This was despite the episode title, as always, a brief three-quarters of an hour, and the use of “The Killing” so usually all right. But with “72 Hours”, the authors have a top on it and put it in the rather short time so much that you end up not even know if you really can not remember everything.

Linden – captured or saved?

The episode begins with Linden’s being committed to a mental hospital. Although it comes as no surprise to win the scenes with the imprisoned Linden (Mireille Enos), an extreme threat. On the one hand, we suffer with her because she had to be the case. It even works for more than twenty episodes of it. This is not to fail, but now it please!

On the other hand, has been in the last few episodes of the question to arise, whether Linden really might lose control of their lives. And the scene where she swallows only slowly, then almost greedily the hospital food, suggesting a how much she expected her body since the murder of Rosie Larsen.

Holder in the web of conspiracy

Especially the scenes with Holder (Joel Kinnaman) let down the audience and again doubt: Is there a conspiracy or was carried away only by Linden Holder on the way into a psychosis? “The Killing” is used to intelligently made conspiracy theory for those who are interested in actually not particularly for conspiracies. Suddenly you are doubting, wondering, what’s still true. Who can believe you? Who has what motivation?

Holder is still one of Linden, you believe and trying to get them out of the hospital. But he also lost faith in the system has not yet, because of his latest investigation, he turns to Lt.. Carlson (Mark Moses), even if he has already thrown him and Linden many a stick between the legs. And his confidence seems to be rewarded for his boss gets involved in his story, asking for.

The major review of the returnees

Suddenly he is back – Bennet Ahmed (Brandon Jay McLaren), who falsely accused and Holder of Linden, who was Stan (Brent Sexton) and Belko (Brendan Sexton III) is almost killed. And it is introduced is not large. The audience sees only what Stan can also see the life of the teacher.

The same happens with ex-fiance Rick Linden (Callum Keith Rennie). It appears, helps Holder, give it the responsibility for Linden and disappears without a word.

On the one hand somehow unsatisfying, but it’s so realistic. And that is a strength of the series. Something or someone suddenly turns up again, without the audience is led gently and everything gets explained. The Killing allows the person in front of the TV screen his own thoughts on what she went through Bennet Ahmed in the meantime well as Rick’s life is gone, and what moved him, but to come here again and to help Holder.

“The Kennedys” found on the Franco-German cultural channel Arte is home. Of 26 Of July will see the eight-part miniseries about American every Thursday at 20.35 clock.

The series explores the fate of the powerful family through all the turmoil throughout, with emphasis of course on the presidency of John F. Kennedy: From the failed Bay of Pigs invasion, the crisis-Kubra, to his assassination in Dallas.

In the leading roles are played by Greg Kinnear as JFK, Katie Holmes as Jackie, Barry Pepper as Robert Kennedy and Tom Wilkinson as family patriarch Joseph. In a supporting role and the way Enrico Colantoni (”Veronica Mars”, “Flash Point”) is seen as FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover.

In the U.S., the series had taken care of in advance of their appearance for some turbulence: The History Channel cable network, the series had originally had wanted to show, from production to completion, took a sudden distance. Germinated on speculation that the Kennedy family had put pressure on the station, fearing a reckoning of the arch-conservative producer Joel Surnow (”24″) with the left-liberal family. Other stations were not on “The Kennedys” interested.

When finally the small cable channel Reelz Channel took the miniseries, but hardly anyone could understand the excitement in the run.

The book on “The Kennedys” by Stephen Kronish and directed by Jon Cassar – both “24″ veterans.

You know the scene from B movies.  The wild-eyed figure in the white coat is mixing all sorts of strange looking chemicals in glass jars – some labeled ‘poison’ – in his secret underground laboratory.  He has some sort of odd machine on the bench, cobbled together from any old bits that were to hand, and he seems bent on changing the world.

Is this the archetypal mad scientist?  Hell no, it’s Thomas Alva Edison at ten years old, at the beginning of a journey of discovery that would end with him having patented over 1,000 new inventions, some of which changed society for ever.  He was a workaholic who always looked a mess, but his mind was as sharp as a tack.

