The sun
blows a smoke ring.
How to
get rid of phobias. Via
qamar.
Richard Branson wants to build
a tourist space vehicle! Via
jordan179.
Brits are also designing a hypersonic jet which would do UK-Oz
in five hours.
Drug cartels
are increasingly using submarines: Now, the cartels seem to be increasingly going beneath the waves, relying on submarines built in clandestine jungle shipyards to move tons of cocaine.
Last year, 13 of the vessels were seized on dry land or stopped at sea by Colombian or U.S. patrol boats -- more than in the previous 14 years combined, according to the Pacific fleet of the Colombian navy, which is responsible for interdiction efforts across 130,000 square miles.
About
the network of undersea cables. A some cables get cut and the internet
goes down across the Middle East. But Israel was not affected -
clearly a conspiracy. Though
neither was Iran.
Apparent evidence of abiogenic hydrocarbons. If confirmed,
it could have a few implications.
Considering
an obvious downside of increasing biological knowledge.
In 40 million years a giant hydrogen cloud
will hit our galaxy.
55 million years ago, a tremendous release of deep ocean methane
heated the atmosphere by 7 degrees Celsius.
12,900 years ago
a large an object hit the Earth’s atmosphere above North America. Bad luck for
most of the resident humans at the time.