The following three photographs were taken of an atomic bomb detonated by the military as part of the “Tumbler Snapper” test series. They were taken by Harold Eugene Edgerton (1903-1990) an all round...
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Someone called Kalev Leetaruv who’s into “big data” collated 1.5bn tweets which were streamed from 71.3m unique users across the space of a month. They then colour coded them for the language the tweet was written in....
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I watched one of those overly dramatic “weird weather” type programs the other day and they talked about volcanoes banging out smoke rings. Initially I was skeptical because it sounded too brilliant to be part of...
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I came across this video today whilst perusing the ‘space’ section of the internerd. It’s a time lapse video put together from genuine data captured by NASA‘s Solar Dynamics Observatory. It shows a massive...
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It’s not caused as much of a big fuss as the recent Russian meteorite, but another one smashed down over Argentina this Sunday. It wasn’t filmed from as many angles either unfortunately, the...
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It’s as terrifying as it sounds I’m afraid people. It’s a video of a snake head attacking its own body. Is nothing sacred? If you decapitate a terrifying beast it’s supposed to DIE???...
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Iceland has a population of 320,000 people which is roughly the same number as Wigan or Coventry, except they’re spread over 40,000 square miles. Iceland was a barren rock until a group of...
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The International Space Station (ISS) has been plummeting round the Earth for more than a decade, spinning about the planet tens of times a day. Canadian astronaut Colonel Chris Hadfield was up there for a...
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The Danxia formations are situated around 600 miles west of Shanghai, in the Gansu province of China. They stretch for hundreds of miles and some of them are now UNESCO Geoparks, spared from development or over trampling. The Danxia formations are...
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The Apollo 10 space mission was a successful one, it was basically a dry run for going to the moon, they got within 9 nautical miles of it’s surface but never touched down. So all...
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