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This was a few pages back but here's a quote from the article: "Although not true carnivores, pigs are competent predators and can kill and eat helpless humans unable to escape them."  Guess you better hope you don't trip and fall in a pig pen. Speaking of man eating here's an article that has a list of all the big cat attacks on people from 1990-2014 http://bigcatrescue.org/big-cat-attacks/ Most of the article can be boiled down to irresponsible people trying to keep a tiger as a pet, but some of them are crazy: quote:An unidentified man, fuelled by booze, decided that it would be a really good idea to climb into the tiger’s enclosure and give him a hug. The tiger didn’t think so and bit him on the arm. Director Shilo denied that the zoo was able to prevent a determined person from getting into the animal cages. Of course it's Russia. Ebola Roulette has a new favorite as of 22:03 on Aug 1, 2014 |
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rayne503 posted:This was a few pages back but here's a quote from the article: From the source article: quote:The murder of Raccosta was allegedly led by Simone Pepe, 24, a rival gangster, who was arrested this week.
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Sebastian Vettel posted:Articles like this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_far_future unnerve me a lot more than stuff about serial killers and the like. Just reading about all these events that are due to happen millions of years into the future that will render everything done by every person everywhere irrelevant isn't pleasant to think about. I had been kinda unnerved by the whole end of the universe bits that I hadn't scrolled down further until now when I was just giving it a second look, and there's some pretty cool poo poo about spacecraft in there that I never knew before, such as: 50,000- Earliest opportunity to receive any reply to the Arecibo message, assuming no superluminal communication. 1 million- On the Moon, Neil Armstrong's "one small step" footprint at Tranquility Base will erode by this time, along with those left by all twelve Apollo moonwalkers, due to the accumulated effects of space weathering. 8 million- The LAGEOS satellites' orbits will decay, and they will re-enter Earth's atmosphere, carrying with them a message to any far future descendants of humanity, and a map of the continents as they are expected to appear then. 1 billion- Estimated lifespan of the two Voyager Golden Records, before the information stored on them is rendered unrecoverable.
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kittenmittons posted:Speaking of terrible crimes in Indiana, here's one from my hometown. More depressing: The father of the ringleader raped and tortured his wife, daughters, and other children, which came out during the trial, but because of a statute of limitations he couldn't be prosecuted on anything except one small charged. He was in prison for only two years. So on the sympathy thing: The girl who was the ringleader in murdering another girl was herself raped over and over by her father. Is it okay to feel sympathy for her for being raped over and over by her father? Because I feel pretty bad for her being raped over and over by her father. In other scariness from that same case: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Camm One of the investigating officers on that case was later suspected, arrested, and tried three times for the murder of his own family. The prosecution got witnesses to perjure themselves, hid evidence, and one of the prosecutors was an attorney for another main suspect.
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Obdicut posted:More depressing: The father of the ringleader raped and tortured his wife, daughters, and other children, which came out during the trial, but because of a statute of limitations he couldn't be prosecuted on anything except one small charged. He was in prison for only two years. The fact that there's still states with statutes of limitations on child rape is the most  thing ever. What the gently caress.
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13Pandora13 posted:The fact that there's still states with statutes of limitations on child rape is the most And apparently really loving short statues of limitation, if this case is anything to go on.
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LaughMyselfTo posted:And apparently really loving short statues of limitation, if this case is anything to go on. No, the provable stuff happened way back when; Melinda refused to admit that her father had ever raped her even though there was plenty of other testimony that he did, and that it was completely acknowledged he did incredibly sick poo poo like smelling his daughter's underwear in front of them to humiliate them. Completely and utterly sick gently caress. His wife tried to kill herself a lot, too. Basically, of the things they could charge him with--with the siblings that weren't 'tainted' by severe mental instability or refusal to testify--were all from a long time ago, during Melissa's infancy. It's all an absolutely horrible case, but the worse part is the biggest villain, the father, walked free after two years in jail even after utterly ruining so many lives. Oh, and if no one's seen "Beautiful Creatures", you should.
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Gordon Shumway posted:I had been kinda unnerved by the whole end of the universe bits that I hadn't scrolled down further until now when I was just giving it a second look, and there's some pretty cool poo poo about spacecraft in there that I never knew before, such as: quote:In a timescale of approximately 10^65 years, apparently rigid objects such as rocks will be able to rearrange their atoms and molecules via quantum tunnelling, behaving as a liquid does, but more slowly. And so castles made of sand melt into the sea, eventually.
