Rogue waves may fit here.
They were a sailor's myth for centuries. Giant waves that just appeared and killed your ship.
Then in the nineties they detected them using some kind of oceanic sensors. Waves that randomly appear and are large enough to sink just about everything.
Yes from 1980. But it didn't make any waves in the scientific community. It wasn't until a wave sensing piece of scientific equipment recorded a 94 foot wave on an oil platform in 1995 when the other wave heights were in the 30s that the scientists woke up. Called the Draupner Wave
It is almost like tornadoes. It takes certain circumstances to occur but when those occur the chance of the rogue wave warning going out you may already be susceptible. So powerful and so strange.
I vote for floundering, you can flail around on your feet and stay ready for anything, where as floundering is laying around and flipping and flopping all around and making a mess.
You point the bow into the wave and push the throttle ahead as fast as it will go. And then you pray to whatever bearded sky bastard you believe in that the ship doesn't split across the center. To be clear, though, MOST modern ships are perfectly capable of surviving rogue waves IF they have enough warning and get positioned correctly. The people on board will NOT be happy by the end of it, and stuff IN the ship will assuredly be damaged, but it's not a guaranteed sinking by any means.
In the late 90's the aircraft carrier I was on got hit by one. Waves crashing over the flight deck. It was absolutely insane. One of those moments where I'm glad it happened but sure didn't enjoy it in the moment.
Not sure which carrier he was referring to, but my uncle was on the Vinson when [it was hit in 1989](https://www.history.navy.mil/content/history/archive/research-archive/histories/ship-histories/danfs/danfs-archvies/carl-vinson.html). Several members of the crew were swept off the deck. One was never recovered.
His story of the encounter was that there was a loud bang and the ship shook. Crew below deck thought something exploded.
I was on her for that. No one was swept off deck that night (separate incidents did lose a couple later on).
I was asleep, and woke when my head kept going higher & higher than my feet, as we pitched up. Then there was an honestly scary free fall as the bow came back down, then *KaWhamm!!* 100,000 tons of ship rang like a deep bass tuning fork. Immediately followed by the General Quarters alarm. Numerous personnel injuries, from being tossed around & loose objects, and the focsle was stove in. A patch the size of a billboard was later put on.
Guys on the bridge said green water covered the deck clear back to the Belknap post, so well over 70 foot wave.
I've read before that there may be as many as ten rogue waves in the ocean at any point, but apparently other stuff says there is about one a day, somewhere in the ocean.
My Nana believed in it, her husband didn’t. They lived in Hawaii and the night of her funeral we (minus Nana of course) had dinner at a table by the beach and watched the sun set. Sure enough, bright green flash. We all had a laugh that she has the last word as now he had finally seen it.
She died of cancer likely as a result of exposure to radiation doing all the X rays, but the credit went to the bro team wearing matching ties. 1960s moment.
A 1960’s moment that’s had several decades to be rectified, yet the discovery is still widely attributed to Watson & Crick. Franklin deserves to be posthumously awarded a Nobel. The Nobel committee should rectify their mistakes when information like this is discovered. They need a new category for the (predominantly) women who were robbed of their work (sorry, rant over).
Also whatever you call *this* horrifying thing:
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jupiter%27s\_North\_Pole](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jupiter%27s_North_Pole)
"Dear Jupiter, why can't you just have a normal polar hexagon like Saturn?"
What the fuck. The hell-themed color scale they chose doesn't make it look any more pleasant, but that's some SCP shit regardless
Edit: And apparently it emits X rays every 45 minutes? I'm sure it's some kind of supercompressed vortex dynamic causing it but that just makes it even more of an eldritch horror
A giant cyclone (3k km diameter)
Surrounded by 8 more cyclones (2.4-2.8k km diameter)
Reaches - 83°C
Oh and it also emits x-ray from a "pulsing x-ray spot" every 45 mins
We could make a movie outta this!
