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The .Gif Friday Post No.321 – Cat Balloon, Paper RPG & Shark Attack Fail

[Found here, here and here .]

City of Striations

Timothy H. O’Sullivan, Ancient Ruins in the Cañon de Chelle, N.M. in a Niche 50 Feet above Present Cañon Bed, 1873

[Found here.]

Potoo To You

Yep. The Potoo bird is real [h/t to Will N].

The .Gif Friday Post No. 320 – RIPBOB2, Possum, Snooze fan & Cat floss

Possum

[Top one is for Bob2. Others were found in here, sans links. The 2nd reminds me of this classic Utoobage.]

Hot Air Blown [Updated with Link to story]

I don’t know the story behind it, but that’s some scary stuff. Besides the balloon snag, that tower wasn’t engineered to handle a bigass inflated windsock trying to pull it down.

[Found here.]

UPDATE: Apparently the accident dates to October 2004 during a hot air balloon festival in Albuquerque NM. After the collision, the veteran pilot grabbed the tower to stop the gondola from swinging, and he and two boys (ages 10 and 14) climbed down 600 feet as news helicopters buffeted the tower before being called off. Here’s the balloon in better health: