Curiosity 'Plane Crash,' airing Oct. 7 on Discovery Channel
By April MacIntyre Sep 26, 2012, 19:11 GMT
Local Memphis Pilot involved in the show
Thursday, September 27, 2012
Monday, September 24, 2012
Ocean currents
Ensconced in a plain glass bottle, the scrap of paper drifted in the North Sea for 98 years. But when a Scottish skipper pulled it from his nets near the Shetland Islands (map) last April, he didn't find a lovelorn note or marooned sailor's SOS.
"Please state where and when this card was found, and then put it in the nearest Post Office," read the message. "You will be informed in reply where and when it was set adrift. Our object is to find out the direction of the deep currents of the North Sea."
Sorry, romantics.
The message in a bottle found by Andrew Leaper—certified by Guinness World Records on August 30 as the oldest ever recovered—belonged to a century-old science experiment. To study local ocean currents, Capt. C. Hunter Brown of the Glasgow School of Navigation set bottle number 646B adrift, along with 1,889 others, on June 10, 1914.
Saturday, September 8, 2012
Yangtze River Turns Red and Turns Up a Mystery
Yangtze River Turns Red and Turns Up a Mystery: For a river known as the “golden watercourse,” red is a strange color to see. Yet that’s the shade turning up in the Yangtze River and officials have no idea why. The red began appearing in the Yangtze, the longest and largest river in China...
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