Many of the men whose vision brought astounding new discoveries to science could have been said to be a few cents short of being a full dollar.  Benjamin Franklin was a great believer in ‘air baths’ and would often walk around naked, as would Charles Richter, who gave his name to the earthquake tremor scale.

Sir Isaac Newton, discoverer of gravity, was obsessed with trying to turn base metals into gold.  Alexander Graham Bell, American inventor of the telephone, kept his windows blacked out because he feared ‘harmful’ radiation from the moon, and spent years trying to teach his dog to talk.

Experts believe that 99% of inventors can be described as eccentric in some way, and this begs the question about how fine the psychological line is between genius and insanity. The man who discovered Hydrogen – English physicist Henry Cavendish (1731-1810) – was so afraid of contact with other human beings that he had an elaborate system of stairways in his house, just to avoid the servants.

English geologist William Buckland (1784-1856), who worked how the earth’s crust had evolved, kept a hyena in his nursery and would eat anything.  When shown the embalmed heart of French King Louis XIV, he joyfully shouted I have never before feasted on the heart of a king! , grabbing it before anyone could stop him.

Weird or eccentric behaviour usually begins early in life for these gifted people, who possibly view things in a totally different way to the rest of us.  These kids, super intelligent, will shut themselves away for hours, poring over books, and this complete self absorption often leads to them being highly reclusive.

Wackology is the name given to the science of the strange, and there are few things odder than the ideas which lead wackologists to making important discoveries. One wacky group in Sweden found that handshakes are a dead giveaway to personality – the colder the hand, the dodgier the person it belongs to – while in 1993, Dr Ellen Kleist of Greenland and Dr Harald Moi of Norway published the shocking report that men could catch the clap from blow-up dolls!

Not all wacky ideas are so silly. In 1921, physicist Chandrasekhara Raman was en route to India by steamer was standing on deck staring into the ocean.  He was pondering why the sea looked blue, and decided it must be something to do with the way the water reflected the light. This led him to winning the 1930 Nobel prize for physics, having invented Raman Spectroscopy, widely used even today in chemical analysis.

Eccentricity and discovery seem to be inseperable bedfellows in some cases.  The chemist who won the 1965 Nobel Prize for chemistry – Burns Woodward – was so obsessed with the colour blue that he wouldn’t wear any other colour in clothes, or drive any other coloured car.

Silly hats are also a hallmark of eccentric genius.  Isombard Kingdom Brunel wouldn’t be seen in public without a huge top hat, and he kept all his plans stored inside it, while the man who invented synthetic dyes – Peter Greiss – insisted on wearing a wooden top hat at all times.

Dr David Weeks is a neurophysiologist at the Royal Edinburgh Hospital in Scotland, and has spent 10 years studying eccentric behaviour.  He says that there are more eccentrics in science than in any other walk of life.  He says of them – They see themselves as explorers of inner space, and whatever it is that makes them intellectually distinct also makes them socially distinct.

Don’t think though, for a moment, that they always get it right, because they most certainly do not.  In the 1970’s, scientists worldwide were saying that the earth was slipping into a new Ice Age, but it hasn’t happened, because the earth is actually getting warmer.

At the end of the 1980’s they were predicting that AIDS would be the next doomsday virus, but again, these predictions have proved untrue. While it is undoubtedly one of the major diseases in the world today, it is by no means as rife as it was expected to be.  The predicted ‘population explosion’ has also failed to happen around the world, and indeed the numbers are expected to start falling by the end of the 21st century.

Food production has still not reached a peak, despite the growing amount of land used for housing, because production methods are constantly finding new ways to get more out of the land available.  The prediction that sperm counts were falling so much that the fate of humanity was in the balance is also untrue.  US research showed recently that it was actually rising in some quarters.

Scientists and their theories can have us shaking our heads in bemused confusion, but perhaps some of their findings are more wacky than others, and certainly more amusing.  Did you know that some wackologists believe that positive thinking really can influence the environment?

For 250 years, graduates at Princeton University have graduated during late May or early June, and local folklore says the weather is always good. Sceptic Roger Nelson of Princeton decided to check this out, and researched 36 years worth of weather records. It turns out that the University has a 75% chance of staying dry, compared to only 67% in the surrounding area.

