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Random funny/fascinating/cool/odd stuff: ESPN tribute to Coach Corso (tissue alert!!!!) (6 Viewers)

 
Nathan R. Jessep said:
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Could Giant Robotic Centipedes Revolutionize Farming?

Ground Control Robotics is revolutionizing agriculture with bioinspired centipede robots! These wiggly wonders tackle complex terrains, offering a cost-effective solution for weed control in vineyards and blueberry fields. Could this be the future of farming? #robotics
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Another loggerhead turtle has been injured by a boat, but is being cared for and is expected to recover.

A massive loggerhead sea turtle hit by a boat off Florida’s Atlantic coast arrived at a turtle hospital needing medical care, but at 302 pounds (137 kilograms), Pennywise was too large to fit their equipment.So the veterinary team at the Loggerhead Marinelife Center in Juno Beach took her to nearby Jupiter Medical Center, hoping she could get a CT scan on a human machine. She was too big for that, as well.They quickly came up with another plan: taking Pennywise to Palm Beach Equine Clinic in Wellington, where the scan was performed on equipment designed for horses. “And, luckily, the horse-sized machine was big enough to fit this lady through,” Heather Barron, the chief science officer and veterinarian at Loggerhead, told The Associated Press. Turns out, they also got a nice surprise: Images showed that Pennywise is carrying eggs.
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Hell of an explosion in a residential neighborhood, caught on film.

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Moving Truck Turns Into A Bomb In Illinois Explosion | Carscoops

The blast damaged multiple homes, but the driver miraculous survived with only minor injuries
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A massive truck explosion was caught on a home security camera in Addison, Illinois over the weekend. In the footage, you can see a box truck traveling down a residential street on Saturday when it suddenly explodes, sending debris everywhere. The Addison Police Department said the incident occurred around 8:40 am and the damage was apparently so severe that they misidentified the vehicle as a flatbed truck. The department later posted an update saying the explosion was investigated by the ATF and DuPage County Bomb Squad, which determined the blast was an accident that was caused by a leaking propane tank. Authorities added the explosion damaged a few homes and the driver only received minor injuries.
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The Biscuit Basin in Yellowstone is the one in which a thermal pool blew up last year. Supposedly that was cause by deposits of silica which filled in openings between rocks, trapping heat and pressure below until it was too much and exploded. Due to worries about similar explosions the Biscuit Basin is closed to tourists this year.

Article with good pictures and a video of last year's explosion: Yellowstone’s Explosive Biscuit Basin Won’t Be Open To The Public This Summer
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Yellowstone’s Explosive Biscuit Basin Won’t Be Open To The Public This Summer

Because of last year’s spectacular explosion and continuing seismic activity at Yellowstone’s Biscuit Basin, park officials are keeping the area closed.…
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A young Coopers Hawk in West Orange, NJ, has learned how to use a crosswalk and its beeping sound to time flying across the street real low to catch birds on a neighboring lawn.

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A Young Cooper's Hawk Learned to Use a Crosswalk Signal to Launch Surprise Attacks on Other Birds

Researcher Vladimir Dinets watched the bird repeatedly sneak behind a row of cars to ambush its unsuspecting prey
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The hawk did it frequently enough that a University of Tennessee zoologist did a study on it.

Results: An immature Cooper’s hawk was observed hunting birds near a road intersection using queues of cars waiting for green light as cover. The queues grew sufficiently long only when pedestrian crossing regime was activated at the streetlight. The hawk apparently learned to prepare for attack when sound signals indicated the activation of pedestrian crossing regime.

Discussion: The observed behavior required having a mental map of the area and understanding the connection between the sound signals and the change in traffic pattern – a remarkable intellectual feat for a young bird that likely had just moved into the city. Such level of understanding and use of human traffic patterns by a wild animal has never been reported before.
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An innovative "ice battery" system is being used to cool buildings and lower energy costs

The "ice battery" system freezes water at night when the cost of electricity is low. Then, during the day, when the price is high, the building is cooled with the previous night's ice instead of using expensive electricity.
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In the heart of Manhattan, four stories below ground, the iconic Eleven Madison skyscraper is being air-conditioned using ice. "There's about 500,000 pounds of ice created every night," said Holly Paeper, president of Trane Technologies Commercial HVAC Americas business, the company responsible for installing the system it calls an ice battery. "And to put that into context, think about three city buses full of ice cubes." The ice battery system freezes water at night when the cost of electricity is low. Then, during the day, when the price is high, the building is cooled with the previous night's ice instead of using expensive electricity. Trane says that this system can lower cooling costs by up to 40%.
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Kings Island visitors warned to keep mouths closed on amusement park rides because of cicadas

Visitors to Kings Island amusement park in Mason, Ohio, are being warned to keep their mouths closed on rides as billions of cicadas take over.
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Kritsky told said that if you're enjoying your day at Kings Island over the coming weeks, he does have one important piece of advice. "Just enjoy the cicadas and when you're on the ride, keep your mouth closed," Kritsky said. Daniels said her 6-year-old already knew that advice and made sure everyone else with him was prepared. “So, while boarding our first roller coaster of the night, he reminded our group that we all needed to keep our mouths tightly sealed so we did not get a cicada in the mouth.
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With picture of kid keeping his mouth shut. :lol:
 
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Female dolphin gives birth, and her friend rushes the baby to the surface for its first breath. Cool video.

