interesting news articles you come across (no politics)

[dipps]

The police report indicates that the scrotum area was “completely torn loose from his body.”

why did i click on that link and even glance at the details.........

[Lickety Split]

Originally Posted by dipps

why did i click on that link and even glance at the details.........

it's kind of like the car wreck thing...you just gotta look

[static]

Returning the dye packs?

http://www.komonews.com/news/offbeat...146528005.html

[fizzyrider]

As if the bottomless bowl of grits wasn't bad enough.

3 Killed at Cracker Barrel restaurant

The restaurant said the violence appeared to be the result of a domestic dispute between two customers. Authorities said a woman called 911 from the restaurant Thursday night, saying her husband was upset because she told him she was leaving him. He left the restaurant and was circling the parking lot, the woman told police.

[eflyguy]

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/...midwest-south/

Baseball- or even softball-sized hail could hit the South this weekend, NWS officials warned Friday.

..a

[okaugust]

WalMart and Meth: there is a connection...

http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news...38/detail.html

[static]

Again!?!?!

[fizzyrider]

For my friend drfous.

Sick Fish Found in Gulf Two Years After Deepwater Horizon Accident

— Last summer, a team of scientists led by USF has done what experts say is the most extensive study yet of sick fish in shallow and deep Gulf waters. Over seven cruises in July and August, the scientists caught about 4,000 fish — from Florida's Dry Tortugas to central Louisiana — using miles-long fishing lines dragged from close to shore out to depths of 600 feet. The work was funded with a federal government grant and help from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Research Institute.

About 3 percent of the fish they caught displayed gashes, ulcers and parasites symptomatic of environmental contamination, according to Murawski, the lead researcher. The number of sick fish rose not only as scientists moved west away from the relatively clean and oil-free waters of Florida but also as they pushed into deeper waters off the coasts of Alabama, Mississippi and especially Louisiana, near where the Deepwater Horizon sank.

About 10 percent of mud-dwelling tile fish caught in the DeSoto Canyon, to the northeast of the well, showed signs of sickness.

"The closer to the oil rig, the higher frequency was" of sick fish, Murawski said.

I'll have the Alaska wild salmon please.

[static]

Now that's fast...

http://www.komonews.com/news/va?vaid...052c5a024cab8c

Larger than anticipated portions of the vehicle's skin peeled from the aerostructure. The resulting gaps created strong, impulsive shock waves around the vehicle as it travelled nearly 13,000 miles per hour, causing the vehicle to roll abruptly. Based on knowledge gained from the first flight in 2010 and incorporated into the second flight, the vehicle's aerodynamic stability allowed it to right itself successfully after several shockwave-induced rolls. Eventually, however, the severity of the continued disturbances finally exceeded the vehicle's ability to recover.

[arkie6]

The bear doesn't fall far from the tree:

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow...211524912.html

[fizzyrider]

Filed under "Say, where can I get one of those?"

Man Sues BMW for 20 Month Erection

A California man has sued BMW North America and a motorcycle-seat maker claiming that a four-hour round-trip ride on his 1993 BMW bike with a "ridge-like" seat gave him "a severe case of priapism (a persistent, lasting erection)" that's lasted 20 months and counting.

While there have been concerns about narrow "banana" bike seats causing loss of feeling in that area -- for men and women -- this is the first report we've seen of way too much.

[okaugust]

Welcome to three days and three or four threads ago mister.

[fizzyrider]

Hey, some of us don't stay glued to the intranets!

[okaugust]

Yes, I have no life. I admit it. All my friends are here.

[eflyguy]

Not news, but I had no idea it worked this way:
http://science.howstuffworks.com/env...terpillar3.htm

The transformation itself is amazing. Think of it as recycling -- if you drop a plastic bottle off in the recycling bin, it can be melted down into an entirely different shape. This is what happens inside the chrysalis. Much of the body breaks itself down into imaginal cells, which are undifferentiated -- like stem cells, they can become any type of cell. The imaginal cells put themselves back together into a new shape.

The dang thing dissolves, and rebuilds itself!
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[rswebscan]

I didn't know that either. Cool stuff...

[diehli]

So, what you're saying is that the Doctor is a caterpillar that reemerges as a different caterpillar each regeneration?

[Lickety Split]

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow...010902532.html

[dipps]

sounds vaguely familiar..........

[okaugust]

Yeah, there are only, what about ten threads about it and it is in post 771? I can't, for the life of me, figure out why guys find that so fascinating?