Ireland to clean up sea of nets
Occasionally there are tales of boats of all sizes being caught up in rogue fishing nets, this can be an inconvenience to larger boats, but for small more fragile craft, this hazard can be seriously dangerous.
These rogue nets are called “Ghost Nets” and not only are they a danger to craft they are also a [...]
Earth waits for alien reply in 2015
It was back in 1983 when the Japanese astronomers Hisashi Hirabayashi and Masaki Morimoto sent a message to the Altair solar system, this would have reached the target location in 1999 and so if there was any life there and they did actually hit the reply button the message should reach earth by 2015!
Of course [...]
Living the island life
It is strange that being stranded on an island can be a total nightmare you only have to watch Lost or Robinson Crusoe to see why, but funnily enough it seems that holidaying on a tropical island is one of the most desirable holidays.
However as with many of these type of holidays the matter of [...]
The hidden underground
For anyone who uses the London Underground whether it is for work or maybe this could be a day trip to the capital, whatever the reason there must have been time when you have seen station that the train passes by, where no passengers ever get on or off, these are the Ghost Stations of [...]
April 25, 2008Train tickets to be simplified
Anyone who has travelled by train will know that there are so many different types of train tickets available, that at sometimes it is almost impossible for the ticket, let alone the passengers to work out what is the best ticket for a particular journey.
But help is at hand, for the government have announced that [...]
Passenger who prays is removed from plane
For most people who are not regular flyers, praying before the plane takes off may be a good way of settling down your nerves. However one man who boarded a plane bound for San Francisco from New York and began to pray.
The flight crew ordered him to his seat, but he asked for a couple [...]
Underground art in Paris
With the Paris Metro currently undergoing an extensive renovation process, but unlike any other renovation project the workers have been discovering some lost works of art. Well not art exactly but what they have finding underneath the many coats of paint are some lost treasures.
As the walls were stripped underneath some of the walls have [...]
Into space and beyond
Sir Richard Branson has been outlining the future of commercial space travel as he see it with Virgin Galactic, which could be the first commercial space touring company when they test fly their ship later in the year.
It seems that just orbiting the earth is not going to be good enough, once this has been [...]
Car security codes cracked
When we lock our cars with the remote key fob we feel safe and secure knowing that it is virtually impossible for anyone else to come along and have the same device, until now that is. For researchers at the Ruhr University in Germany have found way around this system and can gain access to [...]
April 7, 2008Olympic Torch relay attracts protests
It should been a time for celebration, and yet when the symbol of the Olympics came to London it resulted in what could only be described as chaos. As the route of the Olympic Torch relay has several flash points and at one time a protester even had his hand on the torch, but was [...]