Mark Willis

Archive for June, 2009

Pirate hunting

Wednesday, June 24th, 2009

In Soviet Russia, you hunt pirates A Russian cruise business has now turned the tables around on the Somalian pirates. The company provides a cruise ship for $5,790 a day, with the intent of sailing it past Somalia, and nowhere else. The business idea is simple: the cruise ship is the ...

Found: Loch Ness Monster, but it died 200m years ago.

Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009

The Loch Ness monster - that lived in the English Channel. The Loch Ness monster (or at least the Plesiosaur that was found) existed during the Jurassic period about 150 to 200 million years ago when what is now the English Channel was a shallow, tropical sea. The remains were discovered by ...