What do you do when you run out of gravel? Well, sometimes you can’t just run down to the gravel store and buy some, so you turn to alternative methods. Say, bulldozing an ancient Mayan temple. That’s what a road-building ...
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Feed SubscriptionWitness 1,046 Meteorites Fall to Earth with BOLIDES
No, that’s not a screenshot from some new version of Missile Command. It’s called BOLIDES, a website project that animates every witnessed meteorite collision with Earth from 861 to modern day. “Thousands of meteorites have collided with the Earth since ...
Read More »Grab A Cornetto: The World’s End Is Here
In the grand scheme of zombie apocalypse -related media, for me, Shaun of the Dead stands somewhere near the top. It’s right next to Zombies Ate My Neighbors for Super Nintendo, and I’ll tell you why: I like my zombies ...
Read More »Meteor Explodes Over Concert In Argentina
Concert-goers in Argentina got a little extra for their money on Sunday when a meteor exploded over the night sky, temporarily becoming a second sun. Apparently, given the spectacular light show, the meteor would have been traveling at a cool ...
Read More »Meteor Caught On Camera In Russia
I know I just mentioned this a couple hours ago, but these videos are too incredible to ignore. Apparently, Russia experienced quite the meteor shower today. Around 100 400 people have been injured, schools have been evacuated, and people have been ...
Read More »North Korea Performs Nuclear Test
There are rumblings on the wire that North Korea has just conducted an underground nuclear bomb test. This comes from a seismic reading of M4.9, detected by the the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) at 11:57 JST (2:57:51 UTC), which is ...
Read More »Asteroid 2012 DA14: Too Close For Comfort?
On February 15, 2013, Asteroid 2012 DA14 will glide past Earth, coming within 27,700 km (or 17,200 miles), closer than our orbiting geosynchronous satellite ring. As you can see in the above animation created by NASA, this will definitely be ...
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