Extinct Cockroach Bears Resemblance to a Jawa

Arizona State University scientists of the International Institute for Species Exploration recently released their annual list of  Top 10 New Species 2013 discovered in 2012, and among the group is a luminescent South American cockroach whose otherworldliness is less hyperbole and actually quite specific. The glowing roach is a spitting image of a Jawa, a fictional creature from the Star Wars science fiction media franchise (as if you didn't know what a Jawa was).

But in the time since the species was discovered and its existence formally published last July, the Tatooine twin may have actually become extinct. In 2010 after a volcano in Ecuador erupted, which served as L. luckae's only known habitat, no specimens have been found.

Lucihormetica luckae is a species of giant cockroach (Blaberidae). It's back carapace features two large and one small spots or divots inhabited by bacteria that glow when exposed to fluorescent light. The evolutionary purpose of this bioluminescence may be to mimic the appearance of the toxic click beetle (Pyrophorus) that emits light at the same wavelength, most likely making it the first known species to use bioluminescence for defensive mimicry.

Sources : http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/extinct-cockroach-bears-uncanny-resemblance-to-jawa

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucihormetica_luckae

https://asunews.asu.edu/20130523_top10newspecies2013
 

 L. luckae's back carapace features two large and one small spots inhabited by bacteria that glow when exposed to fluorescent light.

Tropical Luminous Click Beetle Pyrophorus Species Showing Bioluminescence

There are some reporting a Resemblance to the Eve character of the Wall-E movie!

Due to a Resemblance, JC Penney's 'Hitler Tea Kettle' Sold Out in Hours

Michael Graves-Designed Stainless Steel Tea Kettle Resembles Hitler

A JCPenney billboard featuring an exclusive Michael Graves-designed tea kettle has been turning the heads of motorists driving along the 405 near Culver City and the kettle has even sold out at JC Penney.com.

The attention is not so much for the teapot's "cool-touch handle" or its "space-saving design" but rather for its uncanny Resemblance to Adolf Hitler - its handle, cap and spout, Resembling the Führer’s do, mustache and arm outstretched in salute - with some even seeing a tie.

The odd coincidence was first posted by Reddit user "Wrestles4Food" with the title,"This Kettle looks like Hitler!" and has since been covered by news agencies the world over.

The fact that the kettle's profile looks eerily like the Fuhrer's mien caused a stir online Tuesday, forcing the company to respond in a Tweet that read "jcpenney @Telegraph "Certainly unintended. If we'd designed the kettle to look like something, we would've gone w/a snowman: http://t.co/KFWVI1Csgz About one day ago via jcpenney .

Things that look Hitler have become a popular web meme - with the genre perhaps defined by the house in Swansea that bears a Resemblance to the Nazi Fuhrer.  The slanted roof was said to resemble the Hitler fringe, the door lintel was the moustache and the small top windows were seen as the dictator’s piercing eyes.  The tweet was first posted by Extractionist Charli Dickenson in 2011, a 22 year old youth worker, who Recognized the bizarre similarity as she drove past one day.

All of this was preceded by “Kitler” a nickname used to describe white cats with black markings under their noses that resemble German dictator Adolf Hitler’s toothbrush mustache and on their foreheads Resembling hair parted on it's side. Cats with these coats were popularized in June 2006 by the single topic site Cats that Look Like Hitler, which was created by Dutch journalist & Extractionist Koos Plegt, who set up a blog to showcase such photos after seeing a cat with this coat pattern in his hometown of Zwolle, Holland.

Sources : http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/05/jc-penneys-hitler-tea-kettle-sold-out-in-hours-because-this-is-the-internet/276334/

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/05/28/hitler-kettle-jc-penny-advert_n_3344752.html?just_reloaded=1

http://www.reddit.com/r/Pareidolia/comments/1f16bf/this_kettle_looks_like_hitler_xpost_from_rpics/

http://www.catsthatlooklikehitler.com/cgi-bin/seigmiaow.pl

(photo credit: via jcpenny.com)

Cat and House that Resemble Hitler

Another look at Hitler kettle, glimpsed from a California billboard.

Trump's Toupee Found in a Forest?

