On ghost mountains, inhospitable lands, night flowers, alien worlds and more.
Nowadays we don't need to take a plane or a train to discover new places; fortunately or not, everything is on the web.
+ For instance, if you thought that there weren't any new places on Earth to be described, no new trekking routes over hidden mountains, have a look at this and find for yourself.
+ But if you prefer to follow the tracks of extraordinary pioneers like Scott or Amundsen, see this blog written by a spanish scientist who is to spend a whole year at the South Pole (not simply Antarctica, but the very point where the South Pole is, in the middle of nowhere in the frozen continent). An extraordinary person in an inhospitable place where nights and days last for six months each.
+ Did you think there's nothing new under the sun? You may be right, but botanists use different methods, so they have found a plant that flowers at night. Brand new to science, of course.
+ But why staying on this old chunk of stone flying across the Universe when there are many worlds out there waiting to be explored?. Here you can read about some future emigration destinations. It is about a project that aims to catalogue the planets outside our Solar System which might possibly be home of unknown forms of life; assuming that we re-define the concept of life, that is.
+ In fact, for some people, several forms of intelligent life have already visited us, see the following video for some evidence of UFOs and alien visits:
+ Class review: remember the class we devoted to the 7 billion humans we are? You can click here to know what number you are in that lot and other things related to your status on Earth; just follow the instructions on the page.
+ And if you need to solve some problems of communication, El Molino de Ideas has created a page that translates proverbs from Spanish into English or German, providing that they exist in both languages. Without the "gracia" we say them in our language, but helpful all the same: "a mal tiempo, buena cara"...
+ Prefer technical issues rather than the old folk lore? Then have a look at this translator containing terms from all major european languages, catalogued in a database that serves purposes of official communication across the continent. For technical people, I guess.
+ And finally, if you want to know what's going on in the world right now but only have a minute to spare, the glorious and venerated BBC offers their concentrated formula for fast people here; in just one minute you'll find an alternative to your old and decadent twitter.
Well, I suppose you've had enough for now. Tell me about it when you have visited all the pages above, I'll be glad to hear about your travels around the web and if you could find your way home afterwards...
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| Photo by E.G. |
