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[TheIronSheik]

Sixty Years Ago, a Pilot Flew a B-47 Nuclear Bomber Under Michigan's Mackinac Bridge

 

This was crazy!  Until I got to the end and I'm not sure I understand it.  The article talked about stunned onlookers and it was a sight to see.  Oh, and by the way, it went unreported and no one may have actually witnessed it.

 

[Nathan R. Jessep]

Russian military might be using whales for marine reconnaissance

 

[BobbyLayne]

Seagull + traffic cam

 

[BobbyLayne]

Sixty Years Ago, a Pilot Flew a B-47 Nuclear Bomber Under Michigan's Mackinac Bridge

 

This was crazy!  Until I got to the end and I'm not sure I understand it.  The article talked about stunned onlookers and it was a sight to see.  Oh, and by the way, it went unreported and no one may have actually witnessed it.

Grounded forever!

Also, promoted two more times before he retired.

 

[Man of Constant Sorrow]

At first, I was gonna post this in the Physics and Astronomy thread, but I don't think it really fits there. 

Indian army says it found yeti footprints in the Himalayas

It was published yesterday, but I forgot to mention it with everything that has been going on. 

 

[Nathan R. Jessep]

At first, I was gonna post this in the Physics and Astronomy thread, but I don't think it really fits there. 

Indian army says it found yeti footprints in the Himalayas

It was published yesterday, but I forgot to mention it with everything that has been going on. 

I ALMOST posted that in here last night  

 

[Nathan R. Jessep]

Ok, this is just touching 

https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/30/health/donor-family-meets-heart-recipient-baseball-game-trnd/index.html

In a chance encounter that had everyone in tears, a man who received a heart transplant ran into his donor's family at a St. Louis Cardinals game on the MLB team's Transplant Awareness Day.

 

[Nathan R. Jessep]

U.S. Fighter Jets Could Soon Be Armed With Lasers (for missile defense)

A laser weapon, called The Self-Protect High-Energy Laser Demonstrator (SHiELD) passed a crucial test last month. Designed to defend U.S. Air Force aircraft from inbound air-to-air missiles, SHiELD torched several missiles in flight. Defensive lasers could revolutionize aerial warfare and lead to a second revolution with even more profound implications for air warfare—offensive lasers.

 

[Nathan R. Jessep]

U.S. has a knife missile aka Ninja Bomb that kills terrorists without harming civilians

The R9X missile is a modified Hellfire missile used by the Pentagon and the CIA for pinpoint strikes. If the sheer force of the missile failed to take out the target, the six long blades would finish the task.

 

[Nathan R. Jessep]

Australia prints 46 million $50 bills with a typo

 

[TheIronSheik]

Australia prints 46 million $50 bills with a typo

I'd like to know who was responsble for that.

 

[Nathan R. Jessep]

Scientists in Iceland found a genius way to reduce CO2 emissions 

 

[Man of Constant Sorrow]

U.S. has a knife missile aka Ninja Bomb that kills terrorists without harming civilians

Aka:

The missile, known as "The Flying Ginsu" ...

...hmmm...I never found those knives to be that good... :(

"To the targeted person, it is as if a speeding anvil fell from the sky," 

Really?  So, this is what has become of us?

Seriously, anything that may reduce casualties gets a thumbs up from me. 

 

[Cjw_55106]

I’m in Seattle for work. For those that don’t know, Seattle has a pretty large homeless population. Today I went down to the pikes Place market. First, I must say, while there were homeless people. It wasn’t as many as I expected. Think the Vegas strip and you got the right idea as far as numbers. Anyways, you have the typical guys drumming on buckets, playing guitar, etc. Then it happened. I saw some guys hustle that I’ve never seen before. As I’m walking by, He whips out a card in the protective case and asked me if I want to buy a baseball card.

 

[rockaction]

Engineer tries to fix up vintage 60s synthesizer, accidentally goes on 9-hour LSD trip

Too much. Interesting story. 

 

[nirad3]

Is the Domino's "Pizza Tracker" a complete fraud? (spoiler alert: yes!)

That's both awesome and crestfalling (is that a word?  If not I just made it up).  I use that tracker when I get Domino's, which isn't often nowadays since my account got hacked a couple months ago!

 

[Leroy Hoard]

I’m in Seattle for work. For those that don’t know, Seattle has a pretty large homeless population. Today I went down to the pikes Place market. First, I must say, while there were homeless people. It wasn’t as many as I expected. Think the Vegas strip and you got the right idea as far as numbers. Anyways, you have the typical guys drumming on buckets, playing guitar, etc. Then it happened. I saw some guys hustle that I’ve never seen before. As I’m walking by, He whips out a card in the protective case and asked me if I want to buy a baseball card.

Thanks,  I've been looking to replace my lost Billy Ripken card.

