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queserasera posted:And that Arctic thread gave me a bunch of stuff to read and made me put on a sweater. Thanks.  I think it is a useful resource for anyone interested in polar travel/adventure/disaster and good place to discuss those topics. I wish we could get a few more people visiting and posting there. It would be a shame for it to be lost to the archives.
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Scathach posted:Stop being douchebags, this thread is good and weird and you're gonna ruin it. Jerks. Honestly the most unnerving part of this is that during the autopsy the victims skulls were removed and sent to Munich for examination by clairvoyants. Forensic Investigation was clearly very different back then.
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New page! This thread probably needs a reboot but let's not make it by getting gassed. Speaking of gassed, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sverdlovsk_anthrax_leak In 1979, the Soviet biological/chemical warfare programs were in full swing and pumping out literal tons of anthrax spores every year. An air filter at one of the plants was removed for cleaning and didn't get replaced before the next shift; at least a hundred people (and many more livestock) died. The official response was to blame it on tainted meat. It doesn't mention it in the article, but when the programs were shut down, the facilities were more or less abandoned with chemical weapons still on the shelves and existing anthrax stock was just dumped in a hole and plowed over. (another plug for The Dead Hand, a really good book about Cold War weapons programs)
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RNG posted:New page! This thread probably needs a reboot but let's not make it by getting gassed. Speaking of gassed, The principal source on that is Ken Alibek, a Soviet bioweapons researcher and facility director who left and moved to the US in the early 90s, and then moved back home to Kazakhstan. His book where he discusses that leak and other incidents is very disturbing, but Alibek has more than a whiff of the snake-oil salesman about him and you should have salt nearby when you read it. http://www.amazon.com/Biohazard-Chilling-Largest-Biological-World-Told/dp/0385334966 Gruinard Island mentioned yet? Tiny island off the coast of Scotland, rendered uninhabitable for 50 years by British biowarfare experiments with anthrax in 1942. In the 80s some persons unknown started leaving anthrax-contaminated soil samples, possibly from the island, around England and issuing threats that they'd start infecting people unless the UK decontaminated the island. Which it did, by spraying a shitload of formaldehyde everywhere. Phanatic has a new favorite as of 18:07 on Apr 7, 2016 |
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^^^ wasnt there also an island where dangerous bioweapons were kept, but then the lake dried up so now anyone could walk to it? I think the russians were involved with that but im coming up blank.Scathach posted:Stop being douchebags, this thread is good and weird and you're gonna ruin it. Jerks. I half think Hard Counter's 'the swastika mask' story was based off this from the ghost stories thread. Probably fake since pics never arose, but it still creeps me out. Random death by bears wandering through is one horror, but being hunted by another human being while being in the middle of the forest is one of my nightmares.
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Wedemeyer posted:^^^ wasnt there also an island where dangerous bioweapons were kept, but then the lake dried up so now anyone could walk to it? I think the russians were involved with that but im coming up blank. Vozrozhdeniya Island, formerly an island in the Aral Sea, now, well: 
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Literally The Worst posted:I want to know more about th guy who sat backwards on the toilet He's one post above yours.
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grancheater posted:Vozrozhdeniya Island, formerly an island in the Aral Sea, now, well: The desiccation of the Aral itself is kind of unnerving to me - all the more so because not only did the Russians/Soviets expect it as a consequence of their irrigation program, some of them actively wanted it to happen: quote:“The saddest and most frustrating thing about the tragedy of the Aral Sea is that the Soviet officials at the Ministry of Water who designed the irrigation canals knew full well that they were dooming the Aral,” Kamalov says. From the 1920s through the 1960s, water officials often cited the work of Russia’s most famous climatologist, Aleksandr Voeikov (1842-1916), who once referred to the Aral Sea as a “useless evaporator” and a “mistake of nature.”
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pookel posted:Only if he also hung out with him watching him make the tape and decided he wanted to be buddies instead of reporting it to anyone. do you get mad if an investigative journalist or writer talks to a drug dealer and doesn't call the police immediately afterwards
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Besesoth posted:The desiccation of the Aral itself is kind of unnerving to me - all the more so because not only did the Russians/Soviets expect it as a consequence of their irrigation program, some of them actively wanted it to happen: Here's a pretty good national geographic piece on what's left of the Aral. http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2015/06/aral-sea/synnott-text Oh, and there's this: National Geographic posted:The cotton harvests continue today. Each fall about two million of Uzbekistan’s 29 million citizens “volunteer” to pick millions of bushels of the nation’s cotton crop. The country virtually shuts down while government employees, schoolchildren, teachers, doctors, nurses, engineers, and even senior citizens are bused to the fields to reap their daily quota.