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Yeah, stuff about the heat death of the universe just makes me feel really uneasy. The timescale of the universe seems infinite, but like anything else it will spend the majority of it's time decaying into nothing. 
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wyoming posted:Yeah, stuff about the heat death of the universe just makes me feel really uneasy. The timescale of the universe seems infinite, but like anything else it will spend the majority of it's time decaying into nothing. If it makes you feel better, the timescales such predictions deal in are so massive that they'd might as well be infinity to the human mind, and the predictions are based on our rather sketchy understanding of quantum mechanics.
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Maybe, I mean honestly we've only been studying subatomic stuff for a couple short decades and we've barely touched the surface on what things really are like in the deepest chasms of the quantum world. Maybe the universe does decay into wavelengths and noise but maybe it doesn't. Maybe its not really a closed system like we think, maybe there's some hereto unobserved quirk of subatomic magic that causes the universe to go all Big Bang every couple sextillion years, hell, maybe entropy doesn't really work like we think it does. Humanity has been poking holes at the universe for millennia and we've been dead wrong 99% of the time, who's to say we're right about this? And even if we are mostly right, its not beyond imagination that we find a way, in the countless eons between then and now, to 'fix' it.
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Seems like the chances of humanity surviving long enough for any of that to matter should be incredibly small.
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We have already proven to be an extinction event and therefore probably an evolutionary dead end. That might be why we've never seen any aliens: intelligence is an ecological disaster like a meteor strike or really bad ice age.
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kittenmittons posted:Speaking of terrible crimes in Indiana, here's one from my hometown. I'm about six months older than that girl was. If she were still alive she'd probably be making the same anachronistic pop culture references that I do.
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Basebf555 posted:Seems like the chances of humanity surviving long enough for any of that to matter should be incredibly small. I see it the opposite way. Assuming humanity survives that long, then given the rapid progression of technology we've seen even only recently, we should be able to stop it by then. 
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LaughMyselfTo posted:I see it the opposite way. Assuming humanity survives that long, then given the rapid progression of technology we've seen even only recently, we should be able to stop it by then. We'd probably just go to a different galaxy in a different dimension that was young and full of potential energy.
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I find this really spooky. What if you're eating a watermelon but it's really a vampire? http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vampire_pumpkins_and_watermelons
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Zeroisanumber posted:We'd probably just go to a different galaxy in a different dimension that was young and full of potential energy. But what happens when we run that galaxy dry? And the one after? We're the man stuck in a rainy grove, running between trees as each becomes too soaked for shelter. We might someday be able to reverse entropy, but until then we still have insufficient data for a meaningful answer.
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Sebastian Vettel posted:I find this really spooky. What if you're eating a watermelon but it's really a vampire? I love the detail that they chase victims but aren't very good at it.
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Sebastian Vettel posted:I find this really spooky. What if you're eating a watermelon but it's really a vampire? Welp never sleeping again
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Okan170 posted:I love the detail that they chase victims but aren't very good at it. "The gathered pumpkins stir all by themselves and make a sound like 'brrrl, brrrl, brrrl!' and begin to shake themselves...These pumpkins and melons go round the houses, stables, and rooms at night, all by themselves, and do harm to people. But it is thought that they cannot do great damage to folk, so people are not very afraid of this kind of vampire." These sound like the cutest vampire vegetables ever.
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"ibntumart" posted:These sound like the cutest vampire vegetables ever. They are the anti-Bunnicula.
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turnways posted:But what happens when we run that galaxy dry? And the one after? We're the man stuck in a rainy grove, running between trees as each becomes too soaked for shelter. We might someday be able to reverse entropy, but until then we still have insufficient data for a meaningful answer. Thanks for that story, had never read it.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Kelly_Anne_Bates A middle aged man starts a very volatile relationship with a 14year old girl. It does not end well. quote:On 17 April 1996 Smith presented at a police station and said that he had accidentally killed his girlfriend during an argument in the bath, claiming that she had inhaled bathwater and died despite his attempts to resuscitate her. What they found at his house was much, much worse. quote:Police attended Smith's address and found Bates' naked body in a bedroom. Bates' blood was found in every room of the house, and a post-mortem examination revealed over 150 separate injuries on her body. During the last month of her life she had been kept bound in the house, sometimes tied by her hair to radiators or chairs, and at other times with a ligature around her neck. William Lawler, the Home Office pathologist who examined her body, said: "In my career, I have examined almost 600 victims of homicide but I have never come across injuries so extensive." The injuries included:
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There may be a better place than this to ask, but while we're on the topic: does anyone know any good books about the end of time/the death of the universe? I'm itching to freak myself out and read some now.
