BBC Focus Magazine

I "Stumbledon" this website and was looking at the page on 2012 and all that doomsday rubbish.

It mentioned the pole shift, which is something that has sparked my interest in the past, but I was wondering how it would affect the earth. OK, so the poles shift, so does that mean while I'm out orienteering, I'm suddenly buggered as the compass is going to swing wildly the other way? ...

why is the ocean salt water and not fresh?

is the a maximum temperature like theres a minumum temperature?

Here's one of the strangest stories I've seen headlined on a "respectable" news site, and initially investigated by a journalist with 12 Emmy Awards under his belt. Has anybody ever heard of this Russian Roswell incident before? The material in the article is housed in the National Atomic Testing Museum in Las Vegas. Here's an interesting extract from the story/

According to the exhibit's description, scientific tests on the UFO materials revealed bizarre behavior: "Three ...

Musk founded SpaceX right after eBay bought PayPal back in 2002, and -- along with sending a greenhouse onto Mars with an intercontinental ballistic missile -- one of his objectives with the company was to make space travel more available to the public. As he explained to Pelley:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/1 ... ?ref=space

Are there any current treaties to prevent any individual or nation from taking the initiative to terraform a ...

if the human speciecs started in africa, im guessing that the first humans would have had black skin, when did the white man evolve and why?

Ok, I know this is not scientifically related, but as we've discussed topics of this nature in the past, I thought I'd post this link. I thought I'd seen everything by now, but apparently , if you need some quick cash, you can actually sell your soul. I've no idea if you can hold out for bigger rewards, along the lines of Dorian Gey, but here it is anyway. ...

Does an object lose any mass or substance when light reflects off of it and if so, does that mean eventually the object could cease to exist as eventually it will lose all of it's mass?

i dont no if its my comp or a problem with the site but i cant get the home page up or anything along the top bar ie Q@A's reviews etc any ideas :?:

Let's pop over and see the neighbors.

Now, all that has changed. A team of physicists from Germany and Greece has shown that building wormholes may be possible without any input from negative energy at all. "You don't even need normal matter with positive energy," says Burkhard Kleihaus of the University of Oldenburg in Germany. "Wormholes can be propped open with nothing."

The findings raise the tantalising possibility that we might finally be able to ...