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.... had a news about a mother whom's stomach was opened up as her baby was 2 weeks late, and the baby was like .. uum in "engrish" "turned in to a stone etc." :C thats pretty nasty.. and weird.
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I deelted thesitename because it had porn.

it is true that a baby can 'turn to stone' to a degree. a baby that dies in the mothers womb can in some rare circumstances calcify, it's tissues turning to hard calcium....
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Originally posted by Bamfette
I detelted thesitename because it had porn.

it is true that a baby can 'turn to stone' to a degree. a baby that dies in the mothers womb can in some rare circumstances calcify, it's tissues turning to hard calcium....
thats unfortunate but in someways... cool.,.
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Post by Bamfette »

in other news, nanotechnology is here along with a brand new material with truly sc-fi qualities:

http://tinyurl.com/92oy6
"This is fundamentally a new material," says team leader Ray Baughman of the University of Texas at Dallas in Richardson.

• Self-supporting, transparent and stronger than steel or high-strength plastics, the sheets are flexible and can be heated to emit light.

• A square mile of the thinnest sheets, about 2-millionths-of-an-inch thick, would weigh only about 170 pounds.

• In lab tests, the sheets demonstrated solar cell capabilities, using sunlight to produce electricity.
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Wow, that's awesome. Anything renewable resource so easy to use must be good, and here's hoping it will inspire even more exciting new developments!
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I know i read about it in a magazine somewhere but cannot remember where but here goes...

In England there is a "Stone waterfall" where if you leave an object in/under it, then it will petrify in a matter of months (the larger the object the longer it takes) because of the high mineral content of the water.

cool no?

aha! i found an online version!

http://www.answersingenesis.org/creatio ... _bears.asp
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well, don't care much for the source, (answersingenesis.com... not one of my favorite sites.... like here. they are taking a very localized RARE event, and making it out like all these geologists are lying about the age of the earth, because this ONE location creates stalagmites/tites very quickly due to abnormally high mineral concentrations... it's akin to the Mt. St. Helens layers 'proving' that the Grand Canyon could have been formed in a few years) but can't argue with the pictures :D that's really cool...
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more frankensteinish science, face transplants: http://tinyurl.com/bmzcn

I can see how this could potentially be useful to people with horribly disfiguiring scars and such on their face. it still weirds me out a bit, though.
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Post by Angelique »

A waterfall that can petrify objects left in it is not too far fetched. Nobody's allowed to do this anymore- bad for the ecosystem. But some of the springs at Yellowstone are so rich in minerals (and other things we really shouldn't mess with) that objects left in them could petrify overnight.
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Uhhh, i can't remember where i saw this but there was a fossilised crocodile head found in the sahara that belonged to an absolutely *Enormous* crocodile.
The length? Ten people lying down end-to-end so about 50-60 ft long give or take a bit, this thing was *Huge* - i think i saw it in National Geographic

just something i thought was interesting :D i'm not too keen on crocs, in Australia's NT there is something of a running joke out there:

A tourist ventures out to the beach and is considering a swim, asking a local if there was any sharks out there the laconic reply was "yeah, but luckily enough the crocodiles ate 'em" *shivers*
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You know how for centuries we've thought there were giant squids deep in the ocean because of suction marks found on whales and the occasional bloated tentacle floating ashore?

Well guess what we've finally gotten the first photos of.
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very cool! I wish there was something we could base scale off of in the photos... I'm not entirley sure how big a 'common squid' is....
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it says 18 metres (59 feet) in length
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I went to the zoo / aquarium the other day... there were squids, but they were tiny. There was also this miniature deer from Malaysia, a "mouse deer," the size of a beagle -- my God -- a deer that small -- amazing. I better not tell my friends I saw a tiny deer, they'll think I'm on drugs! There was also a tree wallaby -- a kangaroo that climbs trees.
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Post by Crocodile Hunter »

