Assorted Weirdness...
Mysterious red cells might be aliens - In April, Louis, a solid-state physicist at Mahatma Gandhi University, published a paper in the prestigious peer-reviewed journal Astrophysics and Space Science in which he hypothesizes that the samples -- water taken from the mysterious blood-colored showers that fell sporadically across Louis's home state of Kerala in the summer of 2001 -- contain microbes from outer space.
Is anyone else thinking about that Star Trek: TNG episode where they discovered that an alien race had seeded Earth?
Lost world found inside Israeli cave - JERUSALEM - Israeli scientists have discovered an ancient ecosystem containing eight previously unknown species in a lake inside a cave, where they were completely sheltered from the outside world for millions of years.
Newly found mosaic is optical illusion - Archaeologists studying an ancient mosaic found by workers laying cable south of Rome have been astonished to discover that it is an optical illusion.
Viewed one way up it is a bald old man with a beard, but turned the other way round it is a beardless youth.
And finally, for
wirrrn:
World's 'leggiest' animal rediscovered - It is a semi-mythical beast, rumoured to lurk under boulders and roam around on hundreds of pairs of legs, but it hasn't been seen for decades. Now after 80 years the world's leggiest animal has been rediscovered in a ravine in California.
Is anyone else thinking about that Star Trek: TNG episode where they discovered that an alien race had seeded Earth?
Lost world found inside Israeli cave - JERUSALEM - Israeli scientists have discovered an ancient ecosystem containing eight previously unknown species in a lake inside a cave, where they were completely sheltered from the outside world for millions of years.
Newly found mosaic is optical illusion - Archaeologists studying an ancient mosaic found by workers laying cable south of Rome have been astonished to discover that it is an optical illusion.
Viewed one way up it is a bald old man with a beard, but turned the other way round it is a beardless youth.
And finally, for
World's 'leggiest' animal rediscovered - It is a semi-mythical beast, rumoured to lurk under boulders and roam around on hundreds of pairs of legs, but it hasn't been seen for decades. Now after 80 years the world's leggiest animal has been rediscovered in a ravine in California.
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Yaaay! A Millipede that finally has close to a thousand legs. Bout time!!
Is anyone else thinking about that Star Trek: TNG episode where they discovered that an alien race had seeded Earth?
-I immediately flashed on INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS. My advice- don't fall asleep...
btw- should finally get around to doing some more of our co-fic over the weekend...
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How did I know your mind was going to go there first? ;P
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Loved the one about the mosaic:
“The mosaic's optical trickery may be linked to the fact that Bacchus was the god of wine”.
Someone been imbibing too much??????
(Points above - look! using italics!!).
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*snort*
(Points above - look! using italics!!).
You go! *claps*