True Mysteries and Oddities

**Heisenberg** · 05-14-2012, 02:40 PM

Originally Posted by tyler.durden

So, what do you think is going on in the car video, Heis? Is it an optical illusion where it seems they're going up a hill but it's really a on a down grade? Or did they really have the car on in first gear or something? Why didn't the bring a level and simply put it on the ground to check?

Sorry, I forgot to anchor my link. Here it is.

Mystery spots examined

And if you want to really go in depth, try this.

Short version, you are correct about the grade seeming to be uphill but really in terms of gravity it's down hill.

**Stonerman Enoch** · 05-16-2012, 12:49 PM

Watch all the way till the end, it's not really a mystery just interesting but that last transformation is something to behold......

**Heisenberg** · 05-21-2012, 09:01 PM

Here's a different type of oddity, a trick of the mind.

The Flashed face distroition effect can cause us to see beauty as ugly when we are not focused directly on it. As you look at different faces they become exagerated.

Flashed Face Distortion

**mindphuk** · 05-21-2012, 10:12 PM

Originally Posted by Heisenberg

Here's a different type of oddity, a trick of the mind.

The Flashed face distroition effect can cause us to see beauty as ugly when we are not focused directly on it. As you look at different faces they become exagerated.

Flashed Face Distortion

That's fucked up!

**cannabineer** · 05-21-2012, 10:20 PM

Originally Posted by mindphuk

That's fucked up!

Agreed. It was like looking at old Hirschfeld caricatures of celebs. cn

**Heisenberg** · 08-13-2012, 04:52 PM

What would you do if you walked outside and noticed what looked like millions of tiny bugs jumping around, but on closer inspection you saw that they were actually little spheres with no eyes or extremities, apparently lifeless, and covered the ground for as far as you could see?

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Would you think we were being invaded by alien bugs? A neighborhood in Davis California recently suffered an unusual amount of these things, alarming a few residents. Some even wondered if they were in danger of 'pod people'. The old timers quickly set them at ease, explaining that they were wasp larvae, similar to jumping beans.

In Davis, our Valley Oaks are commonly afflicted with jumping oak gall caused by a small cynipid wasp species (Neuroteras saltatorius). These are the tiny “jumping beans” you will notice falling on your picnic table under the big oak tree. These round pinhead-sized yellow or brown seed-like galls typically appear first on the leaves, falling off when the lone inhabitant is mature; the wasp’s activity makes the gall “jump” several inches off the ground. It is believed that the larvae hop around to locate a soil crack in which to hide and pupate before maturing to adulthood and chewing its way out of the gall. The wasps themselves are dark and so tiny that you’ll probably never see them — they are harmless to people.