Hundreds of Santa Clauses meet at world congress
Posted by Ivica Miskovic | Friday, July 23, 2010 | Funny | 0 comments »
Santa Clauses from around the world have gathered in Copenhagen for the annual World Santa Claus Congress.Mount Everest's Death Zone Gets Clean-Up
Posted by Ivica Miskovic | Monday, July 19, 2010 | World News | 0 comments »
A group of 20 people have braved the dangerous "death zone" conditions of Mount Everest to clear the peak of rubbish left behind by climbers.More than 4,000 adventurers have scaled the peak since 1953, which means it has become the world's highest dump.
Many climbers leave behind their used gear and rubbish before they descend due to exhaustion and lack of oxygen.
While there have been past efforts to clean up the mountain, no team has ever ventured into the thin air and freezing temperatures of the so-called death zone.
Namgyal Sherpa, leader of the Extreme Everest Expedition 2010, took his group above the 8,000-metre mark to collect empty oxygen bottles, gas canisters, torn tents, ropes and utensils.
"Collecting the rubbish is quite a risky task. Such tasks cannot be carried out by anybody," Mr Namgyal said.
After a dangerous 40-day campaign, the waste brought back to base camp was expected to weigh around 2,000kg.
But the team was not only concerned with the impact of garbage on Mt Everest but also with the threat of global warming.
"We used to climb over snow. These days we climb over rocks," Mr Namgyal added.
"If it continues this way succeeding generations will only be able to read in books that there was once snow in the Himalayas."
Soldiers in Afghanistan issued heat-ray gun
Posted by Ivica Miskovic | Monday, July 19, 2010 | Technology | 0 comments »The discomfort is enough to force people to move away but not to cause long-term damage. The US military says the chance of injury from the system is 0.1 per cent.
It has already been tested more than 11,000 times on around 700 volunteers, including journalists.
The beam produced by the ADS can travel more than 500m (1,640ft) and is seen as an important new way to limit unnecessary deaths and minimise war zone casualties.
Developers also say it could be adapted to other operations, such as tackling drug smugglers at sea and general peacekeeping operations.
A Chinese bus driver has harvested a rare conjoined watermelon in a field near his home in central China."It's the first time for me to see such a weird-shaped water melon," said Xiong.
Experts say it's very rare to have such a conjoined water melon.
Teenager catches 'UK's biggest goldfish'
Posted by Ivica Miskovic | Monday, July 19, 2010 | Environment | 0 comments »Spain Zoo To Break Transfer Record For Paul
Posted by Ivica Miskovic | Monday, July 19, 2010 | Sports, World News | 0 comments »
Madrid zoo has promised to give "whatever demanded" to get the new national hero from Germany to Spain.A zoo in Madrid has said it would trump any offer made to Oberhausen Sea Life centre for the celebrity octopus.
"We are negotiating with Oberhausen zoo to get Paul here for a short term stay or indefinitely.
"We are prepared to swap Paul for any animal that they may want. We are ready to pay for it," a spokesman told Sky News Online.
"There is no agreement yet."
However several other offers are being made for the world's most wanted octopus.
A Galician town mayor is about to travel to Germany to help smooth any transfer, the Spanish newspaper El Pais reported.
The Madrid zoo has received dozens of emails from Spaniards asking for Paul to brought to Spain after Vicente Del Bosque's team won the World Cup.
Paul became a national hero after forecasting Spain's 1-0 win over the Netherlands.
Earlier Paul had made headlines across the world by predicting all seven of Germany's tournament results.
The Madrid zoo spokesman said much could be learnt from the octopus.
"The octopuses have more educational than conservational value.
"They are very intelligent and can be used as a tool to communicate environmental values to our youngest visitors."
She assured that Paul would be offered the best living conditions and that it would receive lots of love in Madrid.
Home-made helicopter ready to fly, possibly
Posted by Ivica Miskovic | Wednesday, July 14, 2010 | Life, Technology | 0 comments »
Wanting to have your own personal helicopter is a fairly common aspiration - but one man in China has gone to the length of building his own home-made helicopter.It makes him yet another of China's ingenious homebrew technologists, including Wu Yulu's home-made robots, and Yang Youde's home-made cannon.
Gao says that soon he will soon be hoping to find an appropriate open space for his helicopter's first test flight.
Hang on, we think we may have spotted a slight design flaw.
Alligator bites man's hand off, man gets hand back
Posted by Ivica Miskovic | Wednesday, July 14, 2010 | WTF | 0 comments »
Florida wildlife officials say a 10-foot-long alligator bit off a man's hand while he was swimming in a canal with friends.Luckily for Delano, officials managed to catch the alligator and retrieve his hand from its stomach - and doctors may even be able to reattach the hand.
Ferraro says Delano was swimming with three friends around 9:30 p.m. Sunday when the alligator attacked.
The men swam to shore and drove to a gas station, where they called for an ambulance. Delano was flown by helicopter to a hospital.











