How to tell if your head is about to explode ?

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How to tell if your head is about to explode...?

http://www.mit.edu/~mkgray/head-explode.html

Interesting.

Can someone just validate this for me from a second news source. Just so I know this isn't a big joke.
 
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I think this guy just must be a big fan of the film Scanners.
 
The X-files once had an episode on head-explosions :P it was caused by a secret government facilitity. The remedy was to drive and not stop driving, the doppler effect would safe you :)
 
As a real X-phily should know, the episode is Drive:

Scully: "There's no gunpowder residue... No carbon stippling. There seems to be no evidence of an entry wound whatsoever."
Coroner: "There is none. It's all exit, but how that could be...?"
Scully: "I'm finding what look like fragments of petrous bone embedded in the remaining portion of the auditory canal. In fact, I seem to be looking straight through to the osseous labyrinth or what's left of it."
Coroner: "It's almost like a little bomb went off in her ear."
Scully: "May I?"
Coroner: "Please."
Scully: "There seems to be some kind of tumefaction within the lateral sinus." [Scully examines the body and notices blood welling up from the ear, without warning an explosion of blood bursts onto Scully's scrubs]
 
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...so...you don't think it's real huh?

:wink:
Where have you been living, in a cave? People's heads explode all the time. I never go out in public without a spare towel to wipe off the mess. Between exploding heads and spontaneous human combustion, it's not safe to walk the streets.
 
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Originally posted by Another God
http://www.mit.edu/~mkgray/head-explode.html

Interesting.

Can someone just validate this for me from a second news source. Just so I know this isn't a big joke.
Apparently you are also supposed to be very sceptical about .edu references AG :) Never trust someone from MIT, they are trying to mess with your sanity :P
 
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