Ghostly Particles from Outer Space Detected in Antarctica

Buried deep in the Antarctic ice, an observatory has spotted ghostly, nearly massless particles coming from inside our galaxy and points beyond the Milky Way. Finding these cosmic neutrinos not only confirms their existence but also sheds light on the origins of cosmic rays, the researchers said. The IceCube Neutrino Observatory is made up of 86 shafts dug 8,000 feet […]

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Poem – COSMIC COINCIDENCES? (By Ray Gallucci)

  COSMIC COINCIDENCES?   TUNGUSKA (Tunguska Event: “The Tunguska event was an enormously powerful explosion that occurred near [and later struck] the Podkamennaya Tunguska River in what is now Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia, at about 7:14 am. KRAT [00:14 UT] on June 30, 1908.” from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_event)     What happened in Tunguska over century ago, Could happen anywhere on earth, and […]

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Shooting His Computer

A Colorado man was given a ticket by police this week for shooting his balky computer eight times and “killing” it.  Police say Lucas Hinch, 37, had become “fed up with fighting his computer for the last several months,” so he took it outside and repeatedly blasted it with a handgun.  Hinch said he didn’t realize he was breaking the […]

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Long Dark Winter at the South Pole

Winter at the South Pole

Few people have traveled to the South Pole since Roald Amundsen and Robert Falcon Scott reached the bottom of the world in the austral summer of 1911-12. Fewer still stay for the six months of darkness in the winter at the South Pole. The first crew to winter at the South Pole was in 1957, but only 1,267 people have spent the […]

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