Do you know how much plastic there is in our planet's oceans? No you don't, nobody does. But I know it's a lot. Some people even live in places totally covered by lastic bottles and other waste. But even such places are a drop in the sea compared to the The Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Google it. The patch c overs an area twice the size of the continental U.S. Believed to hold almost 100m tons of flotsam, this vast "plastic soup" stretches 500 nautical miles off the Californian coast, past Hawaii and almost as far as Japan. http://www.treehugge r.com/files/2008/02/g reat_pacific_garbage_ patch.phpPeople   read more

It's wonderful and amazing how neat and small servers and all hardware has become and they get smaller and smaller and more efficient with each time.   read more

Great news everyone yesterday WDL or World Digital Library was launched. WDL is an international digital library operated by the American Library of Congress and UNESCO. It's full of all storts of stuff - maps, books, photos, videos, sound files, manuscripts etc. Users can browse the librare choosing topics by time periods, places, type of material etc. Aside from tons of different materials the WDL supports 7 languages (Chinese, English, Russian, Portugese, French, Spanish, Arabic) and many more will soon be avaliable. Partners of WDL include many libraries around the world. At first the   read more

Huge glaciers mile thick and tens of miles long have been found on Mars. The glaciers were discovered beneath a protective layer of rocky debris using a ground-penetrating radar on the NASA Mars Reconnaisance Orbiter. This discovery makes future manned missions on Mars a strong possibily as the frozen water can provide drinkable water and rocket fuel.The glacier is located in the sothern hemisphere much like Australia on Earth.The most exiting thing about it is the glacier containt the history of Mars and might "records" of the events before and during the glacier formation.via   read more

Today scientists has begun testing the large hadron collider.The LHC, a colossal machine housed in a 17-mile tunnel buried under 300 feet of rock, straddles the borders of Switzerland and France between Lake Geneva and the Jura mountains. The $10 billion LHC will allow scientists to smash sub-atomic protons into each other at energies up to seven times greater than any achieved before. It could also help explain mass, gravity and dark matter. It could also give them the first evidence of extra spatial dimensions that have been hypothesised by physicists such as Stephen Hawking.The LHC could also   read more

Video shot from a car which is heading towards a dust storm. Amazing sight to behold when day chances to a dark nigh in a few seconds.   read more

The costs of living are rising all over the world in some countries less in others more. I'd like mentions one special country where the inflation rate had gone up so much that it almost became funny. I'm talking about Zimbabwe the country the US and UK wanted to put sanction on.What's the inflation rate in Zimbabwe you ask? Well, in January 2008the annual inflation rate passed 1,000,000% (1 million per cent) And here are the bills they use in Zimbabwe now.   read more

There are billions of animal and plant species on our planet however, every year schietists discover thousands more and the past year was no exception.Electrolux addisoni is the largest memeber of the electric ray family found in the Western Indian Ocean. Gryposaurus monumentensis is a 75 million-year-old duckbill dinosaur was discovered by a team from the Alf Museum.   read more

Francisco Guerra is the creator of the machine which can make floating logos or Flogos. The logos are made from helium gas and soap. they can be 4 ft across, travel 30 miles and reach the height of 20,000 ft.These flogos will be a good and enviromently-friendl replacement for traditional aerial ads, like balloons and banners.   read more

Spectacular video of monster waves beating against the lighthouses. I Hope there were no people inside and if there were the experience must have been terrifying. Here's also a video of ships in storms. In such condition the ships' hulls deform.   read more