We now know why that DARPA hypersonic glider failed last summer. According to the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the unmanned glider likely aborted its 13,000 mph flight over the Pacific Ocean due to the fact that unexpectedly large sections of its skin had peeled off. The Hypersonic Technology Vehicle-2 (or HTV-2), which was [...]

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That Japanese “ghost ship” that was set adrift by last year’s massive tsunami has finally been laid to rest. A U.S. Coast Guard cutter opened fire on the vessel yesterday, sinking it off of the Alaskan coast in waters more than 6,000 feet deep. A thick column of smoke could be seen billowing from the [...]

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After being washed away by last year’s earthquake and tsunami, a Japanese fishing boat has drifted across the Pacific Ocean and is now located about 100 nautical miles off the coast of British Columbia in Canada. The 150-foot vessel was found adrift (right-side-up) approximately 140 nautical miles from Cape Saint James on the southern tip [...]

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Film director James Cameron has returned from his epic expedition to the Mariana Trench in the western Pacific Ocean, the deepest point on Earth. He made the nearly-7-mile descent solo in a specially-made Australian mini-submarine called the Deepsea Challenger. The director of “Avatar” and “Titanic” spent six hours filming his underwater exploration for a documentary [...]

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Today, Russia pointed the finger at the U.S. regarding the failure of its Phobos-Grunt probe that was headed for Mars. Russia thinks the probe may have failed due to radiation from U.S. radars. “There is such a theory,” said Yury Koptev, head of the scientific committee of state technology company Russian Technologies. “To test (the [...]

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A magnitude 7.3 quake struck west of Sumatra, Indonesia overnight causing locals to flee from their homes and prompting a brief tsunami warning. Fortunately, no one was injured and there was no damage reported. The quake struck at 12:37 a.m. local time about 260 miles southwest of Banda Aceh, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. [...]

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Quite a way to start the New Year, don’t you think? A 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck under the sea south of Japan today, rocking buildings in the capital. No damage has been reported and there are no current tsunami warnings. The temblor struck near the island of Torishima in the Pacific Ocean, which is uninhabited and [...]

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It’s been nine months since that massive earthquake and subsequent tsunami decimated Japan, killing over 15,000 people in the process. Tsunami debris has already begun washing ashore thousands of miles from the epicenter on the West Coast of the U.S. Last week, along the coast of Washington state, nine polyethylene buoys that belonged to a [...]

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Just one day after becoming a hurricane, Hurricane Kenneth has strengthened into a Category 4 storm. This rare mid-November storm is now officially the latest-occurring major hurricane ever recorded in the eastern North Pacific basin. Hurricane Kenneth has strong winds of about 145 mph, but is currently not thought to be much of a threat [...]

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What really happened to Anneka Vasta?  No one seems to know for sure. In 1975, Vasta was the Penthouse “Pet of the Year”. On January 4th of this year, some joggers found Vasta’s naked, dead body washed up on the shores of Camp Pendleton, the Marine Corps base near San Diego. Although she was 58 [...]

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A 12-year-old boy is lucky to be alive after spending 20 minutes submerged in the waters of the Pacific Ocean. Charles “Dale” Ostrander was visiting the southwest coast of Washington State with members of his church youth group last Friday when he happened to get caught in a riptide just north of Long Beach. Another [...]

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Mount Lokon volcano in Indonesia has begun erupting this week, sending almost 1,000 residents fleeing from their villages. According to local officials, 977 people from Kaskasen and Kinilow villages evacuated earlier this week. Mount Lokon has been at the highest alert level since last weekend and has been erupting on a daily basis. Residents have [...]

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