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YOU CAN KNOW WHAT IT’S LIKE TO LOSE YOUR HEAD!

This is just so bizarre I couldn’t even begin to imagine the horror.

Seattle Pi writes:

Imagine yourself with your head in the business end of a guillotine. I know, it’s not the most pleasant of thoughts, but the guillotine was once considered a humane way to kill someone: Just a quick slice and you’re flat-out dead.

But researchers are finding that neurons, the cells that make up the brain, are active even after their blood supply is suddenly cut off. And they may show activity for longer than a minute,according to a Science News report.

So, imagine yourself in the guillotine again. Once that big blade comes swooshing down and your head rolls away, are you still aware? Could you see the world around you? Might you actually experience the horrific reality that is your head removed from your body – for a minute or more?

In an arguably not-so-humane study, Dutch scientists measured the brain activity in mice after slicing off the mice’s heads. What they saw was a quick flash of brain activity immediately following decapitation – then, about 50 seconds later, another ripple of activity, Science News reports.

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SIBERIAN LIVESTOCK DRAINED OF BLOOD BY VAMPIRE?

Between this current and past reports, there has got to be a vampire-like creature we’re missing out there somewhere.

The Moscow News writes:

A blood-sucking creature is preying upon goats near Novosibirsk. As rational explanations run thin on the ground, the specter of the so-called chupacabra raises its demon head.

Horrified farmers and smallholders are confronted by the drained corpses of their livestock in the morning, bloodless and bearing puncture marks to the neck but otherwise largely in tact.

But local cops are reluctant to record apparent vampire attacks, as they await official recertification, leaving the locals up in arms.

Read more at themoscownews.com

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WORLDS MOST WICKED BIKE!

I’ve wanted a nice motorcycle for a while. I’ve been looking at all kinds of different styles and decided I wanted something simple, elegant and classy. Now, I want a crazy dragon bike that shoots fire after seeing what’s possible from this guy!

Dailymail.co.uk writes:

This remarkable motorbike looks like it’s straight out of a film set – but remarkably an artist has made it out of spare parts.

The Bangkok worker used recycled materials from old cars and bicycles to create a monster machine which is sculpted to look like a beast.

Despite being cobbled together from scrap parts, the spectacular motorcycle works – unlike many sci-fi film props.

Roongrojna Sangwongprisarn, 54, created it out of spare parts in his workshop in Thailand. He has four shops across the country – named the Ko Art Shop – and exports his creations to clients all over the world.

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MYSTERY TOMBSTONE PREDICTS MANS DEATH!

Now this is a bit creepy…

Dailymail.co.uk writes:

Residents in a California community are scratching their heads after a mysterious tombstone appeared in front of a condominium complex, predicting an unknown man’s death.

Not unlike many other headstones honouring the dead, the grave marker reads: ‘Loving Husband Father and Physician Jeffrey Lang.’

But in a chilling twist some guess is a practical joke, Mr Lang’s year of death is inscribed as 2012.

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PLANET OF THE APES IS A REAL POSSIBILITY!

I already feel like this life we’re in is a giant movie anyways, this is just further proof we need to stop everything, chill out and relax.

Dailymail.co.uk writes:

It sounds like something from a Hollywood science fiction film: a race that is half human, half ape.

But leading scientists are today demanding tough new rules to prevent the nightmare scenario becoming a reality.

In a hard-hitting report, they warn  that research is close to pushing ‘ethical boundaries’ and that extreme attempts to  give laboratory animals human attributes must be banned.

Professor Martin Bobrow, a medical geneticist at Cambridge University and co-author of the report, said society needed to set rules before scientists began experiments that the public would find unacceptable.

He added: ‘We are trying to get this out in the open before anything has happened.’

 

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THE FUTURE IS HERE! A FLYING SPHERE IS REALITY!

It’s only a matter of time until this technology is applied to a vehicle that can seat a human being!

Dailymail.co.uk writes:

Its Japanese developers call it the ‘Futuristic Circular Flying Object’ and it’s designed to go where humans can’t.

The radio-controlled sphere, roughly the size of a basketball, was built for search and rescue operations, specifically to fly in and out of buildings weakened by earthquakes or other natural disasters.

The device uses its onboard camera to transmit live images of whatever it sees.

Fumiyuki Sato, at the Japanese Defense Ministry’s Technical Research and Development Institute, invented and built the vehicle for roughly 110,000 yen (£865 / $1,390) with parts purchased off the shelf at consumer electronics stores.

He said: ‘Because of its spherical shape, it can land in various positions and tumble to move around the ground.’

It zips through the air, glides smoothly around corners, and negotiates staircases with ease, all the while emitting a soft hum.

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SKIER JUMPS OFF 250FT CLIFF, ON PURPOSE!

Now, I’ve done a few extreme sports in my time but this is on a whole other level. This dude jumps off the craziest cliffs he can find only to land in a pile of snow, that’s it! How crazy?!

Dailymial.co.uk writes:

This is the moment a professional skier defied death – plummeting 250 foot down a cliff edge to seemingly land on his head.

Amazingly Jamie Pierre walked away from the intentional stunt without so much as a scratch after being dug out of the six foot ‘bomb hole’ by his photographer.

Mr Pierre, a professional skier, revealed the secret behind his apparently suicidal stunt.

He said: ‘Although it looks like I landed on my head, I actually landed on my back.

‘I was bent at the waist and landed how a stuntman would land on an air bag.’

Snow joke: This time-lapse photo shows Jamie Pierre's world record-breaking, death-defying 250ft descent where he survives even after apparently landing on his head

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“AMITYVILLE HORROR” HOUSE UP FOR SALE

For a cool 1.35 million you can live in a super creepy and haunted house! How fun!

Dailymail.co.uk writes:

It is a piece of American cinema history known to horror buffs across the globe.

And now the haunted house from 1978’s ‘The Amityville Horror’ movie is up for sale.

The 10-room colonial-style structure at 18 Brooks road in Toms River was built in the 1920s and is listed for $1.35 million.

For the movie, a superstructure was built around the outside to make it look like the home in Amityville, New York, whose owners claimed was possessed by evil spirits.

 

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WORLD RECORD FOR MOST FINGERS AND TOES!

As much as we see and hear of weirds things from the past, here’s something from right now.

 

 

Huffingtonpost.com writes:

Count’em up. This young man born with 34 fingers and toes set a Guinness World Record for most digits.

Akshat Saxena had seven fingers on each hand and 10 toes on each foot when he was born in India in 2010, a Guinness spokeswoman told The Huffington Post.

“I was so happy to see my baby as it was our first child,” his mother Amrita Saxena told NDTV. “But later, when I saw his fingers, I was shocked and surprised.”

Doctors recently amputated the excess appendages in a series of surgeries and now Saxena has the typical five digits per limb, the Guinness spokeswoman said.

This prodigious polydactyl wasn’t born with thumbs, but doctors planned to create them with pieces of the extra figners, The Hindustan Times reported.

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MALNOURISHED MONKEY MISTAKEN FOR ALIEN!

What would you do if this thing was stealing your fruit?

Dailymail.co.uk writes:

This ape made a monkey of Chinese villagers who feared it was a visitor from another world.

Locals panicked when Mao Xiping, a housewife from the village of Gezhai, in Henan province, central China, found the scraggy simian stealing cucumbers from her flat.

She thought it was a harmless rabbit, until she noticed it had an ‘alien face’ and her neighbours agreed it was like nothing they had ever seen before.

Read more: dailymail.co.uk