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This Is Why You Get IN The Plane, Rather Than ON The Plane

The young dentist never reached either country. The next day, he didn’t make it beyond a rooftop four miles from Kabul airport, where his body was found after he plunged from a U.S. military plane as it took off — one of the most tragic and indelible images in the final chapter of the U.S. campaign in Afghanistan.

Even in a backward country, one might expect that a medical professional would realize that grabbing onto the side of a jet aircraft is not a reasonable approach to hitch-hiking.

 

Wave Of The Future!

Flooding was caused by a slow-moving, low-pressure weather system that sat over the region from 15 July, releasing two months’ worth of rain in two days. Over 10 inches of rain fell continuously in some places in the hilly Ardennes, Eifel, and Ruhr regions; in many cases, this was then channeled down steep-sided river valleys, unleashing massive destructive power in towns and villages in the water’s path.

There's nothing quite like modern rail; just ask the Germans:

That's not going to buff right out...these lines will be down for months (and in many cases, years).

You can see why so many politicians here in America are so eager to dump millions of tax dollars into modern rail.

 

 

Inattention Can Cost You.

A panicked woman raced her pooch to the vet fearing he had a lump on his stomach - but it turned out to just be his nipples. The expensive mistake - which cost £145 ($200) was shared on TikTok, where it left people in stitches.

Ignorant people and animals is generally a bad combination.

 

What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

Take the case of a Shinkansen bullet train driver who left the cockpit to use the bathroom on May 16. This isn't your typical work break -- he did so while the train ran at 150 kilometers per hour (90 mph) with some 160 passengers on board.

That seems a bit...unwise.

Maybe it was something he ate....

 

South Of The Border

Down Mexico way...

MEXICO CITY is sinking at an alarming rate, according to new data.

Scientists think the problem is largely unstoppable because some parts of the city are now too low to save.

They probably shouldn't have built in on a lake, but that's where the Spanish chose to start their ball rolling. Mexicans just kept adding onto their problem.

Mexico City is the densely populated capital of Mexico.

It's built on a lake bed which has been growing increasingly dry due to centuries of water drainage.

Cracks are now forming in the cities foundations, putting infrastructure at risk of collapse.

 

Indian Pyres

Things are pretty bad in India right now; there seem to be funeral pyres all over the place there due to the number of Covid-19 deaths.

This man's trying to get away before the infernos can claim him, as well.  Wish him well.

 

https://www.sciencealert.com/fossilized-dinosaur-found-brooding-on-a-nest-of-preserved-eggs-with-actual-embryos-inside

An international team of scientists has announced the discovery of an extraordinary fossilized nest in China, preserving at least eight separate dinosaurs from 70 million years ago. An international team of scientists has announced the discovery of an extraordinary fossilized nest in China, preserving at least eight separate dinosaurs from 70 million years ago. 

An international team of scientists has announced the discovery of an extraordinary fossilized nest in China, preserving at least eight separate dinosaurs from 70 million years ago. 

The ancient scene is unprecedented, and provides the first hard evidence that dinosaurs were brooding parents, laying their eggs and incubating them for quite a long time.

 

Oopsie!

A group of Taliban jihadists gathered at a mosque in the village of Qultaq on February 13 to receive training on how to assemble bombs and improvised explosive devices (IED). An explosive device accidentally detonated, killing at least “30 Taliban fighters including six foreign nationals who were expert mine makers,” according to the Afghan Army’s 209th Shaheen Corps, which confirmed the deadly blast in a statement released Saturday. The bodies of the six Taliban-affiliated foreign nationals were rendered unidentifiable by the blast, according to the statement.

Well, they're off to a good start!

May others follow their lead.

 

Obviously Not Eskimos

BERLIN -- A 7-year-old boy has died in eastern Switzerland after a homemade igloo collapsed on him and his father, police said Wednesday.

I thought they were all homemade.

 

 

Second-Hand Stonehenge

Mike Parker Pearson, a professor of British later prehistory at University College London, told the Guardian: “I’ve been researching Stonehenge for 20 years now and this really is the most exciting thing we’ve ever found.”

The evidence backs a century-old theory that the nation’s greatest prehistoric monument was built in Wales and venerated for hundreds of years before being dismantled and dragged to Wiltshire, where it was resurrected as a second-hand monument.

It seems like rather a lot of effort, but the evidence appears incontrovertible: the edifice was first constructed in Wales and stood there for centuries - until the Brits decided to take it.

An ancient myth about Stonehenge, first recorded 900 years ago, tells of the wizard Merlin leading men to Ireland to capture a magical stone circle called the Giants’ Dance and rebuilding it in England as a memorial to the dead.

As it happens, that part of Wales was, at the time, Irish territory. Odd times....