Showing posts with label Word on the DISCOVERY CHANNEL. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Word on the DISCOVERY CHANNEL. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 28, 2010

BRB I have to shower in ACID NOW

Thank GOD Youtube finally put their embed button back.

I'm throwing up all over the place. I hope no one EVER tries to sneak these off the islands because I never want this in my back yard. 

Youtube user Yerk3 puts it the best though: "Imagine if these things were massive, and disguised as street lights."

 Thank you Yerk3. That imagery will forever haunt my imagination now.

Friday, March 5, 2010

Mass Extinction

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It seems like FOREVER that we have been debating what caused all the dinosaurs to go extinct many many years ago. Well now a team of 41 scientists from all over the world have been working together and debating and debating and probably throwing chairs and fossils at each other to prove their point....and eventually decided: IT WAS AN ASTEROID.

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Usually this image only goes with attractive people, however I thought it was fitting in this context.

"A giant asteroid smashing into Earth is the only plausible explanation for the extinction of the dinosaurs..."
- The Extinction Team as I have appropriately named them*

 Apparently a big f'ing asteroid (read: 9 miles in diameter) smashed into Mexico and then the atmosphere was filled with filled with A LOT of residue...it was like the time Mount Tambora erupted and covered the world with ash so much that the summer temperatures drop pretty low and everyone's crops died, except this asteroid impact was worse because the temperatures dropped so low that it killed everything. And there were also earthquakes and tsunamis and the usual terrifying crap.


One scientist also has this website where you can see, IN DIAGRAM FORM NOT COOL ANIMATED MOVIES, the effects of the asteroid. See it here. Unfortunately, if that happened today there would be no more life on North America or South America. However, Lighting doesn't strike the  same place twice so I'm going to be optimistic and hope that asteroids don't strike the same  HEMISPHERE twice. Sorry Africa, Europe and Asia.

Via The News


*I don't know what their real name is.

Thursday, July 16, 2009

Name that Tapir!

The Belfast Zoo is in need of a name for their new baby tapir who was born on June 22. All you have to do is shoot them an email with your name suggestion and up to 100 words of why it would be suitable for this baby tapir. The closing date for entries is July 31!
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