Flannel Moth

Megalopyge opercularis would have been covered by the Replica Report, even without its recent meme status, considering some of its common names such as southern flannel moth, pussy moth, puss caterpillar, and tree asp.  It is in its larval form that the Resemblance to a pussy cat becomes apparent whereas the flannel reference (flannel is a soft woven fabric, of various fineness) points to its adult stage (even the wings are furry).  But this week, the insect is getting news coverage because of social media hype where many Extractionists have Recognized its Resemblance to Donald Trump's hair!

The creature was spotted in the Amazon by friends Jeff Cremer, 34 and Phil Torres, 27, who run photography tours from Posada Amazonas, a 30 bed rainforest lodge in Peru.

Mr. Cremer said, "It's actually a flannel moth caterpillar, they're really rare, I've seen this type of caterpillar before but never one of this colour."
"We put the picture on our Twitter and Facebook page and immediately people started comparing it to Donald Trump."
Cremer continues, "We didn't see the resemblance when we first saw the caterpillar but looking at the photo it's certainly similar to his hair."
"It was pretty funny, people went mad for the photo comparing it to his toupee."

The caterpillar’s “hair” actually consists of setae, which are long, fine silky appendages that, in this case, can cause serious skin irritations. If one attempts to pet this insect, they will get a handful of venom, released when the setae poke into skin. Just as a bee sting, the injuries can be painful but, for most, not life threatening.

Sources : http://news.discovery.com/animals/insects/rare-caterpillar-resembles-donald-trumps-hair-130502.htm

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2317145/Caterpillar-looks-just-like-property-mogul-Donald-Trump.html

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/entertainment/2013/05/04/10/03/caterpillar-resembles-donald-trumps-hair

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megalopyge_opercularis & http://bugsinthenews.info/?p=476

Puss Caterpillar

Donald Trump's Hair

Angels Hovering Near the Sun

     Benjamin Creme, a British artist and long-time student of esoteric philosophy, has become the latest Extractionist to be covered by news agencies across the Nation.

     In recent months, two photographs were recorded by NASA cameras of an anomaly near the sun. Mr. Creme has Recognized that these anomalies Resemble angels.

     Benjamin Creme, co-editor of Share International magazine, says that while many people thought the images were UFOs, "our information is that it is an 'angel', or 'deva' as they are known in the East. The angelic or deva evolution runs parallel to that of the human and they can vary in size from tiny to colossal. This 'angel' was filmed moving near the sun and both photographs are of the same 'angel'. Our information is that it is gigantic: about half the size of the Earth."

     Born in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1922, Benjamin Creme began studying art at an early age, developing into an accomplished painter in the modernist style.  He befriended and collaborated with many of the leading figures of the time in British art, music and literature. His paintings have been exhibited in a number of prestigious galleries.

     Here at the Replica Report, we tend to Recognize a Resemblance to a kind of Santa Fe graphic depiction of a bird in the anomalies - meaning we all agree on the Resemblance to wings!

Source : http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases-test/angel-filmed-by-nasa-202092301.html

http://doubtfulnews.com/2013/04/angels-hovering-near-the-sun/

http://www.share-international.org/background/bcreme/bc_main.htm

http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/

Benjamin Creme

Extractionists in Florida Make the News

       In West Palm Beach, Florida, more than a few people Recognized several Resemblances in the same cloud and sent them in to news stations. The news outlets were also moved by the Resemblances and decided to cover them today.
       Many shared their images which showed different angles of the 'angel' cloud.
Cristina Pina thought the cloud resembled a sea monkey. While Steve Massie informed that “seeing shapes and faces in non-human objects is called “pareidolia.”
Nick Stanley even saw the dark lord – Lucifer, in the cloud. Jodi Guthrie was the first, but not the last, to send in a photo.
Src : http://www.newsnet5.com/dpp/news/local_news/water_cooler/Angel-in-sky-photos-Florida-residents-react-to-message-from-above#ixzz2NXPEzCto
and
http://www.theindychannel.com/news/daily-extras/angel-in-clouds-captures-imagination-of-south-florida-residents

