Author: John

No Ice Please

De-Iceing Coating

This is pretty neat stuff, the thing that makes it even neater is that it uses the same principal that keeps a gecko lizard stuck to walls. 

Dartmouth College engineering professor Victor Petrenko… has devised a way to use a burst of electricity to remove ice caked on walls or windows. For surfaces coated with a special film, the jolt gets rid of ice in less than a second, far less time than it takes to hack at it with an ice scraper.

Look for this soon on everything from car windows to the wings of airplanes. 

A high-tech way to defrost

Nahuelito The Argentine Lake Monster

Nahuelito 

Humm, a sharp guy with a camera got these ‘too good to be true’ photos of a lake monster called Nahuelito that is said to inhabit a lake in Argentina. To me it looks like a spray painted plastic flamingo and a few old inner tubes but that’s just my opinion. But it could be a real cryptid, one just as real as the rare harry toed sickle back frog of the Kalahari.

[via BoingBoing] 

Breaking News: Nahuelito Photographed at Cryptomundo.com

Doctor Who – New Earth – Review

Doctor Who 

Ah, the new Who is here! The much anticipated second season of the new Doctor Who TV series has just aired it’s first episode on British television. A new actor, David Tennant, takes over as the tenth incarnation of the Doctor in this season.  You might remember him as Barty Crouch Junior in ‘Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire‘, or as Dr. Gordon Briscoe in the live performance of ‘The Quatermass Experiment‘. So far he has been doing a bang up job of filling the shoes of this historic role. I expect that the SciFi channel will air the new season of Who once the run is over in the UK. It’s a pity that the viewers in the states will have to wait to see the new episodes but when they do it will be worth it.
For more information on the history of the Doctor Who phenomenon check out this entry in the Wikipedia.

Now, for those who don’t mind knowing what going to happen many many episodes in the future if you follow this link you can read all about episode one (New Earth). But be warned, it might spoil your viewing experience if you do… 

Lone Locust Productions – Doctor Who – New Earth – Review

 

 

Spottings of the Paranormal

Spottings.org 

Do you think that the critters that keep getting into your garbage at night might not just be raccoons? Do you think that the thing in the sky that the news said was just a ‘weather balloon’ shouldn’t be easily dismissed? Ever have gaps of ‘missing time’ in your day? Do you think that things are not quite what they seem? If so then you should head over to Spottings.org and read up on the latest in the strange, the paranormal and the weird.

Spottings.org