It may sound like Michael Crichton movie plot, but senior U.S. airmen will claim today that since 1948, aliens have been hovering over United Kingdom and U.S. nuclear missile sites and deactivating the weapons– once even landing in a British base. Furthermore, they warn, our governments are hushing the activity up. The six former U.S. [...]
July 3, 2010
An effort to help blind people drive cars has reached an important step — driver awareness systems are now being integrated into a mass-production vehicle. Blind drivers will test-drive a specially outfitted Ford Escape in January at Daytona International Speedway, team membersannounced Friday. It will probably be a while before a legally blind person will be [...]
June 25, 2010
For the first time the dark side of the moon has been captured by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter’s LOLA instruments. The rainbow colors correspond to the elevation of the terrain, going from 20,000 feet (red) to -20,000 feet (blue). The beautiful coloring highlights the unique sharp views of some of the largest impact craters in [...]
June 23, 2010
The ISS was a couple of thousand kilometers away from the green lights of a southern aurora when this shot was taken.The aurorae are usually between 80 – 160 km (50 – 100 miles) above the Earth’s surface. The green glow is characteristic of oxygen. This aurora was probably caused by subatomic particles from an explosive [...]
June 3, 2010
Images on TV and the internet continually tick off the number of gallons of crude oil leaking into the waters of the Gulf of Mexico. Yet the numbers are quickly becoming unfathomable to us in our daily lives. We have no reference point for tens of millions of gallons, except to know that’s a lot [...]
May 18, 2010
Scientists have discovered enormous plumes of oil in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico, in an indication that the leak from an underwater well could be far worse than previously estimated, AFP reported Saturday citing The New York Times. One of the plumes was 10 miles (16 kilometers) long, three miles wide and [...]
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