jhay on April 3rd, 2008

The next time you look at the full moon on a clear night and if memories of horror films, zombies and ghosts grip and send chills down your spine, you should be. Thanks to some enterprising US firms, the moon can now be used as a graveyard. Yes, that rock that orbits the our planet [...]

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jhay on December 21st, 2007

Space junkies would find this news from Reuters interesting; U.S. urged to keep space shuttle flying past 2010.
The United States should keep flying the space shuttles past their 2010 retirement date to avoid depending on Russia to fly astronauts to the International Space Station, a U.S. congressman said on Monday.
U.S. Rep. Dave Weldon, a Republican [...]

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jhay on December 20th, 2007

This is not science fiction, just brave yourselves for the photo below:

The huge-ass rat was discovered in the remote Foja Mountains of western New Guinea, Indonesia last June 2007. It’s shown in the photo with Mammal expert Martua Sinaga holding the 3-pound rat that they say is a new species to science.
It’s as big as [...]

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