Oslo, April 4, 2009. According to glaciologist David Vaughn, an Ice Bridge holding a vast Antarctic Ice Shelf in place the size of Connecticut has shattered, and may be an indicator of a wider collapse caused by the effects of Global Climate Change. Satellite photos from space, taken by the European Space Agency showed a strip of ice about 25 miles, which had held the ice shelf had fractured. To read the full story, CLICK.
This video is truly amazing. It illustrates how humans can actually “fly” using the force of gravity and wind currents. This was the Dream of Leonardo daVinci in Renaissance times. To view this amazing Video CLICK.
Recently, an international team of scientists anounced the discovery in an open pit coal mine in Northern Columbia of the fossilized remains of the largest snake every known. Titanoboa lived some 58-60 million years ago in the hot, lush tropical rainforest environments of that time. This behemouth (over 43 feet long…the length of a Tyrannosaurus Rex) apparently was mainly aquatic, and dined on large crocodiles and fresh water turtles that were common to this type of habitat. To read this facinating story CLICK.
An Asteroid somilar in size to the one that exploded over Tunguska, Siberia in 1908, raced by the Earth at 1344 GMT on Monday, March 2 at a distance of about 44,750 miles above the Earth’s surface (about one-fifth of the distance between Earth and the Moon). Estimated diameter of this rock was between 21and 47 meters (68-152 feet). The estimated size of this Asteroid is similar to the estimated size of the Asteroid or Comet that exploded over Siberia, flattening 80 million trees over a swath of over 2,000 square kilometers (800 square miles). The force of this explosion was estimated to be the equivalent of a thousand Atomic Bombs. To read the full story CLICK.
A Japanese Company called Genepax has developed an ecologically friendly car that apparently runs on nothing but water. The vehicle has an onboard energy generator which extracts Hydrogen from water in the car’s tank. This generator then releases electrons that produce electric power to run the car. To view the video, CLICK HERE.
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