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A ship disguised as an island

Richard
HRMS Abraham Crijnssen disguised as a tropical...

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Via BoingBoing:

This camouflaged Dutch ship successfully disguised itself as a small
tropical
island and avoided the Japanese Navy after the Battle of the Java Sea.


HNLMS Abraham Crijnssen was stationed in the Dutch East Indies when WW
II began. After the destruction of the Allied Fleet by the Japanese
during the Battle of the Java Sea in February 1942, Crijnssen’s captain
was ordered to escape with his ship to Australia. Covered with tree
branches, the minesweeper crossed the Japanese naval lines camouflaged
as a tropical island.

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The ten weirdest things in space

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Most Magnetized Object in the Universe (artist...

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By the sound of it, this must be quite a list – after all, since basically like everything, man, is “in space,” wouldn’t that make this a list of the ten weirdest things ever? Sorry to burst that bubble (although I would love to see such a list, if it exists) – this refers to cosmology. And the stuff on it is indeed strange, ranging from hypervelocity stars to magnetars to dark energy. You can check out the list, which was compiled by Dave Mosher at Discovery.com, here.

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