Real-Life Weirdness - Page 234

Anders · 09-25-2020, 05:13 PM

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Originally Posted by L.J.Steele

I could have sworn Lex Luthor's lair was bigger than this...suppose one has to start somewhere.

Did they find the forty cakes he stole?

WingedKagouti · 09-26-2020, 02:45 AM

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Originally Posted by thorr-kan

Russian scientist claims team battled creature under Antarctic ice

It's a fictional piece from 2012:
https://imgur.com/gallery/K4wXz

Dr. Beckenstein · 09-26-2020, 07:40 AM

It is possible now to pick a lock by the sound the key makes when you insert it.

https://www.sciencealert.com/researc...being-inserted

This is for your heist-games - as long as the game world not uses electronic locks.

Ideas: - a computer programmer vanished. Turns out he wrote a program that can turn sound from a lock into a 3-d printer program that produces a fitting key. Now who has kidnapped him? An international ring of cat burglars? An intelligence agency? Or has he gone rough, planning to empty the houses of the rich and powerful?

- Somehow, the pc stumble upon a flash drive with sound file. Less than a second long, only the noises of metal on metal. Clearly, it is from a key inserted into a lock. But from which lock? And why are armed goons after the stick?

Anaraxes · 09-26-2020, 09:23 AM

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Originally Posted by thorr-kan

Russian scientist claims team battled creature under Antarctic ice

The link has an error, and just takes you to the Yahoo front page.

But that's not all. I searched for that story ("russian scientist" is good enough, and also shows you what else those scientists have been up to), and the Yahoo link the Yahoo engine itself gave me also reports that the page is missing.

Obviously a hasty attempt to suppress the story, before the cleaners have properly finished their work.

Johnny1A.2 · 09-27-2020, 10:51 PM

I don't know if they counts as precisely 'weird', but it's definitely interesting, and I could easily imagine throwing animals doing this at a PC party and letting them protest that it's impossible, then showing them this...

Ibex Climb Sheer Dam for Salt

thorr-kan · 09-29-2020, 05:19 PM

Exploring History with the National Archives Special Media Division

https://unwritten-record.blogs.archives.gov/

thorr-kan · 09-29-2020, 08:50 PM

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Originally Posted by Johnny1A.2

I don't know if they counts as precisely 'weird', but it's definitely interesting, and I could easily imagine throwing animals doing this at a PC party and letting them protest that it's impossible, then showing them this...

Ibex Climb Sheer Dam for Salt

OK, that was pretty cool. And terrifying. But cool.

Dr. Beckenstein · 09-30-2020, 01:59 PM

They are not just cool, they can save lives!

A British Rescue Service tests a jet suit in the mountains.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-54331994

Maybe we should start a thread just for jet packs?

L.J.Steele · 09-30-2020, 04:28 PM

Genuine WWII plan to fight Japan with radioactive foxes.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/histo...xes-180975932/

This has player-character plan writ all over it.

William · 10-02-2020, 09:14 AM

The Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts looks like another nice source for authentic magic and ritual (which could be a bit conflated in the religion of the day) material: Coptic, Greek, and Demotic papyri, and I'm told future updates will include more Egyptian stuff, lead tablet material (which, if I recall correctly, are usually curses), and "medical alchemical, and astrological texts."

Bon appetit!

09-26-2020, 07:40 AM	#2333
Dr. Beckenstein Join Date: Sep 2013	Re: Real-Life Weirdness It is possible now to pick a lock by the sound the key makes when you insert it. https://www.sciencealert.com/researc...being-inserted This is for your heist-games - as long as the game world not uses electronic locks. Ideas: - a computer programmer vanished. Turns out he wrote a program that can turn sound from a lock into a 3-d printer program that produces a fitting key. Now who has kidnapped him? An international ring of cat burglars? An intelligence agency? Or has he gone rough, planning to empty the houses of the rich and powerful? - Somehow, the pc stumble upon a flash drive with sound file. Less than a second long, only the noises of metal on metal. Clearly, it is from a key inserted into a lock. But from which lock? And why are armed goons after the stick? __________________ ""The origin of everything good is due to games." - Friedrich August Wilhelm Froebel, creator of the kindergarten.

09-27-2020, 10:51 PM	#2335
Johnny1A.2 Join Date: Feb 2007	Re: Real-Life Weirdness I don't know if they counts as precisely 'weird', but it's definitely interesting, and I could easily imagine throwing animals doing this at a PC party and letting them protest that it's impossible, then showing them this... Ibex Climb Sheer Dam for Salt __________________ HMS Overflow-For conversations off topic here.

09-29-2020, 05:19 PM	#2336
thorr-kan Join Date: Sep 2008	Re: Real-Life Weirdness Exploring History with the National Archives Special Media Division https://unwritten-record.blogs.archives.gov/

09-30-2020, 01:59 PM	#2338
Dr. Beckenstein Join Date: Sep 2013	Re: Real-Life Weirdness They are not just cool, they can save lives! A British Rescue Service tests a jet suit in the mountains. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-54331994 Maybe we should start a thread just for jet packs? __________________ ""The origin of everything good is due to games." - Friedrich August Wilhelm Froebel, creator of the kindergarten.

09-30-2020, 04:28 PM	#2339
L.J.Steele Join Date: Apr 2005	Re: Real-Life Weirdness Genuine WWII plan to fight Japan with radioactive foxes. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/histo...xes-180975932/ This has player-character plan writ all over it.

10-02-2020, 09:14 AM	#2340
William Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Upper Peninsula of Michigan	Re: Real-Life Weirdness The Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts looks like another nice source for authentic magic and ritual (which could be a bit conflated in the religion of the day) material: Coptic, Greek, and Demotic papyri, and I'm told future updates will include more Egyptian stuff, lead tablet material (which, if I recall correctly, are usually curses), and "medical alchemical, and astrological texts." Bon appetit!