Weird News III - Beyond the Bizarre

[Kaitzilla]

https://nypost.com/2020/11/20/maker...-say-meal-kit-is-not-technically-cannibalism/

Makers of grow-your-own human steaks say meal kit is not ‘technically’ cannibalism

Dang mad scientists!

“Growing yourself ensures that you and your loved ones always know the origin of your food, how it has been raised and that its cells were acquired ethically and consensually,” a website for the imagined product states.

https://www.ourochef.com/
An Ouroboros Steak, hmm

 

[Samson]

https://nypost.com/2020/11/20/maker...-say-meal-kit-is-not-technically-cannibalism/

Dang mad scientists!

https://www.ourochef.com/
An Ouroboros Steak, hmm

That is a brilliant solution to a problem no one has.

[EDIT] I say this, but there is the controversy about the source of cell culture cells, such as Henrietta Lacks, the source of the HeLa cell line who never had any chance to give consent, and received no benefit, despite being the source of one of the most useful tools of biology.

 

[The_J]

No really good news site reporting this, so here we go with: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...d-mistaking-pop-superstar-Diego-Maradona.html

Australians think MADONNA is dead after mistaking the pop superstar for Argentine football legend Diego Maradona who passed away aged 60

• Fans have confused fallen footballer Diego Maradona with pop star Madonna
• Argentine football icon died from a heart attack in Buenos Aires on Wednesday
• Madonna was trending on Twitter after a case of mistaken identity among fans
• Maradona is widely regarded as the greatest footballer player of all time

 

[Kyriakos]

No really good news site reporting this, so here we go with: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...d-mistaking-pop-superstar-Diego-Maradona.html

Dr Mengele is still chancellor of Germany.

 

[The_J]

I for one welcome our new unknown overlords

Officers from the Utah Department of Public Safety's Aero Bureau were flying by helicopter last Wednesday, helping the Division of Wildlife Resources count bighorn sheep in southeastern Utah, when they spotted something that seemed right out of "2001: A Space Odyssey."
"One of the biologists ... spotted it, and we just happened to fly directly over the top of it," pilot Bret Hutchings told CNN affiliate KSL. "He was like, 'Whoa, whoa, whoa, turn around, turn around!' And I was like, 'What.' And he's like, 'There's this thing back there -- we've got to go look at it!'"
And there it was -- in the middle of the red rock was a shiny, silver metal monolith sticking out of the ground. Hutchings guessed it was "between 10 and 12 feet high." It didn't look like it was randomly dropped to the ground, he told KSL, but rather it looked like it had been planted.​

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/28/us/monolith-utah-disappeared.html

That Mysterious Monolith in the Utah Desert? It’s Gone, Officials Say
The metal structure has been removed, Utah officials said on Saturday, adding that they had not taken it down.

The mystery thickens.

 

[Kyriakos]

Shouldn't the NYT not bother with this kind of X-files story?
Besides, any random trucker could have moved it. What's the surprise? I am sure the desert has a number of UFO-enthusiasts who wanted to study it.

 

[r16]

was saving for some post of mine in full r16 scale and style but it natually has done its part in reminding how in 2001 the dude becomes a god or whatever and the world is not hopeless against r16 and his "dates" and the Starfleet !

 

[shadowplay]

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/28/us/monolith-utah-disappeared.html


The mystery thickens.

somebody wanted their fridge door back.

 

[Samson]

St Helens elephants: Doorstep mystery leaves police dumbo-founded

A mystery herd of ornamental elephants has appeared on doorsteps of the same street leaving residents and police dumbo-founded.
The 64-strong collection turned up on Vincent Street in St Helens overnight between Thursday and Friday.
Merseyside Police said the unexpected arrival had "caused concern" and asked for the owner to come forward.
As officers employed their grey matter, social media launched its own tusk force to explore various theories.
Police inquiries around the elephants' new stomping ground have so far failed to truncate the investigation.​

 

[Kyriakos]

"Tusk force"

 

[r16]

must have been offended by people with the shiny metal slabs getting all the attention ... Apparently another monolith in Romania but this one is poorly made ?

 

[Samson]

must have been offended by people with the shiny metal slabs getting all the attention ... Apparently another monolith in Romania but this one is poorly made ?

Looks OK:

Surely the damage was done in the orbit it had to do getting from Utah to Romania.

 

[Birdjaguar]

Pyramidos is a japanese band which covers folksy greek songs

...

Sounds Turkish to me. One of the guys is even wearing a fez!

 

[Birdjaguar]

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/28/us/monolith-utah-disappeared.html


The mystery thickens.

Apparently folks have found google earth images showing the monolith as far back as 2016.

 

[Kyriakos]

Sounds Turkish to me. One of the guys is even wearing a fez!

What do you expect? Most turks are greek after all.

 

[Broken_Erika]

Grünten statue: Mystery over missing phallic landmark

German police have launched an investigation into the disappearance of a peculiar phallic-shaped sculpture from a mountainside in Bavaria, local media say.

The two-metre tall (6.5ft) wooden statue was apparently chopped down over the weekend, the Allgaeuer Zeitung newspaper reported.

The statue stood for years on the Grünten mountain, south-west of Munich.

Now, all that remains of the monument is a small stump and some wood chips.

It is not known who originally carved and erected the sculpture, which has become a landmark on the 1,738m-high (5,702ft) Grünten mountain, attracting many hikers to the area.

Even online map service Google Maps had recognised the sculpture's status, designating it as a "cultural monument".

No-one knows how the 200kg (440lbs) sculpture was hauled up the mountain either.

One theory, reported by German media, is that the sculpture was an unwanted birthday gift, carved by a group of young men as a practical joke for a friend. When the present was rejected, they pulled it up the mountain on a sledge, leaving it for others to appreciate.

The monument, which was placed on the mountain four or five years ago, had been left mostly untouched but came to the attention of police after reports of its disappearance over the weekend.

On Monday police in the Bavarian town of Kempten said they had opened an investigation, according to German news agency dpa. But they are not sure what they will do if a culprit is found.

"We don't know whether it is a criminal offence or not," police spokesman Holger Stabik told Allgaeuer Zeitung.

He said police would also have difficulty determining who the injured party in the case might be, as the statue has no clear owner.

The mayor of nearby Rettenberg, Nikolaus Weissinger, said the disappearance of the sculpture was "a shame".

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-55142062

 

[Samson]

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-55142062

I reckon that utah monolith is doing so well on the darknet stolen art marketplace that anyone who can think of anything similar is going robbing.

 

[r16]

aliens like modesty , don't like stuff showing the middle finger and whatnot .

 

[Kyriakos]

I reckon that utah monolith is doing so well on the darknet stolen art marketplace that anyone who can think of anything similar is going robbing.

"Utah's Bureau of Land Management said it had seen credible reports the object had been removed "by an unknown party"."

What does this mean? Surely it couldn't have moved by itself. Or do TPTB no longer even care to keep the sheeple docile?!

 

[r16]

this thing about unknown unknowns is some Greek speech from thousands of years ago , right ? lt means a truck or something drove in , 4 guys got off , cut it off and drove away .