Anomalies

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The Japanese are so cool. They built a life-size, 1:1-scale Gundam. Its 59 feet tall and has lights and a moving head. Its in Odaiba and will be there for about 2 months for some Gundam festival. heres hoping that when they are done they equip it with lasers and the ability to fly

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A teenager was hit by a meteorite travelling at 30,000mph - and lived to tell the tale.

Gerrit Blank was on his way to school when he saw a massive fireball heading straight towards him from the sky.

The white-hot meteorite bounced off the schoolboy's hand and hit the ground so hard it left a foot-long crater in the tarmac - as well as a three-inch scar on his hand.

Gerrit, 14, said: "At first I just saw a large ball of light and then I suddenly felt a pain in my hand.

"Then, a split second after that, there was an enormous bang like a crash of thunder."

"The noise that came after the flash of light was so loud that my ears were ringing for hours afterwards.

"When it hit me it knocked me flying and then was still going fast enough to bury itself in the road."

Scientists are now studying the pea-sized meteorite, which crashed to Earth in Essen in Germany.

Chemical tests on the rock have now proved it is from outer space.

Ansgar Korte, director of Germany's Walter Hohmann Observatory, said: "It's a real meteorite, therefore it is very valuable to collectors and scientists."

Chances of being struck by a meteorite are around one in 100 million.

Mr Korte said: "Most meteorites don't actually make it to ground level because they evaporate in the atmosphere.

"Of those that do get through, about six out of every seven of them land in water."

There is only one other known case of a human being surviving a direct hit from a meteor.

A grapefruit-sized meteor crashed through the roof of a house in Alabama, in the USA, in 1954.

After smashing through the top of the building, it bounced off furniture and then hit a woman who was asleep at the time
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Mike Tysons Punch-Out



If any of you talented Ladies on this board could knit me one of these I would love you forever.

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Some cut backs on expenditures for the
Golden Compass sequel were necessary ....



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59 foot tall robot at night:

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I'm probably going to have my enjoyment of my photo added to my list of reasons I'm going to hell.
I can't help it though. You know this kid's thinking "If she'd only get to know me she'd love me"

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A 400-foot phoenix crop circle discovered in a barley field in Yatesbury near Devizes



A 600-foot jellyfish crop circle created in a field of barley in Kingstone Coombes, Oxfordshire



A 150ft long dragonfly crop circle in a field of barley in Yatesbury, Wiltshire