nexus Posted July 25, 2006 Report Share Posted July 25, 2006 Re: Real World Stuff That Only Sounds Like A Comic Book Another example of real world stuff that only sounds like a comic book would be the case of the 100-pound housewife who was able to lift a 2,000 pound car to free her trapped son (and I do have the attribution and full particulars, I just can't find the book at the moment). Technically, she rolled the car, rather than lifting it, but it's still an incredible feat. Similar feats of strength, endurance and courge, equally astonishing, can be found with some research. Howard Hill, the man who did the actual shooting for Errol Flynn in Robin Hood, once killed a tiger shark at a distance of fifty feet with a single arrow - fired while he was underwater. He may have been the greatest archer ever (but he never split an English arrow nock to tip - the arrow in the film was a bamboo "stunt double" ). The Guiness book isn't a bad place to start. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susano Posted July 25, 2006 Report Share Posted July 25, 2006 Re: Real World Stuff That Only Sounds Like A Comic Book There was a case of a skydiver that fell 1000s of feet when their parachute failed but not only survived but walked away. There was also Vesna Vulovi?, a flight attendent who fell 30,000 feet in the tail of an airplane and lived. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vesna_Vulovi? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitewings Posted July 25, 2006 Report Share Posted July 25, 2006 Re: Real World Stuff That Only Sounds Like A Comic Book Don't forget the lost city of Petra. Or on a different note, the log cabins of the redwood forests: There are several houses made from fallen sequoias. So? What's so unusual about that? The houses in question are built *inside the fallen trees.* The trees were left where they fell and cabins carved into them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nexus Posted July 25, 2006 Report Share Posted July 25, 2006 Re: Real World Stuff That Only Sounds Like A Comic Book There was also Vesna Vulovi?, a flight attendent who fell 30,000 feet in the tail of an airplane and lived. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vesna_Vulovi? I'd heard about that but I couldn't recall any details. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nexus Posted July 25, 2006 Report Share Posted July 25, 2006 Re: Real World Stuff That Only Sounds Like A Comic Book Chemical release from a concealed lab? Mutant power gone awry? On February 19, 1994, Gloria Ramirez was admitted to the Riverside General Hospital in California, complaining of nausea and respiratory problems. A nurse in the emergency room, attempting to take a blood sample, noted an ammonia smell and later collapsed. Dr. Julie Gorchynski also took very ill. Others present reported less severe symptoms. After Ramirez died, her remains were kept sealed in an airtight steel container. Two autopsies were inconclusive. But Dr. Gorchynski remains an invalid. The authorities eventually explained away the mystery as being stress-induced mass hysteria, which did not explain the knee and lung symptoms suffered by Dr. Gorchynski. The Ramirez family decried the mass hysteria explanation as a coverup. The case remains the most highly publicized mystery of 1994. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nexus Posted July 25, 2006 Report Share Posted July 25, 2006 Re: Real World Stuff That Only Sounds Like A Comic Book Mating Monsters? Ed Bousfield, a biologist at the Royal B.C. Museum, reported that two pilots in a Cessna float plane may have disturbed a pair of sea monsters engaged in an intimate act. The two creatures, which had the traditional loops, had probably come into Saanich Inlet to breed. When the plane landed on the water they swam off at speeds up to 65 km./hr. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FenrisUlf Posted July 25, 2006 Report Share Posted July 25, 2006 Re: Real World Stuff That Only Sounds Like A Comic Book Mating Monsters? Ed Bousfield, a biologist at the Royal B.C. Museum, reported that two pilots in a Cessna float plane may have disturbed a pair of sea monsters engaged in an intimate act. The two creatures, which had the traditional loops, had probably come into Saanich Inlet to breed. When the plane landed on the water they swam off at speeds up to 65 km./hr. Where did you get this from? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nexus Posted July 25, 2006 Report Share Posted July 25, 2006 Re: Real World Stuff That Only Sounds Like A Comic Book Where did you get this from? Pulled it off a site on fortean events awhile ago. Let me see if I can dig up the url. Edit: Its here Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
st barbara Posted July 25, 2006 Report Share Posted July 25, 2006 Re: Real World Stuff That Only Sounds Like A Comic Book Mating Monsters? Ed Bousfield, a biologist at the Royal B.C. Museum, reported that two pilots in a Cessna float plane may have disturbed a pair of sea monsters engaged in an intimate act. The two creatures, which had the traditional loops, had probably come into Saanich Inlet to breed. When the plane landed on the water they swam off at speeds up to 65 km./hr. Damn Voyeurs ! No wonder sea monsters have such a bad rep.I'd be cross too if someone disturbed me in that position ! These humans have NO tact. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FenrisUlf Posted July 25, 2006 Report Share Posted July 25, 2006 Re: Real World Stuff That Only Sounds Like A Comic Book Damn Voyeurs ! No wonder sea monsters have such a bad rep.I'd be cross too if someone disturbed me in that position ! These humans have NO tact. Very OT, but I've read an account in a Loren Coleman book [bigfoot: the story of apes in America -- that should be the title, anyway] of someone who watched a Bigfoot have sex with one of their cows. Just why they didn't try and take some pictures when Bigfoot was, ahem, occupied is anyone's guess. Even Coleman had a hard time swallowing that story. