A Canadian firm’s technology may help ease the burden for an upcoming human expedition to Mars. Thin Red Line Aerospace, a privately-held firm in Chilliwack, BC is expected to help build an inflatable habitat for a 2018 trip to Mars planned by the Inspiration Mars Foundation. The proposed 501-day trip would send a middle-aged couple [...]

CLICK IMAGES FOR BIGGER VERSIONS ANGKOR WAT was listed in World Wonder List Angkor Wat, in its beauty and state of preservation, is unrivaled. Its mightiness and magnificence bespeak a pomp and a luxury surpassing that of a Pharaoh or a Shah Jahan, an impressiveness greater than that of the Pyramids, an artistic distinctiveness as [...]

Photograph via kikootwo on Reddit   Back in the year 2000, a 1,003 kilogram (2,211 lbs) meteorite was discovered near Fukang, a city located in the northwestern region of Xinjiang, China. Named the ‘Fukang meteorite‘, it was identified as a pallasite, a type of stony–iron meteorite, with striking olivine crystals throughout. Pallasites are extremely rare [...]

From violent volcanoes to horrifying hurricanes, Mother Nature’s fury is a sight to behold. With so much human conflict and suffering, we often underestimate the awesome and destructive power of nature. While the science behind these events is utterly fascinating, the consequences can be dire and we must respect the power of the planet we [...]

Impressive series of photographs entitled “Then and Now”, carried out in an abandoned school in the city of Detroit by WebSite Detroiturbex… Detroiturbex | via

Imagine you could go back 13.8 billion years to the dawn of time. What do you think you would hear during the Big Bang? We may not have time machines yet, but physicist John G. Cramer offers the next best thing. Here’s his sonic simulation, which compresses 760,000 years of the early universe into about [...]

CLICK FOR BETTER VIEW ON HOLLAND ISLAND, MD. The story was strange enough to be a child’s fable: In an isolated section of the Chesapeake Bay, there was a two-story Victorian house that seemed to emerge directly from the water. And, scurrying around it, there was a retiree, trying to keep the house from falling [...]

Pripyat, is an abandoned city in the zone of alienation in northern Ukraine, Kiev Oblast, near the border with Belarus. It was home to the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant workers. The city was abandoned in 1986 following the Chernobyl disaster. Its population had been around 50,000 prior to the accident. The Chernobyl disaster was a [...]

China is nothing if not random, and it doesn’t get much more random than Wonderland Amusement Park. A forty-five minute drive from downtown Beijing toward Badaling Great Wall, Wonderland was once slated to be the largest amusement park in Asia. That was before its maker, Thailand-based Reignwood Group, unable to reach an agreement with the [...]

The entrance to the park was designed to look almost identical to Disneyland, including the Train depot, a Main Street, U.S.A. and the familiar Sleeping Beauty Castle at the hub. It also had a Matterhorn-type mountain (with a Matterhorn Bobsleds-type ride, called Bobsleigh), and the skyway running through it, as well as an Autopia-type ride [...]