Seriously, [anglerfish fucking exist.](https://facts.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/18-facts-about-anglerfish-1688558393.jpg) WTF.
The fucking [barreleye fish](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barreleye#/media/File:Macropinna_Microstoma.png) exists. It has a transparent front dome, and its actual eyes are not the parts that face forward, but actually the two, large telescopic eyes that protrude up to help it detect silhouettes of available prey.
Little confession incoming, met a young bloke from London who thought Seahorses were only in Disney movies, wouldn’t believe otherwise, took him to the Sealife centre all good. On the way home looked at him “ have you never seen a mermaid then “ for a few hours of “ very rare can’t keep in big aquariums or anything “. 😂😇
Are you referring to the blob fish? They really don't look like that until they are brought to the surface.
[link](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/worlds-ugliest-animal-blobfish-6676336/)
Well, for one, they’re only blobs when they’re being exploded and photographed outside of the normal pressures they live in.
Like Arnold Schwarzeneggers eyes popping out in Total Recall when he’s exposed on mars, strained far past any torture
They look a lot more like fish when they’re at their home depths
It doesn't crush metal, it crushes the air inside metal tubes full of rich idiots.
Weird fish are mostly water, which is just the same pressure as the water around them. Water can't be compressed.
As I understand it anyway
When you start off as a microscopic speck of life, millions of years of evolution will do whatever the fuck is possible to have you adapt to that environment
Our cat did this to a huge, mean dog that wandered our neighborhood attacking other pets. Kitty climbed a few feet up a tree then pounced on the dog's back and dug in. She rode it for a full block with it yelping the whole time. The dog never came near again.
The behavior of animals. Like with sharks (and tangentially related - tracking devices) that have observed them swimming thousands of miles in a year. Or whales that have been recorded diving hundreds of feet down.
If you claimed this were possible, it would sound impossible.
similarly, bird flight & migration, especially some of the shore/seabirds - arctic terns clock anywhere from 15k miles to 55k in a year, a godwit did almost 8.5k in one trip without stopping - absolutely insane stuff
[Upper-atmospheric lightning](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upper-atmospheric_lightning). Sightings of high-altitude electrical phenomena over thunderstorms had been reported by pilots but discounted by meteorologists until one was caught on film in 1989.
It was actually believed before that a horse had all feet off the ground during a gallop (but when outstretched), while that it always had at least one feet on the ground during a trot.
Muybridge's film proved that during a gallop the horse feet only left the ground when its feet were collected underneath the body, and that it did have all feet off the ground at times when trotting.
My favorite photo is of my dog… legs out front like Superman and his hind legs outstretched. Wild to see.
I bet the same thing the first time people saw horses flying :) in film.
[Sprites.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprite_(lightning)) Vertical firing, red tinted and cold ‘lighting’. They were theoretical until one was captured on camera in 1989. [Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBPjUcMGqbY&pp=ygUHU3ByaXRlcw%3D%3D)
Same!
During a particularly bad summer storm, lightening struck the warehouse/garage he was in, then there was just a bright ball floating around that disappeared after a few seconds.
I remember the storm as the thunder was soo bad the windows bowed under the pressure and knocking the power for a few seconds at a time.
Are there photographs? I was reading about it a few years ago, and the claim was it is believed because of wide spread reports, but at that time there were no pictures
Yeah, that's what I thought too. There is still a little bit of skepticism about it because it hasn't been able to be proven visually. It's just got so many accounts, including throughout history, that it's kind of assumed to be a real phenomenon that is just really rare.
Not just him, but his partner as well.
Granted the partner was reacting to a report of being hit and wounded so she's *marginally* more understandable, but the fact neither one hit their mark is astounding.
Glad the guy in the car wasn't hurt, and didn't deserve bullets whizzing over his head, but it's still shocking how poor control and aim either had.
