This photograph, taken by accident in New South Wales, shows a wingless, metallic object that was moving so fast that it was visible in only one of two snapshots taken seconds apart. It’s not a plane, a bug or a bird, so that leaves the unknown.
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Ever since the publication of the groundbreaking book the Cycle of Cosmic Catastrophes in 2006, a controversy has raged about whether or not the explosion of a comet over southern Canada almost 13,000 years ago might have led to the catastrophic collapse of the great ice sheets and the floods that followed, that are memorialized in myths and legends around the world.
Now a new study offers further evidence that this is exactly what happened. Could it happen again?
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Despite all the warnings (NOTE: Subscribers can still listen to this show), there really IS going to be a 2013, and you can make your especially beautiful by using Lucy Pringle’s magnificent, mysterious and uplifting new calendar–her annual selection of gorgeous images from her huge photo collection cannot be beat!
And this year, for one week only, if you input the coupon code CAL13 as you check out, you’ll get $2.00 off this beautiful calendar! Offer expires on October 22 at midnight
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The deserts of Utah and Nevada have not always been dry: Between 14,000 and 20,000 years ago, valleys throughout the desert southwest filled with water to become large lakes, which–at their maximum–covered about a quarter of both those states. And a dry stream bed has been found on Mars–was this "red desert" planet ALSO once covered with water? This transformation may have happened on Mars as well!
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