Richard Branson from Virgin Galatic has unveiled the amazing SpaceShipTwo space tourism vehicle. SpaceShipTwo will carry 6 tourists at a time to 65 miles above the surface of the earth, beyond the Apogee of where our atmosphere ends and space begins. Passengers will experience the full weightlessness of space and unparalleled views of the Earth before returning safely to land. While SpaceShipTwo has not yet been live tested, its completion and introduction to the press is a significant step toward public space travel.

SpaceShipTwo will be carried by a mother ship, the WhiteNightTwo, to a suborbital altitude of 9.5 miles before it undocks and launches its own thrusters into pure black space. Not long after, it’s final altitude will be reached and its passengers will join the lucky few to have ever entered the expansive reaches of space. The ticket price for travel into this final frontier is suggested to run at $200,000 each for a trip that lasts roughly two-and-a-half hours. While it’ll be a few years until SpaceShipTwo’s voyage, We here at TheBlogIsMine dot Com have an opportunity to start saving money for the space travel.

A photograph purporting to show a 55ft snake found in a forest in China has become an internet sensation.

It was originally posted in a thread on the website of the People’s Daily, the official Communist Party newspaper in China.

The thread claimed the snake was one of two enormous boas found by workers clearing forest for a new road outside Guping city, Jiangxi province.

They apparently woke up the sleeping snakes during attempts to bulldoze a huge mound of earth.

“On the third dig, the operator found there was blood amongst the soil, and with a further dig, a dying snake appeared,” said the post.

“At the same time, another gold coloured giant boa appeared with its mouth wide open. The driver was paralysed with fear, while the other workers ran for their lives.

“By the time the workers came back, the wounded boa had died, while the other snake had disappeared. The bulldozer operator was so sick that he couldn’t even stand up.”

The post claimed that the digger driver was so traumatised that he suffered a heart attack on his way to hospital and later died.

The dead snake was 55ft (16.7m) long, weighed 300kg and was estimated to be 140 years old, according to the post.

However, local government officials in Guiping say the story and photograph are almost certainly a hoax as giant boas are not native to the area.Via : peopledaily.com

Nooka Zirc, $350

Circle Jerk: Traditional timing displays are for old people who like to follow rules. Designer Matthew Waldman doesn’t—that’s why he invented the Nooka Zirc, an oversize rectangular watch that busts out a whole new graphic method of timekeeping. Each of the 12 dots represents an hour; the horizontal bar below it slowly fills as the minutes of your reckless youth pass by.

 

Omega Alaska Project Limited Edition, $5,500

Moon Man: In the ’70s, engineers designed this radical red watch for astronauts; its anodized aluminum casing endures extreme temp variations of up to 400 degrees in space. Newly reissued with the classic Omega 1861 chrono in a limited edition of 1,970, the awesomely astral ticker should help you make it through Space Mountain, even if the A/C breaks down.

 

Tokyoflash Tibida, $139

Dot Dot Dash: This binary beastie tells time using 42 LEDs that thrillingly light up like a scoreboard on the fritz. Wearers can set the upper and lower displays to tell time three different ways; the dots can either display numerals or represent time’s progression in minutes. Either way, you can always get out of boring conversations by pointing out that it’s time to go.

 

Tokyoflash Infection, $130

Virus Time: The curious organic pattern that goes from strap to face on this freakish future watch is a replica of a fever! And you just might get sick trying to figure out what time it is. There are 27 LEDs: The 12 reds denote the hour; 11 yellows represent five minute segments, and four green lights show single minutes. The above watch reads 4:54. Compute?

Casio G-Shock G8100A-5, $99

Steampunk’d: This timekeeper will catch every eye in your vector, while tempering your shiny techno lust with some rusty hues. We dig the porthole design, with its bronze-color cladding, harsh geometry, and old-school LCD readout. The rugged G-Shock specs should make it last for decades, and help you weather up to 200 meters of melting glacier water.

LIP Diode, $355

Green Machine: Before Daft Punk and Tron, French brand LIP’s 1970s watches looked to the future and ruled the street with some of the earliest LED timepiece displays available. Those coveted classics have all been snapped up by watch geeks, but after 33 years, the brand is finally reintroducing their famed Diode model to the U.S. Snap one up and start doing the French robot.