Author: Daniel Tom

The RQ-4 Global Hawk is a high-altitude, long-endurance, remotely piloted aircraft with an integrated sensor suite that provides global all-weather, day or night intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) capability.       In the RQ-4 name, the “R” is the Department of Defense designation for Reconnaissance and “Q” means unmanned aircraft system. The “4” refers…

China claimed that its massive Sky Eye telescope may have detected signals of extraterrestrial civilizations, according to a report by the state-backed Science and Technology Daily, which promptly removed the piece and related postings. The report cites Zhang Tonjie, chief scientist of an extraterrestrial civilization search team co-founded by Beijing Normal University, the National Astronomical…

A strange cataclysm in a nearby galaxy was observed in the sky above Hawaii last week, leaving astronomers all around the world baffled as to what caused the tremendously bright flash.   “I’ve never seen anything like this before in the local universe,” astrophysicist Stephen Smartt of Queen’s University in Hawaii stated. The discovery was…

Found hundred of skull wearing a medieval chainmail from a mass grave in Sweden The Battle of Visby was fought July 27th, 1361 near the town of Visby on the island of Gotland, Sweden, between the forces of the Danish king Valdemar IV and the Gutnish country yeomen. The Danish force was victorious. Today, Visby…

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What allows the C-130 to do short landings is the reverse thrust capability of the turboprop engines. These engines have the same power in reverse as they do forward. Totally giving this a thumbs up as I had no idea they landed C-130s on carriers… but somehow the last half of this video seemed to…

What sounds more pleasant than a huge space rock flying towards us at 20,000mph? We’ll tell you exactly what – the fact that it’s expected to ‘skim past’ Earth. *Wipes brow* Yes, that’s right – the end may be near but it’s not this week, unless something else happens, of course. Did we just jinx…

  We’ve seen some great images from the total lunar eclipse this week. But this one might top them all. Astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy created this incredible composite image, showing the Moon in various stages of the eclipse throughout the night. “The size and shape of Earth’s shadow is clearly visible here,” McCarthy said on Twitter. “These events are absolutely magical to…

Horned dinosaurs are divided into two main groups the Centrosaurinae, whose members have a short frill, with a large nasal/nose horn, and shorter brow horns, and the second group is Chasmosaurinae, whose members have a long frill with a short nasal horn and longer brow horns, and a crown-like frill.   The discovery of Regaliceratops‘ skull…

Northrop Grumman-Boeing Combo Northrop’s X-47B is a tail-less unmanned combat aerial vehicle with a 62-ft wingspan. The aircraft is powered by a Pratt & Whitney F-100 engine, enabling it to reach Mach 0.9 with a range of 2,400 miles. Furthermore, it also has two weapon bays which provide room for up to 4,500lbs of payload.…