Italy’s Kiwi Plants Are Dying And No One Can Figure Out Why
Italy is the world’s second largest kiwi producer after China, but for the past eight years farmers have been battling a mysterious enemy that has so far killed over twenty percent of the country’s kiwi plants. It starts with the leaves. They wither and face downwards, and within 10 days they all fall to the […]
Monster of the Caspian Sea – A Once Glorious Soviet Aircraft Rusting Away on a Beach
Developed during the 1980’s in Soviet Russia, the futuristic looking MD-160 Lun-class ekranoplan had been sitting unused at a Russian naval base since the late 1990’s, but has now been beached on the shores of the Caspian Sea, as part of a plan to turn it into an ocean-side tourist attraction. Known as the Caspian […]
Fan of ‘Alien’ Movie Recreates Iconic Spaceship Locations in His Apartment
A longtime fan of the ‘Alien’ franchise has spent three years turning a Barcelona apartment into a faithful replica of the Nostromo spaceship interior depicted in Ridley Scott’s original ‘Alien’ film. 43-year-old Luis Nostromo watched Alien when he was still a child, and even though he found it scary, he fell in love it with. […]