
A yellow goo has invaded the world’s motorways, spreading from capital cities to the furthest reaches of the transport network and devouring everything in its path.

A yellow goo has invaded the world’s motorways, spreading from capital cities to the furthest reaches of the transport network and devouring everything in its path.

Most ‘virtual reality’ helmets plunge users into an unreal video-game world – but a new version mixes the unreal into the real world in a ‘living dream’.
The helmet only works in St Johann’s Park in Basel, Switzerland – but wearers explore a mixture of the ‘real’ park, seen via cameras, and 3D illusions created by computers, including ghostly, glowing grass, surreal insects and strange visions in the sky.
Lifeclipper is an entirely new kind of entertainment, plunging users into parallel worlds using a high-powered computer backpack.

Modern technology and communications have only added to the repertoire of strange delusions. Read about 15 of them in the linked post. Link

Thousands of normally solitary wolf spiders have blanketed an Australian farm after fleeing a rising flood.

There’s no shortage of people who have an opinion on how the apocalypse could look. Here are the likeliest options, with descriptions of the horrors we’d have to endure.