The flying machine featured here is called an ornithopter, and its conceptual origins date back at least as far as the late 15th century, when Leonardo Da Vinci first produced drawings of a bird-like machine capable of flight.
Da Vinci would never see his designs realized in the form of a working…
Do you remember your dreams?
Most of the time I forget, only to remember later, like a flash of Déjà vu of sorts
A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?
Albert Einstein
Triceratops Bones Support Asteroid Extinction Theory
The youngest dinosaur bones ever found, the horn of a Triceratops (or Torosaurus, depending on who you ask) have given support to the theory that an asteroid impact wiped out the dinosaurs.
There’s a particular layer in the geologic record filled with exotic minerals. Those minerals support the idea that an asteroid hit the Earth at just that moment. No dinosaur bones have been found above that line, which points to their time of extinction.
These new bones were discovered within just a few centimeters of the impact line, meaning that they were deposited shortly before the likely impact, and that the impact was the final nail in the coffin for the dwindling dinos.
(via Wired.com)
http://io9.com/5820264/ridley-scott-reveals-why-hes-taking-prometheus-to-iceland-plus-new-set-photos-for-the-dark-knight-rises-and-man-of-steel
not a fan of the whole “OMG!” thing,
but OMG,
this does indeed happens to me & so often too!
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