An undersea volcano off the coast of Tonga in the South Pacific Ocean erupted, giving people a stunning/terrifying views of nature in action.
This Isn’t Your Common Photoshopped Undersea Eruption
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Category Archives: Earth-strange: intriguing, strange, weird places on Earth
The Unspeakable Lake
Something tells us the marketers of this lake’s recreational resorts are having an insane time trying to find customers.
Did Google Earth Just Discover Atlantis?: We Ask The Question, You Scratch Your Balls
Image below is one taken recently by Google Earth, showing a “manmade-looking grid” barely noticeable and lying on the bed of the Atlantic Ocean, and it has been making sane people chirp, “Atlantis!”
The site lies 620 miles off the west coast of Africa near the Canary Islands — a location for Atlantis seemingly suggested by the ancient philosopher Plato.
He believed it was an island civilisation sunk by an earthquake and floods around 9,700BC — nearly 12,000 years ago.
The “grid†showed up on Google Ocean, a Google Earth extension that uses a combination of satellite images and marine surveys.
Last night Dr Charles Orser, curator of historical archaeology at New York State University — and one of the world’s leading authorities on Atlantis — called it “fascinatingâ€.
He said: “The site is one of the most prominent places for the proposed location of Atlantis, as described by Plato. Even if it turns out to be geographical, this definitely deserves a closer look.â€
The Most Polluted Place On Earth
Norilsk was founded in 1935 as a Siberian slave labor camp, and life there has pretty much gone downhill since. Home to the world’s largest heavy metal smelting complex, more than 4 million tons of cadmium, copper, lead, nickel, arsenic, selenium and zinc are released into the air every year. Air samples exceed the maximum allowance for both copper and nickel, and mortality from respiratory diseases is much higher than in Russia as a whole. “Within 30 miles (48 km) of the nickel smelter there’s not a single living tree,†says Fuller. “It’s just a wasteland.â€
Mermaids Live Here
Stunning photos of underwater caves by Anatoly Beloshchin, made even better with topless underwater chicks.
Not Even God Can Smite This Cow
This is Mumu, the undie-able cow. Actually, it’s name is not Mumu.We just have no joke here.
Anyway, as you may have observed, it looks like shit because some lightning bolt struck –and failed — to kill it. Now people just wanna do is bite into that walking steak.
Huge Undersea ‘Wall’ Discovered Under Taiwan Strait
A giant rock formation resembling a city wall [video here] has been discovered under the Taiwan Strait.
The 220m stretch of basalt rock was found by biodiversity researcher Jeng Ming-hsiou.
He said it was likely to have been formed by a volcanic eruption up to 1,800 years ago.
Oymyakon: The Coldest Town On Earth
Founded by Mongols during Genghis Khan’s time, the town of Oymyakon (Sakha language for “non-freezing water” on account of a hot spring) is regarded as the coldest permanently inhabited place on Earth. To give you an idea, temperature there usually hits -50C — which is probably the reason why its inhabitants look “unremittingly grim” as if their balls were permanently frozen. Maybe they are.
But here’s an informative video.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZjfScL_wRE[/youtube]
Sanyo’s Solar Ark: Solar-collecting Building
Sanyo made this solar-collecting building in Japan, which it calls the Solar Ark. It has over 5,000 active solar panels generating over 500,000 KWh of environment-friendly energy.
Crystal Island: Soon To Be The World’s Biggest Building
Sir Norman Foster’s Crystal Island — a volcano-like, 27 million square feet “city within a building” — is all set to be built in Moscow within the next 5 years.
Maid-themed Japanese Cafe Sprouts Like A Cute Thing In Canada
Remember those maid-themed restaurants and cafes in Japan that are so loved by otakus? There’s now one in Canada. But aside from the concept and the pleasant abundance of V-sign-flashing, maid-waitresses, the whole thing’s not actually Japanese.
Hottest Little Austrian Town
Welcome to the quaint, adorable town of Fucking, Austria, where people and kids sound like they cuss all the time, but they actually don’t.
Romania: Wild, Wacky, Crazy
These probably-misleading-but-fun-to-spread photos of Romania are the kind of crap that make our day.
The World’s Highest Escalator Is Perfect For Those Who Love The Taste Of Their Own Scrotum
We’re not really sure about this piece of classified information, but it’s very probable that Hiroshi Hara designed the 40-story twin towers of the Umeda Sky Building in Osaka City in Japan to shoot two birds in one stone: let escalator passengers enjoy the city’s views while making them swallow their own testicles in fright.
“Within These Rocks Is An Unstoppable Bitch”
Deep in the heart of the California desert lies one of the natural world’s most puzzling mysteries: the moving rocks of Death Valley. These are not ordinary moving rocks that tumble down mountainsides in avalanches, are carried along riverbeds by flowing water, or are tossed aside by animals. These rocks, some as heavy as 700 pounds, are inexplicably transported across a virtually flat desert plain, leaving erratic trails in the hard mud behind them, some hundreds of yards long. They move by some mysterious force, and in the nine decades since we have known about them, no one has ever seen them move.
Club Bill Gates
Bill’s so “huge” in Sarajevo, people actually think it’s cool to hang out at a club named after him. You don’t say.