 

[Leroy Hoard]

Engineer tries to fix up vintage 60s synthesizer, accidentally goes on 9-hour LSD trip

I doubt there are many Aphex Twin fans here, but Richard D James got his start fixing up old keyboards like this.

 

[Johnny Rock]

I’m in Seattle for work. For those that don’t know, Seattle has a pretty large homeless population. Today I went down to the pikes Place market. First, I must say, while there were homeless people. It wasn’t as many as I expected. Think the Vegas strip and you got the right idea as far as numbers. Anyways, you have the typical guys drumming on buckets, playing guitar, etc. Then it happened. I saw some guys hustle that I’ve never seen before. As I’m walking by, He whips out a card in the protective case and asked me if I want to buy a baseball card.

Honus Wagner?

 

[Cjw_55106]

Honus Wagner?

We didn’t get far enough into the negotiation for details. But what I saw, it may have been Barry Bonds. 

 

[Nathan R. Jessep]

We didn’t get far enough into the negotiation for details. But what I saw, it may have been Barry Bonds. 

was he trying to sell it?? was it graded?? so many questions! I might've been a good mark for that one

 

[Nathan R. Jessep]

Engineer tries to fix up vintage 60s synthesizer, accidentally goes on 9-hour LSD trip

brilliant! I hate when I'm cleaning house and end up tripping balls. 

 

[Nathan R. Jessep]

UFOs reported by Navy pilots over east coast   

 

[TheIronSheik]

UFOs reported by Navy pilots over east coast   

The videos are crazy.  There's a special airing on History this Friday, I believe, about this.  I was reading an article about this and it referenced the special.  The article seemed normal so I set my DVR up to record it.  I just saw a commercial for the special yesterday and it looks odd.  But I'm going to give it a watch.  

 

[TheIronSheik]

Unfortunately, it's all going to turn out to be software error :(

Maybe.  But one pilot said he almost collided with that software error.

 

[Nathan R. Jessep]

This is pretty damn amazing. 

America's Got Talent: Kodi Lee

edited to add another link...first one seems to say "private" now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAPkOxRnh4c

 

[skol asylum]

https://youtu.be/92wH9qBqTh4

https://youtu.be/tcUB-3lud60

https://youtu.be/5_S0gCZRYi0

https://youtu.be/jJnK9EhiXQw

Love these mashups. This guy is a genius. Check out his other videos.

 

[matttyl]

This is pretty damn amazing. 

America's Got Talent: Kodi Lee

One of the most amazing and inspiring things I've ever, ever seen.  Truly amazing story - if you can find some youtube clips of his other performances, he's extremely talented.  A true savant. 

 

[Nathan R. Jessep]

No more flats: Michelin and GM to bring airless tires to passenger cars by 2024

I've seen these things on some commercial lawnmowers around here. Pretty cool. 

 

[Leroy Hoard]

This video

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7sxFyu_U2go

 

[Man of Constant Sorrow]

This video

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7sxFyu_U2go

Luv it! 

But, I never saw any squirrel nuts. 

 

[wilked]

I just learned about deep fakes tonite. Very interesting concept I think. You can picture it acting as a weapon similar to Inception or Aria in GoT

 

[TheIronSheik]

This is going to be a massive problem. It’s already hard to discern truth. Makes it easier to be gaslit, and for the untrustworthy to claim you can’t believe anything but what they say. Plays right into our worst flaws as a species. 

I was listening to a podcast a couple months ago and the two guys were talking about this and saying by the 2024 election, this could be a big deal.  The fact that we used to always be able to prove things with video would be hard for us to unlearn.  That just because we see someone say something or do something no longer means it actually happened.  It was a very interesting talk.  But they ended up being off by about 4 years.  Because I can see this being used in the 2020 election.  Obviously it's scary for other reasons besides elections, but the talk was about it being a factor 5 years from now and it's crazy to think that the Zuck video pretty much proved that it's already upon us.  Not years out.  Very scary.

 

[Maik Jeaunz]

Ok, this is just touching 

https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/30/health/donor-family-meets-heart-recipient-baseball-game-trnd/index.html

wow, I was not ready for that today. 

 

[SayWhat?]

Ex-MLB star Lenny Dykstra and professional wrestler Sprinkles the Clown spent nine hours in a Jersey Mike's dumpster hunting for $80,000 worth of fake teeth over Father's Day weekend.

The video of him in that link is downright depressing.  

 

[Nathan R. Jessep]

HOW 9 PEOPLE BUILT AN ILLEGAL $5M AIRBNB EMPIRE IN NEW YORK

 

[mr. furley]

anyone else catch the story on NPR about how drone photography was used in Afghanistan in the early 2000s?

how the drones flew 24/7 and took one picture per second zoomed out to capture the entire city.. all day so that when bombs were set off, the US gov't could pull up photos from the precise moment of explosion, zoom in close enough to analyze people or vehicles fleeing the area.. and use subsequent photos to track those people back to their hideouts... which would then be raided by US special forces within hours.

only caught part of the story and would like to hear the rest but my google fu is not strong enough to find the story online again

 

[nirad3]

The video of him in that link is downright depressing.  

