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Worst Mid-Air Crash in Aviation History part 2
Around 6:23 PM, Flight 1907 reached a waypoint west of Delhi called LUMKA. Waypoints function like intersections in the sky, where different airways cross. From there, the Kazakh flight was cleared to descend from 25,000 feet to 20,000 feet as it joined the “Delhi STAR” arrival route.
By Imran Ali Shahabout 10 hours ago in History
A skull of a Sea-Rex pliosaur was found off the coast of England.
A 6.6-foot-long pliosaur skull with its upper and lower jaws still locked together in their original configuration has been discovered by British scientists. Palaeontologists have an exceptionally good picture of how one of the most formidable predators in the Jurassic Ocean actually bit and fed because of this unique preservation.
By Francis Damiabout 18 hours ago in History
An 11-year-old child discovered a fossilised turtle that was 48 million years old.
A virtually complete turtle shell from around 48 million years ago was found by an 11-year-old rock hunter. Before the elements could destroy it, the unbroken shell preserved a unique window into a lost river world. Near Rock Springs, Wyoming, the dark shell was half-exposed in a layer of crumbling rock, waiting at the surface.
By Francis Damiabout 19 hours ago in History
Iran hails ‘encouraging signals’ from US ahead of nuclear talks in Geneva
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has said that nuclear talks with the United States have produced “encouraging signals”, but warned that Tehran is prepared for any scenario ahead of another round of negotiations set for Thursday.
By Wings of Time 2 days ago in History
Iranians prefer 'precise' Israeli strike over US attack as protests resume at universities
Iranians, while "waiting every minute and second" for a US strike against the Islamic Regime, would prefer an Israeli strike due to the precise nature of the Air Force's strikes in June, while there is a perception that US strikes would "bring terrible destruction, like in Iraq and Afghanistan," a local, identified as Ali told KAN Reshet Bet on Sunday.
By Wings of Time 2 days ago in History
Why Attacking Iran Could Be Riskier Than Capturing Maduro
When President Trump said in January that a U.S. “armada” was heading to Iran, he compared it with the kind of force used in the military’s recent lightning operation in Venezuela, saying it was “able to rapidly fulfill its mission, with speed and violence.”
By Wings of Time 2 days ago in History
Iran Could Direct Proxies to Attack U.S. Targets Abroad, Officials Warn
A new billboard in Tehran this month. The uncertainty surrounding possible threats from Iran’s proxy groups further complicates the Trump administration’s war planning. Credit...Arash Khamooshi for The New York Times
By Wings of Time 2 days ago in History
The Tunguska Event: The morning the sky exploded in Siberia, knocking down 80 million trees with no impact crater.
The silver heat hit S.B. Semenov before the sound even arrived. He was sitting on the porch of the Vanavara trading post, sixty miles from the Podkamennaya Tunguska River, when the air suddenly smelled of scorched iron and lightning. It felt like his shirt had caught fire. The sky split in two—a jagged, vertical gash of blue-white light that made the morning sun look like a dull copper coin. Then came the punch. A massive, invisible hand of air slammed into the post, lifting Semenov off his bench and tossing him three yards across the dirt. The windows shattered in a single, synchronized scream of glass. He looked up, and the northern horizon was gone, replaced by a wall of smoke that reached toward the stars.
By The Chaos Cabinet3 days ago in History
The earliest fossilised vomit in the world with intact remains is found by scientists.
The oldest known vomit from a terrestrial mammal is a lump of fossilised vomit that is around 290 million years old. An early land food chain can be redrawn thanks to 41 bone fragments that freeze a single meal from long before dinosaurs.
By Francis Dami3 days ago in History