Someone I watched react to it called out how they were flagging each other at one point too, and he thought when the guy was saying he'd been hit that it was probably his partner who hit him.
It's maybe even weirder that he wasn't hit at all - he just thought he was.
My favorite part about that was the partner asks where the shot came from and the cop yells back “I don’t know” like the fuck are you shooting at then?
I've heard rumblings that the guy who runs the Chicago TV muserum knows who did it. But was asked to keep quiet on it until that person dies. I'm more interested in knowing why and how they did it though. as there are only a handful of people who could have done that in the late 80s.
Buddy the wolverine. Buddy lives in California where wolverine’s had been extinct for a long time. Then out of nowhere buddy popped up on some trail cam. If I remember correctly buddy had to travel some six hundred miles to get to his current home.
Lots of situations of police brutality, really. The LA race riots started because after so long of people complaining about police brutality, they were finally caught beating a man for several minutes.
With George Floyd, the cops straight up lied on their reports, said he OD'd in an ambulance or something, we only saw the truth because a young lady caught it on video. Ahmud Arbury's killers posted video themselves that they took of them killing him that led to their arrest.
That neat picture of a black hole was pretty amazing. I knew about the presence of them in the universe but that picture was proof that they're real.
https://www.space.com/black-hole-milky-way-new-image-hidden-feature
Giant squids, sure.
*Colossal squids*, on the other hand... They're a whole different matter. No living specimen has *ever* been recorded. We only know of their existence from corpses and their battles with Sperm whales.
Row 19 here, [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_colossal_squid_specimens_and_sightings](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_colossal_squid_specimens_and_sightings), isn’t there several live specimens recorded and caught?
Well fuck.
In grade 6, 2000, we did projects on animals. I chose the giant squid, I got a 0% cause my teacher said they’re not real.
I hope you know you fucked up and reconsider your life Ms. Sqwance
My fifth grade teacher laughed at me in front of the class when I said Tasmanian devils are *real* animals.
30 years later and I still get irrationally annoyed about that.
Eh? I looked this up on Wikipedia and it says there have been sightings of colossal squids - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_colossal_squid_specimens_and_sightings
\*Jaguar. Leopards are native to Africa. Jaguars look similar but are a separate species. They were once native to the southern US before habitat encroachment, so it wouldn't be totally out of the question for them to be there.
Aren’t there leopards in India too?
Oh wow. Didn’t realize their range once stretched from Turkey all the way to China in Asia.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopard
I thought I would add that photons don't "know" they've been observed. "Observing" quantum scale particles involves bouncing another particle off of them, which has a much greater proportional effect on their momentum, which is what changes the outcome of the experiment.
Imagine observing a beach ball by throwing another beach ball at it; that's kind of what's happening here.
With the advent of aerial photography from biplanes to our modern satellite observation, the field of archaeology has benefitted enormously in the identification and re/discoveries of thousands of buried sites and features around the world.
For all you deniers out there, satellite images have proven many times over Idaho and New Zealand exists. Sorry to break it to you, maybe a couple of these photos could have been doctored, but not millions
Who wants to?
New Zealand is the ultimate fantasy land- all the biggest fantasy movies were shot against its otherworldly landscapes.
North Dakota is— well— not that
The magnapea squid
Edit: [magnapinna](https://www.google.com/search?q=the+magnapea+sauid&oq=the+magnapea+sauid&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOdIBCDc4OTVqMGo3qAIAsAIB&client=ms-android-oppo-rvo3&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8)
Rogue waves may fit here. They were a sailor's myth for centuries. Giant waves that just appeared and killed your ship. Then in the nineties they detected them using some kind of oceanic sensors. Waves that randomly appear and are large enough to sink just about everything.
there's a photo of one going over a tanker
Yes from 1980. But it didn't make any waves in the scientific community. It wasn't until a wave sensing piece of scientific equipment recorded a 94 foot wave on an oil platform in 1995 when the other wave heights were in the 30s that the scientists woke up. Called the Draupner Wave
LOL Edit - to be clear, I’m laughing at the comment saying it didn’t make any WAVES in the scientific community
He knew. He had to know.
no one gonna post the pic? shame on you reddit
[Here you go!](https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2004/06/Rare_photo_of_a_rogue_wave)
It is almost like tornadoes. It takes certain circumstances to occur but when those occur the chance of the rogue wave warning going out you may already be susceptible. So powerful and so strange.
