06-10-2017, 11:38 AM | #1611 |
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Re: Real-Life Weirdness
https://www.newscientist.com/article...-before-death/
Fungus creates zombie beetles that crave flowers before death.
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06-10-2017, 11:54 AM | #1612 | |
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But just from the title, it sounds like what octopuses do all the time to divers. Curious and grabby are "how the octopus do".
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06-10-2017, 12:20 PM | #1613 | |
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Fungus made succubus. That's a new zombie parasitic behavior to me.
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06-11-2017, 06:49 AM | #1614 | |
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This particular one got curious and grabby about the face mask and air regulator, and managed to pry them off the owner. Fortunately it spooked after max 30 seconds and ran back into its rock crevice.
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06-11-2017, 06:50 AM | #1615 | |
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06-11-2017, 11:33 AM | #1616 |
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06-11-2017, 12:20 PM | #1617 |
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It wasn't that long ago that all those movies with mind controlling monsters seemed the least realistic of the horror genre. Boy have we learned.
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06-15-2017, 12:17 PM | #1618 |
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A cool bit for an alt-history America, cell-phones in the 40s, instead of four decades later, had the FCC not stepped in to restrict expansion.
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06-18-2017, 03:03 PM | #1619 |
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06-18-2017, 03:39 PM | #1620 |
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An entire article about a cat authoring a physics paper and not one Schrodinger joke? I don't know if I'm impressed or depressed.
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