Since records show that, after celebrations end, the University is as subject to rain as everywhere else, does this suggest that positive thinking is making a difference?  No one knows, but it gives some food for thought. 

Weird science and wacky scientists can often make us laugh with their oddball comments and antics, but still they manage to widen our knowledge. Mankind has come on in leaps and bounds over the past two hundred years, much of it down to these comic characters and their outrageous ideas. May they entertain us for centuries to come

When psychology professors Michael Bailey and Meredith Chivers wanted to run a study on sexuality at the Northwest University of Chicago, they decided to conduct a test, 29 female students agreed – for $75 each – to sit watching porno movies with probes inserted into their vaginas to see how turned on they got by it.  Believe it or not, whatever they watched, from lesbianism to group sex, every one of them reacted very positively.

Girls get turned on as easy as the men do, but what exactly flips the switch can vary from one person to another in the most fantastic ways.  There was a story on the ‘Il Nuovo’ Italian web site about the 63-year old guy who could only get a hard on by watching porn with his penis stuck up a running vacuum cleaner!  No surprise that he had a piece of his member cut off by the fan.

Authorities in Bonn, Germany, were stunned when they got an official request from the terminally ill 68-year old ‘Erwin M’ to have his collection of porn videos scattered over his coffin when he died. He couldn’t get excited without them in life, and wanted to take his ‘friends’ with him into the hereafter.

You may believe that you’re pretty normal, when it comes to thinking about the things that get your blood flowing hot, but the range of ‘turn-ons’ that there are around is truly mind blowing, as you’ll discover if you pick up a certain book by Australian anthropologist Dr Stephen Juan.

He teaches at the University of Sydney’s Faculty of Education, and his latest book is called The Odd Sex: mysteries of our weird and wonderful sex lives explained.   He says that  ‘ I’m fascinated in people and things that are different.  Isn’t everyone?  In a tacky way I’m a voyeur of the human condition, and wanted to talk about sex in a funny and informative way, but also about some things which are pretty disgusting and awful.’

He put an ad in personal columns asking people for help with his research via e-mail, and got loads of replies.  He wanted to know what ‘paraphilias’ people had.  This is the official word for being ‘turned on by something strange’, and he found that the relative anonymity of the net made people more confident in talking about their own weird preferences.

In the end, he came up with 118 unusual sources of sexual attraction, ranging from objects as unlikely as trees (dendrophilia) to trains (siderodromophilia) and noses (nasophilia), so it could well be that if your own button is something you don’t talk about in public, you’ll find it listed in the book, which is available from HarperCollins for $19.95.

Did you know that Elvis – the King – shared a particular ‘philia’ with Maria Callas and Enrico Caruso?  Chronophilia, which is a definite liking for sex with people of far greater age than yourself.  Dr Juan also claims that Elvis had endytophilia (having sex with your clothes on), and if you look it up in the book, you’ll find out what has corporphilia entailed!

Beauty, they say, is in the eye of the beholder, and some people get turned on by store window mannequins, or like to rub themselves up against statues, but does that necessarily make them wierd?  The good doctor says not, because preferences change with the times, and things that were ‘taboo’ a generation ago are perfectly acceptable today.

If you’re into rubber or leather – and plenty of people are today – then you wouldn’t be seen as that different today, so whatever it is that gets your lamp burning, don’t feel guilty or perverted.  Just look for a partner who can accept it for what it is, because he may have a liking himself for something ‘unusual’, and that could only spice things up even more.

Let’s suppose you really get the hots when you spray something up your nose.  It could happen, and for you, there’s some really good news around the corner. Canadian researchers are developing a spray-on aphrodisiac. Scientists at Concordia University in Montreal have been testing the nasal spray on rats.

The synthetic chemical would help trigger desire in both men and women. Unlike drugs like Viagra, it stimulates desire rather than simply improving blood flow to the genitals. Jim Pfaus, a psychology professor at Concordia, said: “If it actually stimulates desire, then it meets the more classical definition of an aphrodisiac.”

