I have always been fascinated by World War 2 history and especially old gun emplacements, tunnels and stuff. A dream I have is to visit France and explore the Axis fortifications along the coast (including the sub-pens). In future posts I will be writing about some of New Zealand’s historic WW2 sites, but first I want to write about the [...]
Do I believe hell exists? Absolutely. Do I believe it is a physical place somewhere close to the Earth’s core? No… But if it was, no place could better be described as Hell’s doorway than the man-made phenomenon near the town of Darvaza, Uzbekistan.
Several slight variations exist, but in essence the story begins during Soviet times in 1971. [...]
Many moons ago while surfing Amazon’s Listmanias I came across an author by the name of Jeremy Robinson. To cut a long story short, he was running a viral video contest to promote his new book, Pulse. I bribed my good buddy Lesmondj into spending a Saturday afternoon in the bush and what eventuated was two versions of the [...]
The ‘Hand of God’ taken by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory Satellite.
A 13 mile wide pulsar known as PSR B1509-58 (B1509) is responsible for this beautiful X-ray nebula that spans 150 light years.
B1509 makes one full rotation every 1/7 of a second. Think about that for a second. An immensely heavy star neutron star, 15 miles wide, spinning [...]
I simply cannot wait to see the upcoming movie ‘2012′, coming to a big screen near you on November 13. I must say, although CGI drenched, the trailer looks absolutely awesome.
For those of you unfamiliar with the current cuffufle about the year 2012, let me enlighten you. Apparently, the ancient Mayan Calendar ends on December 21, 2012, marking an end [...]
About this time last year, I wrote of the time when my parents had a close encounter with the urban legend known as ‘The Mair Park Ghost. The original post created quite a stir, and you can read the subsequent shenanigans here:
The Mair Park Ghost
Haunted houses, ghosts and demons
Ghost mystery solved… or is it?
Symon Drake… Ghostbuster (heh)
Revenge of the Mair [...]
New Zealand Giant Weta
A year ago I confessed to blogosphere that I was scared of spiders. Over the space of three months, I willed myself to tolerate them, and now actually like them in a warped kind of way. You can read my journey from considering spiders eight legged freaks, to eight legged furry friends here, here, and here.
Confession time [...]
I have always thought that our planet has a lot of water (understatement again). With over 70% of the Earth’s surface covered with water, in some parts over 10km deep, any educated person would naturally believe that there is more than enough H20 to go around.
Well, actually…
If every drop of water in the world (1.4087 billion cubic kilometres of it) [...]
This awesome image (click pic to enlarge) is an authentic photograph (actually, a composite of images) taken by NASA’s Hubble telescope. It featured as NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day in May 2003 and thereafter has been immortalised on various websites and blogs (heh) ever since. It has earned the nickname ‘Eye Of God’ (I never knew God’s eyes were [...]
I had never ever heard of the name Tunguska before… until I bought a PC game (for the kids) called Secret files: Tunguska. Then I became enlightened to an extremely fascinating and equally mysterious event which occurred 101 years ago in Central Siberia.
In the Tunguska region at 7:17am on 30 June 1908 something of apocalyptic proportions occurred. This ‘happening’ flattened [...]
