Weird News Compilation

[Keith_McClary]

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There was a cartoon of a coach talking to a men's hockey team: "Get out there and play like a girl."

 

[fresh_42]

There was a cartoon of a coach talking to a men's hockey team: "Get out there and play like a girl."

Sure it wasn't the US-American soccer team?

 

[sysprog]

@Astronuc, I can almost hear Desi wondering aloud why Lucille had the air mattress handy ##-## "Lucy; you got some 'splainin' to do . . ."

 

[Keith_McClary]

VIDEO: Mesmerizing 'satellite' ice disc captured on Alberta waterway
https://www.theweathernetwork.com/c...tellite-ice-disk-captured-on-Alberta-waterway

 

[nsaspook]

Going nuclear.

https://www.nme.com/news/music/jame...new-zealand-to-repel-covid-protesters-3160626

James Blunt’s music deployed in New Zealand to repel COVID protesters

 

[Jarvis323]

 

[berkeman]

Rhut-Rho...

https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/airasia-malaysia-snake-plane-rerouted-intl-hnk/index.html

 

[OCR]

Rhut-Rho...

Lol, it was probably trying to find the. . . RAT. . . .

 

[Astronuc]

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/drained-crypto-accounts-ira-financial-205505694.html

They joined IRA Financial Trust eager to build a nest egg in crypto. Instead, some users told CoinDesk their retirement accounts were drained, frozen and locked – with little explanation of what happens next.

It’s been nearly one week since an apparent security breach threw IRA Financial’s clients into crisis mode. With $36 million of their retirement savings in limbo and no full explanation from either IRA Financial or Gemini – the crypto exchange owned by the Winklevoss twins, Cameron and Tyler, and custodian where their crypto was held – they’ve begun organizing a response to crypto’s latest hack.

Users, appearing to count in the dozens, have begun reaching out to news organizations and regulators, wanting to know how they lost possibly millions of dollars on Feb. 8, when an apparent bad actor began withdrawing funds en masse from Gemini. IRA Financial Trust is one of a handful of firms that run their retirement account services atop Gemini’s institutional trading and custody suite.

 

[nsaspook]

Hometown in the news.

 

[Keith_McClary]

Hometown in the news.

I didn't watch the whole 15min. I was hoping it would be installed in the road.

 

[berkeman]

Google Maps Navigation... "Keep right at the fork"

 

[fresh_42]

Google Maps Navigation... "Keep right at the fork"

And be careful with art! It doesn't prevent you from getting a ticket!

 

[nsaspook]

I didn't watch the whole 15min. I was hoping it would be installed in the road.

It's pretty close to the road.

 

[Astronuc]

A very dated (San Bernardino Sun, Volume 51, 2 July 1945), but amusing story (although not amusing for the owner of the automobile). I saw the headline and wondered how an aircraft carrier could interact with an automobile, since both occupy very different realms. I figured it must have something to do with a port or ship collision.

Aussie's Car Squashed by U. S. Carrier
SAN FRANCISCO, July 1, 1945 (LP)
An Australian motorist has collected insurance for damages suffered when his automobile was hit by an American aircraft carrier, the Melbourne radio said today.

The motorist, Keith Waters of Sydney, parked his car on a wharf beside the carrier. Tides were unusually high.

While Waters was dining aboard a nearby vessel, the tide fell. Part of the American carrier projecting over the end of the wharf descended upon Waters' car and squashed it flat.

 

[fresh_42]

Ouch!​

Remi Lindholm says goodbye to the Beijing Winter Olympics with what is probably the strangest injury: the Finnish cross-country skier froze his penis during the last competition, as he told the Finnish media after the race. Lindholm had had the same mishap a few months ago at the competition in Ruka - now history was repeating itself.

 

[Keith_McClary]

Ouch!​

I think frostbite damages the circulation, making you more susceptible.

 

[strangerep]

I think frostbite damages the circulation, making you more susceptible.

There's a reason Nature arranged for the little guy to retreat back into his cave during inclement weather...

 

[Astronuc]

Half a Billion in Bitcoin, Lost in the Dump​

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/12/13/half-a-billion-in-bitcoin-lost-in-the-dump
For years, a Welshman who threw away the key to his cybercurrency stash has been fighting to excavate the local landfill.

