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Archive for September, 2008

‘Certain death’ warning over Hurricane Ike
Friday, September 12th, 2008


Residents in one area of the Texas coastline have been warned they must evacuate before the arrival of Hurricane Ike or “face certain death”. The National Weather Service issued the grave warning to those living in low-lying areas around Galveston Bay. More than a million people in Texas have been advised to leave their homes [...]

CERN spins up atom smasher … and we get four magnitude 6+ earthquatkes within 24 hours!
Thursday, September 11th, 2008


So, CERN spins up the world’s largest atom smasher over in Switzerland, and we get four magnitude 6+ earthquakes within 24 hours. Southern Iran – 1100 GMT, 10 Sept - Magnitude 6.1 (BBC News | USGS) Mid-Atlantic ridge – 1308 GMT, 10 Sept – Magnitude 6.6 (USGS) Indonesian Moluccas islands – 0002 GMT, 11 Sept – Magnitude 6.6 (BBC [...]

LHC doomsayers – nothing new …
Wednesday, September 10th, 2008


Unless you’ve been living in a cave on Mars with your fingers stuck in your ears you’ve no doubt read/heard/seen the doomsayers predicting the end of the world the moment the Large Hadron Collider is switched on. What’s interesting is that doomsayers are nothing new. The Times has compiled a list of 30 days when [...]