[AzCal Retred]

Right out of Ripley's...

Texas woman injured after hawk drops snake on her
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-66446697

[gizzo]

 

[GlennF]

sounds worse than having to put up with drop bears

[Richard230]

A top Russian space scientist is poisoned by magic mushrooms following the recent Russian moon vehicle crash. Could there be a connection?    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N16PvvrTDIQ

[AzCal Retred]

New Zealand: Plate-sized surgical tool left in woman's abdomen for 18 months
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-66714152
The team at the Auckland City Hospital that had attended to the woman had replaced the first Alexis wound retractor they used with a larger one. It was this second retractor that was left in the woman's abdomen.
The Commissioner noted it was the second time in two years that a device had been left in an Auckland hospitals' patient.

[GUNR]

Pity she couldn’t have adapted it for an automatic side stand retractor🤔

[AzCal Retred]

Live worm found in Australian woman's brain in world first

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-66643241

Researchers warn the case highlights the increased danger of diseases and infections being passed from animals to people.
The Ophidascaris robertsi roundworm is common in carpet pythons - non-venomous snakes found across much of Australia.
Scientists say the woman most likely caught the roundworm after collecting a type of native grass, Warrigal greens, beside a lake near where she lived. The area is also inhabited by carpet pythons.
Writing in the journal, Australian parasitology expert Mehrab Hossain said she suspected the woman became an "accidental host" after using the foraged plants - contaminated by python faeces and parasite eggs - for cooking.
"The invasion of the brain by Ophidascaris larvae had not been reported previously," writes Dr Hossain.
"The growth of the third-stage larva in the human host is notable, given that previous experimental studies have not demonstrated larval development in domesticated animals, such as sheep, dogs, and cats."
Dr Senanayake - who is also an associate professor of medicine at the Australian National University (ANU) - told the BBC the case is a warning.
The ANU team reports that 30 new types of infections have appeared in the last 30 years. Three-quarters are zoonotic - infectious diseases that have jumped from animals to humans.
"It just shows as a human population burgeons, we move closer and encroach on animal habitats. This is an issue we see again and again, whether it's Nipah virus that's gone from wild bats to domestic pigs and then into people, whether it's a coronavirus like Sars or Mers that has jumped from bats into possibly a secondary animal and then into humans."

[GlennF]

Probably a tourist, Aussies no better than to fool about with snakes.

[Leofric]

Probably a tourist, Aussies no better than to fool about with snakes.

They should do , there are a lot of dangerous creatures in Australia aren't there ?
New Zealand sounds safer to me, but I don't suppose I will ever see either of them.

[GlennF]

NZ still gets a few nasty spiders (Red Back, Katipo, White Tail) , White Nurse Sharks, Bluebottles, some toxic sea slugs as well as bad tempered Sea Lions and Wild Boars.  The possums also have a bad attitude but are not particularly deadly.

[AzCal Retred]

Trail ride time for our Himalayan riders. Dibs on the Sidewinders! 

Missing F-35: US military asks for public's help to find jet

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-66841194

The US military has asked for the public's help to locate one of its $80m (£65m) F-35B fighter jets after the pilot ejected from the aircraft.
It went missing on Sunday afternoon when the pilot was flying over the southern state of South Carolina.
The pilot, who has not been named, ejected and parachuted safely. He is in a stable condition in hospital.
It is not yet clear what happened, but officials said the aircraft was involved in a "mishap".

[GlennF]

Trail ride time for our Himalayan riders. Dibs on the Sidewinders! 

Missing F-35: US military asks for public's help to find jet

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-66841194

 but officials said the aircraft was involved in a "mishap".

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They had a bingle, you know a fender bender, unintentional kaboom, an oops-a-daisy ....


https://www.youtube.com/live/5IeckuQPVJc?si=ydG31V5BouCumhJQ&t=100

[AzCal Retred]

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/rapid_unplanned_disassembly#:~:text=rapid%20unplanned%20disassembly%20(plural%20rapid,an%20airplane%20or%20a%20rocket.