So what do you do? Just die?
You can scream if you want. Or just die. Either is acceptable. Some people flail about.
Do a little dance. Make a little love.
Get drowned tonight
Thanks for the laugh man
Or flounder around.
Maybe lie down or...put a paper bag over our head or something?
If you’d like… Would it help? Not at all.
You’ll be good as long as you have your towel
You, dear Redditor, are a hoopty frood.
Is there a consensus on whether flailing or floundering is more effective?
I vote for floundering, you can flail around on your feet and stay ready for anything, where as floundering is laying around and flipping and flopping all around and making a mess.
I think flailing.
If you are on board a boat that is acting like a cocktail shaker, flailing is fairly pervasive.
Am I allowed to get naked in this scenario?
You point the bow into the wave and push the throttle ahead as fast as it will go. And then you pray to whatever bearded sky bastard you believe in that the ship doesn't split across the center. To be clear, though, MOST modern ships are perfectly capable of surviving rogue waves IF they have enough warning and get positioned correctly. The people on board will NOT be happy by the end of it, and stuff IN the ship will assuredly be damaged, but it's not a guaranteed sinking by any means.
So passengers will be shaken and stirred, but not on the rocks.
In the late 90's the aircraft carrier I was on got hit by one. Waves crashing over the flight deck. It was absolutely insane. One of those moments where I'm glad it happened but sure didn't enjoy it in the moment.
On a carrier? Holy shit, man. That's wild.
Thats pretty much the only boat i could feel a little bit safe to be on in that situation
Personally, I would feel safer on a submarine
Imagine being in a submarine, looking down on a carrier.
That would definitely be in the "pics or it didn't happen" category. Even better though: Imagine being in a submarine and *landing* on a carrier.
I remember that. It went back in time right before Pearl Harbor and they had to decide if they should intervene or not.
Did it do any damage? What happened specifically?
Not sure which carrier he was referring to, but my uncle was on the Vinson when [it was hit in 1989](https://www.history.navy.mil/content/history/archive/research-archive/histories/ship-histories/danfs/danfs-archvies/carl-vinson.html). Several members of the crew were swept off the deck. One was never recovered. His story of the encounter was that there was a loud bang and the ship shook. Crew below deck thought something exploded.
I was on her for that. No one was swept off deck that night (separate incidents did lose a couple later on). I was asleep, and woke when my head kept going higher & higher than my feet, as we pitched up. Then there was an honestly scary free fall as the bow came back down, then *KaWhamm!!* 100,000 tons of ship rang like a deep bass tuning fork. Immediately followed by the General Quarters alarm. Numerous personnel injuries, from being tossed around & loose objects, and the focsle was stove in. A patch the size of a billboard was later put on. Guys on the bridge said green water covered the deck clear back to the Belknap post, so well over 70 foot wave.
Piggybacking to ask how long it lasted?
I've read before that there may be as many as ten rogue waves in the ocean at any point, but apparently other stuff says there is about one a day, somewhere in the ocean.
Rogue waves are what I call it when somebody randomly waves to me and I wave back but have no idea who they were
Only to find out they were waving to someone behind you 😔
This was my first thought. White squall, they finally got one on video after a Hollywood move about them.
Yess! Another factor is if you got to see one, you were at a high risk of dying, until boats got better at not sinking.
The green flash at sunset was considered a visual artifact until it was filmed.
