Oddities
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Zooming through space…
Zooming through space… Click the link below. It might just blow your mind to see a moving model of how our solar system looks in motion from a distance. Remember, the sun is traveling around the galactic core at 52,000 miles per hour! Essentially, we are inside a giant unfurling explosion that might just be happening in a split second on some other spatial level… Intense. Click here. Emily K. Editor on 06 Mar 2013 | Ancient Wonders &Audio & Video &Oddities &Science & Research &Uncategorized | Comments (0) Comments are closed. Trackback URI | Connect With M.J. Copyright © M.J. Rose, All Rights Reserved. Privacy Policy
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2013 » March
Archive for March, 2013 Inside the mind of the octopus. A friend recently explained to me that octopi are intelligent – very, very intelligent. I decided to look into this bizarre claim. Read on and be flabbergasted – Deep Intellect Inside the mind of the octopus BY SY MONTGOMERY Published in the November/December 2011 issue of Orion magazine Photograph: Brandon Cole “ON AN UNSEASONABLY WARM day in the middle of March, I traveled from New Hampshire to the moist, dim sanctuary of the New England Aquarium, hoping to touch an alternate reality. I came to meet Athena, the aquarium’s forty-pound, five-foot-long, two-and-a-half-year-old giant Pacific octopus. For me, it was a…
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Back From Extinction – Ball’s Pyramid’s Hidden Population…
Back From Extinction – Ball’s Pyramid’s Hidden Population… Did you hear about the thought-to-be-extinct giant insect they found on Ball’s Pyramid in the middle of the sea? (Atlas Obscura) From Atlas Obscura - “The remnants of a massive volcano, Ball’s Pyramid juts 1,843 feet out of the Pacific Ocean. Discovered in 1788, the barren, rocky spire was thought to be devoid of life until 2001 when a group of scientists discovered what may be the world’s rarest insect. The Lord Howe Island stick insect (Dryococelus australis) had not been seen alive in over 70 years. Known as “land lobsters” or “walking sausages,” the six-inch long insects were once common on…