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Video shows dolphin calf's birth at Chicago zoo with mom's friend helping

A bottlenose dolphin at the Brookfield Zoo Chicago gave birth to a calf early Saturday morning with the help of a fellow mom.
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Unfortunately the baby didn't survive.

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Damn, I'm sorry to hear that. I always root for the little buggers.
 
Here's your chance to own a genuine Bigfoot skull. No, this is not one of those imitation Bigfoot skulls sold on Etsy. This is the real thing, I swear.

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Bigfoot Skull - general for sale - by owner - craigslist

An adolescent Yeti, Bigfoot, Sasquatch skull for sale very rare and 100% authentic. Other bones included. radiocarbon dating analysts showed the amount of carbon decay has a range of 3,000 B.C to...
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"An adolescent Yeti, Bigfoot, Sasquatch skull for sale very rare and 100% authentic. Other bones included. radiocarbon dating analysts showed the amount of carbon decay has a range of 3,000 B.C to 500 B.C and DNA analysts show no common marker with homosapiens and no common marker with any known mammal. The cost to have test done in a lab in Germany was $650 for radio dating and $2250 for the DNA work up. I've been told it's priceless but I'm growing old and am ready to part ways with this good luck charms. Only real interested people may reply and a third party broker will handle the affairs on my behalf."
 
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Man dressed as testicles runs Hadrian's Wall for charity

Toby Freeman is trying to raise awareness of the importance of early detection of cancer symptoms.
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A charity fundraiser has run 150km (90 miles) along the length of Hadrian's Wall dressed as a pair of testicles to try reducing the stigma around testicular cancer. Toby Freeman from Colchester is the founder of Robin Cancer Trust, a charity set up in memory of his older brother who died from testicular cancer in 2011. His latest challenge - part of a bid to run 500km (311 miles) in total - has seen him run coast to coast from Cumbria to Tyneside across three days dressed in his eye-catching costume."It was absolutely incredible," said the 35-year-old. "Some of the livestock were a bit wary of the giant testicles, but we avoided them as we navigated through."
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Man dressed as testicles runs Hadrian's Wall for charity

Toby Freeman is trying to raise awareness of the importance of early detection of cancer symptoms.
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A charity fundraiser has run 150km (90 miles) along the length of Hadrian's Wall dressed as a pair of testicles "Some of the livestock were a bit wary of the giant testicles, but we avoided them as we navigated through."
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Gotta give the guy credit, it takes a lot of balls to do that.
 
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Man dressed as testicles runs Hadrian's Wall for charity

Toby Freeman is trying to raise awareness of the importance of early detection of cancer symptoms.
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A charity fundraiser has run 150km (90 miles) along the length of Hadrian's Wall dressed as a pair of testicles "Some of the livestock were a bit wary of the giant testicles, but we avoided them as we navigated through."
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Gotta give the guy credit, it takes a lot of balls to do that.
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He's nuts.
 
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A Michigan bear roamed the woods for two years with an awful lid on his neck. Not anymore.

A Michigan bear is feeling much, much better. Wildlife experts finally were able to trap a black bear and remove a large lid that was stuck around his neck for two years.
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“It’s pretty incredible that the bear survived and was able to feed itself,” state bear specialist Cody Norton said Wednesday. “The neck was scarred and missing hair, but the bear was in much better condition than we expected it to be.” The bear first turned up on a trail camera as a cub in 2023 in the northern Lower Peninsula. After that, the Department of Natural Resources was on the lookout for the elusive animal with a hard plastic lid around the neck, Norton said. The bear appeared again on a camera in late May, still wearing the barrel lid, and the DNR responded by setting a cylindrical trap and safely luring him inside. The bear was immobilized with an injection and the lid was cut off in minutes on June 3. The bear eventually woke up and rambled away.
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Don't let this happen to you.
 