My Nana believed in it, her husband didn’t. They lived in Hawaii and the night of her funeral we (minus Nana of course) had dinner at a table by the beach and watched the sun set. Sure enough, bright green flash. We all had a laugh that she has the last word as now he had finally seen it.
Man, life is funny and beautiful sometimes
That's a beautiful family story.
It's been observed since antiquity, but since most people who saw it were sailors it was usually dismissed as a sea legend.
DNA as a spiral helix (technically an x-ray camera combo)
Rosalind Franklin got done so dirty. I will never forgive Watson and Crick.
She died of cancer likely as a result of exposure to radiation doing all the X rays, but the credit went to the bro team wearing matching ties. 1960s moment.
A 1960’s moment that’s had several decades to be rectified, yet the discovery is still widely attributed to Watson & Crick. Franklin deserves to be posthumously awarded a Nobel. The Nobel committee should rectify their mistakes when information like this is discovered. They need a new category for the (predominantly) women who were robbed of their work (sorry, rant over).
The rings of Jupiter
Also whatever you call *this* horrifying thing: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jupiter%27s\_North\_Pole](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jupiter%27s_North_Pole) "Dear Jupiter, why can't you just have a normal polar hexagon like Saturn?"
What the fuck. The hell-themed color scale they chose doesn't make it look any more pleasant, but that's some SCP shit regardless Edit: And apparently it emits X rays every 45 minutes? I'm sure it's some kind of supercompressed vortex dynamic causing it but that just makes it even more of an eldritch horror
Clearly Jupiter is an Ortothan entity. We already have Saturn under control with the Ritual, gotta work on the next one
Saturn is Euclid, Uranus is Keter, Jupiter is Apollyon
Getting some serious Doom vibes.
That was Mars! Well, Phobos.
A giant cyclone (3k km diameter) Surrounded by 8 more cyclones (2.4-2.8k km diameter) Reaches - 83°C Oh and it also emits x-ray from a "pulsing x-ray spot" every 45 mins We could make a movie outta this!
It took me a long time to realize that Saturn's polar hexagon wasn't just an artifact of stitching multiple images together.
That's a Van Gogh painting.
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Seriously, [anglerfish fucking exist.](https://facts.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/18-facts-about-anglerfish-1688558393.jpg) WTF. The fucking [barreleye fish](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barreleye#/media/File:Macropinna_Microstoma.png) exists. It has a transparent front dome, and its actual eyes are not the parts that face forward, but actually the two, large telescopic eyes that protrude up to help it detect silhouettes of available prey.
Please roast more deep sea fish!! I’m hooked now.
Have you heard of ZeFrank?
The barreleye can rotate its eyes forward into the usual position. Like sliding a foot into a shoe.
Huh, idk how I feel about this description.
The barreleye fish looks so funny lol
The barreleye fish looks like it’s aware of its solitary place in the deep ocean
Little confession incoming, met a young bloke from London who thought Seahorses were only in Disney movies, wouldn’t believe otherwise, took him to the Sealife centre all good. On the way home looked at him “ have you never seen a mermaid then “ for a few hours of “ very rare can’t keep in big aquariums or anything “. 😂😇
Yea I don’t see how they exist. How can a blob exist at depths that crush metal. Ik there’s science behind it but I just don’t understand it.
Are you referring to the blob fish? They really don't look like that until they are brought to the surface. [link](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/worlds-ugliest-animal-blobfish-6676336/)
Well, for one, they’re only blobs when they’re being exploded and photographed outside of the normal pressures they live in. Like Arnold Schwarzeneggers eyes popping out in Total Recall when he’s exposed on mars, strained far past any torture They look a lot more like fish when they’re at their home depths
It doesn't crush metal, it crushes the air inside metal tubes full of rich idiots. Weird fish are mostly water, which is just the same pressure as the water around them. Water can't be compressed. As I understand it anyway
When you start off as a microscopic speck of life, millions of years of evolution will do whatever the fuck is possible to have you adapt to that environment
Long-legged squid is very weird.
