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Is it just me, or does Australia have way more than its share of serial killers? The wikipedia list for American serial killers lists 191, while the Australian list has 31, despite the fact that the US has more than ten times the population. This is pretty freaky: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internal_decapitation
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This is not exactlyWikipedia, but people seem to "like" accounts of accidents with radiation, so here it goes: A Review of Criticality Accidents, by the Los Alamos National Laboratory, talks about all of those sorts of accidents. The Devil's Core and the SL-1 incident, and many many more are included. The Review is a tad bit technical, but not that difficult to understand once it gets going (also, it has a Glossary at the end if you are very lost).
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Some more hosed up and unnerving poo poo from Mother Russia. I present to you the drug called Krokodil.  http://io9.com/5859291/krokodil-russias-designer-drug-that-will-eat-your-fleshThere's plenty of walking and living zombie movies on youtube. MrMidnight has a new favorite as of 00:29 on Dec 22, 2012 |
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The Monkey Man posted:Is it just me, or does Australia have way more than its share of serial killers? The wikipedia list for American serial killers lists 191, while the Australian list has 31, despite the fact that the US has more than ten times the population. Time for a post about Ivan Milat. Apparently during the investigation, the police realised that all these other cases of random people sexually harassing backpackers were all actually just this guy. I suppose the Snowtown murders I linked to on the last page are a bit exceptional in terms of sadism, but for whatever reason this guy is much more well known within Australia than John Bunting (ringleader of the Snowtown murders). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Milat_(serial_killer)  Please be careful indeed.
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Yeesh. As a break from all the horrifying torture murders, here's a famous mystery that merely killed some people: the merchant vessel Mary Celeste.quote:The Mary Celeste (or Marie Céleste as it is fictionally referred to by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and others after him) was a British-American merchant brigantine famous for having been discovered on 4 December 1872 in the Atlantic Ocean, unmanned and apparently abandoned (one lifeboat was missing, along with its 7 crew), although the weather was fine and her crew had been experienced and capable seamen. The Mary Celeste was in seaworthy condition and still under sail heading toward the Strait of Gibraltar. She had been at sea for a month and had over six months' worth of food and water on board. Her cargo was virtually untouched and the personal belongings of passengers and crew were still in place, including valuables. The crew was never seen or heard from again. The Mary Celeste crew's disappearance is often cited as the greatest maritime mystery of all time.
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Vladimir Poutine posted:Time for a post about Ivan Milat. Apparently during the investigation, the police realised that all these other cases of random people sexually harassing backpackers were all actually just this guy. I suppose the Snowtown murders I linked to on the last page are a bit exceptional in terms of sadism, but for whatever reason this guy is much more well known within Australia than John Bunting (ringleader of the Snowtown murders). What does the sign on the left say?
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MrMidnight posted:Some more hosed up and unnerving poo poo from Mother Russia. I present to you the drug called Krokodil. Not trying to backseat mod here but you really, really, really should get some tags up there. I've seen it before so I know what I was getting into, but "flesh eating drug" doesn't even do it justice. For those who haven't seen it, there's rotting fingers and arms with flesh falling off in chunks and huge parts of bone fully exposed.
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MrMidnight posted:Some more hosed up and unnerving poo poo from Mother Russia. I present to you the drug called Krokodil. drat! That last picture in the article is some def poo poo!The internet can desensitize you to a lot, but you don't expect to see people taking pic of their rotting arm in a mirror. Beaten, but yeah that's some messed up stuff. NuminaXLT has a new favorite as of 22:34 on Dec 21, 2012 |
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U.T. Raptor posted:Everyone's heard of the Bloop, here's another creepy unidentified underwater noise: This is cool but a heads up to everyone, The Bloop has probably been explained. It's the sound of an icequake. It can carry a surprisingly long way: http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/vents/acoustics/sounds/bloop.html Again, since this is science, this is the most likely explanation but I still prefer to think of it being a huge unknown creature in the ocean because that's cooler.
