. It stops moving at night, significantly less people and vehicles are around.

[QUOTE=Thy Reaper;41154482]These people have never noticed rugs in their houses slowly move over the course of days due to walking on it, have they? It's the same thing; it's only moving because of the vibrations from all the visitors. It just ends up rotating backwards because of a slight tilt or bend in the shelf. What a non-story.[/QUOTE] This is why they should have asked a materials scientist instead of a professor of theoretical physics. [sub][sub][sub]Although he did explain it as differential friction. As opposed to the egyptologist's response.[/sub][/sub][/sub]

Vibrations? The Night Guard? fuck that call SCP just to be sure.

The spinning motion seems to fluid to be something of a person What could it be? someone put a little moving ball in the bottom or something?

maybe the statue was weighted by whoever made it on purpose to do exactly this for whatever reason

It was me, sorry wont do it again

We've all seen Night at the Museum. It was Ben Stiller moving the object.

Hey guys look at our haunted statue come pay money to see it

What experts were baffled by this? A 9 year old could figure out the fact it was people walking.

"And for you, Pharaoh, we've saved the harshest punishment. You will be mummified in a container that moves ever so slightly now and then after a few millennia or something" Pretty lame curse, in my opinion.

It got tired of watching monkeys all day.

Damnit Garry, I told you not to add the friction tool to real life!

same reason a cell phone with a vibrate function will fall off the table if you call it when it's near the edge

[QUOTE=S31-Syntax;41156089]Vibrations? The Night Guard? fuck that call SCP just to be sure.[/QUOTE] It's 173's attention-loving cousin.

If thats what an egyptian curse is like then I'm not very impressed.

Everyone's missing the point that the statue didn't start doing this until recently. [quote=from the article]“But it has been on those surfaces since we have had it and it has never moved before.”[/quote] Plus, if it were the vibrations from people walking past it, why aren't the other statues moving?

[QUOTE=Diealready;41162395]Everyone's missing the point that the statue didn't start doing this until recently.[/QUOTE] slight change in level possibly [quote]Plus, if it were the vibrations from people walking past it, why aren't the other statues moving?[/quote] probably weighted differently notice how it stops once it's turned all the way around. it's probably just not a completely level surface

Let's split up and search for clues, gang.