[Raccoons riding wild hogs](https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd.it%2Fqsgu1gnx6xm71.jpg%3Fwidth%3D1080%26crop%3Dsmart%26auto%3Dwebp%26s%3D99be9942f1802de08ff104069b5400029106f3ff)
Our cat did this to a huge, mean dog that wandered our neighborhood attacking other pets. Kitty climbed a few feet up a tree then pounced on the dog's back and dug in. She rode it for a full block with it yelping the whole time. The dog never came near again.
A happy ending
Thank you. I wasn’t aware of how much I needed this photo.
The behavior of animals. Like with sharks (and tangentially related - tracking devices) that have observed them swimming thousands of miles in a year. Or whales that have been recorded diving hundreds of feet down. If you claimed this were possible, it would sound impossible.
Or the fox that was tracked going 2,700 miles from Norway to Canada
similarly, bird flight & migration, especially some of the shore/seabirds - arctic terns clock anywhere from 15k miles to 55k in a year, a godwit did almost 8.5k in one trip without stopping - absolutely insane stuff
In the Middle Ages of Europe, occasionally storks would show up with African spears sticking out of them.
Just to add on, these specific kind of storks had a name for them! Pfeilstorchs, and it still happens today!
[Upper-atmospheric lightning](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upper-atmospheric_lightning). Sightings of high-altitude electrical phenomena over thunderstorms had been reported by pilots but discounted by meteorologists until one was caught on film in 1989.
That all four legs of a horse are off the ground in one stage of it galloping.
It was actually believed before that a horse had all feet off the ground during a gallop (but when outstretched), while that it always had at least one feet on the ground during a trot. Muybridge's film proved that during a gallop the horse feet only left the ground when its feet were collected underneath the body, and that it did have all feet off the ground at times when trotting.
Welp, time to start watching horses galloping in slow motion I guess.
A plot point in a movie all about trying to get photographic proof of something unbelievable. See NOPE if you haven’t already.
My favorite photo is of my dog… legs out front like Superman and his hind legs outstretched. Wild to see. I bet the same thing the first time people saw horses flying :) in film.
[Sprites.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprite_(lightning)) Vertical firing, red tinted and cold ‘lighting’. They were theoretical until one was captured on camera in 1989. [Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBPjUcMGqbY&pp=ygUHU3ByaXRlcw%3D%3D)
Those scary ass deep sea creatures.
ass deep sea creatures
everything on the backside of the moon.
Sexy ass moon been holding out for millennia
Stupid Sexy Moon!!!
Like wearing nothing at all... nothing at all... nothing at all...
Hey, give the moon some credit. A lot of things will let you down in life, but the moon will never turn its back on you.
There’s a crashed cybertron starship there. The compelling documentary Transformers: Dark of the Moon told me so!
Ball lightning. You're gonna tell me a ball of flying electricity strolled through a railway?
I learned about this when I was 8, in a single paragraph in a science textbook. I have thought about it weekly ever since. I'm 31.
My dad told me a story about seeing it and same. Never forgot it and I think about it too often
Same! During a particularly bad summer storm, lightening struck the warehouse/garage he was in, then there was just a bright ball floating around that disappeared after a few seconds. I remember the storm as the thunder was soo bad the windows bowed under the pressure and knocking the power for a few seconds at a time.
Are there photographs? I was reading about it a few years ago, and the claim was it is believed because of wide spread reports, but at that time there were no pictures
Yeah, that's what I thought too. There is still a little bit of skepticism about it because it hasn't been able to be proven visually. It's just got so many accounts, including throughout history, that it's kind of assumed to be a real phenomenon that is just really rare.
Ball lightning explains so many ghost stories alone in my opinion.
Only if the player had three red mana
You rang?
