Stalking Venus

Every now and again, I come across someone who doesn’t believe in global warming. They say it’s hype or some sort of scientific conspiracy to um… well, to do something or other. Maybe get funding or recognition or something. Well, as they say, a picture is worth a thousand words, so check this out. These [...]

This is a photograph of the concrete dome on Runit Island. The island, which is part of Enewetak Atoll was fitted with its unusual concrete cap because of the simple small fact that beneath it lie 111,000 cubic yards of radioactive soil and debris from the Bikini and Rongelap atoll nuclear tests. The dome covers [...]

Reuters reports that London is snowed under, with much of the public transport system ground to a halt due to the 15 centimetres of snow covering tracks and roads. Heathrow Airport reported “significant delays” in their flights and London City Airport said they were “closed until further notice”. The London Met Office reports that “so [...]

Coz I’ll choon you right back, “Moenie kak praat, bru. Tsekkit the Vennis, ou pel.” Once again, the Big Picture astounds and amazes us with pictorial news from the big wide world: “The recent “acqua alta” (high water) in Venice, Italy reached a depth of 1.56 meters (5 ft, 1 in.) on Monday – the [...]

I know he’s being dying to hear from us folks at StalkingVenus, so I’d better hurry up and get on with it. I’m sure that he’s distracted enough already without having to deal with the emotional turmoil of not knowing whether or not he has StalkingVenus’ support… Congratulations President Obama! On behalf of the intelligent [...]

The Telegraph is reporting that Playboy magazine is suffering a financial crisis, with stocks falling drastically. Rumours are that Hef has been told to cut back on the mansion staff or face going bankrupt. An insider at the company told the Daily Star that bosses had been aware of the worsening situation for “a while”. [...]

Here’s a scary little story from The Independent. Apparently scientists have recently discovered huge Arctic regions that are releasing millions of tons of methane – a gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide. Basically what’s happened is that because of global warming, the sub-sea layer of permafrost that used to form a lid on [...]

It kinda makes you gasp, doesn’t it – suddenly seeing this indelible image when you weren’t expecting it. That’s how I felt when I browsed over to the Boston Globe’s Big Picture feature and saw these images. Somewhere inside me, I knew we were approaching 11 September, but I hadn’t really allowed the thought too [...]

A bunch of scientist types were hanging about in their aeroplane on September 2nd doing sciency things and studying the ice shelf at Ellesmere Island in Canada’s northern Arctic region. The weather came down around them, and they were surrounded with cloud for a bit. When the cloud cleared, suddenly – hey presto! – a [...]

Virgin Galactic, the space faring branch of Richard Branson’s empire has unveiled the WhiteKnightTwo – an aeroplane with a twin fuselage, designed to carry a spaceship into suborbital flight. The craft will carry SpaceShipTwo from Virgin Galactic’s New Mexico space port before releasing it 15km above the Earth’s surface, from where the spaceship will take [...]