“Planetary Resources Inc. intends on Tuesday to outline its plan to send an unmanned spacecraft to an asteroid and mine it for valuable metals and water that could be used in further space exploration or returned to earth.” There was also talk of bringing them in orbit with the moon … that should end well […]

It sounds typically horrible … man breaks into game reserve – viciously saws off rhino horn to sell on the black market … Except the dude sawed off a FIBERGLASS horn off of a fake rhino head hanging over the cafeteria. Via the UK Telegraph.  

Finally, why zebras are all stripey … besides the camouflage thing. “Zebra stripes evolved to keep biting flies at bay.” Read all about it at BBC Nature. And in case you’re wondering, zebras are black with white stripes. Lisa Smith, Curator of Large Mammals at Zoo Atlanta, reports that the coat is “often described as […]

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The US base is the largest in the Antarctic interior. Home to 150 scientists and support staff, Amundsen-Scott was built to last. It took 12 Antarctic summers to complete the project. Sitting 10 feet off the ground on 36 stilts, the station is shaped like an airplane wing. Wind accelerates underneath and discourages snow from […]

More Hawaii being made before our eyes … though it might be a few days weeks months years before you should walk around on it … but as soon as the old woman selling coconuts sets up shop, it’s all okay … 🙂 You can read more at Hawaii Lava Daily …

You can read the rest at the Orlando Sentinel … James Cameron dove almost 37,000 feet and it holds mysteries only the sea will tell … The Mariana Trench is like no place on Earth but in some ways, it is …    

It doesn’t sound like much but it’s strangely compelling and even a little melancholy – travel with a NASA Space Shuttle rocket booster up to space and back to Earth.

Time lapse of a brinicle, or brine icicle, as it plunges toward the seabed from the Antarctic ice shelf above, freezing marine invertebrates in its path and killing everything it touches. Creepy in every sense of the word-world … run little starfish! From new Discovery series, FROZEN PLANET.

Pretty cool – now you can literally scroll our solar system in relative scale distance … Side scroll on the bottom – here we are a blip, the third rock from the Sun … Hello, is anybody out there? Via Phrenopolis.