[GlennF]

It seems that did not happen.

As the ex-US-Military jet pilots in the stream linked above have commented, the wingman in the other Marine F35 would have followed procedures and kept an eye on the ejected pilot to identify where they landed, by which stage Amy seems to have just waddled its fat ass off across the countryside by itself on autopilot (prob just on yaw damping and roll/pitch hold, rather than any particular course and altitude).  With luck it eventually headed out to sea and came down in the ocean rather than landing on someone's garden shed or outdoor privy.

There are apparently some conspiracy theories about due to the fact it was a Sunday, but the ex-Marine pilot said the Marines do occasionally conduct some training or test exercises on a Sunday.

[Richard230]

It seems that did not happen.

As the ex-US-Military jet pilots in the stream linked above have commented, the wingman in the other Marine F35 would have followed procedures and kept an eye on the ejected pilot to identify where they landed, by which stage Amy seems to have just waddled its fat ass off across the countryside by itself on autopilot (prob just on yaw damping and roll/pitch hold, rather than any particular course and altitude).  With luck it eventually headed out to sea and came down in the ocean rather than landing on someone's garden shed or outdoor privy.

There are apparently some conspiracy theories about due to the fact it was a Sunday, but the ex-Marine pilot said the Marines do occasionally conduct some training or test exercises on a Sunday.

The crash site has been located. Here is the latest news:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IC0UscuqpDo

[AzCal Retred]

These F35's are almost semi-sentient machines, unflyable without computer control. This $100,000,000 F35-B VTOL aircraft was (apparently) in autopilot when the pilot ejected. He may have not been in actual control of the aircraft.
What better pre-conflict tactics than to imply the PRC can commandeer your best aircraft right out of the sky? No good verifiable intel yet as to the condition of the machine when found, i.e., was everything there? Lots of goodies that would have great value ($$$$) to the OpFor on an F35.
There were several incidents 2016-2018 where various nations naval vessels were rammed & rendered combat ineffective by large commercial shipping vessels. All of the vessels involved, Naval & commercial, had electronic collision avoidance radar systems in place, incredibly none of which functioned. What a great way to "stretch" your Navy, use commercial ship traffic to perpetrate random kamikaze attacks against an opposing nations Navy. The PRCN never had any such collision incidents. WWIII will look very different than previous efforts. One of our best stealth drones was subverted back in 2011 & flown into Iran, then passed along to China. When you can't trust your battle electronics, things will get real stupid & real dangerous real fast for our boys on the front lines.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93U.S._RQ-170_incident
On 5 December 2011, an American Lockheed Martin RQ-170 Sentinel unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) was captured by Iranian forces near the city of Kashmar in northeastern Iran. The Iranian government announced that the UAV was brought down by its cyberwarfare unit which commandeered the aircraft and safely landed it

1977; An A-10 Warthog left Davis-Monthan AFB in Tucson with full weapons load, disappears and ends up in Colorado sans weapons.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_D._Button
Craig David Button (24 November 1964[1] – 2 April 1997) was a United States Air Force captain who died when he crashed a Fairchild A-10 Thunderbolt II aircraft under mysterious circumstances on 2 April 1997. During the incident, Captain Button inexplicably flew hundreds of miles off-course without radio contact, appeared to maneuver purposefully[2] and did not attempt to eject before the crash.[3] His death is regarded as a suicide because no other hypothesis explains the events.[4] The incident caused widespread public speculation about Button's intentions and whereabouts until the crash site was found three weeks later.[5][6] The aircraft carried live bombs which have not been recovered.[7]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Fitzgerald_and_MV_ACX_Crystal_collision

[GlennF]

To make an aircraft flyable without computers you need it to be inherently stable and that limits combat maneuverability.  The reason Amy is useful as a fighter despite being bloated with Electronic warfare and targeting is it is inherently unstable and wants to do funky stuff.