PT-141 is a copy of a neuropeptide that stimulates sexual-response centres deep in the brain, reports the Canoe website. Prof Pfaus said the drug could be a groundbreaking treatment for women who suffer from sexual-arousal disorders. He said: “It’s the first time I’ve seen a drug that had such a specific effect. I’ve never seen a drug that does something so bloody effectively.” He found female rats given the spray were much more likely to solicit sex from their mates and were also less fussy about where it happened. The drug has undergone one phase of testing in men and a trial among women is planned. 

So you could find your wildest dreams answered in the not too distant future, if you ‘suffer’ from nasophilia, or whatever it is that turns you on, as long as you remember that the guys are every bit as horny as you are, for the most part, then you should be able to find a soul mate without being shy about yourself.

Whatever turns you on tells you things about yourself, principally that you’re definitely not alone, no matter what it is.  Whatever the act, don’t forget, someone else is certain to have done it if it’s humanly possible, so your creativity probably isn’t anything new.  When someone next catches your eye, ask yourself what it is that hits their button.  It just may be something even stranger than your own.

It may seem a bit weird, but 29 year-old James Byrne, from Fishponds in Bristol, who had accidentally cut off his thumb whilst woodworking has had the missing digit replaced by his big toe. He severed the left hand thumb last December, but attempts to re-attach it failed, so plastic surgeons at Frenchay Hospital decided to replace it  with his left big toe, feeling that the loss of the toe is not as disabling as the loss of a thumb.

Mr Byrne, despite the oddness of his new digit, is apparently simply delighted that it appears to work very well, his profession being very much hands-on, and he hope that the physiotherapy he is getting will have him back to a ’normal’  life.  He does need to learn to walk without his missing toe, more on the ball of the foot but normal walking  and jogging should be no problem

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As if that were not odd enough, yet another person has photographs they claim to be of the Loch Ness monster. Taken near a commercial fish-farm by Jon Rowe, from nearby Lewiston in Drumnadrochit, they are said to be of Nessie.

Fish farmer Rowe reported that the morning when he took the snaps was very strange, misty with light rain and sunshine, all at the same time. Noticing a rainbow, he chose to snap it, seeing in the corner of his vision a really large dark shape with two humps that barely out of the water of the loch. Oddly enough, no-one else appears to think that his pictures are anything remarkable, but the truth must be down there somewhere, don’t you think?,

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Perhaps the oddest thing going on just now, from the decorative arts perspective, is the incredibly pointless Nailphilia exhibition, first to show off nail art at DegreeArt.com’s Execution Room in east London, which opened on September 1st, running to the 25th.

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DegreeArt website is gushing about this, claiming that the show will be delving deeply into the finger-nail world’s most amazing creativity, merging art with fashion, redefining everything about the aesthetic of fingertip decoration. Whilst i appreciate a nice set of painted nails, there have to be limits, surely, but not if this lot is anything to go by.

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Doomed Cannibals Ate AIDS Victim: 

A Brunei, Borneo, cannibal tribe may be doomed after feasting on a scientist infected with AIDS.  Gerard Voisard, 28 of Geneva, Switzerland, had been diagnosed as having AIDS-Related Complex before he entered the country; and his journal revealed that the disease had fully matured.  “This is a tragedy beyond measure,” says Ian Brinsdon, a Brunei Health Official.  “Our government has spent a fortune trying to preserve and protect the primitive people of our jungle.  Now, in one swift and cruel stroke, an entire tribe has been doomed to extinction.  It’s only a matter of time before they all have AIDS.”  Although the government is currently trying to persuade the tribesmen to undergo testing for the disease.  “The outcome of these negotiations is still in limbo,” adds Brinsdon.  “The cannibals are wary of outsiders to begin with.  And they have absolutely no conception of the seriousness of AIDS.” (Weekly World News – submitted by C. Kaplan, New York, N.Y.)

