Odd Stuff (Part 5)


By Josh Dury
Perseid meteor shower above Stonehenge, it is an amalgamation of several images, pretty though.

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Perhaps this beast could have a new life there:

As a kid, taking out our little tin can cartopper out on Sproat Lake to see one of these up close was eye-opening.

ETA I’m looking for some footage of the flyover


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Lemme guess, it was easy to get into his email because the password had something to do with tb?

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I knew you’d be able to tell us about this bizarre, fabulously silly video! :sparkling_heart: :sparkling_heart: :sparkling_heart: Thank you!

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In Rhode Island?

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that does seem odd, tarpon that big, that far north.
i’ll never forget the time a big tarpon hit my live bait really, really hard
 that was a very exciting 15 seconds, before it broke off! (i wasn’t even fishing for tarpon!)

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Reminds me of all the warnings about changes in global ocean water temperatures (and marine life responding to that):

So

shocked philip j fry GIF

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my thoughts, too. i guessed Atlantic coast from here to maybe Outer Banks, but according to USGS they can be found in the Chesapeake or even (much to my surprise) Nova Scotia!

Native Range: Marine and estuarine. Virginia (occasionally Nova Scotia), Bermuda, and Gulf of Mexico to Brazil; also eastern Atlantic; occasional near Pacific terminus of Panama Canal (Robins and Ray 1986). Murdy et al. (1997) reported this species occasionally gets as far north as Chesapeake Bay, Maryland, as a result of seasonal movement via the Gulf Stream.

Source

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How many MacObelixs would they need?
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07652-1

The link to Orcadian stone circles gains strength, would love to know the story.

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Your microwave oven has its own microbiome
Survey of bacteria living inside household and laboratory appliances finds a robust ecosystem.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-02553-9#ref-CR3%20:

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“My microwave is full of hamsters!”

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Looks more like a
 Sousaphone!

Anyway, I love that Dutch uses the term magnetron (oven). Because that’s what it is.

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I searched for “hamster sousaphone”! You’ll have to take the inaccuracy up with the book’s author.

Wasn’t magnetron an archangel or a transformer or something?

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w0VoxTX

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Sort of both.

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