Speculations that MH370 had been hijacked to Pakistan hardly surprised me. Lieutenant General Thomas McInerney appeared on Fox News to explain how he believed the missing airplane could’ve landed ‘safely’ and ‘intact’ in Pakistan to be used for terrorism in the future. … I wasn’t bothered because I, like most of my country-men, have become […]
Yesterday it was made to sound as though after weeks of stalking Pope Francis, “Noah” star Russell Crowe and director Darren Aronosfsky had wrangled some sort of awkward meeting with the Holy Father. Apparently, that wasn’t true. … there was no meeting: Conflicting reports about the meeting began circulating, but Vatican spokesman the Rev. Federico […]
Initial screenings of Darren Aronofsky’s “Noah” has revealed that Christians were not entirely on board with the “Black Swan” director’s depiction of the famous Genesis character. After “Noah” superseded its initial $125 million budget and became the costliest movie that Aronofsky had ever made, Paramount Pictures forced the director – against his will – to […]
BEIJING — Winter typically brings the worst air pollution to northern China because of a combination of weather conditions and an increase in the burning of coal for homes and municipal heating systems, which usually starts on a specific date. For the large northern city of Harbin, the city’s heating systems kicked in on Sunday, […]
The first-ever study of air trapped in the deep snowpack of Greenland has yielded surprising results. Current computer models had predicted that levels of carbon monoxide locked into the snowpack would be higher than those recorded in the 1950s, yet it appears that the opposite is true. A recent paper published in the journal Atmospheric […]
In an exclusive interview, the Rev. Billy Graham tells Newsmax that President Obama’s “hope and change” mantra is nothing more than a cliché and warns that the nation faces increasing threats to civil and religious liberties from its government. Graham, who is preparing for possibly his last crusade, this time via video, said America is […]
The apocalypse will be budgeted. That is our trajectory, anyway: The bureaucratization of disaster. That which cannot be stopped will still be crammed, heroically, onto a spreadsheet. We like to tell ourselves that we’re ready for the day when the eschatology hits the fan. A week after 19 firefighters died in their emergency shelters in Arizona, and […]
International Business Times In a twist to the Urals meteor strike in Russia, new footage has sparked claims that the space rock was blown up by a UFO. In reports from the remote part of Russia where the meteor exploded in February, ufologists claimed they have discovered video evidence that shows the rock being struck […]
How would you change the course of an Earth-threatening asteroid? One possibility – a massive spacecraft that uses gravity as a towline – is illustrated in this artist’s vision (Dan Durda (FIAAA, B612 Foundation)) of a gravitational tractor in action. In the hypothetical scenario worked out in 2005 by Edward Lu and Stanley Love at […]
[FOR HIGH RESOLUTION, CLICK ON IMAGE / Credit: R. Evans & K. Stapelfeldt (JPL), WFPC2, HST, NASA] Rocks from space hit Earth every day. The larger the rock, though, the less often Earth is struck. Many kilograms of space dust pitter to Earth daily. Larger bits appear initially as a bright meteor. Baseball-sized rocks and […]