Comment: Let’s hope there’s no bad blood…

She Gives a Real Jolt: 

A London woman claims her body is flowing with so much electricity that she burns out household appliances with the slightest touch.  According to the British Sun, the woman estimates she’s caused about $13,000 worth of damage to irons, toasters, washers, and dryers, televisions, radios, VCR’s, and “at least 250 light bulbs.”  She lost her job at a dry cleaner “because I was making the tills (cash registers) go haywire.”  Although she says she’s suffered from the peculiarity since childhood, it became worse in 1982.  Doctors believe it may be caused by stress, but she doesn’t feel tense: “I’m noisy, sense-of-humor kind of person.” (Charlotte Observer – submitted by David S. Bauguess, Taylorsville, N.C.)

Comment:  A real live wire.

South Ravaged By Werewolves: 

Werewolves are currently running wild down South, according to Dr. Stephen Kaplan, Director of the Werewolf Research Center.  “We’re seeing the biggest rise in werewolfism since Sherman’s march on Atlanta, “ he explains.  “There may soon be fur flying in the heart of Dixie.  I see a showdown like the O.K. Corral brewing.  “Kaplan feels that the creatures prefer the South because of its warm climate and its growing number of Satanic Cults.  He says that rural werewolves prey in packs on hitchhikers, tourists, and children, while their urban counterparts are solitary hunters who prefer the elderly and customers in single bars.  Research for Kaplan’s first ever worldwide werewolf census has shown increasing numbers of them in Texas, Louisiana, Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, and Florida.  As their origin, “Centuries ago, yetis may have kidnapped and raped some of America’s pioneer women,” Kaplan believes.  “The offspring were werewolves, less hairy, shorter.” (National Examiner).

Comment: That’s why, movies nowadays have vampire-werewolves themes…

Factory Worker Thinks He Died and Gone to Hell:

An English metal-foundry worker became convinced that he was in hell, and killed his foreman, who he thought was the devil.  “In the last few days he’d been acting strangely, doesn’t know if thereberserk, screaming about being in “the pits of the eternal fire” and saying he was going to kill Satan.”  The 45-year old man chased his supervisor around the factory and killed him with a sledgehammer.  According to a police spokesman, “It gets very hot in there…He pictured his supervisor as being the devil leading the doomed off to eternal punishment.”  After his arrest, he was examined by psychiatrists who suspect that his religious fervor, combined with the heat, caused his delusions, and that he may well be schizophrenic. (Sun – submitted by David Johnson, Ponca City, Oklahoma).

Comment: Like Harry Truman used to say, if you can’t withstand the heat…

Colonel Qaddafi Hooked On three Stooges:

            According to a former friend of the Libyan dictator, Muammar Qaddafi is still so infuriated over the United States’ bombing of Tripoli that he prefers to remain in his tent and watch old Three Stooges movies.  “He just sits there, watching his Stooges videotapes and pouting like a spoiled child,” says Ali Adjina, who has defected to France.  “He used to idolize world leaders and men of war like Napoleon and Alexander the Great.  Now he looks up to nobody but Larry, Moe, and Curly!”  After a friend gave Qaddafi three racing camels in an effort to cheer him up, the colonel had them killed and stuffed, then placed them outside his tent with signs around their necks bearing the names of the Stooges.  “The colonel has gone off the deep end before, but I’m afraid this time he’s gone for good.” states Adjina. “The other day he started laughing to himself in that idiotic way the fat Stooge does….I tried to tell him it wasn’t right for a man of his stature to spend all day watching the Three Stooges – and that’s why I’m not living in Libya anymore.”  (Weekly World News – submitted by George Edwards, Rosedale, N.Y.)

Comment: At least Qaddafi isn’t into astrology and who knows where he is right now…

Walking Catfish Eats Farmer: 

A huge walking catfish in China’s Yunnan province consumed a farmer and injured his wife and eight children.  Although officials believe that 41-year old Chen Xieping beat his family and fled, his neighbors swear they saw the 13-feet long, two-ton “River Dragon,” says Chen’s wife Li.  “We were sitting for our evening rice when we heard a shrieking noise from the river.  Chen ran outdoors to investigate.  The noise grew louder and we could hear Chen shouting for help.  “She heard her husband pounding on the door, and opened it to find him being swallowed by the enormous fish.  Local farmers says it swung Chen against his hut, bringing it down upon his family, then walked back to the river with Chen’s feet protruding from his mouth.  “I could hear Chen screaming for help, begging for someone to come and release him,“ recalls one neighbor. “My heart goes out to Chen’s family.  They have lost a true hero of the people.  I would never have dared fight the River Dragon…It is a demon sent from hell to punish us.” (National Examiner)

