Vanishing Head Illusion

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You like your eyes, right?  We certainly like ours.  Most of the time they work awfully well — despite a massive design flaw that any first-year engineering student would have caught. It’s called the punctum caecum, an area at the back of the eye that the optic nerve passes through, obscuring the light-sensitive photoreceptor cells […]

C-130 YMC-130H Lockheed Hercules flight test accident crash

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YMC-130H were three modified Lockheed Hercules Aircraft for Top Secret “Operation Credible Sport”, for second Iran hostage crisis rescue attempt. One of the measures considered for a second hostage rescue attempt in Iran was a project to develop a “Super STOL” aircraft, to be flown by Combat Talon crews, that would use a soccer stadium […]