Beatle Ringo Starr's face seen in water droplet on lotus leaf

[question everything]

A team researching water-repellent leaf behaviour at Duke University in North Carolina took the high-speed images, showing water drops bouncing on the surface of a leaf. James Dacey, a reporter for Physics World, wrote the story up for the magazine’s website – and noticed the Octopus’s-Garden-composing, Thomas-The-Tank-Engine-narrating 1960s icon staring back at him.

Under the picture, captioned “The Starkey Effect: Ringo keeps psychedelia alive”, Mr Dacey says: “Bizarrely, everybody’s favourite mop-topped Liverpudlian seems to reveal himself in the high-speed photo images of water-droplets being ejected from the leaf surface.” Starr’s features and mop-top haircut can indeed be seen in the images, even though they distort as the droplet bounces.

Mr Dacey told the Telegraph that this is the first time he has seen the image of a Beatle in a physics experiment. There is some argument over whether the image is actually of George Harrison, rather than Ringo. Harrison is quoted as saying “Life is like a raindrop on a lotus leaf”, when talking about his battle with throat cancer.

Strange apparitions have been making the news a lot lately. Last month an image of Jesus Christ was spotted on the door of the men's toilets in a Glasgow branch of Ikea.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/the-beatles/6501395/Beatle-Ringo-Starrs-face-seen-in-water-droplet-on-lotus-leaf.html

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[graywarrior]

1. Looks more like Sonny & Cher to me

[underseasurveyor]

11. Ha Ha Ha It does

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[Fuzz]

2. Praise the Walrus?

[lob1]

3. How strange. Just last week I saw an image of Ted Nugent in a cat turd.

[Robb]

12. That happens a lot, actually. Your mistake was easy to make.

It actually was Ted Nugent. :D

[Burma Jones]

4. Are they sure it isn't John Entwistle?

[itsrobert]

5. What happens if you play the image backwards?

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[SoCalDem]

6. Paul gets killed in Viet Nam

[Mz Pip]

7. Paul dies. n/t

[DearAbby]

8. Duuuuuuude, you dump the bong water.....n/t

[chollybocker]

9. The Pete Best Droplet was later seen kicking itself.

[Happyhippychick]

10. Every one of these replies is hilarious. Except mine.

[Mari333]

13. and mine but ROFL this thread

[damntexdem]

14. It's a miracle! That science lab needs to be made into a shrine!

And damn any heretic who claims that it's not Ringo!

;-)

[Art_from_Ark]

20. Well, I don't think it looks like Ringo

It looks more like one of the Kinks. Or maybe Herman's Hermits.

[pipi_k]

15. That's Porky Pig!!! n/t

[corpseratemedia]

16. looks like pete townsend to me, with a malebob

[Orsino]

17. Pssst. It's not actually Ringo--it's Paul Angelis. n/t

[Piwi2009]

18. I think it's Harrison. He always was the Quiet Droplet.

[brettdale]

19. Im just not seeing it

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[edbermac]

21. I thought Ringo was The Walrus.

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