According to redditor caudice, this Humvee--a military vehicle used by the United States, among other nations--was dropped out of an airplane in Afghanistan about 800 feet above the ground. The parachute failed to open.
Maybe, but the HMMWV seems to be missing it's body and big parts of the drivetrain. What you see there is just tires, chassis, and suspension components.
It really is a frightening thought to wonder how many of our memories may simply be fabrications or second hand accounts the brain has tricked us into believing are real.
This can probably be compared to the term "flashbulb memories". The very vivid, traumatic memories are usually the most fabricated over the years. Was a study done on people remembering their experience of 9/11, they wrote it down, and then were asked a few years later and told it very differently. Tis inteeeresting.
I was reading the other day - in 'Time Paradox' by Philip Zimbardo (previously mentioned on Neatorama - thanks alot! :D ), that we misremember between 10 and 25% of memories. In some cases people imagine traumatic experiences that never happened, or forget the most traumatic experiences - which means our own sense of reality is mixture of imagination and forgetfulness! Hence, my developing theory disjunctioned reality.
p.s. Talking about spotting a celebrity - I thought I saw Justin Bieber on chatroulette the other day! Now I am not so sure, and I may have misremembered it! He didn't seem keen chatting, musn't be his sort of person.
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And the old one for that matter?
The very vivid, traumatic memories are usually the most fabricated over the years. Was a study done on people remembering their experience of 9/11, they wrote it down, and then were asked a few years later and told it very differently. Tis inteeeresting.
p.s. Talking about spotting a celebrity - I thought I saw Justin Bieber on chatroulette the other day! Now I am not so sure, and I may have misremembered it! He didn't seem keen chatting, musn't be his sort of person.