Whitley Strieber has been warning about climate change since the publication of Superstorm in 1999. On Unknowncountry, we have been warning of a very dangerous tornado season this year, and 2011 has turned out to be the deadliest year for tornadoes since record keeping began.
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It happened seven years ago in Italy, and now it happened in Texas in May: An unusual electrical storm took place in Fort Worth on May 9, during which transformers exploded all over the city, but, as can be seen on the video, there were no lightning strikes. Star-Telegram columnist Bob Ray Sanders reported in the newspaper that he had seen lighting strikes, but that this wasn’t lightning. He saw fire in the sky and on the ground, and likened the event to a bombing raid.read more
The brave soldiers who went in to take out Osama bin-Laden must have wished they could be invisible. Scientists are determined to figure out how to do this. If we succeed, it would certainly be an effective tool to use in a war–but it would be effective for terrorists too. Researcher Joachim Fischer says that watching things disappear "is an amazing experience." But making items vanish is not the reason he creates tiny invisibility cloaks. This new technology, called "transformation optics" has learned how to manipulate light in ways long thought to be impossible.read more