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Captain Seafort wrote:What if they just saw the reflection?

Mikey wrote:

Captain Seafort wrote:What if they just saw the reflection?

I honestly have not heard of that coming up in the mythology. I know that a reflection was impotent in the case of Perseus vs. Medusa, but that's as close as I've heard.

Pliny the Elder in 79 CE wrote:[A] serpent called the basilisk... all who behold its eyes, fall dead upon the spot, is produced in the province of Cyrene, being not more than twelve fingers in length. It has a white spot on the head, strongly resembling a sort of a diadem. When it hisses, all the other serpents fly from it: and it does not advance its body, like the others, by a succession of folds, but moves along upright and erect upon the middle. It destroys all shrubs, not only by its contact, but those even that it has breathed upon; it burns up all the grass too, and breaks the stones, so tremendous is its noxious influence. It was formerly a general belief that if a man on horseback killed one of these animals with a spear, the poison would run up the weapon and kill, not only the rider, but the horse as well. To this dreadful monster the effluvium of the weasel is fatal, a thing that has been tried with success, for kings have often desired to see its body when killed; so true is it that it has pleased Nature that there should be nothing without its antidote. The animal is thrown into the hole of the basilisk, which is easily known from the soil around it being infected. The weasel destroys the basilisk by its odour, but dies itself in this struggle of nature against its own self.

Nutso wrote:
Brannon Braga says it a Threshold Action FIgure. I was think the TV show "Threshold," but this looks like it's saying from the Voyager episode.

McAvoy wrote:Took me a second

Mohammed Alim Khan, the last direct descendant of Genghis Khan to rule his own Kingdom. This picture was taken 104 years ago in 1911.

April 24, 1973: From left, Leonard Nimoy (Spock), DeForest Kelley (Dr. Leonard “Bones” McCoy) and William Shatner (Capt. James T. Kirk) — stars of hit TV series “Star Trek” — record their voices in a Los Angeles studio for “Star Trek: The Animated Series,” which premiered in September 1973. A total of 22 episodes were produced and broadcast in 1973-74.

This photo by staff photographer Mary Frampton was published in the April 27, 1973 Los Angeles Times.