by | Oct 9, 2021 | Weirdness
from WIRED A Bad Solar Storm Could Cause an ‘Internet Apocalypse’ The undersea cables that connect much of the world would be hit especially hard by a coronal mass ejection. by Lily Hay Newman Even if the power comes back after the next big solar storm,...
by | Oct 6, 2021 | Weirdness
from Study Finds Fire and brimstone: Sodom and Gomorrah perhaps destroyed by ‘cosmic fireball,’ evidence shows Artist’s impression of cloudburst from meteor at Sodom and Gomorrah site. SANTA BARBARA, Calif. — The biblical “sin cities” of Sodom and Gomorrah could...
by | Oct 5, 2021 | Weirdness
from The Daily Mail ‘Planetary defense!’ NASA will launch November mission to deflect ‘devastating’ asteroid from hitting Earth by NUDGING it with a spacecraft, agency says By CHRIS CIACCIA NASA said on Monday that its mission to deflect an...
by | Sep 18, 2021 | Weirdness
from France 24 Iceland’s volcanic eruption the longest in half a century The first lava began spewing out of a fissure close to Mount Fagradalsfjall on the evening of March 19 on the Reykjanes peninsula to the south west of Reykjavik Jeremie RICHARD AFP...
by | Sep 17, 2021 | Weirdness
from The Guardian Evidence of Fur and Leather Clothing, Among World’s Oldest, Found in Moroccan Cave Humans likely sported clothes made of jackal, fox and wildcat skins some 120,000 years ago by Brian Handwerk ‘In creating fields of identical wheat, we abandoned...
by | Sep 16, 2021 | Weirdness
from unherd Deepfakes have disturbing implications for porn A new app digitally superimposes women into videos — this is only the start Credit: Getty Artifical Intelligence has been heralded as ‘the future’ for as long as I can remember. The excitement is...