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OddHat Posted July 25, 2006 Report Share Posted July 25, 2006 Re: Real World Stuff That Only Sounds Like A Comic Book Very OT' date=' but I've read an account in a Loren Coleman book [bigfoot: the story of apes in America -- that should be the title, anyway'] of someone who watched a Bigfoot have sex with one of their cows. "And that bigfoot looked just like Cousin Earl. Smelled like him, too." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cold Steel Posted July 25, 2006 Report Share Posted July 25, 2006 Re: Real World Stuff That Only Sounds Like A Comic Book Included in Asian Bestiary II (IIRC). I thought they came inside Tequila Bottles. Ok, i deserve this: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Basil Posted July 26, 2006 Report Share Posted July 26, 2006 Re: Real World Stuff That Only Sounds Like A Comic Book Nine tons according to what I read. It can be pulled off but it takes a very precise knowledge of the physics involved. Anyway you slice the man was very intelligent and industrious as all get out. The CC is in south Florida, and was built in the 20's, 30's, and 40's. In those circumstances, I think one of the most remarkable things is how Mr. Leedskalnin was able to acquire a half-a-dozen to a few dozen wooden poles of such length, thickness, and strength. Such poles must have been imported from a goodly distance, and cost quite a lot. That is, the few that he could have found would have been expensive. Don't forget, those poles would have had to be replaced quite frequently. Impressive bit of logistics, particularly back in the 20's, and again in the WW2 years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nexus Posted July 26, 2006 Report Share Posted July 26, 2006 Re: Real World Stuff That Only Sounds Like A Comic Book The CC is in south Florida, and was built in the 20's, 30's, and 40's. In those circumstances, I think one of the most remarkable things is how Mr. Leedskalnin was able to acquire a half-a-dozen to a few dozen wooden poles of such length, thickness, and strength. Such poles must have been imported from a goodly distance, and cost quite a lot. That is, the few that he could have found would have been expensive. Don't forget, those poles would have had to be replaced quite frequently. Impressive bit of logistics, particularly back in the 20's, and again in the WW2 years. Yeah, just an impressive feat all the around with no supernatural overtones needed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted July 26, 2006 Report Share Posted July 26, 2006 Re: Real World Stuff That Only Sounds Like A Comic Book Yeah' date=' just an impressive feat all the around with no supernatural overtones needed.[/quote'] Agreed. Those aliens are wonderfully inventive engineers. What? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitewings Posted July 27, 2006 Report Share Posted July 27, 2006 Re: Real World Stuff That Only Sounds Like A Comic Book In Africa, there's a volcano that spews lava with a melting point so low, it routinely freezes solid in mid-air, like water in a Warner Brothers cartoon winter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susano Posted July 27, 2006 Report Share Posted July 27, 2006 Re: Real World Stuff That Only Sounds Like A Comic Book Didn't they locate a site in Africa that they think had been a natural nuclear reactor at one point? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitewings Posted July 27, 2006 Report Share Posted July 27, 2006 Re: Real World Stuff That Only Sounds Like A Comic Book Didn't they locate a site in Africa that they think had been a natural nuclear reactor at one point? Yes indeed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FenrisUlf Posted July 27, 2006 Report Share Posted July 27, 2006 Re: Real World Stuff That Only Sounds Like A Comic Book Didn't they locate a site in Africa that they think had been a natural nuclear reactor at one point? I think I've heard about that. Didn't the site eventually go up in a spontaneous atomic explosion? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OddHat Posted July 27, 2006 Report Share Posted July 27, 2006 Re: Real World Stuff That Only Sounds Like A Comic Book Didn't they locate a site in Africa that they think had been a natural nuclear reactor at one point? Here we go: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_nuclear_fission_reactor Interesting stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susano Posted July 27, 2006 Report Share Posted July 27, 2006 Re: Real World Stuff That Only Sounds Like A Comic Book Here we go: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_nuclear_fission_reactor Interesting stuff. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OddHat Posted July 27, 2006 Report Share Posted July 27, 2006 Re: Real World Stuff That Only Sounds Like A Comic Book Thanks. Clearly, these are locations where the Ancient Ones had their reactors, and modern scientists simply refuse to accept it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FenrisUlf Posted July 27, 2006 Report Share Posted July 27, 2006 Re: Real World Stuff That Only Sounds Like A Comic Book Clearly, these are locations where the Ancient Ones had their reactors, and modern scientists simply refuse to accept it. Now we know where to dig for those Elder Worm artifacts... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Basil Posted July 28, 2006 Report Share Posted July 28, 2006 Re: Real World Stuff That Only Sounds Like A Comic Book Here we go: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_nuclear_fission_reactor Interesting stuff. One sentence from that article: A natural nuclear reactor is therefore no longer possible on Earth. I'm not sure whether I'm gladdened or saddened by that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susano Posted July 28, 2006 Report Share Posted July 28, 2006 Re: Real World Stuff That Only Sounds Like A Comic Book Now we know where to dig for those Elder Worm artifacts... Origin story in progress. Film at 11. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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