Comment: Good to eat…for farmers…

Attention Nancy Reagan: 

Fortune-teller Erma Valen is able to predict the future by reading letters in alphabet soup.  Proficient at reading tea leaves for 30 years, she knew nothing of her abilities with soup until the day she decided to cook some for her nephew.  “I felt like having soup and remember sitting there stirring it,” says Erma.  “Suddenly, this strange, cold feeling for my friend, who was to leave on a bus trip, came over me.  When I looked down in the bowl, I saw the letters D-E-A-T-H spelled out on my spoon.  It was undoubtedly meant for my friend.”  Erma warned the woman, who decidedly not to take the trip, and thereby saved her life – the bus collided with a truck later that day, killing several people.  Erma also told her sister not to be concerned over her problems with money after seeing the word gold in her bowl.  Sure enough, her brother-in-law’s salary was nearly doubled when he was hired by another company.  “It’s a combination of my own abilities and destiny,” Erma explains. (Sun) 

Comment:  She’s got it down to the letter.

Washed-up Rock Group Makes Waves: 

Atlantis, the world’s first underwater rock band, had its premier gig at the Los Angeles Swim Stadium near the L.A. Coliseum.  The group played with waterproof instruments, breathing apparatus, and shock resistant cables while their fans looked on from behind a Plexiglass partition.  “They were a real gas,” one comments.” “Bubbly,” I guess, was the word for them.  I especially liked their “Sea Cruise,” “Rock Lobster,” and “Wet Rap” songs.  In fact, I can hardly wait for their LP, Moray Eel, to come out.” Although they made a splash, leader Jim Mouth doesn’t know if there will be future performances:  “The rest of the group want to escape rock n’ roll depths and go on to greater heights…We could play as we parachute down to earth.” News Extra).

Comment:  They could always join the Velvet Underground.

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Craziest bendy road on earth has to be this one, famous for the small section between Hyde and Leavenworth streets, so steep  as to be too dangerous for most vehicles. Between 1922 and 1923 this was made into a much easier to navigate switchback of eight sharp bends, one-way only, going down, with a 5mph speed limit, on the quarter-mile red-brick paved section of riotous road.

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The broadest street on earth, putting all others into the shade, is 140 meters wide, has 14 lanes – 7 on each direction, as well as being flanked on either side by streets with four lanes extra each – and is named in  honor of Argentina’s birth date. Roughly one kilometer in length, from the  Río de la Plata waterfront in the north to Constitución station in the south, it is always chaotic, and needs.nerves of steel if one is to drive upon it.

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Voted the 4th most frightening junction in the UK in 2009, built in 1972, this Swindon, UK roundabout, consisting of five mini-roundabouts in a circular arrangement, is actually far less intimidating than first appearance would suggest, and works incredibly well, even if confusing at first to the luckless motorist approaching it for the first time. Once understood, however, the feature is amazingly functional and actually designed to reduce overall congestion.

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Steepest, officially that is, street on earth is to be found in Dunedin, New Zealand, called  Baldwin Street and 350 meters long, it starts with a moderate slope, climbing very steeply with a maximum slope of nineteen degrees or 1:2.86,so steep that the road surface needed to be made of concrete rather than asphalt, because hot weather could melt tar and see the road surface pouring itself down the hill

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This incredible structure is one of the busiest and largest interchanges in the Shanghai road network, carrying thousands of vehicles hourly, across five levels of bridges, helping to connect two of the busiest highways within the area, and doing so with little disruption, to traffic.

