I took this shot of a seed pod coated with a thin veneer of ice. As I was editing the image I noticed a strange alien-looking face embedded under the ice. This is the so-called pareidolia effect. Or is it?
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Pareidolia Effect
Posted in Miscellania, Weird Science with tags Pareidolia on March 3, 2019 by MONSTERMINIONSSolar Eclipse 2017!
Posted in Miscellania, Weird Science with tags Solar Eclipse 2017 on August 21, 2017 by MONSTERMINIONSWeird Abyssal Fish Re-Discovered
Posted in Cryptids, Weird Science with tags blind fish, deep-sea fish, Sydney, tufted-tail fish, ugly fish on June 1, 2017 by MONSTERMINIONSFireplace Simian
Posted in Miscellania, Weird Science with tags Pareidolia on March 12, 2017 by MONSTERMINIONSHere’s an example of the “pareidolia” effect where the mind connects the dots and sees faces in random space. Here is a Planet of the Apes gorilla in a burning fireplace log.
Voodoo Effigy, iPhone 6S+
Posted in Adventure, Weird Science with tags Museum of Weird, Scarecrow, Totum, Voodoo Effigy on February 21, 2017 by MONSTERMINIONSLake Monster?
Posted in Cryptids, Weird Science with tags Eel, Lake Monsters, Sydney Royal Botanical Gardens on January 25, 2017 by MONSTERMINIONSI noticed a surface ripple in the Sydney Royal Botanical Garden pond (that spade-shaped surface water body, below), approximately 300 feet from Sydney Harbor. At first I thought it was a snake, but it was clearly an aquatic denizen. I managed these shots below….
Aha! No cryptid or lake monster here. It’s an eel!
Plasma Arc
Posted in Miscellania, Weird Science with tags Nikola Tesla, Plasma Arc, Technology on October 20, 2016 by MONSTERMINIONSTesla Documents Released by FBI
Posted in Miscellania, Weird Science with tags Death Ray, High Energy Minute Particles, Missing Papers, Nikola Tesla on October 4, 2016 by MONSTERMINIONSFBI has released several documents pertaining to Nikola Tesla, including the famous John Trump (MIT) memo prepared after examination of Tesla’s papers (1943). These are some of the “missing papers” referred to in “Man Out of Time” (M. Cheney, Orig. 1981, Chapter 29).
Link to FILES
Part 03 PDF Download, including the John Trump Memo of Important Documents.
Tesla: Man Out of Time, on Scribd.
Nikola Tesla Statue, Goat Island
Posted in Weird Science with tags Nikola Tesla on July 10, 2016 by MONSTERMINIONSHappy 160th!