As for the AP, even in old school manually flown jets it is likely you would have engaged the AP before ejecting, just to rule out any unexpected surprises as you eject.

[AzCal Retred]

I talked to an old Vietnam Vet that had been a Fireman on a military base. He was saying the Phantoms would come in all shot up, sometimes the landing gear shot away with weapons left on the pylons. He said that several times he saw pilots eject just before landing, and in many cases the aircraft managed to roll over upside down just before the canopy blew off and the seat rocket ignited...it wasn't pretty.

[AzCal Retred]

Mexico's Alien Corpses!

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/alien-corpses-in-mexico-found-congress-ufo-b2411144.html

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/brian-cox-alien-corpses-mexico-b2412003.html

[AzCal Retred]

Remember - you saw it here first!

Half-million-year-old wooden structure unearthed in Zambia, suspected of being part of fabled "Shed of Bodgery"

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-66846772

[AzCal Retred]

Whaaat?

Magpie swooping: Inside the Australian bird's annual reign of terror

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-66920781

[GlennF]

We have maggies, ours do not swoop ours are actually quite friendly.  There are some swoopy ones about 4 blocks away though.

They can be bits of terrorists.

[Leofric]

Whaaat?

Magpie swooping: Inside the Australian bird's annual reign of terror

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-66920781

I am not aware of magpies swooping here ,although gulls at the seaside are a problem.

[Adrian II]

As the BBC report points out, these are a different species from European magpies.

A.

[GlennF]

Pretty sure Aussie Magpie are a different species to US and European variants.

Even in Australia not all Magpie groups are cantankerous and swoop.   Magpie clans are territorial and some swoop and some do not.  It is not clear why certain clans start swooping however once they do acquire the habit it is intergenerational, Magpies in that location will still be swooping 30 years later even when the original birds are long dead.

[AzCal Retred]

...tastes like chicken? 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_magpie
A member of the Artamidae, the Australian magpie is placed in its own genus Gymnorhina and is most closely related to the black butcherbird (Melloria quoyi). It is not closely related to the European magpie, which is a corvid.

Cultural references
The Australian magpie featured in aboriginal folklore around Australia. The Yindjibarndi people of the Pilbara in the northwest of the country used the bird as a signal for sunrise, awakening them with its call. They were also familiar with its highly territorial nature, and it features in a song in their Burndud, or songs of customs.[17] It was a totem bird of the people of the Illawarra region south of Sydney.[124]

[AzCal Retred]

Just when you thought things couldn't get even weirder...

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a46854031/time-crystal-long-lasting/
A relatively new field in physics, time crystals display mind-bending properties—being arranged in repeating patterns like crystals, but in time instead of space.
Although scientists have created many discrete time crystals, only one team has been able to create a continuous time crystal, and for only a few milliseconds.
Now, scientists from TU Dortmund have created one that lasted 10 million times longer, at around 40 minutes.


