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In 1954, a woman name Ann Elizabeth Hodges was struck by meteorite in her home. The grapefruit-sized meteorite crashed through her roof, bounced off a radio and struck her in the side while she was napping. She was badly bruised but able to walk and recovered quickly. She is the only human being confirmed to ever be injured by an extraterrestrial object.
Well, there's these funky little microscopic animals called tardigrades, but they're also known as water bears or, even more adorably, moss piglets. What's so interesting about them is that they've been sent into space and left to float around in the vacuum, exposed to the radiation, the burning sun and the freezing cold for ten days, and they've survived. And these crazy little terminator things live pretty much everywhere you can find moss or lichen. And nobody seems to know they exist, even though they're AWESOME.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tardigrade
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tardigrade
i can't remember if it's a parasite or a fungus but there's this "thing" that infects ants and takes control of their bodies. during the daytime it makes the ant do ant stuff so as not to arouse suspition... but at night? it makes the ant walk outside and perch on top of a blade of grass in the hopes that a cow will eat the ant and become infected as well. i don't know it it then takes control of the cow, awesome if it does, but that's some crazy shizno.
I have an entire book of said facts on my desk called "The Duh Awards" - I can read random bits from that, though that would be cheating.
Um... the exponential function to the power of pi x the square root of minus one, all of that minus one, equals zero, and that simple sum involves the 5 fundamental numbers: e, 0, 1, pi, and i/j. And I can prove it with de moivre's theorem.
Okay, I bored myself, disregard me.
Um... the exponential function to the power of pi x the square root of minus one, all of that minus one, equals zero, and that simple sum involves the 5 fundamental numbers: e, 0, 1, pi, and i/j. And I can prove it with de moivre's theorem.
Okay, I bored myself, disregard me.
Stephen King wrote several novels that he cannot remember writing at all because he used to go on month long drug binges. He'd come back to the computer and notice full written novels he never recalled writing...ever. The guy's the Ozzy Osbourne of horror writers.
What? I thought that parasite was fictitious, given that it's the reason given for the non-zombies in Resident Evil 4. Las Plagas it was called in game.thecoreyhlltt said:
About a third to a half of the human population of Earth is infected by a brain parasite that does relatively nothing to humans, probably.
But it does affect Rats, as it makes them want to go towards the smell of a cat, so that it can get eaten and the parasite can breed once inside the stomach of the cat.
I like to think of it as the explanation for why people are cat people and why cats look so cute. I have no idea about dogs though.
EVOLUTION! YOU CANT TELL WHAT IT'LL DO NEXT.
But it does affect Rats, as it makes them want to go towards the smell of a cat, so that it can get eaten and the parasite can breed once inside the stomach of the cat.
I like to think of it as the explanation for why people are cat people and why cats look so cute. I have no idea about dogs though.
EVOLUTION! YOU CANT TELL WHAT IT'LL DO NEXT.
cant remember the name either. what it does is is born in the intestine, gets shat out, infects the ant then gets eaten so it can make babies in the cow. who then get shat out. happy.thecoreyhlltt said:
OT: chameleons change colour based on emotions, not their background.