NEW MEXICO WEIRD
WINNER ‘Surprised by a full moon at goblin valley’. Goblin Valley State Park, Emery, USA. @lukeylove – By Rich Haridy 2020 Jul 30 – Agora’s 2020 landscape photography contest delivers a spectacular assortment of images, from powerful displays of lightning, to several compelling shots …
A man who did not want his name released found the chest and Fenn says he promised the finder that he wouldn’t reveal who found it or where. This undated photo provided by Forrest Fenn shows an estimated $2 million dollars of gold …
The Chaco Canyon chocolate-drinking jars have a distinct shape, with connections to similarly shaped Mayan vessels. After testing distinguishable jar fragments from an excavated trash pile in in the canyon, archaeologists determined all of the drinking jars were used to consume cacao. (A336494, …
Base Camp, shot in the Dolomites, Italy. The warm glow of the tents contrasts the cool tones of the galaxy overhead. Giulio Cobianchi – By Michael Irving 2020 Jun 27 – The night sky is a beautiful canvas for photography, and the Milky Way …
Virgin Galactic’s spaceplane glides over New Mexico. Virgin Galactic By Nick Lavars 2020 Jun 25 – Virgin Galactic continues to make itself at home in New Mexico, today completing the second successful glide test of its VSS Unity spaceplane since relocating there earlier in …
By Pierce Nahigyan 2020 May 14 – Shrines, castles, temples, and cathedrals are built to last, so it’s no wonder that they make up most of the oldest standing buildings in the world. Many of them were commissioned by emperors and kings and …
Former Bank President, refuses to retire, and is now running the Corona Posse, killing Corona Virus all over New Mexico. – By Ben Boothe, Sr. – Several years ago, in Texas we had several viral epidemics, and so we, through our environmental company, …
Dineobellator was a formidable predator and boasts the battle scars to prove it. Reconstruction of Dineobellator notohesperus and other dinosaurs from the Ojo Alamo Formation at the end of the Cretaceous Period in New Mexico by Sergey Krasovskiy. This reconstruction shows three Dineobellator …
By David Szondy – Sandia National Laboratories researchers leading the MARCUS project are working to develop a system that addresses current and future national security threats posed by small unmanned aircraft systems. Randy Montoya. – Robotics engineers from SNL (Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM) …
By Genevieve Carlton – Updated November 21, 2019 – What was it like to live at Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project? As thousands worked to build a top-secret atomic device, the US military tried to keep the entire city secret. All …
