Way back in the 40s when the US was experimenting with atomic bombs there were many problems to overcome. One of which was studying fireball growth at the moment of detonation. Although photographic technology was growing quickly, even the fastest cameras of the time could not handle the speed at which these fireballs expanded and
READ MOREThere’s a new high resolution Sheriff in town and they ain’t pussy footing around. Anyone who hasn’t been in a cave for the past 6 years knows all about Google Earth. Now comes something that may be even cooler. It’s called HiRISE which stands for High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment. In case you haven’t guessed
READ MOREA video making its rounds through the web this morning shows what many protesters during the Russian pro-democracy protest in Bolotnaya Square thought was a UFO. In the video, we see a strange hovering craft above the crows of hundreds of protesters. Flashing bright white and red lights, the craft hovered silently above the
READ MOREWhile at the MUFON reporting database yesterday I happened upon this strange video. What it depicts is the surface of the moon taken through a telescope. As the telescope scans the barron landscape we suddenly see something that doesn’t look quite right. I can only describe it as I saw it but I’ll save my
READ MORE“I lay down…in a grassy area, which felt good in the sunshine, and eventually I fell asleep,” Mitsutaka Uchikoshi, 35, went missing on October 7th, 2001, after he and some buddies went on a climb on Mount Rokko in Japan. Mitsutaka deviated from his friends, fell and lost consciousness. What happened next could
READ MOREA new television show – at least new to me – was on the Discovery Science Channel the other night. At first I didn’t pay much attention to the program as I was busy with other things, so the television was just background noise. It was after I caught a glimpse of Laika, the Russian
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