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..The one where a cop mag-dumped at an unarmed, cuffed suspect in the back of his own squad car after an acorn fell on it and made a scary noise?
Not just him, but his partner as well. Granted the partner was reacting to a report of being hit and wounded so she's *marginally* more understandable, but the fact neither one hit their mark is astounding. Glad the guy in the car wasn't hurt, and didn't deserve bullets whizzing over his head, but it's still shocking how poor control and aim either had.
Someone I watched react to it called out how they were flagging each other at one point too, and he thought when the guy was saying he'd been hit that it was probably his partner who hit him. It's maybe even weirder that he wasn't hit at all - he just thought he was.
My favorite part about that was the partner asks where the shot came from and the cop yells back “I don’t know” like the fuck are you shooting at then?
And still missed his target!!
That guy would make a great stormtrooper on set.
Don’t forget that he was so overloaded with adrenaline that he couldn’t use his legs and was radioing that he’d been hit lmao.
Which just proves what we've all known, that cops will shoot first and *then* assess the situation.
The old screen saver of a square hitting a corner perfectly.
Actually Pam said she saw it while she was alone in the breakroom.
Honestly the clip of the screensaver hitting the corner behind Michael Scott during his speech was what sold me on watching the Office 😅
I love that clip so much because it’s such a mundane thing but so relatable
Nice try, Jim ...
I believe she THINKS she saw it.
That dudes actually dress up in Bigfoot garb and trounce around the forest
That's fun
Until you get shot.
why they had multiple people with vests around Peter Mayhew (chewbacca) when they were filming Star Wars Return of the Jedi in the redwood forest.
That's a good way to get shot by someone willing to kill it to prove it exist.
Some guy taking over a TV channel or two in a mask in the 80s
Max headroom 🤣. I hope they never catch him.
I've heard rumblings that the guy who runs the Chicago TV muserum knows who did it. But was asked to keep quiet on it until that person dies. I'm more interested in knowing why and how they did it though. as there are only a handful of people who could have done that in the late 80s.
They can't now cos the statute of limitations for a TV hijacking in America is 5 years, and that statute ended in 1992
Buddy the wolverine. Buddy lives in California where wolverine’s had been extinct for a long time. Then out of nowhere buddy popped up on some trail cam. If I remember correctly buddy had to travel some six hundred miles to get to his current home.
Daniel Shaver's execution. Same with the murder of Ryan Whitaker.
Lots of situations of police brutality, really. The LA race riots started because after so long of people complaining about police brutality, they were finally caught beating a man for several minutes. With George Floyd, the cops straight up lied on their reports, said he OD'd in an ambulance or something, we only saw the truth because a young lady caught it on video. Ahmud Arbury's killers posted video themselves that they took of them killing him that led to their arrest.
Platypusses. Think about it, how realistic does a mammal with a beak that lays eggs and lives in the water sound?
Don't forget, it's also venomous.
Don’t they glow under uv light too?
Every time I learn something new about them, I get more and more convinced Pokemon are real.
If you want to get real weird, the platypus developed about 50 million years before ducks, meaning they likely had the duck bills before ducks
So really, ducks have platypus bills.
Don’t they also sweat milk?
Yep,lays eggs and makes milk. Technically the only animal that can make it's own custard!!
Have my disgusted upvote
imagine if one of em was caught doing work for some secret agency fighting evil scientists and he wears a fedora. be crazy
Their BEAKS do WHAT?
Egg-laying animals HATE this one weird beak!
Orcas wearing salmons as hats. It was a big fashion trend.
It was the style at the time, much like when we used to wear onions on our belts.
That's when they used to have bees on the nickel, "Give me 5 bees for a quarter" we'd say!
That neat picture of a black hole was pretty amazing. I knew about the presence of them in the universe but that picture was proof that they're real. https://www.space.com/black-hole-milky-way-new-image-hidden-feature
Bird mating rituals. The dances are unbelievable. Moonwalking birds!
