The Most Bizarre Scientific Discoveries of 2017

Time is a flat circle. But even as we hurtle around and through it, we manage to keep on making the most bizarre scientific discoveries. So here’s what wowed us, shocked us, and made us text OMG to our friends this year.

Eyeborg

Y’all, this dude shot himself in the eye as a kid and then grew up and used his empty eye socket to put a camera inside it. He is currently using his eyeborg powers to film a documentary. Still, it’s not connected to his brain or his optic nerve.

Yet.

Space Sangwiches

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If anything is a good representation of the complete waste of intellectual resources we’ve sunk to in 2017, it’s a KFC chicken sandwich being sent to space. How much money did it cost for that Zinger to break the atmosphere?

Although I will say, for all my glib bitching, it does look delicious.

Glowing Street Plants

With some serious breakthroughs in bioluminescence, scientists have devised methods of making entire plants glow for hours. The long range goal is replacing street lamps entirely with self-illuminating plants and trees.

But what happens in the daytime?

Human/Pig Hybrid

In a turn of events directly and terrifyingly lifted from a Margaret Atwood dystopia, there now exists this hybrid of a human and a pig. Atwood called them Pigoons: originally bred for organ transplants before they become sentient and murderous.

These, too, were created for organ harvesting…