https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a24957/time-crystals/
Crystals are structures in which a pattern of atoms or molecules repeats in space. Now, two teams of researchers have figured out that crystals' repeating patterns can also exist through time. These "time crystals," detailed in a new paper in Physical Review Letter, are an entirely new kind of matter, one that can never reach equilibrium.
To create the time crystals, researchers at University of Maryland hooked together 10 ytterbium atoms and hit them with two lasers multiple times to keep them out of equilibrium. Though the atoms did settle into a pattern, they could not reach equilibrium, meaning that the crystals perpetually remain in motion, though they don't contain any energy. Almost all of physics is based in studying matter that is at equilibrium, so the ability to create these non-equilibrium crystals is a huge deal for the future of physics.
"This is a new phase of matter, period, but it is also really cool because it is one of the first examples of non-equilibrium matter," lead researcher Norman Yao from the University of California, Berkeley told EurekaAlert!.
The idea of time crystals—a form of matter that appears to move even at its energy-less ground state—was first proposed by Nobel-Prize winning theoretical physicist Frank Wilczek in 2012. Usually, if matter is in its ground state, movement should be impossible, because it contains no energy.
The researchers say that time crystals resemble Jell-O. When you tap Jell-O, it jiggles. The only difference is that the crystals are jiggling without using any energy, without any tap. By definition, time crystals can never stop oscillating, no matter how little energy they contain.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_crystal
In condensed matter physics, a time crystal is a quantum system of particles whose lowest-energy state is one in which the particles are in repetitive motion. The system cannot lose energy to the environment and come to rest because it is already in its quantum ground state. Because of this, the motion of the particles does not really represent kinetic energy like other motion; it has "motion without energy". Time crystals were first proposed theoretically by Frank Wilczek in 2012 as a time-based analogue to common crystals – whereas the atoms in crystals are arranged periodically in space, the atoms in a time crystal are arranged periodically in both space and time.[1] Several different groups have demonstrated matter with stable periodic evolution in systems that are periodically driven.[2][3][4][5] In terms of practical use, time crystals may one day be used as quantum computer memory.[6]

[Leofric]

 In terms of practical use, time crystals may one day be used as quantum computer memory.[6]
No doubt somebody will already be looking at a military use !

[GlennF]

The weirdest idea I came across when in college is that, despite appearances to the contrary,  there is only one electron in the universe.

https://www.pbs.org/video/the-one-electron-universe-i1nqof/#:~:text=Wheeler%20went%20on%20to%20describe,countless%20times%20on%20each%20pass.

[AzCal Retred]

I'm hoping the whole soggy mess doesn't just obligingly reconfigure itself as we get collectively get dumber and start believing it's Flat Earth and Witches time again. I hate learning new rules...

[AzCal Retred]

Something special for Zimm!

https://losangeles.craigslist.org/sfv/mcy/d/northridge-1974-yamaha-sc500-two-stroke/7722712966.html

For sale is a 1974 Yamaha SC500. Two stroke motorcycle. Kick start. Modified rigid frame. Takes Premix gas. Even though the oil injection pump is intact but the not connected. Pump cover is out but comes with it. It had 4800 miles before modified. Take it as is no title. Great for hill climbing, Race in El Mirage. Or have it in your collection. New transmission oil. New fuel line and filter. New air filter. Starts and runs. Cash sale only.

[GlennF]

Scrambler 500cc two stroke with a rigid frame ...  odd combo ...

I suppose if you shorten the forks you could make a board racer out of it 

[Aesop]

Their ain't nearly enuf band-aids...

[zimmemr]

Something special for Zimm!

https://losangeles.craigslist.org/sfv/mcy/d/northridge-1974-yamaha-sc500-two-stroke/7722712966.html

For sale is a 1974 Yamaha SC500. Two stroke motorcycle. Kick start. Modified rigid frame. Takes Premix gas. Even though the oil injection pump is intact but the not connected. Pump cover is out but comes with it. It had 4800 miles before modified. Take it as is no title. Great for hill climbing, Race in El Mirage. Or have it in your collection. New transmission oil. New fuel line and filter. New air filter. Starts and runs. Cash sale only.

In my 57 years of riding, that has to be one of the scariest looking motorcycles and I use the term loosely I've ever seen. Those things were death traps when they were shoved into a Champion or Trackmaster frame. That thing is just a gear shift away from sending you to the morgue.

But WTF, under the right circumstances I could probably get talked into riding it around the block at least once, just so I could say I did it. 

[AzCal Retred]

Never forget, when you poke the bear...

Boeing whistleblower John Barnett found dead in US

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-68534703

[Richard230]

Never forget, when you poke the bear...

Boeing whistleblower John Barnett found dead in US

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-68534703

Well, at least he didn't fall out of a 6-story high hospital or apartment window.