Giant Insect Invades Germany

Noryungi writes, "It seems the alien invasion of the Earth has just started! A 50-meter insect has been spotted roaming the German countryside! Let the 'I, for one, welcome our new giant insectoid overlords' joke contest begin!" A moderator at a Keyhole forum IDs the bug as a thrip, about 1mm long, squished under a glass plate during scanning.

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Fark had a thread of wierd finds last week

[gmezero]

http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink =2294440

There are some really great shots in that thread as well
as some co-ordinates to follow up on. One is a wierd land
area in New Mexico where some scammers had built out all
the roads for an entire city development and then skipped
out with the money and never built a thing.

Very wierd stuff.

Re:fun

[babbage]

One of my favorites is Versailles. Yes, that Versailles.

Did you realize that the world's most famous palace, it's grounds, and the community in front of it are laid out like an enormous happy-face stick figure? Take a look at that aerial photo, then go back and look at the Google view -- it's obvious once you look for it. And this all goes back to, what, 1500s and earlier?

It almost makes you think that the French first sent people up in hot-air balloons just so that they'd get a chance to see the joke that architects & urban planners had set up centuries earlier...

:-)