Extraordinary claims. Ordinary investigations.

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The Buddhabrot is a special rendering of the Mandelbrot set which, when traditionally oriented, resembles to some extent certain depictions of the Buddha.

Mysticism aside, it’s one representation of the beauty that can be found on mathematics. And religious representations too.

Sent by Martha (obrigado!), photos of a dog that was allegedly born with a “human-like” face in Umbaúba, Sergipe, Brazil. Much better-looking than the pig that had a “human-like” face, born on Rio Grande do Sul a few weeks ago. Both are congenital anomalies, and the poor animals were stillborn.

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Left, illustration by Ron Turner made in 1953 showing how the space suits would look like, available on the very nice page “Atomic Rocket: space suits“.
Right, illustration by Hal Crawford made in 1971 showing how the second more common type of extraterrestrial allegedly looked like at that time.

This post is really just a clarification regarding a discussion on UfoUpdates regarding myself, so it very probably isn’t interesting to anyone, but anyway.

If you are interested on personal disagreements and silly conflicts, with only some information on crude hoaxes promoted on Italy and Brazil, then keep reading.

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