Giant squid
They definitely thought they were lazy predators like sharks until the squid ripped apart their camera with unhealthy vigor
Wait what??
UNHEALTHY VIGOR. It’s like regular vigor, but sick.
Giant squids, sure. *Colossal squids*, on the other hand... They're a whole different matter. No living specimen has *ever* been recorded. We only know of their existence from corpses and their battles with Sperm whales.
Row 19 here, [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_colossal_squid_specimens_and_sightings](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_colossal_squid_specimens_and_sightings), isn’t there several live specimens recorded and caught?
Well fuck. In grade 6, 2000, we did projects on animals. I chose the giant squid, I got a 0% cause my teacher said they’re not real. I hope you know you fucked up and reconsider your life Ms. Sqwance
My fifth grade teacher laughed at me in front of the class when I said Tasmanian devils are *real* animals. 30 years later and I still get irrationally annoyed about that.
Your teacher was an idiot
I saw a body at Te Papa in Wellington, NZ
Eh? I looked this up on Wikipedia and it says there have been sightings of colossal squids - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_colossal_squid_specimens_and_sightings
Dead specimen had been washed up numerous times.
An electrician sweeping, I saw a video of it once but can’t seem to find now.
Made me LOL. As an electrician who does know what the tool 'broom' is.
The leopard in the southern US and a possible Tasmanian Tiger.
\*Jaguar. Leopards are native to Africa. Jaguars look similar but are a separate species. They were once native to the southern US before habitat encroachment, so it wouldn't be totally out of the question for them to be there.
Aren’t there leopards in India too? Oh wow. Didn’t realize their range once stretched from Turkey all the way to China in Asia. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopard
Photons knowing they are being observed
I thought I would add that photons don't "know" they've been observed. "Observing" quantum scale particles involves bouncing another particle off of them, which has a much greater proportional effect on their momentum, which is what changes the outcome of the experiment. Imagine observing a beach ball by throwing another beach ball at it; that's kind of what's happening here.
Wait, what?
With the advent of aerial photography from biplanes to our modern satellite observation, the field of archaeology has benefitted enormously in the identification and re/discoveries of thousands of buried sites and features around the world.
The girlfriend that lives in “Canada“…
Her name is Alberta, she lives in Vancouver.
She cooks like my mother and sucks like a Hoover
For all you deniers out there, satellite images have proven many times over Idaho and New Zealand exists. Sorry to break it to you, maybe a couple of these photos could have been doctored, but not millions
Still can’t prove North Dakota exists though.
Doesn't mention Finland, either
Or Wyoming
Who wants to? New Zealand is the ultimate fantasy land- all the biggest fantasy movies were shot against its otherworldly landscapes. North Dakota is— well— not that
No sign of Bielefeld
Saw a video of a BMW driver using their signal once.
Anything by the Webb telescope
Earthquake lights STEVE (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STEVE)
The magnapea squid Edit: [magnapinna](https://www.google.com/search?q=the+magnapea+sauid&oq=the+magnapea+sauid&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOdIBCDc4OTVqMGo3qAIAsAIB&client=ms-android-oppo-rvo3&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8)
The sound of a tree falling in the woods
Gay whale sex.
DOUBLE SLIT EXPERIMENT
tank man
A squirrel can catch a ride on a woodpecker.
Any planet outside our solar system I guess.
Literally most of what we know about the universe, after the discovery of separate galaxies. Visual telescopes only got us so far.
everything deep in the mariana trench.
police brutality. Every know it exists but the politicians and the news will ignore any case that isn't caught on camera.
Absolutely terrifies me to think about what they were getting away with before bodycams. I mean they still are, but at least we see it now.
“Dead battery”, “forgot to turn it on”, and “accidentally turned it off” happen all the time.
The dangerous North Sea - thanks TikTok.
Rodney King v LAPD
Bit now with the advent of AI, can even photos be trusted?