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There is a fictional book titled Landstrike that details the scenario of a disastrous hurricane striking the New York City area. From the book’s website: Someday, a major hurricane will strike New York City. Government forecasters concede they’ll be unable to give the City much notice, while the City’s emergency planners admit evacuation is impossible. [...]
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It appears that way. So you know how BP and various others have been trying to sell us on the idea that the gargantuan oil plume in the Gulf of Mexico had somehow magically disappeared? Well, now some Berkeley scientists have confirmed that this actually may be happening, but it isn’t magic. A newly discovered [...]
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You may remember back in February 2009 when the Iridium 33 and Russia’s Cosmos 2251 satellites collided in orbit somewhere above Siberia. The crash of the two objects resulted in more than 600 pieces of debris larger than a tennis ball being strewn about in space, adding to what scientists and researchers call space debris [...]
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Unlike New York, one area in Brazil, Aracatuba, has not had any rainfall in three months. And when that happens, apparently the scariest thing in the world can occur: a fire tornado. Yes, it sounds like something out of Roland Emmerich’s farcical film The Day After Tomorrow, but it is indeed real. Fortunately, however, the [...]
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