All Entries Tagged With: "catastrophic"
Scientist working on killer asteroids shuns explosions
A big one could devastate the globe, a small one (100 yards across) would wreck a sizable region. Even a baby like the 150-foot-diameter 2010 ST 3, the first one tagged by Pan-STARRS, which probably would burn up in the atmosphere, would create a blast wave that could flatten everything over hundreds of square miles.
Extreme technology: IT at the ends of the Earth
In space, no one can hear you scream at your PC. And in combat in Iraq or at a research station in the Antarctic, computers face tough conditions. Anna Leach meets the extreme tech experts
A few scenarios for climate change
Most predictions are darker than the Climate Change Lite scenario, which sees mostly manageable crisis situations. Things will get hotter and colder and more intense.
2012: A New Beginning?
What the Mayans had managed to discover—2,000 years before computers were able to—is that December 21, 2012, corresponds to the end of Earth’s precession rotation, which is a cycle nearly 26,000 years long.
The Judgment Day: Pole Shifts and Christmas Day 2012?
It sounds like something from a science fiction film, a doomsday vault, dug into a frozen mountainside deep in an Arctic island’s permafrost that will serve as a Noah’s Ark for world seeds in case of a global catastrophe.
Lost Books of Nostradamus 2012 and Ophiuchus 1 through 3
Lost Books of Nostradamus: on Dec 21 2012 we will be in the constellation Ophiuchus the 13th sign of the zodiac. It is known as the unlucky sigh.
Planet X Theory, Nibiru and the Anunnaki
The idea that Earth has been visited by aliens at some point in the distant past is not a new one. In Sumer, the alien Gods were known as the Anunnaki. In Greece, the Annodoti. In the Celtic lore, the Tuatha de Danaan. In the Semetic scriptures (Torah, Talmud, Old Testament, and other Apocryphal texts [...]
Does Planet X Exist? Is Nibiru Inhabited and Inbound?
A long time ago in the mists of prehistory, events happened on this planet that have come down to us concealed in legend, engraved in stone and written in ancient languages on clay tablets.
Comet Caesar – Dark Comet in 2012?
When considering what might cause us grief in 2012, few if any researchers consider the start of the Mayan Long Count calendar to have any importance. This is surprising, because the reason for the calendar beginning on August 11 3114BC might contain clues about 2012 itself.
Images show volcano intensifying
The UK Met Office has released a vivid series of images that show the Eyjafjallajokull volcano intensifying.
In the satellite pictures, which use infrared wavelengths, the ash plume appears as bright orange colours spreading out from the volcano.
