Real-Life Weirdness

[ak_aramis]

Originally Posted by William

The example photos of desirable areas sure... are...

...something.

The conspiracist comments in response are also quite amusing.

[William]

Originally Posted by ak_aramis

The conspiracist comments in response are also quite amusing.

...and DARPA is responding to several of them! Ha!

[Mysterious Dark Lord v3.2]

There's no need to invoke weird conspiracy crap on this. There's a perfectly reasonable and logical explanation for DARPA's request.

All the official "End Of The World" shelters are full of billionaires and hookers. So they're looking for alternatives.

See, that makes perfect sense.

[Anaraxes]

Originally Posted by Mysterious Dark Lord v3.2

All the official "End Of The World" shelters are full of billionaires and hookers. So they're looking for alternatives.

Not alternatives, just expansion. Because the billionaires also need blackjack.

[tshiggins]

Originally Posted by William

...and DARPA is responding to several of them! Ha!

That's the funniest part of the whole thing.

DARPA:
"Please. Demogorgons are so Department of Energy."

That thread is the best thing I've read in a while. The bartenders, here, are laughing, too, especially about the Denver airport comments :)

[Daigoro]

Man arrested for memorizing over 1,300 customers’ credit card info, using it online
Using an apparent eidetic memory (often called a “photographic memory”), he could retain all of the information until after the transaction when he could jot it down.

He might have Eidetic Memory, but it sounds like something that could be done with a bit of memory training. (And he wouldn't need to write them down if he actually had full Eidetic Memory :P)

[dcarson]

Deep life. In the Kidd Creek mine, 7,900 feet down in water undisturbed for 2 billion years, microbes that eat fool's gold. Not the only deep life known, they want to do DNA sequencing to see how related they are to each other and the rest of life on Earth.

https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/science...os-ncna1050906

[Anaraxes]

Outside of Annona, Texas, a lightning strike from a thunderstorm killed 23 cows. The bolt hit one cow, and ran along a metal fence, killing the whole row of cows and calves that had been lined up along it.

"A weird little detail", you're thinking, "but there's not much there to game. It happens, right?" Oh, you're more right than you realize.

A lightning bolt kills 23 cattle in Odisha, India.

Lightning kills 23 cattle in Waterford, Ireland.

Just something to keep in mind the next time you're ordering something from Evil Stevie on Warehouse... 23.

[Anders]

And of course, cattle were a common sacrifice to the thunder god in many Indo-European cultures. Is there an ancient pagan connection?

[tshiggins]

Originally Posted by Anders

And of course, cattle were a common sacrifice to the thunder god in many Indo-European cultures. Is there an ancient pagan connection?

Maybe the thunder gods have gotten tired of waiting.