Weirdness

Giant Water Pancake

It's a little difficult to describe this thing which has been plopped into the middle of Bodensee (Lake Constance), Germany, as anything but a gigantic water pancake. Has a meteorite crashed into the lake? Or has someone been crying over…

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Thursday, 28th September 2006

Warped Plane

This passenger jet over Newark, California, has become very strangely warped. I think this is something to do with the angles involved between the plane, the earth and the satellite, but trying to figure it out is making my head…

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Wednesday, 27th September 2006

Giant Alien Bug

Holy Cardigans, Batman! There's an absolutely enormous bug in Germany, which is clearly hell-bent on destruction! Run for the hills! At over 50 metres, this bug would be far bigger than the previously posted World's Largest Bug (and a whole…

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Monday, 18th September 2006

Interdimensional Portal

Check out this fantastic image which, unless I'm very much mistaken, appears to have captured the exact moment someone was utilizing the very latest in interdimensional portal technology! Well, it's a fantastic image anyway ๐Ÿ˜€ Thanks to Clive!

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Friday, 15th September 2006

Rum Slick

Just off the coast of St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands, is what looks rather like a Rum Slick - waste from the production of molasses at the nearby Cruzan Rum Distillery. Certainly the dark patch starts directly offshore from the…

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Friday, 25th August 2006

Saharan Squares

Still in Western Sahara, here's some weird squares which I can't explain... Anyone? Thanks to John Seddon (I think, or it might have been Patrick again ๐Ÿ˜€ ).

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Friday, 11th August 2006

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