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The Monkey Man posted:Is it just me, or does Australia have way more than its share of serial killers? The wikipedia list for American serial killers lists 191, while the Australian list has 31, despite the fact that the US has more than ten times the population.  This is real? I thought this was something my mom made up so I would stop cracking my neck.
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Mescal posted:What does the sign on the left say? Basically watch out for fallen trees and logging trucks on the road. Nothing about being murdered. 
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The story of Dr. Carl Von Consel was brought up earlier in the thread. Here's a really well made piece about him from the old HBO series Autopsy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lua1Zlg4Fqs Here's another piece done on Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka. Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OoLLqYBdVQ Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAFDDxnc8vs MrMidnight has a new favorite as of 03:43 on Dec 22, 2012 |
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MrMidnight posted:Some more hosed up and unnerving poo poo from Mother Russia. I present to you the drug called Krokodil. I regret clicking on this link.  Captain von Trapp posted:Yeesh. As a break from all the horrifying torture murders, here's a famous mystery that merely killed some people: the merchant vessel Mary Celeste. In the same vein, there's the Ourang Medan, which may not have actually existed, but has some unnerving details nonetheless: Wikipedia posted:According to the story, at some point in or around June 1947, two American vessels navigating the Strait of Malacca, the City of Baltimore and the Silver Star, among others, picked up distress messages from Dutch merchant ship Ourang Medan. A radio operator aboard the troubled vessel sent the following Morse code message: “All officers including captain are dead lying in chartroom and bridge. Possibly whole crew dead." This was followed by some indecipherable Morse code, and one final grisly message: "I die." Then, silence.
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Vladimir Poutine posted:Time for a post about Ivan Milat. Apparently during the investigation, the police realised that all these other cases of random people sexually harassing backpackers were all actually just this guy. I suppose the Snowtown murders I linked to on the last page are a bit exceptional in terms of sadism, but for whatever reason this guy is much more well known within Australia than John Bunting (ringleader of the Snowtown murders). I feel bad for laughing at this. quote:In 2011 Milat went on a hunger strike in an unsuccessful attempt to be given a PlayStation, losing 25 kilograms. Rogue Waves- pretty much huge waves that come out of nowhere- are seriously horrifying, it boggles my mind that do this day they continiue to sink ships- and even aircraft http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogue_wave quote:MS München (1978) – lost at sea leaving only "a few bits of wreckage" and signs of sudden damage including extreme forces 66 feet (20 m) above the water line. Although more than one wave was probably involved, this remains the most likely sinking due to a freak wave. http://www.check-six.com/Coast_Guard/Monster_Waves_Reprint-screen.pdf Nckdictator has a new favorite as of 04:54 on Dec 22, 2012 |
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I've always been fascinated by man-made disasters, especially on a large scale. Some that immediately come to mind: Centralia, Pennsylvania, the site of a still-burning underground mine fire that started in the 70s and is still burning today. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centralia,_Pennsylvania#Mine_fire quote:In 1979, locals became aware of the scale of the problem when a gas-station owner and then mayor, John Coddington, inserted a stick into one of his underground tanks to check the fuel level. When he withdrew it, it seemed hot, so he lowered a thermometer down on a string and was shocked to discover that the temperature of the gasoline in the tank was 172 °F (77.8 °C). Statewide attention to the fire began to increase, culminating in 1981 when a 12-year-old resident named Todd Domboski fell into a sinkhole 4 feet (1.2 m) wide by 150 feet (46 m) deep that suddenly opened beneath his feet in a backyard. His cousin, 14-year-old Eric Wolfgang, in pulling Todd out of the hole saved Todd's life, as the plume of hot steam billowing from the hole was measured as containing a lethal level of carbon monoxide. Chernobyl, which everyone knows as a huge nuclear power plant disaster. The following article is interesting because it has point-of-view accounts from some of the workers inside when the meltdown occurred. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Individual_involvement_in_the_Chernobyl_disaster Another horrible accident was the Bhopal Disaster, where a Union Carbide subsidiary killed 3,787 people immediately and thousands more in the weeks that followed. Gross negligence was involved. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhopal_disaster quote:In November 1984, most of the safety systems were not functioning and many valves and lines were in poor condition. In addition to this, several vent gas scrubbers had been out of service as well as the steam boiler, intended to clean the pipes was nonoperational. Other issue was that, Tank 610 contained 42 tons of MIC which was much more than what safety rules allowed.[5] During the night of 2–3 December 1984, water entered Tank E610 containing 42 tons of MIC. A runaway reaction started, which was accelerated by contaminants, high temperatures and other factors. The reaction was sped up by the presence of iron from corroding non-stainless steel pipelines.[5] The resulting exothermic reaction increased the temperature inside the tank to over 200 °C (392 °F) and raised the pressure. This forced the emergency venting of pressure from the MIC holding tank, releasing a large volume of toxic gases. About 30 metric tons of methyl isocyanate (MIC) escaped from the tank into the atmosphere in 45 to 60 minutes. I could go on in this vein for hours.