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Minarchist posted:Here's a pretty good national geographic piece on what's left of the Aral. That's the second article I linked.   It is pretty good, though!
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Wedemeyer posted:being hunted by another human being while being in the middle of the forest is one of my nightmares. Allow me to recommend this old gem.
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Wedemeyer posted:being hunted by another human being while being in the middle of the forest is one of my nightmares. I read this a being hunted by a human BONG and an awful, visceral image ran through my head and scared me. A man-sized bong with the legs of a sprinting bodybuilder, easily smashing black trees as it scampers indefatigably after you. So it's a perfect post in this thread; thank you. This story is pretty nice as a headline! but it's mundane if you look into it.
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Phanatic posted:The principal source on that is Ken Alibek, a Soviet bioweapons researcher and facility director who left and moved to the US in the early 90s, and then moved back home to Kazakhstan. His book where he discusses that leak and other incidents is very disturbing, but Alibek has more than a whiff of the snake-oil salesman about him and you should have salt nearby when you read it. Huh, interesting. I guess I saw the Pulitzer on the front and bought into it a little too hard. Still might check out the guy's book, though!
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Besesoth posted:That's the second article I linked. I didn't see the underlines text there  It's in the NatGeo issue about weed so I kept it around.
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'Betting on Famine' by Jean Ziegler posted:Noma's technical name is cancrum oris, or gangrenous stomatitis. It is a gangrenous disease, a rapidly progressive, polymicrobial, opportunistic infection that develops in the mouth and leads to tissue destruction of the face. Its primary cause is malnutrition. Noma devours the faces of malnourished children, mainly those aged one to six. I don't have the stomach to search for images. We've engineered a world where children in the global South die horribly, traumatically, because we opt to hoard wealth. Prof. Moriarty has a new favorite as of 09:19 on Apr 8, 2016 |
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Well, that's truly horrifying. I did an image search and it is as  as you would imagine. Also, interspersed with pictures of an upscale restaurant I can only assume didn't google that potential name before adopting it.
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So... this happened. It's an, uh... unexpected... sequel to a famous forums unnerving story.
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Holy poo poo, he's still alive?!
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Was he a goon?
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whiteyfats posted:Was he a goon? Yeah, he used to make a lot of really disconcerting posts.
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whiteyfats posted:Was he a goon? http://forums.somethingawful.com/dictionary.php?act=3&topicid=2299
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whiteyfats posted:Was he a goon? Yes he
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 I thought htat dude was for sure dead and buried
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M42 posted:Holy poo poo, he's still alive?! I absolutely cannot believe Caro isn't dead
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theflyingorc posted:I absolutely cannot believe Caro isn't dead
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Hoooooly poo poo can't wait for caro to post again.
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Did we pban his account or was it left open?
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It seems weird that they are calling him a freelance photographer. I guess they didn't want to just call him a crazy nutjob.
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Abugadu posted:Did we pban his account or was it left open? All his accounts were perma'd. I doubt he'd ever come back here but there's always hope he can tell us wtf happened.
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Starting reading about noma, came back to thread to see Caro is still alive. Ho-lee poo poo. I hope he comes home safe and gets some help. Back to noma: the Wiki article on this had another unnerving story buried within it, that of Berthold Epstein, the Czech Jewish pediatrician who was forced to be Mengele's assistant at Auschwitz, while his family died in the camp. His research into noma, under the direction of Mengele, was instrumental in our understanding of the disease - and the research eventually included intentionally infecting healthy children with it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berthold_Epstein https://books.google.com/books?id=b...epstein&f=false
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So will Serial Season 3 be about Caro? With at least one special episode about goons? I can only hope.
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has someone registered the "caro alive, so what" username yet?
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Does anyone else really dislike the voices of the hosts of Unresolved and Lore? It's sad because I find the topics fascinating and they're well researched podcasts, but the sensationalistic tone of Unresolved and the pretentious cadence of Lore are just really offputting.
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The Caro lives, the thread so shall endure. I have heard your plight, and will return in accordance of the pact made when light and love once ruled the land. I will get back into my posting groove in here, promise. More stories about dead people in out of control vehicles soon.
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theflyingorc posted:I absolutely cannot believe Caro isn't dead Only the good die young.
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