Minooch: Archive

January 2011

17 posts

'MINI-COLOSSEUM' EXCAVATED IN ROME → news.discovery.com

Beneath Rome’s Fiumicino airport lies a “mini-Colosseum” that may have played host to Roman emperors, according to British archaeologists.

Jan 31, 2011

#rome #archeaology

'MARS MISSION' CREW TO SPEND 520 DAYS IN ISOLATION → news.discovery.com

Like in a proper Mars mission, the crew will have to live on food rations akin to those used by real astronauts and their only outside communication will be by email, with a delay of up to 40 minutes. The hatch will only re-open when the experiment ends or if one of the all-male team pulls out.

Jan 30, 20112 notes

#Mars

WORLD'S LARGEST CAVE EXPLORED IN VIETNAM: BIG PIC → news.discovery.com

The biggest known cave in the world is hidden in a jungle in Vietnam, but a team of cavers with the help of a local farmer are exploring its depths.

Jan 29, 20118 notes

#cave #spelunking #vietnam

HINTS OF LOST CALIGULA PALACE FOUND THANKS TO THIEF → news.discovery.com

The special art squad police arrested last week near Lake Nemi, south of Rome, a man trying to load part of an eight-foot-tall statue onto his truck.

Jan 28, 20111 note

#archaeology #italy #art thieves

Ugandan Who Spoke Up for Gays Is Beaten to Death → nytimes.com

RIP David Kato

Jan 28, 2011

#gay rights #uganda

FIRST PHOTOGRAPH OF A SNOWFLAKE: BIG PIC → news.discovery.com

Jan 27, 2011

#snowflake #photography

SHARKS SWIMMING IN AUSTRALIA'S FLOODED STREETS → news.discovery.com

Whoa!

Jan 24, 2011

#bull sharks #australia

AERIAL DRONE TO HUNT LIFE ON MARS → news.discovery.com

If selected by NASA, the Aerial Regional-Scale Environment Surveyor (ARES) could soar high above the Martian landscape.

BOTTLENECKS MADE HUMANS LESS DIVERSE → news.discovery.com

Two bottlenecks in evolution led humans to be much more closely related to one another, research claims.

Jan 22, 2011

Jan 18, 20115,508 notes

Play

Jan 16, 2011

#talk normal #awesome music

AUSTRALIA'S DEVASTATING FLOODS SPOTTED FROM SPACE: BIG PICS → news.discovery.com

Jan 15, 20111 note

#australia #floods

YOUR STAR SIGN JUST GOT RUMBLED → news.discovery.com

“But according to astrologers there are 12 signs of the zodiac. Wrong! There are 13 signs of the zodiac; Ophiuchus is the ‘new’ one yet for some curious reason I have never come across an Ophiuchian!”

So I’m a fucking Virgo now?!? This can’t be.

Jan 15, 2011

#star sign #astrology

TINY, EARTH-LIKE PLANET DISCOVERED → news.discovery.com

“It’s the planetary missing link,” said University of California-Berkeley astronomer Geoff Marcy, who likened the find to the development of penicillin and the discovery of DNA.

Jan 10, 20111 note

#earth-like planet

Can We Find Trees on Other Planets? → news.discovery.com

“Seen from afar, the forest canopy would present a fractal topology that would markedly change in appearance depending on the angle of illumination by the parent star as the planet orbits it, the researchers explain.”

Jan 3, 2011

#alien planets #habitable planets #space