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The Mair Park Bigfoot pays off
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 [...]
B1509: The Hand Of God
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, [...]
Mair Park Ghost Footage
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 [...]
Revenge of the Weta!
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 [...]
Water water everywhere… not
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 [...]
NGC 7293: The Eye Of God
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 [...]
The Tunguska Catastrophe
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 [...]
Tomb of the Seven Sleepers
I came across an extremely interesting account while researching the city of Ephesus last week. The legend goes like this… Around 250AD, when Christians were being fiercely persecuted, seven young men refusing to recant their faith, gave their worldly goods to the poor and retreated to a mountain cave to pray (and await capture, followed [...]
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