Archive for July, 2008
Weird News - ‘Lucky’ Koala Bear Survives Head-on Car Collision
The Associated Press
SYDNEY, Australia - They call this koala bear “lucky.” The 3-year-old male koala was struck by a car and carried for seven miles with his head and arm wedged through the vehicle’s front grill, but was not badly hurt.
Staff members at the Australian Wildlife Hospital in Queensland state dubbed him Ely “Lucky” Grills, the Australian Broadcasting Corp. reported on Tuesday.
“He was very flat and unresponsive for a couple of hours, but (after) a bit of TLC and some feed and some fluids — and a bit of pain relief because obviously he would have had a headache — he was up and eating and doing really well,” hospital manager Gail Gipp told ABC.
Hospital officials could not immediately be reached by The Associated Press.
Spiral Optical Illusion

Here is another spiral illusion - this time in Snail-o-vision! Interesting fact about this optical illusion, is that when people encounter it for the first time, based on their previous experience with illusions, they presume it has something to do with perpetual motion. At least that is what I presumed. I thought the only illusion happening here is “seemingly moving” spiral painted on our little snail’s shell, and not the best example of that type at all! If that was it, I wouldn’t be much excited, and would probably forward this photo directly to my recycle bin. But then I read the email that was companion to this submission. It said something like: “Is the snail shell really a spiral”? I looked at the shell more closely, The spiral is actually composed of many concentric circles. Very good!