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Stormtroopman posted:Chernobyl, which everyone knows as a huge nuclear power plant disaster. The following article is interesting because it has point-of-view accounts from some of the workers inside when the meltdown occurred. You would probably like Voices from Chernobyl by Svetlana Alexievich which has a lot of interviews with people involved with the accident, including firemen, villagers, journalists, scientists, and more.
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Mycroft Holmes posted:
She was loving with you, it is a real condition but you can't do it by cracking your neck. It's similar to cervical dislocation, the preferred method of dispatching small lab animals quickly and with little to no pain.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_acidificationwikipedia posted:...Other chemical reactions are also triggered which result in an actual net decrease in the amount of carbonate ions available. In the oceans, this makes it more difficult for marine calcifying organisms, such as coral and some plankton, to form biogenic calcium carbonate, and existing such structures become vulnerable to dissolution.[9] Thus, ongoing acidification of the oceans also poses a threat to the food chains connected with the oceans.[10][11] Essentially, greenhouse gases are increasing the ocean's acidity to the point where it could seriously destabilize the ocean's whole ecosystem by interfering with the growth of corals and invertebrates. 8% of the world's population depends on fisheries for employment, and over 2 1\2 Billion people depend on seafood for at least 20% of their of protein.
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Stare-Out posted:Anything that contains final transmissions in that vein are really unnerving. I remember there being a Wikipedia page for final moments and words captured on CVRs before airplane crashes but I guess it's gone now for some reason. Probably a good thing because my morbid curiosity would mean I'd be occupied for hours with that one. This is pretty similar: http://www.planecrashinfo.com/lastwords.htm There are also mp3s for some of them.
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ol qwerty bastard posted:Pretty much anything related to the Cold War is scary, but this page in particular gets me: We came too close to nuclear war, but the judgement of one Soviet Lieutenant Colonel saved the world: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov quote:Had Petrov reported incoming American missiles, his superiors might have launched an assault against the United States, precipitating a corresponding nuclear response from the United States. Petrov declared the system's indications a false alarm. Later, it was apparent that he was right: no missiles were approaching and the computer detection system was malfunctioning. And again, a Soviet Vice Admiral brings us back from the brink during the Cuban Missile Crisis, when he argues successfully against the launch of a nuclear torpedo: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasiliy_Arkhipov#Involvement_in_Cuban_Missile_Crisis Had things gone the other way, here's what the United States would have struck back with, the Minuteman III ICBM: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minuteman_III#Minuteman-III_.28LGM-30G.29 We have 150 of these, spread across three missile bases in the Midwest. They're the land-based leg of the nuclear triad (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_triad#.C2.A0United_States.5B1.5D.5B3.5D.5B4.5D) and will make your day really, really awful. The Soviets would have countered (in part) with the road-mobile RS-12M Topol (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RT-2PM_Topol), a poo poo-wrecker capable of roaming about the Russian countryside in order to avoid American ICBM targeting. Luckily, Wikipedia provides a resource for your daily life after the bomb: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_War_Survival_Skills Duck and cover, kids!