Oh my god, jesus christ, wtf.
http://giantology.net/videos/tsunami_giant.mov

by giants i usually think that people mean, a person that is like 3m tall
but thats freaking huge like a 100m tall etc. :o
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huh... I'd be interested to see a reconstruction of this thing. but from the looks of it, that may be an absolutley monumental task, the vertibrae! wow. looks like it could be the largest Dinosaur ever http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/503682.stm

that is. if it IS a dinosaur. i suppose it could be a whale or something. or a hoax, as Andy's link sugegsts. (though i'm more inclined to believe the 'underwater statue' thing is a hoax)
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Alkuperäinen postittaja Bamfette
huh... I'd be interested to see a reconstruction of this thing. but from the looks of it, that may be an absolutley monumental task, the vertibrae! wow. looks like it could be the largest Dinosaur ever http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/503682.stm

that is. if it IS a dinosaur. i suppose it could be a whale or something. or a hoax, as Andy's link sugegsts. (though i'm more inclined to believe the 'underwater statue' thing is a hoax)
i wonder, with that thing. How long would the food take to go from the mouth to the stomach of that thing. :P
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A tool making crow...
http://www.anomalies-unlimited.com/Science/Betty.html

Betty the crow is challenging another of the things that we use to "elevate" ourselves above the rest of the animals. Tool making. While her lazy mate Abel prefers to steal Betty's food that she gets by using the tool, Betty not only uses tools (like a chimp would use a stick to get bugs) but she also makes them.

They even have a little reel that you can watch to see Betty in action.

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On the Giants...

In my opinion, it's almost definitely all a hoax of some sort. Most likely, it seems, it's a marketing campaign...possibly for Shadow of Colossus, a videogame.

I think this because, from a storytelling pov, it all fits a "Rate of Revelation" type setup...as well as there's one huge redflag for me: Where the giants were found.

Think about it: One found underwater. One found on a beach. One found half-covered in snow. One found in the desert. That's a lot of different environments! Especially all at once!

They're either going out of their way to make them seem unrelated, or the next one will be in a forest, swamp, or on a volcano...just to keep with the different environments trend.
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On the Giants...

In my opinion, it's almost definitely all a hoax of some sort. Most likely, it seems, it's a marketing campaign...possibly for Shadow of Colossus, a videogame.

I think this because, from a storytelling pov, it all fits a "Rate of Revelation" type setup...as well as there's one huge redflag for me: Where the giants were found.

Think about it: One found underwater. One found on a beach. One found half-covered in snow. One found in the desert. That's a lot of different environments! Especially all at once!

They're either going out of their way to make them seem unrelated, or the next one will be in a forest, swamp, or on a volcano...just to keep with the different environments trend.
You are probably right, the "snow giant" found in siberia or where ever, it looks just like one of the games collosusses.
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Post by Elwing »

OoooOh Cryptozoology! Wee! I think I may have found Kurt's long lost nephew here- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tailypo
And I bet Kurt would be pretty upset too if somebody did that to his beloved tail!
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:o OOH. I love mythical creatures; I've never heard of this one but it sounds awesome! I should try to get a drawing of it done. It does indeed sound just like Kurt except the fur colour, yes? :P
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Post by Tonks Kittygoth »

Oh this is the happiest thread I have found yet!
I love cryptozoology stuff!!!!!!

This isnt exactly Crypto, well, maybe it is.... did anyone see the show on dragons on one of the history channels?

Not the cgi dragon family one, but the one describing how ancient people would have dug up dinosaur bones and thought, well, obviously "there be dragons"

One of the coolest bits was when they showed how the fossilized tracks of dinosaurs were pushed up by geologic forces, so they were on the sides of mountains, and how it would seem like a creature, heavy enough to make tracks in stone, and who could obviously fly, as it s tracks were up on sides of mountains, had recently been around.

Since I was a kid, I always assumed that dragons were dinosaurs...I love it when science catches up with me,..(tee hee , jk of course)
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Post by Crocodile Hunter »

http://www.s8int.com/dino19.html

chinese soldiers say that they saw a dragon in the lake Tianchi of north-eastern Jilin province.
The locals describe it like "it has a body of a water buffalo and a head of human" creepy.

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a picture part of the videoclip 52-year-old Zheng Changchun took from the monster. I havent found the whole video yet. i dont think it even exists in internet unfortunately.
Hundreds of locals have said that they have seen the creature. And some people say that the lake is not a home of one, but over ten of those creatures.
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