DICE Panel: "Exploring the Ocean Deep in 3D: To the Titanic And Beyond" Dr. David Gallo is the Director of Special Projects at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, more commonly known to the rest of the world as the group of people who found the Titanic. At first glance, it would seem odd to have an oceanographer talking at DICE, but surprisingly, there are gaming applications relevant to both the discovery of Titanic, and its continued existence. He pointed out that "If you're a good gamer with a joystick, then you're a perfect candidate for an ROV pilot. In many ways, it's like the ultimate game. " So if you'ever ever dreamed of piloting a remotely-operated vehicle, all of that gaming you've been doing has been research. Gallo believes that the key to the Titanic's continued existence as a viable archaeological site is through gaming. Meaning that they're hoping to catalogue, map, and scan the site in such intricate HD detail, so that they can present it to you later as a virtual world.
Does that mean World of Titanic is on the way? Skeleton Squadron « Ancient Shore. La Galerie de paléontologie et d’anatomie comparée, Part 1 The Gallery of Comparative Anatomy, as seen from near the entrance ... After quite a long hiatus from posts about museum exhibits, this seemed like a good time to get back into the subject. We have visited some strange and wondrous museums in the past few months, but the strangest and most wondrous of all has to be this old museum close to the Gare d’Austerlitz in Paris. ... and from above. The Galerie de paléontologie et d’anatomie comparée opened for the 1900 Paris world’s fair, as did many other exhibit venues. Although it was built as a new museum, it was based on fabulous old collections that had been developed in Paris during the 18th and 19th centuries.
The Jardin des Plantes is overseen by a statue of the famous biologist J. This place is an absolute wonder. Entrance side of the Galerie de paléontologie et d'anatomie comparée. We visited during the peak of this summer’s July heatwave. ... such as these bear brains ... Te map. Distances from the Sun. Hubble Heritage Gallery of Images. Amazing Metropolis Discovered in Africa is 200,000 years old! By Dan Eden for viewzone. They have always been there. People noticed them before. But no one could remember who made them -- or why? Until just recently, no one even knew how many there were. Now they are everywhere -- thousands -- no, hundreds of thousands of them! And the story they tell is the most important story of humanity.
Something amazing has been discovered in an area of South Africa, about 150 miles inland, west of the port of Maputo. The image [top of page] is a close-up view of just a few hundred meters of the landscape taken from google-earth. This changed when researcher and author, Michael Tellinger, teamed up with Johan Heine, a local fireman and pilot who had been looking at these ruins from his years flying over the region. "When Johan first introduced me to the ancient stone ruins of southern Africa, I had no idea of the incredible discoveries we would make in the year or two that followed. Where it was found The area is significant for one striking thing -- gold. Thousands of New Stars Emerge in Glowing Nebula | Wired Science. Thousands of young stars come to the fore in in this beautiful new image from the Spitzer Space Telescope. The previously unseen stars were born around 1,800 light-years from Earth in a region called the North American Nebula.
In images that capture the same range of light that human eyes can see, the nebula looks like the eastern seaboard of the United States, down to the Gulf of Mexico. But most of that light is reflected off clouds of dust that hide infant stars. Only about 200 young stars were known before. This image breaks through the clouds to find more than 2,000 new objects that may be young stars. (More data processing will determine their nature.) “One of the things that makes me so excited about this image is how different it is from the visible image, and how much more we can see in the infrared than in the visible,” said Spitzer astronomer Luisa Rebull in a press release. Images: 1. See Also: Cave of Crystal Giants. In a nearly empty cantina in a dark desert town, the short, drunk man makes his pitch.
Beside him on the billiards table sits a chunk of rock the size of home plate. Dozens of purple and white crystals push up from it like shards of glass. "Yours for $300," he says. "No? One hundred. A steal! " This remote part of northern Mexico, an hour or so south of Chihuahua, is famous for crystals, and paychecks at the local lead and silver mine, where almost everyone works, are meager enough to inspire a black market. Nothing compares with the giants found in Cueva de los Cristales, or Cave of Crystals. It takes 20 minutes to get to the cave entrance by van through a winding mine shaft. In Vietnam, World's Largest Cave Passage - Pictures, More From National Geographic magazine. “Past the hand of dog, watch out for dinosaurs,” says a voice in the dark. I recognize Jonathan Sims’s clipped, British military accent but have no idea what he’s talking about.
My headlamp finds him, gray muttonchops curling out from beneath his battered helmet, sitting alone in the blackness along the wall of the cave. “Carry on mate,” growls Sims. “Just resting a buggered ankle.” The two of us have roped across the thundering, subterranean Rao Thuong River and climbed up through 20-foot blades of limestone to a bank of sand. In the spring of 2009, Sims was a member of the first expedition to enter Hang Son Doong, or “mountain river cave,” in a remote part of central Vietnam. The trail disappears before me into a difficult pile of breakdown—building-size blocks of stone that have fallen from the ceiling and crashed onto the cave floor. The World's Biggest Cave. National Geographic presents The World's Biggest Cave, a TV special that gives us a close-up look at Son Doong, a huge recently-discovered underground labyrinth in Vietnam. In 2009, a team of British cavers investigated a recently uncovered cave in a remote Vietnamese jungle.
The Son Doong cave is enormous; can it be larger than the current world-record holder? The explorers traveled for miles through the cave before hitting a 46-foot-high wall. Now, follow the team as they return to Son Doong to finish exploring the cave and climb the wall. Will Son Doong prove to be the worlds biggest cave? The special airs Monday, December 20th at 10PM EST. A half-mile block of 40-story buildings could fit inside this lit stretch of Hang Son Doong, which may be the world's biggest subterranean passage. Like a castle on a knoll, a rock formation shines beneath a skylight in Hang Son Doong. Son Trach, Bo Trach District, Vietnam.