This is the Russian cruise ship MV Lyubov Orlova. It disappeared shortly after it left Canada en route to the Dominican Republic, in the Caribbean. Two months later it has reappeared as a ghost ship, completely empty, floating adrift 2,400 kilometres off the west coast of Ireland. Read More >>
Featured comment by nerdfly:
"I hate it when things 'stop to work'...
"The Atlantic Hawk was able to intercept and secure the Orlova before it disappeared again"
- Just what ..." More »
Commander Chris Hadfield—god bless his astrochops—just took this photo of Earth with the following caption: "Mars is a very interesting planet, with its rugged, ancient surface. But this is Earth." Absolutely oooohstanding. [Twitter] Read More >>
In theory, every actor and actress in the planet could be connected to Kevin Bacon in six steps or less. And in theory, according to Hungarian physicist Albert-László Barabási, every random web page can be accessed from any other random page by clicking just 19 times or less. Read More >>
What kind of sorcery is this? How is this egg standing whole without its shell? Apparently, the inner membrane—the thin layer that you can see stuck to the hard shell when you boil an egg—is strong enough to hold it without breaking its shape. But how can you do this? Read More >>
Witness Lego's Red Five X-wing Starfighter, the latest, baddest and biggest official set to come out of Denmark and, without a doubt, the most accurate and awesome Lego X-Wing ever created. Much better than the original Lego X-Wing Ultimate Collector Series, the previous best. Read More >>
This. Is. MADNESS. Watch Deviant Art user Elemental79 converting a 320 x 240 pixel screenshot from Doom — the legendary 1993 game that made first person shooters popular — into a stunning 9,600 x 7,211 image complete with textures, lighting and 3D effects using Photoshop. It's absolutely nuts. Read More >>
Yesterday, we dealt with an asteroid and a meteor. The 2012 DA14 asteroid zipped past Earth and a meteor exploded over Russia. What the heck is the difference between an asteroid and a meteor? And a meteorite? And a meteoroid? Not too much, apparently! Read More >>
Russian authorities claim to have found the impact sites of some of the fragments of the Chelyabinsk meteor, according to the RIA Novosti news agency. Two have been found near Chebarkul Lake—one of them pictured here. The other one is near Zlatoust, a town 80 kilometres north-west of Chelyabinsk. Read More >>
This stunningly trippy object is W49B, a supernova remnant 26,000 light years away from Earth. It's just a thousand yeas old, which in cosmological terms is not even a heartbeat in the life of a human. It may also be the birth place of a newborn black hole, the youngest ever detected in the galaxy. Read More >>
Astronomers are completely confident that the 45-metre-wide asteroid 2012 DA14 is not going to hit us, passing "only" at 17,200 miles from Earth — the closest encounter with an asteroid ever predicted. It's a close call, but we will be safe. Given what's happened in Russia today — what would really happen if their calculations were wrong? Read More >>
A meteorite has just exploded over Russia. This doesn't feel good when you know that a 150-foot asteroid is about to fly by Earth — and you read about the actual effects of an impact if astronomers' calculations are wrong. 250 people have been injured, according to the BBC. The videos we are collecting are incredible. Read More >>
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"In all the videos the explosion seems to be way after the meteorite comes in, too long after to be an issue with the speed of sound and there are a l..." More »
NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory has captured this incredible image of an object 1,000 light years away from Earth. It looks like an awesome Klingon spaceship accelerating to Warp 10. A majestic 12-mile-long spacecraft that rotates eleven times every second. Read More >>
"If we can send a man to the moon, we must be able to tackle porn on the internet." Those are the now immortal words of Halla Gunnarsdóttir, the political advisor to Iceland's Interior Minister Ögmundur Jónasson. Iceland wants to block all internet porn. Read More >>
Olly Moss has designed this awesome poster just in time for the 2013 edition of the Oscars—it has all the Best Picture Academy Awards for the past 85 years, each of them represented by its main character. It's quite a feat. Read More >>
Featured comment by otuama:
"Funky poster. However, even films I know I'd never had guessed by the statues.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_Award_for_Best_P...#Winners_an..." More »
You've probably heard about the magical visualisation system in the F-35, the fabled Electro Optical Distributed Aperture System (or DAS) that feeds all kinds of data to pilots using demon helmets. Now it just got a new feature that makes it indistinguishable from a video game: hostile ground fire detection. Check out this cool video. Read More >>
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