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TurboTax posted:This is pretty similar:
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Since I've posted nothing but murder and torture in this thread thus far I'll try to post something a bit different. Torpedo Juice http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torpedo_juice quote:Torpedo juice is American slang for an alcoholic beverage, first mixed in World War II, made from pineapple juice and the 180-proof grain alcohol fuel used in United States Navy torpedo motors.[1] Various poisonous additives were mixed into the fuel alcohol by Navy authorities to render the alcohol undrinkable, and various methods were employed by the U.S. sailors to separate the alcohol from the poison. Aside from the expected alcohol intoxication and subsequent hangover, the effects of drinking torpedo juice sometimes included mild or severe reactions to the poison, and the drink's reputation developed an early element of risk. Voynich manuscript http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voynich_manuscript quote:The Voynich manuscript, described as "the world's most mysterious manuscript",[3] is a work which dates to the early 15th century (1404-1438), possibly from northern Italy.[1][2] It is named after the book dealer Wilfrid Voynich, who purchased it in 1912. Lichtenberg figure http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lichtenberg_figure quote:Lichtenberg figures (Lichtenberg-Figuren, or "Lichtenberg Dust Figures") are branching electric discharges that sometimes appear on the surface or the interior of insulating materials. They are named after the German physicist Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, who originally discovered and studied them. When they were first discovered, it was thought that their characteristic shapes might help to reveal the nature of positive and negative electric "fluids". In 1777, Lichtenberg built a large electrophorus to generate high voltage static electricity through induction. After discharging a high voltage point to the surface of an insulator, he recorded the resulting radial patterns by sprinkling various powdered materials onto the surface. By then pressing blank sheets of paper onto these patterns, Lichtenberg was able to transfer and record these images, thereby discovering the basic principle of modern Xerography.  Rear view of a lightning strike survivor displaying Lichtenberg figure on skin Edit: grammar police. Vladimir Poutine has a new favorite as of 09:17 on Dec 22, 2012 |
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Vladimir Poutine posted:Since I've posted nothing by murder and torture in this thread thus far I'll try to post something a bit different. I normally don't get that excited by tattoos, but one made from that design would be really impressive.
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TurboTax posted:I normally don't get that excited by tattoos, but one made from that design would be really impressive. I pretty much thought the same thing when I saw it. That's one of the only injury scars you could get which actually looks really cool. Not only does it tell a story (  I got hit by lightning y'all), it also has an awesome organic and fractal quality to it.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aokigaharaquote:The forest is a popular place for suicides, reportedly the most popular in Japan and second in the world after San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge.[5][6] Statistics vary, but what is documented is that during the period leading up to 1988, about 100 suicides occurred there every year. If you search for Aokigahara on google images there are lots of unpleasant pictures.
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Anjow posted:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aokigahara Vice also have a documentary on the place, the interview with one of the park wardens is really 
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TurboTax posted:This is pretty similar: I've got a long flight tomorrow and you linked me to this page. Welp.
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Stare-Out posted:Anything that contains final transmissions in that vein are really unnerving. I remember there being a Wikipedia page for final moments and words captured on CVRs before airplane crashes but I guess it's gone now for some reason. Probably a good thing because my morbid curiosity would mean I'd be occupied for hours with that one. I seem to recall a page to that effect. If I'm remembering correctly, the last thing said on most CVRs is typically listed as "Unintelligible", which means that it was likely some variation of "poo poo". On the subject of last words during disasters: The 1980 Eruption of Mount St. Helens http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980_eruption_of_Mount_St._Helens David A. Johnston, just as the eruption began, posted:Vancouver! Vancouver! This is it! Gerry Martin, only a few seconds later, posted:Gentlemen, the uh, camper and the car sitting over to the south of me is covered. It's gonna get me, too. I can't get out of here... The Halifax Explosion http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halifax_Explosion Cargo ship loaded with munitions collides with another ship, burns, explodes with enough force to level every building within 16 miles/26 klicks, and creates its own tsunami. Currently stands at 2nd largest non-nuclear man-made explosion in history. Vince Coleman, rail dispatcher posted:Stop trains. Munitions ship on fire. Approaching Pier 6. Goodbye. And, while not on the same scale, still a disaster: The Terra Nova Expedition http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terra_Nova_Expedition Lawrence Oates, prior to wandering onto the Antarctic Plateau to freeze to death, posted:I am just going outside and I may be some time. Robert F. Scott's last journal entry posted:Every day we have been ready to start for our depot 11 miles away, but outside the door of the tent it remains a scene of whirling drift. I do not think we can hope for any better things now. We shall stick it out to the end, but we are getting weaker, of course, and the end cannot be far. It seems a pity but I do not think I can write more.
