Let's dig right into the weird news of the week:
Dolphins ‘deliberately get high’ on puffer fish nerve toxins by carefully chewing and passing them around (F**ckin' hippy dolphins and their hippy "puffer" fish joints. Probably listening to old 60s acid rock, too. They don't even have dolphin school or dolphin jobs to get expelled or fired from. Bastards. I'm not jealous or nothin'. No way.) This Nighttime Drone Shot of a Futuristic City Is Actually a Sea Urchin (Atlas Obscura always has the coolest shit, so when I ran into this I knew I had to post it, even though it is from July 12th. I love all things microcosm. I wrote a poem once about a small civilization of tiny things living on the head of a matchstick that feared their fire gods. I see the first article as an example of a microcosm of dolphins mimicking our drug culture. I could look at things like this, and fractals, and think about them for hours.) Students Are Getting Paid to Poop at a South Korean University (And you thought you had a shit job.) Found: An 18th-Century Garden Folly Adorned With Teeth and Bones (Leave it to Atlas Obscura to find me something new to add to my Weird Sh!t Bucket List. I actually found two things. This and a strange site in Titusville, Florida. Next up! Windover Archeological Site ("A swamp that was the site of prehistoric water burials also managed to preserve its corpses for millennia." Hell yes! This place probably oozes (literally) paranormal. Since this is in Florida, it's pretty doable for the near future for the Weird Sh!t Bucket List.) British library apologizes for hiring 'rainbow dildo butt monkey' for kids’ event (Seriously, humans. This is why the aliens won't reveal themselves to us and why they abduct us and...sigh...never mind. I laughed, too. Obviously. I mean, that's a pretty funny headline. Every time I see a headline like that, I say: That's the name of my next band!) Enjoy your week, you weirdos.
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All the news that's fit to weird... for the past week, or...all the weird stuff I happened upon on the web in the past week...
Let's get right to it: Man doing maths on a flight is questioned by security for ‘scribbling a foreign language’ (Yeah, I know how they feel. I accidentally summoned...something...doing algebra once. Of course, it may have just been a hairball the cat hurled up. I hate algebra. I have a special place in my heart for sacred geometry, though.) Inside eerie cottage left untouched for decades as owners mysteriously vanish (Yeah...this is seriously f**kin' creepy. Left everything but the toilet. OOOOOkay.) Unwanted pets: Giant goldfish turn up in Minnesota waterway (These are how some cryptids get their start in cryptid life... Giant alligators in NYC sewers, etc.) Animal control officers untangle owl, turtle stuck together in Virginia (Did you ever wonder about those weird animal combinations in the Avatar: The Last Airbender and Legend of Korra shows? Wonder no more.) Hawaii plans goat lottery to clear animals from national park (File Under: I hope my girlfriend doesn't see this...we ain't got room for no goats. But she is the GOAT, though. (GOAT, is slang for Greatest of All Time, if you didn't know.) Michigan man finds 160 bowling balls under back stairs (I believe in having a hobby...but damn, man.) That's a wrap for this week. Stay weird, ya weirdos. I skipped weird article week last week. Well, not so much skipped it as it was World UFO Day on July 2nd and I posted a bunch of articles for that...and my birthday was on July 3rd. So I took a little break from everything for a little bit.
I also did not post any astronomy stuff last week. That's kind of a hassle to do weekly for me, so I'm going to just do a big monthly overview of only the cool things to see in the night sky for the month. I'll do a July post soon. Pinky swear. ‘Homing Pigeons That Can’t Find Their Home’ Block I-95 Exit (This is just one of many weird stories about lost pigeons this week. And I heard another interesting story this week involving I-95 while researching another infamous highway in Florida. More on that in another post.) Florida man finds a second megalodon tooth in three weeks (They say finding one is rarer than a hen's tooth...well, rarer than a megalodon's tooth. File this one under Pretty Damn Cool). 'Third eye' invented to stop 'smartphone zombies' from bumping into things (This is one of those instances of my whimsical, off-by-a-tad, and random as fuck psychic ability rearing its whimsical, off-by-a-tad, and random as fuck head. A long time ago when I was dodging younger students walking on campus, I quipped that humans would eventually evolve a long eyestalk from the top of their heads so they could walk, watch for other humans, and read their Twitter. LMAO.) Sheepish man returns flamingo he was filmed stealing from front garden while drunk (Ace Ventura doesn't do plastic pets, but... ALRIGHTY THEN!) Thousands of pigeons vanish mid-race in ‘Bermuda Triangle-style mystery’ (Seriously, WTF is up with pigeons lately?) Now for some "AWWWWWW" moments. Moments that make me feel better for humanity during these times when things seem not so bright for us. Montana lake visitors rescue skunk with head stuck in pickle jar (The skunk was not hurt, nor did it injure or spray its rescuers.) Cat missing in Surfside condo collapse found alive, reunited with family (Sniff. I'm glad kitty is okay. Black cats are the best.) That's all for this week. Stay strange. Stay funky. Stay weird. Peace. It's World UFO Day and I'm going to link some cool UFO stuff. Articles, information, and videos about those fast-flying craft from wherever-the-hell (that's the part that makes them unidentified!) and make this a yearly thing. My Favorite Witness-Sighting Video that I Found This Year...Ok, this happened right here in Florida, folks. Volusia County. Daytona Beach area, I would assume. Lots of UFOs