Strange but true...

[Black Orchid]

All guesswork and certainly very strange.

[Neferti]

[AiA in Atlanta]

[Rorschach]

NO FORKING way.

A 70-year-old Canberra man came to an extraordinarily painful fork in the road when he presented to Canberra Hospital's Emergency Department with a 10cm fork lodged in his penis.

The steel cutlery item was inserted into his urethra for his sexual gratification, a write-up in the International Journal of Surgery Case Reports said.

It remains uncertain how the gentleman thought that could be achieved.

"The motives for insertion of a variety of objects are difficult to comprehend", the report said. No kidding.

Picture available.
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The question is... how did they get it out?

[Neferti]

NO FORKING way.

A 70-year-old Canberra man came to an extraordinarily painful fork in the road when he presented to Canberra Hospital's Emergency Department with a 10cm fork lodged in his penis.

The steel cutlery item was inserted into his urethra for his sexual gratification, a write-up in the International Journal of Surgery Case Reports said.

It remains uncertain how the gentleman thought that could be achieved.

"The motives for insertion of a variety of objects are difficult to comprehend", the report said. No kidding.

Picture available.
Read more: http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/health ... z2cNfkLxoU" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

The question is... how did they get it out?

More about this here
http://the-riotact.com/theres-always-ti ... ant/112866

Plus some amusing comments, I found this one very funny:

Gives a whole new meaning to “get some pork on your fork”.

Sorry about that.

Stop grinning you in the back there…

[Neferti]

Cataract Surgery for Kangaroos

RiotACT article and comments here

[mellie]

NO FORKING way.

A 70-year-old Canberra man came to an extraordinarily painful fork in the road when he presented to Canberra Hospital's Emergency Department with a 10cm fork lodged in his penis.

The steel cutlery item was inserted into his urethra for his sexual gratification, a write-up in the International Journal of Surgery Case Reports said.

It remains uncertain how the gentleman thought that could be achieved.

"The motives for insertion of a variety of objects are difficult to comprehend", the report said. No kidding.

Picture available.
Read more: http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/health ... z2cNfkLxoU" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

The question is... how did they get it out?

More about this here
http://the-riotact.com/theres-always-ti ... ant/112866

Plus some amusing comments, I found this one very funny:

Gives a whole new meaning to “get some pork on your fork”.

Sorry about that.

Stop grinning you in the back there…

Get some fork on your pork.
.... Or in your pork?

Classic!

[Outlaw Yogi]

Re the statue. One possible explanation is magnets in the base and pedastal.

Look up 'Heron of Alexandria' .. IMO more advanced than Leonardo da Vinci centuries earlier.

Heron made/created/invented devices for the military and the clergy.
He invented the repeating cross-bow [big like a balista] .. automatic doors, fortune telling machines, and statues that appear to float, requiring ropes to hold them down.

Tricky bugga put opposing magnets in the base and pedastal forcing the statue to levitate over its pedastal, and the priests told devotees that the statues were magic and if not restrained by ropes the statues would fly away.

Heron also invented the steam engine in the 1st century AD.

[Rorschach]

Scientist says mineral study shows life on Earth began on Mars
* by: Rod Chester
* From: News Limited Network
* August 29, 2013 8:00AM


NEW evidence released today supports the theory that life on Earth began on Mars and that "we are actually all Martians".

Professor Benner, from The Westheimer Institute for Science and Technology in Florida, will today present evidence at the European Association of Geochemistry's annual conference that a mineral essential to the creation of life was only available on Mars.

"The evidence seems to be building that we are actually all Martians; that life started on Mars and came to Earth on a rock," Professor Benner said in a statement.

Professor Benner's evidence is based on the evidence that the ingredients needed to create life included the oxidised mineral form of the element molybdenum.

"This form of molybdenum couldn't have been available on Earth at the time life first began, because three billion years ago the surface of the Earth had very little oxygen, but Mars did," he said.

"It's yet another piece of evidence which makes it more likely life came to Earth on a Martian meteorite, rather than starting on this planet.

"These conditions, suitable for the origin of life, may still exist on Mars."

Professor Benner view is just the latest in a long-list of scientific theories that life began on the red planet that is our nearest neighbour before jumping over to Earth thanks to a handy bit of rock flying around space.

Professor Benner's research tackles what he calls the two paradoxes of how life could have started on Earth.

The first is the "tar paradox" that if you add heat or light energy to organic matter you get tar instead of life.

But boron and molybdenum have shown the ability to control the transformation into tar.

"Analysis of a Martian meteorite recently showed that there was boron on Mars; we now believe that the oxidised form of molybdenum was there too," Professor Benner said.

He said Mars, at that time, had pockets of water which addressed the other paradox of how life began on an Earth which was totally covered by water preventing concentrations of boron forming.

Professor Malcolm Walter, director of the Australian Centre for Astrobiology School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences at the University of New South Wales, said the idea that life started on Mars was not new but the theory suffered from a lack of proof.

"It's not a silly idea, it's feasible," Professor Walter said.

"There's just no evidence one way or another. This whole field of origin of life studies is a very speculative field."

"People can have these very creative ideas but it's very difficult to prove or disprove them."

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[Rorschach]

man-decapitated-by-remote-controlled-toy-helicopter



sense of scale...
http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2011/ ... 3kf36r.jpg

A MAN was decapitated and killed by a model remote-controlled helicopter in Brooklyn, sources said.
The victim, Roman Pirozek, was on the corner of Shore Parkway and Bay 44th Street around 3:40 p.m, when his toy aircraft boomeranged and chopped off his head, law enforcement sources told the New York Post.

Pirozek developed a YouTube channel where he would post footage of various tricks and flights using a Trex 700 model helicopter. In one video, he drops the $1,500 model from above, only to restart the rotor just inches from his head.

The helicopter's blade span measures 62 inches, its rotor spins at more than 2,000 rpm.

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