May 09
Shiny and purple. It may look like a baddy chopper from an 80s TV movie made in a Foxconn factory, but it’s China’s latest flying machine, the V750. And it means the Chinese’s aerospace industry is maturing dangerously quickly. More »
May 09
Next time you plan on finding a good coffee shop around the universe, bring with you this giganormous 3850 x 1925 pixel You Are Here map. Zoom in to see where are you in the immensity of space. Zoom in! More »
May 03
The Navy SEALs’ Booty Was Yesterday’s Biggest Victory [Terrorism]
Posted in: military, Today's Chili, top, us
The most important achievement of yesterday’s operation wasn’t killing Osama. It was the US Navy SEALs’ booty: dozens of computers, memory sticks and disks loaded with information that might just crush all of al Qaeda’s network. More »
Apr 15
Nasa is getting ready to throw a Mini Cooper-sized mobile science lab up into space. Curiosity, as the rover is affectionately called, is headed toward Mars with a payload of lasers and mass spectrometers and multi-million dollar robotic drills—basically all the stuff needed to prove fourth planet conditions are capable of supporting microbial life… conditions depending, of course. But in order for Curiosity to even get the chance at an alien discovery, it can’t show up dressed as a multi-million dollar fireball. More »
Apr 12
How a Fukushima-Level Disaster Would Affect You In New York, LA or Chicago [Nuclear]
Posted in: new-york, Today's Chili, top, us
The Japanese government has expanded the long-term evacuation radius around the Fukushima nuclear plant to 30 kilometers (18.6 miles). The United States government is still asking to all their citizens inside an 80-kilometer radius to leave. That’s almost 50 miles. More »
Apr 11
Why Everyone Loves Yuri Gagarin, the First Human to Reach Space [Video]
Posted in: space, Today's Chili, top, video
It happened when Earth was still in black and white: 50 years ago we stepped outside our home planet for the first time. This is the tale of the beginning of an adventure that hasn’t ended yet, the biggest, most dangerous and rewarding quest ever embarked on by the human race—the fascinating story of two men who took us to a new level. More »
Apr 09
The Geeky Serial Killer [Crime]
Posted in: new-york, Today's Chili, top, tweet
A serial killer already linked to the murders of four Long Island area Craigslist prostitutes is so intimately familiar with police investigation techniques that law enforcement officials are now openly speculating he may be one of their own. More »
Apr 07
How Japan’s Tsunami Massive Debris Plume Will Hit California and Hawaii [Video]
Posted in: Japan, Today's Chili, top
If you live in Hawaii, California, British Columbia, Alaska or Baja California, here is some bad news: According to computer models made by scientists at the International Pacific Research Center, University of Hawaii at Manoa, all the debris washed out by the Japan tsunami is coming your way. More »
Apr 07
Space Telescopes Observe Mysterious Giganormous Explosion In the Constellation Draco [Astronomy]
Posted in: Today's Chili, top
Astronomers have discovered a huge explosion that NASA qualifies as “unprecedented”. They call it GRB 110328A, for Gamma Ray Burst. I’d call it Giganormous Deadly Ray Clusterfrak in Space. More »
Apr 06
This Is the Next Mars Rover [Video]
Posted in: NASA, space, Today's Chili, top
I want to ride the Mars Rover Curiosity. Sure, at a maximum of 90 meters (300 feet) per hour it would be a glacial ride, but the bloody thing is going to Mars. Where have I been lately? To the dog park two blocks from my house, that’s where. Plus, there’s no dog poop on Mars. More »
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