Topic: STRANGE - on August 13, 2007 at 11:46:00 AM CEST
Man plans record skydive from edge of space
A retired French army colonel is aiming to take a stratospheric leap into the record books by completing a 1000mph skydive from the edge of space.
Aiming to become the first human being to break the sound barrier in free-fall, Michel Fournier will ascend to an altitude of 25 miles in a helium-filled weather balloon before plunging to earth at supersonic speed.
After years of training, millions of pounds of funding and numerous thwarted attempts, the daredevil Frenchman is expected to make the jump over the Saskatchewan plains in Canada next month.
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Topic: STRANGE - on August 2, 2007 at 12:31:00 PM CEST
Lottery player wins twice by mistake
A lottery winner doubled his share of the jackpot to nearly 1 million pounds after he mistakenly bought two lucky tickets for the same draw, organizers Camelot said Wednesday.
Derek Ladner, 57, from Cornwall, and his wife Dawn, 60, won with their usual numbers in the mid-week draw, sharing the 2.4 million pounds jackpot with four other tickets.
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Topic: STRANGE - on July 30, 2007 at 7:22:00 PM CEST
Neuseeländer bekommt Bluescreen tätowiert
Wer kennt ihn nicht, den Blue Screen of Death, welcher angezeigt wird, wenn ein Windows-System aufgrund eines schweren Fehlers abstürzt. Ein Neuseeländer namens Paul hat sich nun eine der bekannten und wenig beliebten Fehlernachrichten des Bluescreens für immer auf die Haut bannen lassen.
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Topic: STRANGE - on July 27, 2007 at 10:20:00 AM CEST
Prisoner found guilty of masturbating in his cell
It is a verdict likely to cause great consternation to lonely prisoners throughout the US penal system. A prisoner in Florida has been found guilty of indecent exposure for masturbating alone in his cell.
Terry Lee Alexander, 20, of Lauderdale Lakes, Florida, was sentenced to a further 60 days in jail on top of the 10-year term he is currently serving for armed robbery, the Miami Herald reported yesterday.
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Topic: STRANGE - on July 24, 2007 at 12:10:00 PM CEST
Who Loves Designer Vaginas?
What are you gonna do about it?
What are you gonna do about the fact that Mother Nature once again appears to be thwarting and mocking and then grinning like a wicked divine trickster at every cute rigid godly idea of how humans and animals are supposed to move and hump and lick and behave, as loosely and, yes, rather bitterly delineated in the Bible and by the Bush administration and Focus on the Family and every other uptight sexually confounded person you have ever known, et al. and ad nauseam?
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Topic: STRANGE - on July 7, 2007 at 2:41:00 PM CEST
Moller International Launches Production of Jetsons-Like Ground-Effect Vehicle
Moller International has completed tooling and has begun producing parts for its Jetsons-like M200G volantor, a small airborne two passenger saucer-shaped vehicle that is designed to take-off and land vertically.
The M200G is the size of a small automobile and is powered by eight of the Company's Rotapower® rotary engines. This vehicle is intended for operation continuously in "ground effect" up to approximately 10 feet altitude.
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Topic: STRANGE - on July 7, 2007 at 2:20:00 PM CEST
China Public Restroom Has 1,000 Stalls
They're flush with pride in a southwestern Chinese city where a recently-opened porcelain palace features an Egyptian facade, soothing music and more than 1,000 toilets spread out over 32,290 square feet.
Officials in Chongqing are preparing to submit an application to Guinness World Records to have the free four-story public bathroom listed as the world's largest, the state-run China Central Television reported Friday.
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Topic: STRANGE - on July 6, 2007 at 2:13:00 PM CEST
$250K robotic toilet may put stop to 'illegal sex'
The robo-john the city might buy for $250,000 or more allows occupants to stay inside for only a short time before the door opens. Probably not enough time for "illegal sex," Naugle figures.
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Topic: STRANGE - on July 6, 2007 at 2:00:00 PM CEST
The stone-age whale hunters who kill with their bare hands
Their way of life hasn't changed for hundreds of years - a group of skilled fishermen using only their bodies and extraordinary bravery to catch 75ft-long sperm whales to provide enough food and materials for their whole village.
It is like a scene from Moby Dick, except the odds are stacked even higher against the captains of each tiny wooden boat.
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Topic: STRANGE - on July 4, 2007 at 3:02:00 PM CEST
Butterfly Hole Punch Cloud
Hole-punch clouds or fall-streak holes, such as the ones shown above near Shreveport, Louisiana, are caused by falling ice crystals. The ice crystals could originate in a higher cloud or be facilitated by a passing airplane exhaust. If the air has just the right temperature and moisture content, the crystals will absorb vapor as they fall and thus continue to grow.
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Topic: STRANGE - on June 26, 2007 at 2:08:00 PM CEST
Red Bull does not give you wings
Illegal immigrants are being given Red Bull energy drinks and ephedrine to give them a boost as they scurry across the U.S. border, according to a radio report.
Smugglers are reportedly giving immigrants what is known as a “triple stacker” — an ephedrine pill and aspirin, with a can of Red Bull to wash it all down, U.S. Border Patrol agents told WOAI news radio station in Texas.
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Topic: STRANGE - on June 13, 2007 at 11:46:00 AM CEST
The Tunnel House
A psychedelic experience is characterized by the perception of aspects of one's mind previously unknown, or by the creative exuberance of the mind liberated from its ostensibly ordinary fetters. Psychedelic states are an array of experiences elicited by sensory deprivation as well as by psychedelic substances. Such experiences include hallucinations, changes of perception, synesthesia, altered states of awareness, mystical states, and occasionally states resembling psychosis.
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