A guy I used to hang out with up in Northern Cali played for the Phillies back when Dykstra was on the team.  He had some stories, man.

The one I remember most is where my buddy and Dykstra got into a cab at their team hotel to go to dinner with a bunch of the team.  Silence for a good 3-4 minutes, and out of nowhere, Dykstra says "you like that?" to my buddy.  Buddy kinda looks at him funny and says "huh?".  Dykstra repeats "you like that???"   This goes back and forth for a good minute, and finally Dykstra pulls his pant legs up to reveal these crazy-a$$ socks.  Points down at them and says "you like that?"  

 

[Nathan R. Jessep]

anyone else catch the story on NPR about how drone photography was used in Afghanistan in the early 2000s?

how the drones flew 24/7 and took one picture per second zoomed out to capture the entire city.. all day so that when bombs were set off, the US gov't could pull up photos from the precise moment of explosion, zoom in close enough to analyze people or vehicles fleeing the area.. and use subsequent photos to track those people back to their hideouts... which would then be raided by US special forces within hours.

only caught part of the story and would like to hear the rest but my google fu is not strong enough to find the story online again

Nope, but definitely interested if you find it

 

[Man of Constant Sorrow]

A Mind Without A Brain: The Science Of Plant Intelligence Takes Root - Forbes - 2018

“My work is not about metaphors at all,” says Monica Gagliano. “When I talk about learning, I mean learning. When I talk about memory, I meanmemory.” Gagliano, an evolutionary ecologist, is talking about plants. She's adopted methods from behavioral experiments used to test animal intelligence and found that plants respond in a similar manner. The results of her research suggest plants might possess intelligence, memory and learning, although the mechanisms at play may be fundamentally different from those of humans and animals. Her book “Thus Spoke the Plant” will be out this fall.

If Gagliano’s interpretation of the data is correct, the scientific community may have to reckon with intelligent organisms independent of the traditional brain and nervous system model. If her interpretation of the data is correct, we may be in the early stages of waking up to a world long-populated by considerably more intelligent, sentient beings than previously acknowledged. It would be a major paradigm shift. Critics of plant intelligence emphatically insist this work is a fanciful delusion and that plant behavior is mechanistic, not intelligent. Meanwhile, Gagliano and other plant biologists have sparked a debate about our natural world that mirrors a contentious debate in the tech world: can artificial intelligence ever become, or be recognized as conscious intelligence independent of the traditional model of a biological brain and nervous system?

This is a topic I first was introduced to in the early 90's. It still fascinates me. I don't know enough to "take a side", but I very much prefer the idea of sentient plant life. Unfortunately, that is not enough to make it true.

 

[Nathan R. Jessep]

porcupines may sometimes cause lions to become man-eaters

 

[Nathan R. Jessep]

Swiss Air Force Aerial Acrobatics Team Accidentally Performs Over Wrong Town

Oops.   

 

[TheIronSheik]

Swiss Air Force Aerial Acrobatics Team Accidentally Performs Over Wrong Town

Oops.   

The team blamed the incident on outdated aircraft navigation systems, tiny maps, and a lack of anyone in the Swiss Air Force with a radio to tell them they were in the wrong place.

Umm... what?  Maybe they shouldn't have an air force.  

 

[Nathan R. Jessep]

Umm... what?  Maybe they shouldn't have an air force.  

Yeah, maybe they should stick to bikini competitions. 

 

[TheIronSheik]

Yeah, maybe they should stick to bikini competitions. 

It said the lead pilot was from the town they were supposed to fly over.  How? 

 

[Nathan R. Jessep]

Burger King is offering tacos now!? 

 

[Leroy Hoard]

Burger King is offering tacos now!? 

Could also belong in the greatest sentence thread, but this remains the right location.

"Like it or not, the insane success of the Cronut means a never-ending procession of hybrid foods will be unleashed upon the Earth until the day a giant meteor finally ends it all."

 

[nirad3]

Burger King is offering tacos now!? 

At a dollar each.  Not bad, but would rather get two at Jack in the Box for the same price.

 

[Nathan R. Jessep]

Intriguing story if you haven't heard about it...

tl;dr = Long-missing girl from the Vatican. Family got a letter that she might be buried in the Vatican cemetery. Officials open a couple of tombs. No girl. Also the people who were supposed to be in those tombs weren't in there either. Looked as if the tombs may have been recently opened and resealed.  

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jul/11/emanuela-orlandi-at-vatican-empty-tombs-add-new-twist-to-missing-girl-mystery

 

[Nathan R. Jessep]

giant jellyfish spotted in British waters