love to hang out over the water and some have been seen entering and exiting bodies of water. Thus the term transmedium travel, which no ship we have can do yet. The lady shooting the video is surprised at the size and speed of the craft. I was too. You can tell by how far away it is, it has to be honking huge! Very cool bogey! Some Cool UFO Links from History Channel...INTERACTIVE MAP: UFO SIGHTINGS TAKEN SERIOUSLY BY THE U.S. GOVERNMENT The UFO Sightings That Launched 'Men Black' Mythology Why Have There Been So Many UFO Sightings Near Nuclear Facilities? How the 'Little Green Men' Phenomenon Began on a Kentucky Farm How Skinwalker Ranch Became a Hotbed of Paranormal Activity 'Broken Arrow': When the First U.S. Atomic Bomb Went Missing (There is a theory that many aliens are not extra-terrestrial, but rather ultra-terrestrial, or inner dimensional and travel in dimensions that exist as part of our world. Parallel worlds. Alternate dimensions. It would explain their interference with nuclear weapons. Atomic weapons could damage other dimensions, as well as our own.) The 5 Most Credible Modern UFO Sightings Their list includes the following:
Top Ten States With the Most UFO Sightings...According to Slacker in June 2021. They don't take the size of the state into consideration. When you consider the sizes of California, Texas, and Florida compared to some of the other states, and their relative populations, they probably don't have as many sightings as really weird shitsville states such as Utah or Arizona or Pennsylvania or the Hudson Valley area of New York which has always had a mega ton of sightings. Link to the full ranking after the list.
10. North Carolina 9. Illinois 8. Ohio (Yeah, I can attest to that one.) 7. Arizona 6. Pennsylvania 5. New York 4. Texas 3. Washington 2. Florida 1. California UFO over Utah? These states report the most sightings of unidentified flying objects-Chicago Tribune, Jun. 16, 2021 A common thing you hear in a lot of anime, especially shonen (boys/adventure) anime is "{Insert character name] must have been born under an unlucky (or lucky) star." Well, there's a website called Under What Star Was I Born? that can tell you exactly what star you are born under. But wait... before you click them pretty purple letters. It's not a simple tool to use. You have to do your homework first. And you will have two results, because of a fucked up system some genius in New Zealand named George Hudson proposed in 1895 (wait, wut? It wasn't Ben? No, it was not!). And "frankly" (yes, pun intended) the Franklin Institute is tired of Benny getting blamed for that. Daylight Savings Time will cause you to have two results. You can either accept both or choose whichever star suits you or whichever you like better. Both my stars are okay, but Vega is definitely better known and cooler. Though my lesser-known star is probably what has gotten me through some of the crazier shit in my life. Thank you, little Lambda Herculis. But to get to the stars that were smiling down on your wrinkled baby face (or your wrinkled baby ass as the doctor was smacking you into this rude, cruel world) you have to enter the latitude and longitude coordinates of the city you were born (unless you are lucky enough that your city is on the drop down list provided, and if you are a country hick like me, that means you're going to need some back up help). Now, if you're old school, you can pull up a map and do it the hard way, but, sweet World Wide Webby, there's an html for that too! Latitude and Longitude Finder or LatLong.net is the site you need for looking up your place of birth. You can look it up by either the city or town and state, or by the hospital and state. It works both ways. Once you have this information you go back and select the directional latitude and longitude on the Under What Star? site. Select the time zone you were born in. Select whether or not you want to see the star in DST. Enter the time you were born (listed on your birth certificate). I imagine this time is not the "exact" time of your birth. Under this box is a box for "true local birth" time. I left this unchecked. When I clicked "Find My Star" it informed me my actual birth time was 32 minutes earlier. I believe it has to do with the calculations instructions listed on that site below the entry area, so I did those (Whew! Remind me again how much I dislike mathematics! ) Anyway, my calculations ended up right because I pulled up another webpage of the site and just enter the stuff for the "true local birth time" and got the same star as my DST star when I clicked the DST button was clicked on the original page. Makes sense because setting our clocks back interferes with the time we see see things in the sky, so the distance from the meridian is greater or lesser than it should be. I really hate DST for other reasons and we need to do away with it. Anyway, Vega (WEEEEE!!! Or Orihime, in Japanese myth, the Spider or weaving Princess, the Once and Future North Star, the bright blue star of the Summer Triangle) is the star I was born under according to my birth record and what a cool star it is! It was recently in the news for having a scorching hot planet discovered orbiting it. In Japan, the stars Vega and Altair are celebrated in a festival called tanabata "star festival" on July 7th. My other star, most likely my "true" star, is less well known, but still very cool. It says this star gives people born under it "great inner resources and strength of soul." I don't know how much stock I've ever put in astrology, but I've had some personal spiritual battles with evil that would lend some truth to this. Maasym (Lambda Herculis) is a big, bright orange-red star in the Hercules constellation. That's probably where the "strength" comes from. I hope you have as much fun as I did finding the stars you were born under. |
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