Thursday, 29 December 2011
National Geographic 2011 Best Pictures Nomination from Pakistan
'An unexpected side-effect of the 2010 flooding in parts of Sindh, Pakistan, was that millions of spiders climbed up into the trees to escape the rising flood waters; because of the scale of the flooding and the fact that the water took so long to recede, many trees became cocooned in spiders webs. People in the area had never seen this phenomenon before, but they also reported that there were less mosquitos than they would have expected, given the amount of standing water that was left. Not being bitten by mosquitos was one small blessing for people that had lost everything in the floods
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Tiangong-1: China's first space lab module blasts off
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Long March-2FT1 carrier rocket loaded with Tiangong-1 unmanned space
lab module blasts off from the launch pad at the Jiuquan Satellite
Launch Center in northwest China's Gansu Province, Sept. 29, 2011.
Commander-in-chief of China's manned space program Chang Wanquan
announced Thursday night that the launch of Tiangong-1 space lab module
was successful.
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