A frosty astronaut wakes up in the time to come ? Sounds like an episode of countless ‘ 80s scifi show ( or , in the case of Buck Rogers , the whole premise ) . But whether Defiance ’s “ I Just Was n’t Made For These Times ” is a delicious court or hackneyed retread , HOLY SHIT DID THE DUDE THAT PLAYED THE ASTRONAUT BLOW . I ’m sorry , but the whole installment is concentrate around Gregory McClintock , Super Hero Astronaut and Commander of the International Space Station Who Died in Space in 2013 ....

We ’ve seen film editorJacob T. Swinneyjuxtapose the first and last shot of a moviebefore . Now he ’s back again , comparing how 70 more movies open and close . manifestly there may be some obscure - ish spoiler in some of the closing shot and a few of the scenes in this cut are NSFW but it ’s really interesting just to see how movies part and wrap up their stories , visually ....

When flowers blossom — over the quick distich of a time oversight , at least — they totally look like they ’re living , breathing beautiful monsters . The one above look like a Inachis io show his feather . Or that spray dinosaur from the honest-to-god Jurassic Park . Or those piranha plant in Mario . It ’s an awesome , almost foreign aspect of something beautiful . beautifulFlowers...

The Gadget : TheDragonBluetooth headset from Callpod gets redesigned , with better incoming and outgoing call timbre , two new exterior finish and a pivoting ear hook . The Price : $ 99 The Verdict : Much better on the technical front , but the ear loop bugs us to no ending . We loved the old rendering , with a loop that was shut up in one place and give us a tight fit and secured the headset no matter how wildly we were move around ....

The researchers at the frosty Applied Physics Lab Ice Station ( COOL JOB NAME ALERT ) already have it hard enough . immobilize temperature , puddle into wooden boxes , guard against bears , and the similar . Also taxing?Chainsawing submarinesout of the frozen insolence . Part of the Alaskan place ’s research involve deep sea submarine communicating , and now and again one of the subs stops by . Here , the nuclear - powered , Seawolf - class USS Connecticut surfaces near the APLIS — with a little assistance from a chainsaw - wielding employee ....

When you buy through links on our site , we may earn an affiliate commissioning . Here ’s how it works . What was thought to be an underwater , drop off city is actually a naturally occurring geologic phenomenon . organ pipe - alike , disk and doughnut - shaped social organization discovered byunderwater diversnear the island of Zakynthos , Greece , were originally think to be ruin of an ancient city , such as remnants of paved floor , courtyards and column ....

The break between volcanic eruptions are often so foresightful multitude settle the circumvent slopes , believing they are secure . Predicting when and where future eructation will take berth could save countless lives , but so far has proven beyond volcanologists . A unexampled model hope to right this , and has been able to back - prognosticate the last eruption of theCampi Flegreivolcanic field of operation , elevate hope it can predict next events elsewhere ....

When you purchase through links on our site , we may earn an affiliate charge . Here ’s how it works . Scientists have discovered the descent of sex date back at least 385 million years . That ’s the age of the first roll in the hay sex human activity – Fossils of a lilliputian fish calledMicrobrachiushooked together with their jointed arms and their bony genital claspers also linked up to bony venereal plates to transfer sperm cell from male person to female person ....

When you purchase through link on our site , we may earn an affiliate commission . Here ’s how it work . An enormous iceberg lettuce in Antarctica — an ice slab that ’s so massive , it has a Earth’s surface expanse greater than Los Angeles — recently get its first aerial cameo , which showed off its nous burn out size . The ice slab , named A81 , was birthed from the Brunt Ice Shelf on Jan....

Today , June 20 , is the solstice , the day with the longest day and unretentive dark in the Northern Hemisphere . It descend a little earlier than usual ( actually theearliest since the late 1700s ) and it means that we are entering summer everywhere northerly of the Equator . In the Southern Hemisphere , it is the opposite . Cultures have been marking this celestial event for millennia and the most famous site for this is without doubt Stonehenge ....

Last yearit was reportedthat Zimbabwe had go to sell young elephant to China , plainly in a bid to raise some much - require cash to aid fund preservation programs in their national parks . This praxis brought international outcry , especially whenpictures emergedof the adolescent elephants designate signs of suffering while being housed in holding playpen . Now , the country ’s environment minister has announced that as the original gross revenue were a success , Zimbabwe will increase the export of furious animals to China ....

Matt Reeves , of Cloverfield fame , is still plug out at his American adaptation of Swedish vampire filmLet The Right One In . I shiver to remember of what ’s being changed , because the original was fundamentally unflawed . The original strange cinema was establish on John Ajvide Lindqvist ’s original novel , from which it deviated here and there , but at least Lindqvist still seemed to work a bit with the Swedish film crew ....

This post was planned long ago as a review toThe upgrade of the Flapper , which looked at some of the reasons for the iconic lifestyle many young women adopt in the 1920s . Some famous flappers were character models , either in real life or in the moving-picture show or other entertainment venue , and others only became famous later , but all looked tremendous in photographs of the earned run average ....