Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Sunday, October 25, 2009

The Vortex in Lake Peigneur

http://circa71.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/lake_peigneur_waterfall.png?w=290&h=296

In the 1980s, a gulf oil drilling company was drilling a hole in a lake in Louisiana and just happened to drill into a big salt mine that was underneath. This basically opened a vortex that caused the lake to entirely empty into the mine, sucked in a large area of land around the lake, and make the gulf flow north onto land for two days in a giant 150 ft waterfall (the photo above). That would be a thing to see.

Read about it here: Damn Interesting
Or watch about it here: Youtube

Saturday, October 24, 2009

Death Valley


The Milky Way Over Death Valley


Death Valley is a crazy place. Once at the bottom of a lake, it's now a below sea-level hot hot oven of a place. Read more on wiki here.

Death Valley

Parks Service Photo Gallery


http://atoc.colorado.edu/~cassano/atoc4750/Daily_images/20080205/death_valley_rock.jpg

Rocks mysteriously move around some of the mudflats, leaving trails behind them. These researchers have a theory for why:


Tuesday, October 13, 2009

The Maya! (Shout out to Kiri!!)






Nova did a great special about how they managed to decipher the mayan language. CRAZY. About an hour. A good watch.

On HULU