This picture from “Popular Mechanics” graphically illustrates the differences in explosive force of various nuclear weapons. At the far left of the scale are “bunker buster” bombs designed to destroy underground bunkers. Bunker busters vary in yield from less than a kiloton to just over a megaton. At the other end of the scale is [...]

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Reuters are reporting that the UFO sightings database kept by the National Space Studies Centre (CNES) of France will be available to all online as early as next month.
The database will be accessible through the CNES website at www.cnes.fr and consists of around 6000 reports relating to approximately 1600 incidents reported over the past 30 [...]

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This is a clip from the movie Lik Wong (1991). If you like blood and gore in movies with a touch of weird thrown in then this is definitely for you.

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This really pisses me off, the Grand Canyon Park Service is not allowed to comment on the age of the Grand Canyon as doing so may hurt the feelings of dickheads Creationists who claim that the Canyon was formed by Noah’s flood.
A Creationist publication making this claim is still on sale at the park more [...]

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Mars in 2020…
our probes litter the surface and are a hazard for the local Martians :) great vid!

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Brilliant CGI re-enactment of the atomic bomb explosion over Hiroshima in 1945, from the BBC documentary “Hiroshima”
The blast killed an estimated 80,000 people with another 60,000 dying in the following months from radiation poisoning or other injuries. The bomb also destroyed approximately 70% of the city’s buildings.

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Imagine a gun with no recoil, no sound, no heat, no gunpowder, no visible firing signature (muzzle flash), and no stoppages or jams of any kind. Now imagine that this gun could fire .308 caliber and .50 caliber metal projectiles accurately at up to 8,000 fps (feet-per-second), featured an infinitely variable/programmable cyclic rate-of-fire (as high [...]

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In 1976, the Viking 1 spaceprobe took this now famous photograph of the Cydonia region of Mars.

Many people still believe that the photo shows an artificial humanoid face and therefore evidence of a past civilisation on the red planet, however high resolution images obtained by Mars Global Surveyor in 2001 and by the Mars Express [...]

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This vid shows you how to heal and seal a crushed soda can, it’s pretty simple once you know how the trick is perfomed.
Turn the sound down for this one, the soundtrack really sucks.

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Playing half-life 2 Death Match today, Just joined a Random server and Was shocked to be playing on the NY World Trade Centers, one of the centers is burning with a hole in the side of it and the other seems to be ok, Who ever made the map also included about 2 blocks worth [...]

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“Sometimes, to understand your present, you have to go back to your past, and this time, things will be different” - Lara Croft, Anniversary Trailer

When it is released early next year, Tomb Raider: Anniversary (Tomb Raider: 10th Anniversary edition) will actually mark the 11th aniversary of the original Tomb Raider game. The creators Eidos/SCi have [...]

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The founder of Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales is behind the development of a new search engine which utilises the same technology as the open-access encyclopedia.
The search engine is due to go live early next year and at the moment is called “Wikiasari”: wiki is Hawaiian for “quick” and asari is Japanese for “rummaging search”.
Wales hopes that [...]

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