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The most impressive, and largest roundabout in the world is often not recognized as such by the people driving around it, because Putrajaya, close by where the Prime Minister of the country has his office, is 3.4km long, and houses three major landmarks, which comprise the Istana Melawati,  royal retreat, the Petra Perdana, commemorative landmark as well as the Putrajaya Shangri-La Hotel within the great circle of the surrounding road

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Credited by Guinness Book of Records as shortest street on earth, at 2.06 m Ebenezer Place, in Wick, Scotland, in 2006  beat the record earlier held  by Elgin Street in Lancashire, having only one address, which believe it or not is just the front door of No. 1 Bistro, the street originating in 1883, when the hotel  owner, was told to give a name to the shortest side of the building, and in 1887 officially declared a street.

However, there’s a whole list of opportunities for you to have fun, besides checking maps. Here are the craziest ones.

SkyDiving – It is maybe the most radical activity you can do with Google Earth.

A group of Japanese has created a Simulator using Google Earth images as background. Basically, you are suspended on ropes, while projected images of the Earth are flashed on the ground. Add a “little” wind, some blue paper and fire extinguishers for the “clouds” pass by you, there is a real fun for those who think that just walking by the computer screen is not enough.

Send a message to the Universe – There’s nothing like sending a message that can be read by everybody thru Google Earth. It has been made by Nick Newcomen who passed 30 days traveling thru the United States just to send a message: “Read Ayn Rand”. Ayn Rand was a philosopher who lived from 1905 to 1982 and wrote romances such as “The Fountainhead”. Newcomen used a GPS that was activated precisely in marked places creating the above effect:

Flight Simulator -Yes its true! Google Earth has a Flight Simulated incorporated. To activate it just click the hot key “Ctrl+Alt+A”. The simulator has compatibility with joystick and allows you to fully control a plane, choosing where you are and where to go. Moreover, Google offers on its website information about how to control the simulator, including showing the keyboard shortcuts for all platforms.

Unraveling Mysteries of the Aliens - I’m sure you’ve heard about Crop Circles  with most strange marks drawn on the ground in wheat crops. One theory is that such symbols were designed by aliens, who try to communicate with humans.

Because these tags can only be seen flying over the plantation, nothing better than Google Earth to give you the language of space visitors.

Unmasking Oddities and Secret Places – besides the Crop Circles, our planet has a whole variety of awkward elements made by man or nature. Google Earth is ideal for finding these oddities. As you can see in the image below, Planet Earth is very rich in Oddities and secret places.

Have you fund other Crazy stuff to do with Google Earth? Tell us about it.

We were all amazed, recently, when we saw pictures of the Magneto boy, who seemed to be in possession of a body that could hold onto metal objects through natural magnetism, but his abilities pale, in comparison to the Serbian human electricity conductor Slavisa Pajkic.

This incredible human being has scientists baffled, scratching their heads in wonder because of the man having the awesome ability to withstand high voltages of electricity, fatal to others, with no effects at all, and also the capability of storing electrical power for later use. Called by many the Battery Man, Slavisa can be, at will, an electrical insulator, a conductor odf such power, even using it at times to generate heat.

To be found in the hamlet of Pozarevac, in Serbia, Slavisa claims to have become aware of his odd talent as a 17-year old. Whilst one day leaning against a live metal fence, in the rain, he realized that, while his colleagues jumped back on feeling the current pulsing through, he was himself unaffected by it, becoming astounded as he realized the implications.

Electric current apparently does not harm his body, and he has become famous in his own country for this very reason, though most people avoid shaking his hand on meeting him. He set his very first Guinness World record in 1983, allowing a 20,000volt electric current of 20,000 volts to pass through his body, something that would normally be fatal to a human.

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Then in 2003, Slevisa qualified for another entry, by becoming became the quickest man ever to heat, up to a staggeruing 97degrees Celciusm a cup of water, in 97 seconds, with only his fingers. Slavisa next aims to charge himself up using a 1,000,000-volt generator, after which he wants to use his tongue to shoot out laser beams.

As you can see in this video, Slavisa appears to cook a sausage through power stored in his body, and can cause lightbulbs to shine by putting electrodes into his mouth. He is certainly a phenomenal human being, perhaps the very beginning of a trend in evolution towards abilities in humans like those made famous by the mutant heroes of X-men movies. With nature, you just never quite know for sure,

heroes of X-men movies. With nature, you just never quite know for sure,