Amazing video recorded by astronauts of the ISS during a geomagnetic storm on 17 September 2011 (over South America):
Video (watch full screen!)
Credit: NASA
Sunday, September 25, 2011
Monday, September 5, 2011
History of Skis
La Grande Histoire de Ski (Musée Dauphinois, Grenoble):
"In some parts of Kranjska (Slovenia) I have observed a very curios invention, unknown elsewere. In winter, when the land is covered in snow, the peasants come down the slopes of the high mountains at incredible speeds." This observation on the use of skis, until then restricted to the far north, was made by Valvasor in 1689...
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