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Jesus Christ. quote:In one case, Beria picked up a well-known actress under the pretense of bringing her to perform for the Politburo; instead, he took her to his dacha, promised to free her father and grandmother from NKVD prison if she submitted, and then raped her, telling her "Scream or not, doesn't matter." Beria knew her relatives had already been executed months before. It's not often you read about a guy on Wikipedia worse than the Bad Guys that Hollywood makes up. Although there's almost a bit of dark humor as well, quote:When Beria complimented Alexander Poskrebyshev's daughter on her beauty, Poskrebyshev quickly pulled her aside and instructed her, "Don't ever accept a lift from Beria." That Bud Dwyer article was really interesting; all I'd known is that he was a crazy politician that committed suicide live on air. Didn't know about the whole trumped up charges/he was probably innocent angle. To continue the running theme of horrifying serial killers, Deal Corll, AKA The Candyman. His dad owned a candy company, of which he was VP after he left the army. Got the nickname for his habit of giving out free candy to kids and teenagers around town. Became infamous when it was discovered that he'd kidnap teenage boys, whom he brutally tortured and raped before killing. The descriptions of what he did are the most things I've ever come across.The worst part? Well aside from the fact he had two teenaged accomplices, the police had no idea this was going on. The only reason it came to light is when his accomplices turned on and shot him; the police initially believed their 'he was a serial killer' story was a fabrication. Turns out, whenever a kid disappeared, the police would just file it as a 'runaway' and move on. They did this at least 28 times. Dean Corll was also nicknamed 'The Pied Piper'. gently caress. On the...lighter side? The Port Chicago Disaster! quote:On 17 July 1944 in Port Chicago, California, the SS E. A. Bryan exploded while loading ammunition bound for the Pacific, with an estimated 4,606 short tons (4,178 t) of high explosive, incendiary bombs, depth charges, and other ammunition. Another 429 short tons (389 t) waiting on nearby rail cars also exploded. The total explosive content is described as between 1,600[11] and 2,136[12] tons of TNT. 320 were killed instantly, another 390 wounded. Most of the killed and wounded were African American enlisted men. You won't believe which enlisted men were forced to clean up the mess, then expected to go right back to work! Their response is when it really starts getting interesting. Best quote: quote:Captain Kinne's posted division tonnage results came to light in the inquiry but Kinne stated that the competition to load the most tonnage did not make for unsafe conditions; he implied that any junior officers who said so did not know what they were talking about.
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MrMidnight posted:Some more hosed up and unnerving poo poo from Mother Russia. I present to you the drug called Krokodil. Some enlightening wikipedia information for those who don't want to click that poo poo. I regret clicking that link tbh. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krokodil_%28drug%29 Wikipedia posted:Since the home-made mix is routinely injected immediately with little or no further purification, "krokodil" has become notorious for producing severe tissue damage, phlebitis and gangrene, sometimes requiring limb amputation in long-term users. The amount of tissue damage is so high that addicts' life expectancies are said to be as low as two to three years, especially as they are often highly susceptible to infections and gangrene due to widespread HIV infection among injecting drug users in Russia.
