A crew shooting a fishing show caught what appears to be a strange water creature on video a few days ago.
Month: April 2013
Highest brawl ever – fight breaks out on Mount Everest between European team and local Sherpas.
On April 28, 2013, Simone Moro and Ueli Steck were forced to interrupt their acclimatization on Mount Everest and likely also their expedition project, after a fight broke out between the European team and a group of local Sherpas. At 23,600 feet, the climbers were punched, kicked, and stoned after being accused of “touching” the…
These kids in China must scale a dangerous 195-foot cliff each day to get to school
As Artic Ice melts, it has become a free-for-all gold rush – for mammoth tusks!
As the melting of the world’s icecaps accelerates, more and more land, which has been encased in ice for centuries, is slowly revealing hidden treasures. As the ice disappears, mammoth tusks are appearing all over the landscape and that means big business for some. In Siberia, the now-exposed tusks are bringing in tusk hunters and…
Boston Marathon Bombing – the Boston Marathon bombing (2013) – a pictorial timeline of the domestic terrorist attack and capture of brothers Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev.
At the 2013 Boston Marathon, two explosions happened at about 2:50 p.m., more than two hours after the first of the race’s nearly 27,000 runners had crossed the finish line. Two explosions went off near the finish line of the Boston Marathon on Monday, killing at least two people and injuring dozens more, as runners…
Paris Marathon installs kinetic energy “rubber tiles” that generate electricity from runners’ footsteps
Brilliant Paris Marathon race organizers laid out 82-feet worth of rubber tiles along the route. These cushiony tiles weren’t meant to ease the pain on runners but rather are a special electricity-generating tile made by Pavegen Systems that convert kinetic energy from the runners’ footfalls into electricity. The manufacturer claims the tiles generate up to…
Man wraps his entire body in plastic to protect against religious impurity while flying aboard commercial airline.
New video clearly shows cylindrical UFO flying past commercial airlines at 1,500 MPH+
Interesting video coming from LookNowTV (a YouTube station) showing a purported UFO shooting past a commercial airlines bound for Hawaii (presumably shot sometime in April 2013). Coming from behind the plane, you can clearly see a cylindrical-shaped object fly ahead of the airplane at a speed that looks to be 3-4 times faster than the…
Differences in Chinese and Russian security philosophies and how the United States should counter
I enjoy hacking. The intrigue, digging through arcane protocol specs in order to discover some new architectural design flaw or idiotic programmer bug, and the excitement surrounding a mysterious hidden world that few are capable of experiencing, in my mind is akin to losing yourself deep in a software coding problem. I consider myself a…
Giant African Land Snails, as big as your foot, invade southern Florida.
The Giant African land snail grows as large as a rat and can eat through the walls of a home – and they’re invading southern Florida. Hundreds of thousands of the snails are emerging from hibernation and eating through everything in their path. Destruction by digestion aside, their shells are so hard, they can blow…