Thread of Bizzare/Oddities

[Resurrection]

OK imagine this...

You are sailing in your yacht through the ocean and then you see this...







Unbelievable right??? You rub your eyes yet its still the same....

Now what it really is...

Spoiler Surprise!!:

This is not a beach, it is volcanic stones floating on the water.

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And then this...

Awesome!

Can you imagine the thrill of being the first & only people to see a new island being created ... where there was nothing before?

Then, can you imagine thinking -- "Gee if I been a few minutes later, I might have gone up in that explosion of black volcanic ash when the eruption occurred"

-- Now there's a scary thought!!!

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Courtesy

Floating Volcanic Stones and New Island in the South Pacific

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I'll keep on adding to this thread as and when I find something worth sharing...

[slikrapid]

the floating volcanic stones (pumice) images seem fake (looks like photoshopped beach images):
- the bordering line on 2nd image is way too uniform
- no floating patches
- no wave-pumice interaction
- water discoloration (the 2 shallow zones)
- no plowing effect of the boat
- too uniform rocks, no closeups
- rafts of such size/thickness/uniformity magnitudes are a rarity, thus hard to prove with different sightings
- the site deals with debunking hoaxes, but this one is not really convincing

Can you imagine the thrill of being the first & only people to see a new island being created ... where there was nothing before?

Then, can you imagine thinking -- "Gee if I been a few minutes later, I might have gone up in that explosion of black volcanic ash when the eruption occurred"

lol, as if islands are created within a few minutes
what happened there is called 'distance' - far away the island looks small, when you come closer it gets bigger, it didn't magically grow
also notice no black ash can be seen anywhere, but rather quite the opposite, white smoke loaded with steam, which may tell you only that the volcano beneath is active, but not that the island got created recently

[desodorante]

Is this a joke? Your source is a page that describes this as a HOAX...
You keep making one insane thread after the other.

[Resurrection]

What are you difficult of reading?

Floating Volcanic Stones and New Island in the South Pacific

snopes.com: Birth of an Island


Where the hell does it say its a HOAX???

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Is this a joke? .

Do you want to know what I find is a joke???

You keep making one insane thread after the other.

Quite strangely I receive positive feedbacks for my threads... So now I wonder if this thread is insane or....

[slikrapid]

the site deals with debunking hoaxes

this set of images was being distributed around the web in 2006 so the site decided to investigate whether it was a hoax or not - they concluded that it was not a hoax - i disagree with them and give a few arguments in that direction

[Resurrection]

Slik,

Not a single word of my earlier post was meant for you...Sorry if it caused any misunderstandings...

I don't know if you read the manual that one gets when one becomes a metal-head but Rule # 8 says that metal-heads may have difference of opinion but they are never angry at each other...You'll always be cool with me no matter how philosophical you get

[slikrapid]

Not a single word of my earlier post was meant for you...Sorry if it caused any misunderstandings...

sure, i know that, what i did in the previous post was simply clarifying things a bit for anyone who may have got confused
also, no need to apologize, as far as i'm concerned we're cool

but Rule # 8 says that metal-heads may have difference of opinion but they are never angry at each other...You'll always be cool with me no matter how philosophical you get

totally agree

[desodorante]

What are you difficult of reading?
Where the hell does it say its a HOAX???

No I am not "difficult of reading", I made a mistake.

Do you want to know what I find is a joke???

Yes please enlighten us Resurrection

Quite strangely I receive positive feedbacks for my threads... So now I wonder if this thread is insane or....

I am glad for you. I personally find your threads to be way off topic for the site and hardly enjoyable. But that is just me.

You see, in just 2 months you have posted as much as 80% of what I posted in almost 2 years. Just saying.

[Resurrection]

Hey I found it weird at first too...I mean the rocks form an impossibly precise border....But this is Mother Nature,man...Here fact is stranger than fiction ...

Check this out for example...


Top 10 Most Bizarre Weather in the World | Most Interesting Facts

1. Sea Monster or Spinning Water?


2. Ice Fall / Bomb



3. St. Elmo’s fires


4. Sprites, Jets and Elves, Oh My!


5. Whirlwinds of Fire


6. Once in a Blue Moon


7. Seeing Triple


8. The sky is bleeding


9. Greats Balls is Fire


10. Raining Fish and Frogs



Visit that site for more info or explanation...

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Ok here's a brain scratcher for all the English Majors out here....


Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo


The sentence above is actually a grammatically valid sentence...Without googling can anybody figure out how...???

[anon]

Ok here's a brain scratcher for all the English Majors out here....


Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo


The sentence above is actually a grammatically valid sentence...Without googling can anybody figure out how...???

Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I didn't use Google, honest.

[slikrapid]

1. Sea Monster or Spinning Water?
not convincing, as the fluid water/vapor texture cannot easily be mistaken for a solid object like a monster's (ie. big animal's) neck
6. Once in a Blue Moon
the volcanic dust explanation is very thin - since the sky is blue/bluish during daytime, it has the same components during nighttime too, just darkened, so the moon always has a blue overtone of varying intensity, as for the phrase itself it means a rare event, whereas earlier it was closer to a non-occurring/impossible event, so basically it could mean anything from never, to rare to hidden in plain sight
7. Seeing Triple
suspicious, if it was just reflection then there should be possible to see an almost arbitrary number of temporary multiple ghost images roughly at the same time
10. Raining Fish and Frogs
inadequate, as there should be a greater diversity in species that fall to an area, also not only water based/related ones

Other English words can be used to make grammatical (but not necessarily meaningful) sentences of this form, containing endless consecutive repetitions. Any word that is both an animate plural noun and a transitive verb will work.

interesting stuff, but rather useless for practical usage

[Resurrection]

interesting stuff

Well thats what I'm aiming at in this thread...



But your skepticism is GLARING... I would love to talk to your friends about how they deals with your constant questioning nature...


Oh i can just imagine...

Hi...i brought you these expensive Godiva chocolates

*takes a bite*
What is this bitter thing you feed me???

[Pause]
No sex for a month

Well I've got another exhibit to prove how Mother Nature has the most beautiful things...

Yesterday I was swimming in my pool when I saw these creatures...At first I thought they were my relatives,but when they got close they didn't bite me and didn't ask me for money so I figured they were some types of fish...

Goliath Tigerfish



Frilled Shark



Blob Fish



Wolf Fish




Rat-tails or Grenadiers




Lamprey




Basking Shark



Goblin Shark




Giant Isopod:



Leafy Sea Dragon:

[slikrapid]

But your skepticism is GLARING...

actually, it only seems to be that way because the majority of the usual posts/users on the site aren't bothering to scratch the surface (which is roughly what i'm doing) as for some reason they seem contented with observing the superficial, i'm fairly sure that any expert in a particular field could make a thoroughly abominable dissection of our attempts at understanding things if desired (ie. we would be easily pwned)

[Pause]
No sex for a month

hehe, you think i haven't worked that angle yet?

btw. cute fishie's there

[anon]

But your skepticism is GLARING... I would love to talk to your friends about how they deals with your constant questioning nature...

Questioning is the essence of science.

[Resurrection]

Yes but sometimes its okay to look and appreciate the beauty of a sunset rather than worrying about the UV rays and global warming...

WHAT is this life if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare?—