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HighClassSwankyTime posted:Some enlightening wikipedia information for those who don't want to click that poo poo. I regret clicking that link tbh. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krokodil_%28drug%29 2-3 years? I'm surprised it's not even shorter, IV heroin use reputedly results in a 5 year life expectancy and this krokodil poo poo is pathogenically way more nasty. pienipple has a new favorite as of 17:33 on Dec 24, 2012 |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tybee_Bombquote:The Tybee Island B-47 crash was an incident on February 5, 1958, in which the United States Air Force lost a 7,600-pound (3,400 kg) Mark 15 hydrogen bomb in the waters off Tybee Island near Savannah, Georgia, USA. During a practice exercise the B-47 bomber carrying it collided in midair with an F-86 fighter plane. To protect the aircrew from a possible detonation in the event of a crash, the bomb was jettisoned. Following several unsuccessful searches, the bomb was presumed lost somewhere in Wassaw Sound off the shores of Tybee Island. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vela_Incident quote:The Vela Incident — sometimes referred to as the South Atlantic Flash — was an unidentified "double flash" of light that was detected by an American Vela Hotel satellite on September 22, 1979 near the Prince Edward Islands or Antarctica. There is uncertainty as to the true nature of the flash though it is widely believed to have been the result of a nuclear detonation.
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WastedJoker posted:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tybee_Bomb Pretty sure the Vela was the Israeli/South African joint test they later fessed up to, but didn't really give any details about.
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Anti-Citizen posted:Pretty sure the Vela was the Israeli/South African joint test they later fessed up to, but didn't really give any details about. Israel has never officially admitted to owning or testing nuclear weapons, although it is an open secret. South Africa publicly dismantled their nuclear weapons after the end of Apartheid. Now for more disturbing facts about nuclear tests: Downwinders Nuclear test fallout in the US has killed 2,000 people.
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I read about the kidnapping, and subsequent Stockholm Syndrome of Colleen Stan a while ago and it still creeps me out to think about it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kidnapping_of_Colleen_Stan Particularly the fact that Cameron and Janice Hooker kept her in a box under their marital bed. *shudder* Another creepy location is Overtoun Bridge, where hundreds of dogs have jumped to their death: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overtoun_Bridge#Dog_deaths_at_Overtoun_Bridge
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I've seen Scott's journal; it was on display in the British Library. There's something so terribly touching about the way it's written. You can see an image of the page here. http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/hightours/scott/large17320.html
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I like this thread, I hope it keeps going. For my contribution, I like to read about paranormal events as fiction (as opposed to actually believing in extra terrestrials) and everything from UFO's to bigfoot definitely make for good fiction around the camp fire. One that unnerved me when I was younger was The Devil's Footprints Wikipedia posted:On the night of 7–8 February 1855 after a heavy snowfall, a series of hoof-like marks appeared in the snow. These footprints, most of which measured around four inches long, three inches across and mostly in a single file, were reported from over thirty locations across Devon. It was estimated that the total distance of the tracks amounted to between 40 and 100 miles. Houses, rivers, haystacks and other obstacles were travelled straight over, and footprints appeared on the tops of snow-covered roofs and high walls which lay in the footprints' path, as well as leading up to and exiting various drain pipes as small as four inches in diameter. My brother told me this story when I was about 7 and it sure scared me when trying to get to sleep at night thinking of the little satan climbing vertically up the wall of my house. One that unsettles me even now is Cattle Mutiliation Wikipedia posted:A hallmark of these incidents is the surgical nature of the mutilation, and unexplained phenomena such as the complete draining of the animal's blood, loss of internal organs with no obvious point of entry, and surgically precise removal of the reproductive organs and anal coring. Another reported event is that the animal is found dumped in an area where there are no marks or tracks leading to or from the carcass, even when it is found in soft ground or mud. The surgical-type wounds tend to be cauterized by an intense heat and made by very sharp/precise instruments, with no bleeding evident. Often flesh will be removed to the bone in an exact manner, consistent across cases, such as removal of flesh from around the jaw exposing the mandible. First of all 'anal coring' is not something I want to think about. Secondly are aliens the cause of these? I don't care, some nutter is going round the country side and pulling animals apart as cleanly as pulling two lego bricks apart. I go hiking a lot and that's always in the back of my mind when crossing or camping in a large field at night.
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Dec 26, 2012 13:23
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