[Freddy]

Came up on Facebook today.

No brain, no neurons, no nervous system... Here is why the blob defies the laws of biology.

[Art]

Apparently, it is also invisible.

[LOCKSUIT]

Brut my blog needs a blob named Bob too.

Amazing.

It extends connections like fractals, and travels many "places" fast, and will retract/extend when finds good/bad, and finds the fastest route. Obviously, there are signals being passed about if one areas listens to a farther away area.

[LOCKSUIT]

Which clearly sounds like a human...brain.....typical behavior. We are great at finding the fastest route to good and away from bad.

But at the neural level, maybe re-read what i wrote above...it has a different meaning then in that regard.

[Freddy]

Apparently, it is also invisible.

Can't see it again? I embedded it this time. Was working in FF.

Lock you obviously see it?

[LOCKSUIT]

hehe yes i do.....delicious yellow hamburger mustard.

[Freddy]

Hmm working fine here in Firefox, Edge & Chrome. Can't find an alternative on YouTube, sorry Art.

[LOCKSUIT]

click the black screen....mine started after this

[Korrelan]

It appears to be an obscure video format 270p, tall and narrow. My Chrome was having problems with it too.



 

[Art]

I tried Chrome and was able to see the blob.

Such an extraordinary experiment, especially with "mapping" Tokyo.

We might do well to steer clear of such blobs!

I recall an earlier Blob...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blob

[Freddy]

I remember being allowed to stay up late to watch that movie when I was little. Steve McQueen, might have been his first movie?

Edit: Ah yes Wikipedia says it was his first.

[Korrelan]

I used to love watching the old B movies and Hammer Horror films...

They don't play them any more on UK TV... we get 'Love Island' or 'Chelsea Wives' instead of Boris Karloff...

I hang my head and sigh... when I was a lad...

 

[Freddy]

Look for the Horror channel on Freeview, they play a few of the old ones. They had the original The Fly on there a couple of weeks back and sometimes things like Frankenstein - the Peter Cushing one and all those Hammer Horror ones you mention.

I prefer those old ones to modern slashers and the endless number of Zombie movies they spew out - although I did enjoy the Resident Evil series.

Of course, you can pick these up cheap on DVD - I got a DVD from my brother with Basil Rathbone's Sherlock Holmes. I love all that old stuff.

[Korrelan]

I didn't even realise we had a Horror channel, I'll check that out.

I'm of that age where nothing scares me, I finally buckled and watched the Saw films, and just thought meh!  Bela Lugosi would have soon sorted Jigsaw out.

I think it's the nostalgic value of the old films I enjoy... a bit of Basil Rathbone... steam trains... village pubs... tweed...

DVD? Oh! Those round silver disk things... I use them hung on sticks to stop the birds eating my lawn seed... explosives aren't PC apparently,  lol.

 

[Freddy]

Haha  I don't buy a lot of DVDs these days, but a bargain is still a bargain.

There's a lot of supernatural films lately, but I've only seen trailers. A ghost story I enjoyed was that one with Nicole Kidman in an old house and butlered by Eric Sykes. More like traditional ghost story telling. The Others. Shock that's from 2001 - wow.

But yes I prefer an interesting story to multiple attempts to scare my socks off - like you I am somewhat immune these days.

DVDs make good coasters too