Author: Daniel Tom

Researchers from Japan’s Kyoto University in partnership with Kajima Construction are working on this project to take space travel to another level. A transportation system called ‘Hexagon Space Track System’ for the bullet train. For long-distance travel, the Hexatrack will maintain a gravity of 1G (normal gravity of the Earth) to lessen the effects of…

Astronomers have discovered a mysterious object, which they believe is a giant hot bubble of gas around the Milky Way’s black hole every seventy minutes. This means that the object is moving at a mind-boggling 30% of the speed of light. Observations by the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have revealed something unusual near the…

Scientists have detected a rapidly growing sunspot that’s pointed directly at Earth and could launch an assault of solar energy our way in the coming days. The sunspot, named AR3085 for the “active region” of the sun in which it appeared, was barely a blip several days ago. Now, it has grown 10 times bigger, morphing into…

Cavers find pristine mineshaft frozen in time for 200 yearsCavers have discovered a well-preserved cobalt mineshaft in the United Kingdom that has remained undisturbed since the early 19th century, offering a rare view into the life of miners operating at the time of the Napoleonic Wars.     Personal objects, equipment and inscriptions have all…

Where and when to look for the Orionids’ spectacular meteors this month.   A fireball seen in 2020.NASA   The night skies could be more spectacular than usual this month, thanks to the Orionid meteor shower.   The annual meteor shower is considered to be one of the most beautiful meteor showers of the year,…

NASA has just released a 4K video tour of Earth’s moon and the footage will make your jaw drop. Even though Earth’s moon can be viewed in unprecedented detail from Earth, NASA has recently released a video filmed in 4k showing off the surface of the moon in unprecedented close-up detail, and the video will…

Taking a moment away from your work to stretch out your mind can be a great way to manage stress, and these NASA videos of our Sun, Moon, and Earth are perfect ways to do so. Buried in our screens, buried under a curtain of artificial light, humans can lose connection with an intangible part…

Let’s be honest here, modern-day historians will never accept this as fact regardless of how much proof we yank their way. The thing about them is that their whole careers stand on top of the idea that this is not true, so they will definitely fight it to the last breath. Luckily, there is plenty…

Godfrey Webster Dean with a Pitcairn PCA-2 autogyro, CF-ARO, (s/n B-15), circa 1931. [“British Consols” were bonds issued by the UK Government to finance the war. The last of these were paid off in 2015.] (CAVM 11043) 13 October 1932: Godfrey Webster Dean, pilot for Fairchild Aircraft Co. of Longueuil, Quebec, Canada, became the first…

Army aviators at the summit will be able to see how Team DEFIANT is revolutionizing Future Vertical Lift, one of the Army’s top modernization priorities, with a focus on transforming the Future Long-Range Assault Aircraft program’s capabilities, production and sustainment resulting in lower-life cycle costs. The result is DEFIANT X® a complete weapon system that…