Jesus is Floored

       Today's Extractionist is Jay Wells. He has been Recognizing Resemblances in patterns since he was a child and one of his Extractions has finally made the news, specifically, the Chronicle Hearald.
“Where I go for a massage, I see Santa Claus and Abraham Lincoln in the carpet. Most recently, I was getting my eyes checked and I could see one of my miniature dachshunds in the carpet. It’s just a thing that I’ve done forever.
       “Since I was a kid, I would look at the wall and see monsters in the knots in my grandmother’s cottage.”
       This time, he has found the face of Jesus, in a most appropriate place, because as a carpenter, it’s only natural that Jesus has chosen to return to Earth in a pine floorboard of Jay Wells Salon in Halifax.
The Resemblance was covered by the bed where women lay while getting waxed until Wells went into the room to rearrange the furniture.
       “I had a staff member leave and so I came into this room thinking, hmm, what am I going to do now, and I sat on the end of this bed and I was, ‘Oh my God, it’s Jesus!’” Wells said Friday.
“People say he looks kind of surprised, and I say ‘Well, he has witnessed a lot of Brazilians, he’s not your typical Jesus.’”
       Wells says everyone he shows the floor to immediately agrees it looks like Jesus, the Herald reports.

Src : http://thechronicleherald.ca/metro/912143-oh-my-god-its-jesus-on-a-floorboard

Jay Wells

Holy Water

     Some times a Resemblance can be so uncanny as to be a Replica and if Recognized in a situation that is theme-appropriate it is sure to have staying power. Such is the case with the falling baptismal water that Resembles a Cross and Rosary. Although this story first appeared in October 2009, it still has resurrections on the internet, usually as a chain letter with a message of faith and prayer, and enjoys popularity at varying intervals with a new one occurring at the moment.

      “The photo was captured during Valentino Mora’s baptism. The moment priest Osvaldo Macaya throws holy water, the falling liquid forms a rosary. The story started on October 10, when the month-old baby, son of Erica Mora, a 21-years-old single mother was baptized. The photo of Valentino’s baptism has raised the locals’ faith. They go to Erica Mora’s house to touch the boy.” [cadena3]

      On the other hand the priest himself wasn't very happy with it:

      “The photographer, [María Silvana], was very happy [when she discovered the image] and soon the whole town knew about it. I don’t like those signs, I hold the sacraments. Actually the Bible for this week says ‘this perverse and evil generation asks for a sign, and it will not be given to them because it has the sign of Jonah, and here there’s someone else besides Jonah, referring to Jesus’ death at the cross for everyone’s salvation”, says father Macaya.

Src : http://www.cadena3.com/post_ampliado.asp?post=40555&archivo=58891&sector=42

Cleanliness is Next to Godliness

     Cleanliness is next to Godliness. That is especially the case at one blessed New Jersey car wash where the Virgin Mother herself allegedly appeared Monday in a cloud of smoke. In October of last year, national news agencies covered the story of how the holy mother's Resemblance materialized in front of Olden Avenue Car Wash attendant Alex Leiva as he was preparing for work at 9:30 a.m.
      It was a dramatic arrival for the Recognition, as it was preceded by flashing lights and the cloud of smoke, according to Leiva.  As the worker ran toward the building in Ewing, the smoke cleared and the outline of Mary carrying baby Jesus formed in the window of the car wash tunnel.
      Leiva, who is a native of Honduras, was able document the ephemeral Replica before it disappeared again. He sent the images to his family and local ministers back home.
Src : Huffington Post

Alex Leiva

The Preferred Bird Turd

     How could a bird turd be preferred?! If it holds the image of Jesus Christ, that's how. Jim Lawry of Brooklyn, Ohio, tells NewsNet5 that he's "amazed" by the image of Jesus Christ that he, family and friends see in a bird poop plopped on his windshield. He told the station he thinks it's a sign.
      In a YouTube video posted Monday, Lawry marveled at how it looked like a regular old dropping from the outside of the car -- but from the inside it looked, well, divine. The video has since been deleted.
     "It's like a perfect portrait," he says in the video. "It's like Jesus staring right at me."
     "A lot of skeptics too, people looking to make fun of or degrade my Christianity, or compare bird poop to religion," Lawry explained in an update email to NewsChannel5. "I have no idea why this happened, but it did. Every person who has seen the image for themselves can't believe it."
     The northeast Ohio man will auction off the piece to raise money for his favorite charity.
     The picture was taken by Jim Lawry in the driveway of his parents' Brooklyn home.
Src : http://www.newsnet5.com/

To be honest, the Replica Report tends to see a Afghan Dog Resemblance...what do you think?