Metro 2033 is the upcoming stunning FPS on Xbox 360 and PC, which is based on the cult novel of the same name by Russian author Dmitry Glukhovsky. – and you can chat to him tonight!
Mr Glukhovsky first published the novel on his own website and, after attracting some 2 million online readers, secured a publishing deal in Russia and has since seen Metro 2033 published across Europe to huge critical acclaim. Dmitry will be online between 9pm and 11pm to answer your questions via the Metro 2033 Twitter and Facebook pages. The chap speaks Russian, English, German, French and a little Spanish, and will be happy to receive and answer questions in these languages! Sadly no Gaelic.
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Oh, those kooky Russkies! Not content with having a tiger-killing uber-premier and a huge pile of nukes looked after by manic depressives, they’ve now taken to shelling innocent villagers in their own homes.
Reuters reports that the residents of a little town in Vyborg, near St.Petersburg, were settling down to some Vodka and Borscht on Friday night when an anti-submarine frigate in the bay decided to unload it’s formidable weaponry at the hapless locals.
This marks the latest of a series of disasters for the Russian Navy, the most famous being Harrison Ford’s accent in ‘K19-The Widowmaker’.
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January 22, 2009 – 10:21 pm
One for the mad science brigade, and explorers of abandoned futures. A network of nuclear powered Russian lighthouses in the Arctic Circle.
The Communist Party of the Soviet Union decided to build a chain of lighthouses to guide ships finding their way in the dark polar night across uninhabited shores of the Soviet Russian Empire. So it has been done and a series of such lighthouses has been erected. They had to be fully autonomous, because they were situated hundreds and hundreds miles aways from any populated areas. After reviewing different ideas on how to make them work for a years without service and any external power supply, Soviet engineers decided to implement atomic energy to power up those structures.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the unattended automatic lighthouses did it job for some time, but after some time they collapsed too. Mostly as a result of the hunt for the metals like copper and other stuff which were performed by the looters. They didn’t care or maybe even didn’t know the meaning of the “Radioactive Danger” sign and ignored them, breaking in and destroying the equipment. It sounds creepy but they broke into the reactors too causing all the structures to become radioactively polluted.
Amazing what exists out there. Especially in Russia.
LINK (English Russia)
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October 31, 2008 – 6:58 pm
A weird circular formation in Eastern Russia has been spotted on Google Maps. Ok, so it’s far more likely to be a crater with contaminated water pouring into it from unsafe Russian factories or a strip mine full of chemicals, but it would be nice to think aliens have been growing bases in remote parts of the world. Odd choice of colour though.
LINK (Google Maps via Reddit)
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October 28, 2008 – 2:20 pm
In case you didn’t fear Russia already, here is a new reason. A recently discovered Siberian moth that feeds on blood. Apparently very similar to a moth that only feeds on fruit – Calyptra thalictri – this one is slightly different in that it
drilled their hook-and-barb-lined tongues under the skin and sucked blood.
I hope this is another wonderful facet of nature, and not a scheme by tiger fighter Vladimir Putin to breed super-deadly insects to wage war on the West. Although, that would be cool.
LINK (National Geographic)
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