From an ET punching a fella in the gob, to apes performing home improvements, This is Trending Tuesday !\r
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ET Stay Home\r
A fellow named John Mooner in the UK claims to have been assaulted by an extraterrestrial … and says he has visual proof of the incident! But not only was he assaulted … Mr Mooner says the aggressive aliens abducted him as well. Curiously, he claims not to remember the abduction taking place … but is able to recall sporadic instances of missing time throughout 2016. He decided to use Google Satellite Maps in an effort to observe the area in which he believed the abduction took place. Mr Mooner indeed found some events that were unusual … including what he purports is the ual abduction. In a satellite image (#3), he claims to discern himself fighting off a gray alien by throwing a punch at its face … the image is blurry, but shapes in the picture can be made out … although it could be a subjective call as to what one sees there. Nonetheless, Mr Mooner claims that other picture show what appear to be oddly formed bright shapes hovering over an unidentified neighborhood … the shape with a green glow is said to be an alien craft waiting to beam Mr Mooner aboard. While he has his doubters, Mr Mooner sticks by his story … Do you believe him? \r
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Explosive Mystery\r
The Tunguska (tung-GOO-skuh) Event occurred on June 20, 1908 … thats when a huge fireball was witnessed in the skies of Siberia. That sighting preceded what is considered the worlds biggest explosion … estimated to have a force of some 15 megatons of TNT -- or about 1,000 times more powerful than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima (her-OH-shim-uh) -- however, estimates of that force do vary. The explosion that occurred around 6 miles above ground flattened 80 million trees and was felt as far away as Britain. Amazingly, there were no human fatalities recorded. Scientists initially thought the event was caused by a meteorite that exploded in the atmosphere … and that a fragment that struck the ground created an imp crater. That crater was thought to have been hidden by the blue waters of Lake Cheko (chee-koe). Research by Russian scientists indicate the meteorite theory is flawed. When experts tested sediment from the deepest part of Lake Cheko (chee-ko), it was dated at around 280 years old. Because samples could not be obtained from the very bottom of the sediment layer, that indicates the lake is even older … and is unlikely to be a crater lake formed by the Tunguska (tung-GOO-skuh) Event. If thats the case, the mystery remains … and the truth is still out there. \r
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Ape see, Ape do\r
Will we be seeing Great Apes shopping at Home Depot anytime soon? Possibly, if the behavior of a female orangutan is any indication. Amazing footage shot in Borneo showed the orangutan skillfully using a saw to cut a tree branch in two. She held the tool in her right hand … and kept the branch in place by tightly gripping it with her feet. And not unlike a craftsman, she even blew away the sawdust to inspect her work! Experts say the animal learned the skill by copying builders she had observed in the region … but prior to this, no one suspected a wild orangutan ually knew the technique. The scenes were presented on “Spy in the Wild” … thats a BBC-One TV . The programme features realistic robots that resemble various animals … then places them in situations where they can inter with their biological counterparts. In this case, a robot orangutan was programmed to copy the real animals behavior … which made the great ape become competitive and saw the branch faster, to beat her perceived rival. The orangutan was also seen using tree bark as soap and rubbing it on her arms. Its thought she learned this behavior by observing local people washing in nearby rivers.