Author: Daniel Tom

Here’s how that’s possible… When astronomers around the world watched the epic collision between two neutron stars in 2017, the main event was just the beginning. The after-effects, both immediate and longer-term, of such a massive, never-before-seen merger were bound to be exciting, interesting, and deeply informative. And now scientists have revealed a doozy. As…

An aircraft carrier is a rather expensive toy that only a military superpower could afford. The naval forces of only ten countries in the world have these symbolic and expensive warships in their arsenal. The United States is the largest aircraft carrier country in the world. The US Navy operates eleven Nimitz class nuclear aircraft…

Most impressive. These weapons should be matched to equally deliberate and powerfully discerning minds that order their missions. Anything less is cultivating of negligent national suicide. The inheriting of such powerful weapons without a matching understanding of; how, and, why, to employ them, is a highly dangerous legacy. Nice nice, and it should always be…

A massive sunspot may be set to erupt, unleashing the most intense form of solar flares that may last for days. Sunspot AR3089, which is facing Earth, has now acquired a delta-class magnetic field, indicating that it has accumulated enough energy to produce X-class solar flares. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),…

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…

What is the maximum size of a supermassive black hole (SMBH)? A new theory proposes incredibly massive, or, to use their more sophisticated terminology, “stupendously vast.” The goal of the endeavor was to establish some limitations on how massive these celestial things may go. Researchers looked at the potential characteristics, genesis, and consequences of these…

In the summer of 1973, a group of employees inadvertently came across a heap of fossilized fossils. An expert came and confirmed that two of them were, in fact, fossilized mastodon skeletons. He also noticed an instrument that looked like an ax which was presumably used to hunt mastodons in the past.   This out-of-place…

Abandoned thousands of years ago in the quarries of northern Aswan, ancient Egypt, the Unfinished Obelisk is a mass of granite 40 meters long (138 feet) and more than 1,090 tons (1,200 short tons) that makes up one of the most important mysteries of the archaeological world.Historical origin The creation of the obelisk was ordered…

During a visit to Normandy, France, we made a 2 hour trip to visit a single Second World War tank in the Orne Department of the country. While tanks are far from a rare sight in Normandy, this one was particularly special: it was a Tiger! Known as the “Vimoutiers Tiger” after the nearby town,…

The Jaguar effort will feature the development of universal frequency sensor technology for the FCAS effort. FARNBOROUGH AIRSHOW: Senior representatives from the Italian Ministry of Defence  and Leonardo have disclosed new details about the workshare they are developing for the UK-led Future Combat Air System (FCAS), including details of Japan’s collaboration on sensor and communication capabilities. Speaking…