Posted on February 5, 2015
An interesting article with some great pictures from Psych.org:
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover can be seen at the “Pahrump Hills” area of Gale Crater in this view from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Pahrump Hills is an outcrop at the base of Mount Sharp. The region contains sedimentary rocks that scientists believe formed in the presence of water.
Read the full story at: Psych.org
Posted on February 2, 2015
Huffington Post posted another chilling story depicting an odd shadow next to a Nasa rover, oddly resembling a helmet-less human! Crisp hair on the top, air tanks on the back, the strange figure appears to be “messing with the rover” as the article points out. Could the alien be trying to intercept our rover? Or perhaps this proves the photo was not taken on Mars at all? Or maybe just a testament to our cognitive bias to interpret shapes as human silhouettes and faces. You be the judge!
Read the full story Here!
Posted on February 1, 2015
The Guardian has written a nice little piece about Johny Weissmuller, who starred as Tarzan in six different movies for MGM in mid 1955s. But few know he was also a highly-accomplished swimmer who set a world-record that went undefeated for some ten years!
The guy – whose name was Johnny Weissmuller, and who had just been given the role of Tarzan – could definitely swim. In fact, “the world’s greatest swimmer” was true then, and it’s probably still true today. To get a measure of just how good he was, try this single fact for size: in 10 years of competition swimming, Johnny Weissmuller never lost a race. Not once.
Read the full story at The Guardian
Photo courtesy of Popperfoto
Posted on January 31, 2015
Our fans may be interested in knowing about this!
Recently, the printing plates for Back to the Stone Age were discovered–stored in their original wooden shipping crates. They are thought to be the only surviving set of plates for any Burroughs book. While most plates were used for as many as 30 printings, these plates were only used once–to print the first edition in 1937. Back to the Stone Age was the only pre-war Burroughs title not reprinted by either ERB Inc. or Grosset & Dunlap. That is until now.
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Posted on January 29, 2015
Posted on January 27, 2015
Steve Donoghue from the OL website has just reviewed the latest Tarzan book by Don Garden (script) and Burne Hogarth (art)! Check it out Here!
Posted on January 26, 2015
Jordan Minor just wrote a great little article about the current state of colonization of Mars, looking at the potential and hopes for living on the mysterious red giant.
There’s no better time to think about the future than at the beginning of a new year. But while some only see the future in terms of how many bad habits they can kick and how unfilled dreams they can take another stab at, this also the perfect opportunity to think even bigger than that. How big? How about ‘living on other planets’ big.
Read the full article at PasteMagazine
Posted on January 23, 2015
A nice article at MoviePilot looking at some of the darkest moments in Disney’s movies, showing their mutli-faceted nature (they’re not just for kids!)
Disney films are adored the world over. Their joyous combination of love, charm, and happy-ever-endings have induced smiles and laughter from all of us.
Equally, they have never been afraid to depict utterly bleak sadness to throw an even bigger emotional punch. Like in Dumbo, when our cute little elephant touches trunks with his imprisoned mother as she sings him a lullaby; or in Bambi, when his mother’s shot dead by a poacher.
Read the full article at: Movie Pilot
Posted on January 20, 2015
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Posted on January 20, 2015
We mentioned a few days ago about the prospect of finding a long-lost Beagel-2 on the surface of Mars and the news is now confirmed!
LONDON — The European Space Agency’s Beagle-2 lander, which had been lost on Mars since 2003, has been found, the agency said Friday.
New photos taken by the high-resolution camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter show the lander partially deployed on the surface of the Red Planet, it said.
Rudolf Schmidt, ESA’s Mars Express project manager at the time, called the finding “excellent news.” He said that not knowing what happened to Beagle-2 had “remained a nagging worry.”
Read the full article at National Post
