In 1962, the US government thought it might be a good idea to send a hydrogen bomb hundreds of miles into the air and detonate it.
Just, you know, to see what happened. Decades later, now you can too.
Source:
http://gizmodo.com/5578740/this-space-nuke-explosion-was-the-ultimate-firecracker
A deep-sea oil well has been leaking 42,000 gallons per day since the massive rig explosion last week off the Louisiana coast.
Remote-controlled submarines are trying to plug the leak, and cleanup crews have collected 48,000 gallons of oily water from the area. Is there any use for the recovered oil?
