Large storms revealed the trees, branches, and pine cones that are about 10,000 years old. They had been buried under 16 meters of sand all this time.
This too, shall pass.
Category: Cool
Many hours of my childhood were spent staring at the back of a Star Wars figure package card, plotting my next acquisition and ultimate takeover of the known galaxy.
These are awesome. I learned that aside from the United States, only two other countries in the world do not use the metric system, among other things.
40 Maps That Will Help You Make Sense of the World
Op-ed: Disney takes a chainsaw to the Star Wars expanded universe | Ars Technica.
I’m pretty excited about this, actually. It sounds like they are taking the time to think things through and prepare an official storyline that will become the de-facto canon for the Star Wars universe. I did read the Thrawn triology (the stories that were officially licensed to occur after Return of the Jedi), and they were very good books. I hope they can keep at least some of that story line. However, some of the trash I ready after those books deserves to be forgotten.
