Seattle Space Needle Gets Vertigo Inducing Glass Floor of Nopes

I’m not a big fan of heights. I’m especially skittish around heights when I can see straight through to the ground below. One place I won’t be visiting any time soon is the newly remodeled Seattle Space Needle, which now has a rotating glass floor.

The makeover cost $100 million and refreshed the entire structure with a new staircase and other updates. It almost looks like the world’s highest Apple store. With so much glass everywhere, I’d hate to be on the cleaning crew. In lots of the images, people are sitting on the glass floor, I assume trying to not barf everywhere. Did I mention nope?

It reminds me more than a little of that Chinese bridge we talked about back in 2015. That glass-bottomed Chinese bridge eventually had cracks in the glass. Nopity nope. I hope the revamped Space Needle won’t suffer from the same issue.

[via New Atlas]

Gigantic Stick Bug is 2-Feet of Nope

A group of Chinese scientists were on a field trip to the Guangxi Zhuang region of China in 2014 and discovered this gigantic bug. The beast is 62.4cm long, or a bit over two feet. It looks like some sort of irradiated friend of Godzilla to me.

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I’m pretty sure if it bites you, you will become Stick-man and your cheesy super power will be hiding in trees where enemies can’t see you. The researcher who found the bug was Zhao Li of the Insect Museum of West China. The group was searching for the insect described by local farmers as being as thick as an adult’s index finger; clearly they found it.

“I was collecting insects on a 1,200-meter-tall mountain in Guangxi’s Liuzhou City [when] a dark shadow appeared in the distance, which looked like a tree twig,” Zhao told Xinhua. “As I went near, I was shocked to find the huge insect’s legs were as long as its body.” The bug would later lay eggs in captivity and the smallest of the offspring was 26cm long.

[Xinhua via The Verge]

Creepy Japanese Samurai Statue is Made of Dead Bugs

I’ve seen plenty of things over the years out of Japan that made me say “WTF?” After all, this is the country where USB-powered things for magnifying your pimples are sold. I don’t think I have ever seen anything that makes me go “WTF?” and “NOPE.” with as much verve as this statue.

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At a glance, it looks awesome and appears to be made out of beads or something. A closer look shows it’s made entirely out of dead bugs. Nope. NOPE. NOOOOOPEEEE!

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This is one of those things you touch because it looks awesome and then spend an hour washing your hands because you realize later just how disgusting it is. I’m pretty sure some of those bugs are actually alive and are hiding in plain sight, plotting their revenge. That revenge probably has to do with crawling across your face, as you sleep, in the dead of night. I’ve gotta go wash my hands. And my eyeballs.

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[via Naver via Kotaku]