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a remote volcanic crater on the Pacific island of Papua, New Guinea has revealed many new discoveries and wildlife never seen before. A team of scientists from Britain, the United States and Papua New Guinea found more than 40 previously unidentified species when they climbed into the kilometre-deep crater of Mount Bosavi and explored a pristine [...] Controversial 15th century Vinland Map, which surfaced in the 1950′s, has been authenticated by a team of Danish experts… Controversy has swirled around the map since it came to light in the 1950s, many scholars suspecting it was a hoax meant to prove that Vikings were the first Europeans to land in North America — a [...] from strangemaps … As we’ve all learned in school, 70% of the Earth’s surface is covered by water, only 30% is solid ground. What if everything was reversed? What if every land mass was a body of water, and vice versa? This map explores that question, and it is fantastic in at least three definitions of that [...] an innovative, ballast-free airship technology created by Aeros Aeronautical Systems, based outside Los Angeles. The Aeroscraft ML866′s potentially revolutionary Control of Static Heaviness system compresses and decompresses helium in the 210-ft.-long envelope, changing this proposed sky yacht’s buoyancy during takeoff and landings, link and another…”Aeroscraft ML866 is a proposed new type of airborne vehicle that combines bouyancy [...] the unique problems of landing heavy, human-carrying vehicles on the Martian surface haven’t been totally worked out yet… The real problem is the combination of Mars’ atmosphere and the size of spacecraft needed for human missions. So far, our robotic spacecraft have been small enough to enable at least some success in reaching the surface [...]
Germany: The Melander family of Bargteheide
Chad: The Aboubakar family of Breidjing Camp link to what the [...] explore opening March 2007, quite a view from the glass-bottom walkway 4000 ft above the canyon floor. Grand Canyon West, a destination owned and operated by the Hualapai Tribe at the Grand Canyon’s western rim, announces March 28, 2007 as the official public opening date of The Skywalk. The Skywalk will be the first-ever cantilever shaped glass [...] |
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