War with US under Donald Trump ‘Becoming Practical Reality’ Says China Military Official
Sino-US relations are becoming more tense under America’s new administration War with the US under Donald Trump is “not just a slogan” and becoming a “practical reality”, a senior Chinese military official has said. The remarks were published on the People’s Liberation Army website, apparently in response to the aggressive rhetoric towards China from America’s new administration. They communicated a … Continue reading
Anonymous Calls for Boycott of Trump’s America; Releases ‘White House Phone Numbers’, Issues Call to Action
Anonymous has launched a two-fold attack on Donald Trump’s presidency by releasing what it claims are phone numbers of White House staff and calling for a Boycott, Divestments and Sanctions campaign against the US. An Anonymous group released the phone numbers on a web page named, the ‘White House Comment Line’. “Open communication is the cornerstone of a good democracy,” … Continue reading
Communicating From Beyond the Grave? New Technology Forcing Us to Confront Ethics of Bringing People Back from the Dead
Imagine you have a close friend you frequently communicate with via text. One day, they suddenly die. You reel, you cry, you attend their funeral. Then you decide to pick up your phone and send them a message, just like old times. “I miss you,” you type. A little response bubble appears at the bottom of the screen. “I miss … Continue reading
Hidden Disc-Shaped “UFO” Spotted in Antarctica
What is it with Antarctica lately? More and more mysteries and strange phenomena keep being found on the icy southernmost continent. While I’d like to believe it’s a result of John Carpenter’s masterpiece The Thing, the recent increased attention from mystery hunters is most likely due to one of last year’s Wikileaks revelations involving Antarctica. The whistleblowing website leaked emails … Continue reading
Why Earth’s Magnetic Poles Could be about to Reverse – And the Effects it Would Have on Us
The Earth’s magnetic field surrounds our planet like an invisible force field – protecting life from harmful solar radiation by deflecting charged particles away. Far from being constant, this field is continuously changing. Indeed, our planet’s history includes at least several hundred global magnetic reversals, where north and south magnetic poles swap places. So when’s the next one happening and … Continue reading
Asteroid 2017 BH30 Made An Extremely Close Near-Earth Pass Just A Day After it Was Discovered
The near-Earth asteroid 2017 BH30 was discovered by the Catalina Sky Survey in Arizona (USA) on 29 January 2017 and announced later the same day by the Minor Planet Center: it was going to have a very close encounter with the Earth, at 0.18 lunar distances (about 70.000 km). At Virtual Telescope Project we captured 2017 BH30 while it was … Continue reading