In a cluttered desk drawer, he [the gentlemen in question] found two small hard drives. One, he knew, was blank. The other held files from an old Dell gaming laptop, including e-mails, music that he’d downloaded, and duplicates of family photographs. He’d removed the drive a few years earlier, after he’d spilled lemonade on the computer’s keyboard. Howells grabbed the unwanted hard drive and threw it into a black garbage bag.

His girlfriend took the garbage bag to the local landfill per his request.

He left for Cyprus and apparently started to realize what he had done.

A rather costly mistake.

 

[Keith_McClary]

Bitcoin, Lost

There are quite a few stories like that. If Bitcoin is lost, does that make the remaining bitcoin worth more?

 

[Astronuc]

There are quite a few stories like that. If Bitcoin is lost, does that make the remaining bitcoin worth more?

I don't understand bitcoin, but it has something to do with blockchain.

Bitcoin is a digital currency, a decentralized system that records transactions in a distributed ledger called a blockchain. ... Upon success, these blocks are added to the blockchain record, and the miners are rewarded with a small number of bitcoins.

or
https://www.pwc.com/us/en/industrie...intech/bitcoin-blockchain-cryptocurrency.html

I guess that fact that there is a demand and some rapid appreciation makes it desirable, until it doesn't. I suspect it works like real estate, which is in demand until it isn't, partly because the majority cannot afford it.

According to the article, "Illicit activity likely helped bitcoin appreciate in value, . . . " As I recall, for example, some malevolent actors using ransome malware required bitcoin funds to unlocked hijacked computers.

 

[nsaspook]

https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/georgia-toddler-lock-samples-rare-uncombable-hair-syndrome
Georgia toddler diagnosed with extremely rare uncombable hair syndrome

 

[nsaspook]

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-02...haviour-by-removing-tracking-device/100851458

Magpies have outwitted scientists by helping each other remove tracking devices​

When we attached tiny, backpack-like tracking devices to five Australian magpies for a pilot study, we didn't expect to discover an entirely new social behaviour rarely seen in birds.

Our goal was to learn more about the movement and social dynamics of these highly intelligent birds, and to test these new, durable and reusable devices. Instead, the birds outsmarted us.

As our new research paper explains, the magpies began showing evidence of cooperative "rescue" behaviour to help each other remove the tracker.

 

[Keith_McClary]

https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/georgia-toddler-lock-samples-rare-uncombable-hair-syndrome
Georgia toddler diagnosed with extremely rare uncombable hair syndrome
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They took sample locks of Lock Samples' hair.

 

[strangerep]

Georgia toddler diagnosed with extremely rare uncombable hair syndrome

On first glance, I thought that must be a toddler pic of Boris Johnson.

 

[Tom.G]

https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/georgia-toddler-lock-samples-rare-uncombable-hair-syndrome
Georgia toddler diagnosed with extremely rare uncombable hair syndrome
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Are you sure there is not a Van de Graaff generator just out of the picture frame?

(My father and) I built one of those from scratch for a Science Fair when I was in high school... and got my younger sisters hair to stand out too!

 

[fresh_42]

Are you sure there is not a Van de Graaff generator just out of the picture frame?

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(My father and) I built one of those from scratch for a Science Fair when I was in high school... and got my younger sisters hair to stand out too!

I thought the ball was one!

 

[berkeman]

I thought the ball was one!

It is the low-power manual VDG model...

 

[BillTre]

Dog house hit by meterorite in April 2019 sells at auction for $44,000:

 

[Ibix]

Dog house hit by meterorite sells in April 2019 at auction for $44,000:

Does anyone know if @davenn has a dog?

 

[berkeman]

Does anyone know if @davenn has a dog?

Well, he did. Sadly...

Dog house hit by meterorite in April 2019 sells at auction for $44,000:

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Meteorite not included?

 

[BillTre]

No.
I don't think so.
Should have been mentioned if it was.

 

[davenn]

Does anyone know if @davenn has a dog?

not since living in Oz

Well, he did. Sadly...

yeah, sadly, died of tummy cancer back in 1999

 

[berkeman]

That's a good looking dog, Dave!

 

[Keith_McClary]

Dog house hit by meterorite in April 2019 sells at auction for $44,000:

Wanna buy a snow shovel hit by meterorite? How about ... uh ... a barbecue hit by meterorite?