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The De-Extinction of the Wooly Mammoth
This isn’t a dinosaur park but a serious discussion about what scientists are now planning. As a story teller and science fiction writer, the idea of bringing an extinct species back is a truly exciting concept. In 1990, the novel, Jurassic Park was released, followed in 1993 by the movie, telling the story of a park that genetically engineered dinosaurs. The subsequent interest in cloning and de-extinction took on a fever pitch fueled by a compelling story. The hurdles that would need to be overcome are immense, but there are scientists who are up to the task. Currently, there is serious discussion into the attempting to bring the wooly mammoth back to life. Is it truly possible or nothing but science fiction dreaming? Follow along as we take a look how scientists believe they will bring back the extinct wooly mammoth.
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Adventure, Ancient Flying Machines, Inspiration, Mystery, Technology
Ancient Flying Machines
Almost everyone is familiar with the Wright Brothers. Orville and Wilbur Wright were avid aviation pioneers who are credited with making the first, controlled, sustained, heavier-than-air human powered flight on December 17th, 1903 in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. Could their discoveries and successes been merely a rediscovering of technologies that the ancients knew about long before we did? Is there any evidence to suggest that early humans developed the technologies needed to fly? Amazingly, there is more evidence to suggest that the ancients of the past knew more than we give them credit for. From paintings, to written accounts, to models of planes, the past is ripe with evidence that suggested that early civilization had at least a partial knowledge of flight.
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Murder, Mystery, Revenge, The Sodder Children
The Sodder Children
The iconic small town in America symbolizes the perfect American dream; that place where children can run free down the streets, a place where no one locks their doors at night, and a place where everyone knows their neighbors. Beneath the façade of the image of the American Dream, some small towns harbor secrets that alter the dream into a nightmare. On Christmas Eve 1945 in the small town of Fayetteville, West Virginia, one family’s small town dream turned into every parent’s worst nightmare.
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Adventure, Ghost Ship, Mary Celeste, Mystery
Mary Celeste
The vast mysteries held by the ocean will never cease to cause fright and caution. Stretching endlessly out before us, the ocean has devoured many ships and planes, caused people to go missing, and swallowed cities whole. For the most part, we can understand the ocean, what happened, but every once in a while, the ocean tosses us a mystery that cannot be explained. A mystery so strange that it causes pause before entering the waters. A mystery that remains unexplained with far more questions than answers.
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Adventure, Mystery, Roanoke Colony, The Lost Colony
The Lost Roanoke Colony
During a time when exploration was ramping up, and the thrill and excitement of settling a new colony to provide goods and wealth to your home country was on every explorer’s mind, ‘The Lost Colony’ can give pause to the horrors that can take place in a new world. What was supposed to be a new colony that would provide gold, a base for resource exploration in the new world, and a port for privateers to attack Spanish ships turned into a mystery that still haunts us to this day. An entire group of people vanish without a trace and even with all our modern investigations techniques there still isn’t a solid answer to what happened to the Roanoke Colony.
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Inspiration, Mystery, Nature, Tunguska
Tunguska
At 7:17am local time, Russian settlers noticed a column of bluish light as bright as the sun moving across the sky. Near the banks of the Podkamennaya River the first rays of the suns light were warming the pine forests when the sky exploded. On June 30th, 1908 a shock wave 1000 times stronger than the Hiroshima bomb devastated over 2000 square kilometers of forest, destroying an estimated 80 million trees. Bears, wolves, foxes, Reindeer, and thousands of other animals were wiped out along with the vegetation in an area, that, 100 years later, still hasn’t recovered.
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