A week ago I have written about temperature records in
Switzerland. Now this article is about a big rectangular
ice shelf that broke loose from the Larson C ice shelf.
Now calving if ice isn’t that seldom but the form is!

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This is something one would not like to happen to
oneself live. You drive on a road and suddenly a rock
crushes onto the road you’re driving on crushing your
foreman’s car. Wht do you think in such a moment?

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On October 24th a new temperature record in
Locarno, Ticino (Switzerland) has been recorded
While the thermometer was still reading 23.1 °C
at 5:30am, the temperature rose to 30.1 °C later!

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Terminator / Terminator II are all well-known films.
The fictive company “SkyNet” has built robots that
act like humans but on a more logical structure. The
main problem: Even humans are considere a threat.

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There are some things that really make me angry.
For instance these thugs chasing a poor cat from
under a car and then let their vicious dog chase
that poor furry fella. Rest in peace little friend!

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Art can be defined in various ways. In America
it seems, however, that casting anthills is common.
Some artists cast ant hills of rogue fire ants with
liquid aluminum. The result is stunning, however.

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Now this is what you don’t see often. A bunch of
squirrels got into a miserable situation while in
their nest. Five squirrels had such bad luck when
their tails entangled. Luckily they were found.

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Most people are afraid of snakes. And even I would
not like to be close to these except I can be sure that
they’re not biting or poisonous. A python is not poi-
sonous and rarely bites (just if in danger or hunting).

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The weather is merciless. For weeks the
temperature is always above 30 degrees
and it doesn’t look like it’s going to end
soon. But some refreshment would be good!

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Ever wondered what the sky might look like of
your eyes would be able to amplify the night light
when outside a big city? This time lapse shows the
impressive look of the Milky Way very well.

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Ever wondered what it might feel like if you got
stung by a Tarantla Falcon? The pain index is at
4 of the Schmidt Sting Pain Index and thus said
to be extremely painful.

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In Swadlincote, UK a fire tornado was spotted and held on video
during a factory burndown. The firemen brought the fire under
control after 12 hours. During their attempts to put the fire down,
they made the following spectacular video. Impressive and dangerous!

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Sorry if you didn’t get any news or posts today but I
was out on a hike tour to enjoy the good weather
and fresh air. But I won’t hide that from you so here’s
a panorama picture of the view I had today!

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This year it will be the longest bloodmoon duration
visible in Europe. With about 103 minutes the
bloodmoon will be perfectly visible long enough to
even take awesome photoshots while the moon gets red!

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We all know it from home sweet home. We’re doing our
free time stuff and mum or dad call us to do chores or
take medicine or demand something else we’re not
comfortable with at the very moment.

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A lion is indeed a big animal you’d better not stand in way of
especially not if the lion is hungry. The team of Brave Wildlife
has tranquilized lions in order to measure their growth and
implant a tracker to monitor their growth and life in the wild.

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Ever wondered about what the lowest temperature on
Earth can be? It seems as if AGU (Advancing Earth and
Space Science) has found the answer to that question!
While we know that 1984 the lowest temperature was…

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If you see 20m tall trees vanishing then you make yourself think about
what made them vanish. In this video, some boaters are just filming a
tree group sinking into a giant sinkhole in Assumption Perish, Louisiana.
The sinkhole is the result of a hidden gas and oil reservoir below the lake.

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While laughing at a cool Garfield strip where Jon gets hit by a
lightning and sobbering about it to Garfield, the young man in
the following video had much more luck, then exprected. Why?
Watch the video and you’ll have the answer with no doubt!

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As if the gray weather wouldn’t be annoying enough, the weather
forecast for the upcoming days isn’t as thrilling as expected. Snow
down to the flatlands isn’t what one is expecting towards June!
So hopefully the weather will change soon again!

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C’mon weather, what’s wrong with you? First you give us sun, 24 degrees
and blue sky and today it’s rainy, above 600 metres snow is falling, in 1000
metres we have 30 to 80cm snow. That’s just crazy! While on Thursday the
temperature was at 24 degrees, it fell to 6 degrees on friday.

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What sounds like SciFi or an element of SimCity, isn’t just some fiction.
A turkish power company has specialized in decentralized engery delivery
and has floating power plants in their repository. Big vessels, with a length
of 145 metres (over 500ft) and 46 metres width…

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Lions are known to be wild beasts that can rip a fully-gron man into pieces
with ease. But what happens if a lion grows up in a human family and then
released into wilderness after many, many years? This video shows: Even
wild beasts have a memory and remember whom they can trust!

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Ever wondered what the world in 7 miles depth of water is looking like?
With a water pressure of 110’000’000 pascals there should be no life
ever possible. But you’ll be surprised what kind of water animals you’re
seeing down there. Impressive and thrilling also.

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In Derweze, Turmenistan, a nature spectacle is burning eternally. In 1971
a drilling company has found a cavern under the drilling site, filled with
natural gas. Since the company feared that the gas is poisonous, the best
idea was to burn it and hope that the fire will extinguis in days.

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If you think of turtles, you may probably think of the cute little shy animal
crawling slowly over the ground and being lazy. When you watch these
videos, you might reconsider your thoughts about these animals as they
can be vicious, too! And I learned today: Turtles can be carnivores!

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Cats can be good attention payers, as this video is prooving. If you ever
have played the nutshell game, then you know that it’s difficult to follow
the ball under the nutshell every time. Also I have failed several times when
playing a game like this on the iPhone. This cat however can’t be fooled!

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Well… I have seen lots in my life so far but a sky full of tangling spiders…
well, I must admit that I will consider not living at one of these spots ever.
I usually have no arachnophobia but I don’t need one of these running free
in my home also. They usually meet a book or a glass for carryout.

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What sounds like a polt to a B-SciFi-Movie got real today. A meteor has hit
earth today in the morning. Parts have hit the ground at Lake Cherbakul.
The touchdown was so hefty that the shock wave has burst many windows
and hurt approximately 1000 people so far. Some videos show the meteor.

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Nature offers many spectaculous moments. Due to global warming however
there are also frightening events when glaciers split ice plates that have the
size of Manhattan Financial District. One such Glacier calving has been held
on camera and shows imoressively what happens upon such a giant ice drift.

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If it comes to the mind of the Australian Health Organisation, birthday
candle blowouts in australian kindergardens are no longer recommended.
Reason for this is a study that points out that most of the infections of kids
occur at birthdays when the birthday child is blowing out the candles.

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Known usually from western films in silent situations, these rolling bushes
also known as tumbleweed, seem to have developed an ability to block the
road. This phenomenon is seen when the tumbleweed plants get mature and
detach from the roots. blown away by wind, they roll and spread their seed.

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