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Answers Me posted:There may be a better place than this to ask, but while we're on the topic: does anyone know any good books about the end of time/the death of the universe? I'm itching to freak myself out and read some now. Not exactly what you're looking for (it does involve the end of the universe though), but Isaac Asimov's short story The Last Question is an excellent piece of writing.
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Answers Me posted:There may be a better place than this to ask, but while we're on the topic: does anyone know any good books about the end of time/the death of the universe? I'm itching to freak myself out and read some now. Check out Stephen Baxter's Manifold: Time.
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Cobweb Heart posted:This is a really good book. It really is amazing how little people gave a poo poo about what was going on in his life. His parents were both alive but never noticed or cared to do anything. He had a huge and blatant drinking problem in high school that every teacher ignored. I love him, personally.
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I certainly hope they shaved the victims and removed the teeth, for the sake of the piggies' digestion. 
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monkeytennis posted:[quote="BioMe" post="432984339"] As soon as I saw discussion of pigs eating corpses, I felt like giving the definition of what "nemesis" means. (A righteous infliction of retribution manifested by an appropriate agent. Personified in this case by an 'orrible oval office.)
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HMS Boromir posted:Is sheer unbridled horror within the purview of this thread? Because aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa what the gently caress Noose Induce posted:shut the gently caress up about serial killers holy christ What the gently caress. willus posted:http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Famine_of_1315%E2%80%9317 a little bit of rain never hurt anyone, right? WHAT THE gently caress Sebastian Vettel posted:Articles like this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_far_future unnerve me a lot more than stuff about serial killers and the like. Just reading about all these events that are due to happen millions of years into the future that will render everything done by every person everywhere irrelevant isn't pleasant to think about. What the gently caress willus posted:I'm not trying to claim this is the same struggle all gay people went through at the same time in any shape or form. I'm saying that, regardless of who he turned out to be, I can't help but feel sympathetic when I hear about his childhood. His childhood is what I feel sympathy for. The idea that the person he ultimately became should retroactively erase his developmental period is unnerving to me. kittenmittons posted:Speaking of terrible crimes in Indiana, here's one from my hometown.  Obdicut posted:More depressing: The father of the ringleader raped and tortured his wife, daughters, and other children, which came out during the trial, but because of a statute of limitations he couldn't be prosecuted on anything except one small charged. He was in prison for only two years.  Sebastian Vettel posted:I find this really spooky. What if you're eating a watermelon but it's really a vampire?  (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Sarcopenia posted:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Kelly_Anne_Bates Horrible, but that article links to Sadistic Personality Disorder, and upon its talk page "Maneki Neko", owner of the defunct gamer blog The Gameroom Blitz, states: quote:Many of these behavioral traits seem to be present in the editors of cyberbully sites like Something Awful and Encyclopedia Dramatica. One can only wonder what these individuals would do once the thrill of tormenting random Internet users wears off...  I wonder what his hilarious backstory is. ALoD? Bitter banned goon? Anyone know? ED doesn't seem to have a page for him or his crappy blog. A slightly less retarded editor opines:quote:I would suspect that the lack of control that is inherent in the Internet would make it a less attractive venue for people with SPD than the normal real world. It's just too easy for e.g. someone to simply ignore a web site like Something Awful, and I think someone with SPD would find that intolerable.
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Tree Huffer posted:It's really unfortunate for everybody involved. There was a really lovely book based on this case called "The Girl Next Door," that even painted the child perpetrators as monsters for participating. What the gently caress you talking 'bout ''lovely book.'' It's pretty good and only loosely based on the case.
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When the bombs fall and blast this little dirtball to a cinder, I'll have a tiny smile on my face.
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Sarcopenia posted:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Kelly_Anne_Bates i'm adding this to the list of poo poo i wish i didn't know about. What an absolute bastard of a man he was.
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stickyfngrdboy posted:i'm adding this to the list of poo poo i wish i didn't know about. What an absolute bastard of a man he was. same, what the hell.... 
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