Malaysia, 1993. A tin mine collapses and nature reclaims a bit of the planet. Fucking scary.
Tag Archives: Nature
It Will Not Die
0 CommentsJanuary 28, 2009 – 8:29 pm
Forget cockroaches surviving a nuclear blast, the planet’s new overlords once we’ve killed ourselves in some way on another, is the jellyfish. That is, unless they are planning on taking out humanity themselves. They have a pretty good advantage over us. Immortality.
The Turritopsis Nutricula is able to revert back to a juvenile form once it mates after becoming sexually mature.
Marine biologists say the jellyfish numbers are rocketing because they need not die.
Dr Maria Miglietta of the Smithsonian Tropical Marine Institute said: “We are looking at a worldwide silent invasion.”
The jellyfish are originally from the Caribbean but have spready all over the world.
Turritopsis Nutricula is technically known as a hydrozoan and is the only known animal that is capable of reverting completely to its younger self.
Having stumbled upon the font of eternal youth, this tiny creature which is just 5mm long is the focus of many intricate studies by marine biologists and geneticists to see exactly how it manages to literally reverse its aging process.
I was scared of jellyfish before I knew this. Now I know the little fuckers can’t die, hitting them with a spade has become less fun.
LINK (Telegraph)
Vampire Rats!
0 CommentsJanuary 9, 2009 – 7:21 pm
Usually venomous beasts come in bright red, scaly, nasty-great-pointy-teeth styles that can be slightly offputting, but if you like the idea of a cuddly wuddly killer then the BBC has coughed up some great video today. This little fella is the Hispaniolan solenodon, and despite looking like a badly groomed mole, he has the awesome distinction of being the only mammal (Apart from Dracula) that can actually inject his prey with venom! Seems these elusive creatures turn up very occasionally in
“My colleagues were excited and thrilled when they found it in the trap, but despite a month’s worth of trapping effort, they only ever caught a single individual.”
So:
LINK (BBC)
Hack The Planet
0 CommentsDecember 15, 2008 – 11:32 pm
Hackers – the perenial cyberpunk protagonist are usually cast in the hero role, fighting against the megacorps. Not so in the real world. In the real world, hackers have just become directly responible for vast quantities of illegal deforestation.
In what has come as a shocking revelation, it appears that hi-tech hackers have played an instrumental role in the illegal deforestation of 1.7million cubic meters of the Amazon rain forest.
According to reports from environmental organization Greenpeace, the hackers were hired by at least 107 different companies to access and alter timber export records held by the Brazilian government. As a result, it’s estimated that an area of forest the size of 780 Olympic swimming pools has been cleared illegally.
Federal prosecutor Daniel Avelino is currently mounting a law suit against the companies involved in the scam, with 202 individuals facing prosecution at this stage.
Brilliant. They hacked the gibson and destroyed the planet just that little bit more.
LINK (Money.co.uk)
Reclamation By Nature
0 CommentsDecember 3, 2008 – 12:10 am
Let’s just remember that we are nothing compared to the insects. Occasionally, they just need to show us what they can do. Click the link to be reminded.
