Friday, July 16, 2010

Countries Look to Robot Armies for Border Defense

Several countries, including the United States are turning to robot technology to protect their borders. Not only will unmanned vehicles and aircraft to patrol the borders, but also to shoot at people crossing borders illegally. These drones will often operate without human intervention, killing intruders on land, from the air, or even in coastal waters using unmanned patrol boats. So far, the technology is in place in the United States, the European Union, South Korea, Iran and Israel.

Full Story: Countries Look to Robot Armies for Border Defense

Strange Verticle Lights Over Xiamen in Southeast China Being Dubbed "Rain of Luminous Beams"

News reports recently surfaced of "luminous beams" or vertical lights suspended in the sky over Xiamen, in southeastern China. There were no reports of a meteor shower, confirmed or otherwise, and meteorologists were unaware of the occurrence. While no explanations have been offered, this picture shows the strange lights hovering above local witnesses. (To read the original translated report, click here.)

Thursday, July 15, 2010

Odd Whirled: Sinkhole in Guatemala

So I was thinking about how the first post of this blog should start off - knowing that someday this post will be buried at the very bottom of a long list of hopefully very interesting and odd stories, events and phenomena occurring in our strange world. I began to think of current events, and whether anything odd had happened recently... and then I remembered the giant sinkhole in Guatemala.