This is one of the rare times you hear "wardrobe malfunction" and "400m hurdles" in the same story. Some poor guy was competing in hurdles while his junk kept falling out of his shorts. He tried repeatedly and unsuccessfully to stuff it back in and finally gave up, sprinting to the finish line while flapping in the wind.
With blurred video and NSFW video.
Robinson’s baton went rogue when the 4x400m world champion still had another 250m to run and he was seen desperately trying to conceal his thunder as he made his way down the back straight. It got worse from there as Robinson made several more attempts to fix the problem while keeping stride and even beginning to run up alongside his competitors. His attempts were sadly unsuccessful even as he made his final lunge for the finish line after knocking over the two final hurdles. After knocking over the final hurdle, Robinson tucked his torso into a ball and performed an acrobatic rolling somersault over the finish line, winning the race with a season’s best time of 48.05 seconds.

The 24-year-old was left lying on the track smiling to himself after finishing just one tenth of a second off his personal best.
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Tick said:
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2 cows get loose, walk a couple miles to an extremely busy intersection, visit Walmart and Chick-Fil-A, stroll through a residential neighborhood, one walks through a gym, gets killed, is being butchered with partner in crime.

Hell of a way to go out.
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During our high school honors banquet, a moose poked its head into the room and ate out of the salad bowl. Thankfully nobody thought it needed to be shot.

Anchorage btw
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Those cows were wandering in places I've been to before, and they had to deal with a lot of traffic. I'm surprised they weren't run over. When one of them went into that gym, if it had kept going down the street it soon would have been at the fire department who sometimes left their doors open in warm weather. What a photo op, missed.
 
Incredible story about a rafter who fell in between boulders into chest-deep, cold rapids and could not be extricated despite heroic efforts.

Over the next five hours, police, paramedics, doctors and swift water rescuers are winched into the remote scene. They use spreaders, hydraulics and airbags in a bid to create space between the boulders trapping Valdas's leg. They drill a tripod into the rocks to create a pulley system and shift his body in various directions to try to extricate him. "The rescuer even grabbed me by the waist to haul me up, but my leg wouldn't budge," Valdas recalls. "I think, if he'd been stronger, like Schwarzenegger, he might have managed to uproot me, leaving the leg behind." The rescuers consider every idea, no matter how outlandish it seems. Every attempt fails.
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He was going to die, so they decided to amputate his leg, underwater. Unfortunately the doctor going to do it fell and broke his wrist. A second doctor had to be flown in.

It's mid-morning when the new doctor, Jorian 'Jo' Kippax, himself an experienced white-water kayaker, is winched into the scene. He feels overwhelmed as he hears the loud roar of the river, and takes in the faces of the people who have worked all night on a precarious rock platform. The doctor also agonises over the decision to amputate, but everyone agrees Valdas is running out of time. "The inevitable consequence of him staying there was death, and that was going to be quite soon," he says.
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With general anaesthesia not being possible, Valdas is knocked out with ketamine. Jo can't see the leg, so he opts to do the surgery with bare hands, so he can feel what he's doing. The velcro tourniquets don't work under water, but he improvises using ratchet straps. Then he starts the procedure. He cuts away the muscles of the thigh, "leaving the tremendously strong femur". "We are trained to saw through this using a Gigli saw — a fine wire which has got sharp serrations on it," he says. "It's very light, which is why we favour it. But it's also pretty delicate. "And in this case, it broke." Jo's heart drops. Fortunately he manages to break through the rest of the femur. Within seconds Valdas is free.
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Inside the moment rescuers knew they had to harm a dying man to save him

When a white-water rafter fell into the Franklin River, it triggered an extraordinary rescue mission that pushed everyone to the brink.
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I sometimes get lost on the Outside Magazine site reading about mountaineering disasters. This has that feel.
 
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Underwater turbine spinning for 6 years off Scotland's coast is a breakthrough for tidal energy

Submerged in about 40 meters of water off Scotland’s coast, a turbine has been spinning for more than six years to harness the power of ocean tides and generate electricity.
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Submerged in about 40 meters (44 yards) of water off Scotland’s coast, a turbine has been spinning for more than six years to harness the power of ocean tides for electricity — a durability mark that demonstrates the technology’s commercial viability.

Keeping a large, or grid-scale, turbine in place in the harsh sea environment that long is a record that helps pave the way for bigger tidal energy farms and makes it far more appealing to investors, according to the trade association Ocean Energy Europe. Tidal energy projects would be prohibitively expensive if the turbines had to be taken out of the water for maintenance every couple of years. Tidal energy technologies are still in the early days of their commercial development, but their potential for generating clean energy is big. According to the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, marine energy, a term researchers use to refer to power generated from tides, currents, waves or temperature changes, is the world’s largest untapped renewable energy resource. The MeyGen tidal energy project off the coast of Scotland has four turbines producing 1.5 megawatts each, enough electricity collectively to power up to 7,000 homes annually. On Thursday, the Swedish company SKF announced that its bearings and seals on one of the turbines had passed the 6 1/2-year mark without needing unplanned or disruptive maintenance.
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