Topic: NEWS english - on May 21, 2016 at 4:39:00 PM CEST
Startup To Create Man-Made Meteor Shower For 2020 Olympics
For some countries, a massive pyrotechnic display would do, but not Japan. Japanese startup company Star-ALE wants to create a man-made meteor shower for the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo. The artificial meteor shower called Sky Canvas light show will allow viewers to enjoy it from an area of more than 120 miles. And for that to happen, the pyrotechnics will not be set up on the ground. Star-ALE is taking it to space.
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Topic: History - on May 21, 2016 at 2:23:00 PM CEST
That wasn't a Mayan lost city, just another example of the culture of hype
I t was a good story while it lasted: A 15-year-old boy discovered a lost city by theorizing that a modern star map would correlate with ancient Mayan settlements. It seemed to fit the common understanding of the Maya as peaceful stargazers, centuries ahead of their time in astronomical observation and deeply mystical. It only makes sense they’d plan their cities to align with constellations. The teenage scientist, William Gadoury, of Saint-Jean-de-Matha, Quebec, overlaid constellations and known Maya cities. When he found a gap where it seemed a settlement ought to have been, he consulted satellite imagery and found shapes the looked man-made. Suddenly, the lost city story went viral.
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