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Watch: Australia arson suspect mistakenly sets own trousers alight
​ Australian police have released footage of two suspected arsonists who allegedly tried to set a fast-food outlet on fire in Melbourne.
The security videos show one of the suspects accidentally setting their own trousers alight before stripping off clothes and fleeing the scene.
​https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/cm21n77rdz1oI am not delusional! Now if you'll excuse me, i'm gonna go dance with the purple wombat who's playing show-tunes in my coffee cup!
Rules are like Egg's. They're fun when thrown out the window!
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Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.
"Hating America is something best left to Mobius. He is an expert Yank hater.
He also hates Texans and Australians, he does diversify." ~ BraindeadComment
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A fare-dodging passenger on a German high-speed train ended up clinging to the outside when it pulled out of the station before he was ready to get on, police say.
The 40-year-old man had boarded the ICE train in Munich without a valid ticket and wanted to take a smoking break at the station in Ingolstadt.
But he lingered too long over his cigarette and the train doors closed, leaving him with the prospect of being stranded.
He then jumped on to a bracket between two carriages and held on to cables while the train powered on towards Nuremberg at up to 282 km/h (175mph), until federal police brought it to a halt about 30km away.
Witnesses alerted officials and they contacted the train driver, who made an unscheduled stop at Kinding in Upper Bavaria. The intercity express was on a six-hour journey to the northern city of Lübeck.
The man, a Hungarian national, told police he had left his luggage on the train during his cigarette break and did not want to be parted from it.
He was "amazingly" unharmed after his daredevil ride, said a police spokesman.
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Self-drivng cars need self-healing potholes
Next please: self-cleaning rooms and dishes
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Fungus-infected 'zombie spiders' found in Irish caves
It's the stuff of nightmares - or even the hit TV show and video game The Last of Us: a novel fungus that turns its hosts into "zombies".
Thankfully, so far, it's only been found in spiders located in several cave systems across the island of Ireland, including the Whitefathers' Caves on the Fermanagh/Cavan border.
Named after Sir David Attenborough, Gibellula attenboroughii was first discovered in County Down during the filming of BBC Winterwatch in 2021.
The fungus changes the spider's behaviour, making it leave its concealed lair or web to die in an exposed position on the roof or walls of a cave.
​ It does this using dopamine, the brain's happy chemical, to make the spider favour the dispersal of the fungal spores over preserving its own life.
Scientists say the behaviour of the fungus mirrors that of ants infected by fungi of the genus Ophiocordyceps, previously reported from the Atlantic rainforest of Brazil.
The story of the "zombie ants" led to a number of zombie-fungus themed books, as well as the hugely popular The Last of Us video game.
The game, which takes place in a post-apocalyptic world overrun by fungus-infected zombie humans, was later adapted into an award-winning TV show starring Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey.
​ After finding the fungus on a spider in the gunpowder store at Castle Espie in County Down, a team of scientists led by Dr Harry Evans from the Centre for Agriculture and Biosciences International (CABI), began to look for more specimens.
Dr Evans and his team used a speleologist - a cave explorer - to help their research.
That work led them to the conclusion that this was a native fungus specific to indigenous cave-dwelling spider species.
The fungus favours man-made habitats like culverts, tunnels and cellars.
​ It has been found on two species of spider occupying different types of environments in the cave systems.
Both Metellina merianae (Tetragnathidae: Araneae) and Meta menardi are reclusive, orb or circular web-weaving cave spiders that favour dark, damp places.
​ Dr Evans' team's work has been published in the journal Fungal Systematics and Evolution.
He said more research is needed to understand just how the fungus succeeds.
But human beings needn't worry - at least yet.
I am not delusional! Now if you'll excuse me, i'm gonna go dance with the purple wombat who's playing show-tunes in my coffee cup!
Rules are like Egg's. They're fun when thrown out the window!
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Might be hard to do headshots on spiders, which is the only sure way to deal with zombies, as every non-zombie knows
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Speaking of self cleaning I am loving my robot vacuum cleaner and mop. I still have to mop and vacuum once per month but the robot does a pretty good job. The one thing it doesn't seem to handle well is the hairballs my cat seems to regularly barf up. Usually right after he eats his food to fast.Originally posted by BeBMan View Posthttps://www.theguardian.com/science/...g-road-surface
Self-drivng cars need self-healing potholes
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Why would he eat his food in order to not eat food?Originally posted by Dinner View Post
We have one too and also love it. It has some issues with one of our rugs (insists on zigzagging right across the edge, and gets tangled, so I've fed up and just tell it to avoid cleaning it), but otherwise very happy.Indifference is BlissComment
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I don't have a robot vaccum cleaner
Take that, skynet!
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