Fusion Christ

The Pravda -- the Russian newspaper whose name translates as "stuff we just make up" -- has an article today about a meteorite found in Russia almost a century ago that has an image of Jesus in it. As you can see, it's actually not that bad a case of pareidolia. The image on the left is the so-called Shroud of Turin, the long-debunked cloth that people erroneously think has the face of Jesus in it. Right away that gives you a sense of the level of accuracy of the Pravda article (of course, the article in the sidebar with a picture of Viveca Fox in a bikini labeled "The chocolate side of Hollywood" gives you even a better sense of their journalistic integrity). Anyway, the meteorite is real enough. It fell in eastern Russia in 1916, and is called -- and you just simply have to love this -- ...