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Lizards aren't really my area of expertise, but I would guess a stylized green iguana or some ancestor thereof. The size of the dorsal spines doesn't seem very pragmatic.

This is a quote from a tourist some time before the article:

"Unlike a sterile and lifeless parking lot, you soon get a sense here that this lake is somehow alive.
Roy said that a forty foot by forty foot hole completely fills itself in within 3 days."

"The lake is constantly pulling things into itself, almost like a slow motion black hole.
It's supposed to have "feelers" stretching outward for several miles, additional veins of pitch which stretch out from the main lake."

"this photo of him peeling back the hardened skin of the lake."

"The lake seemed to me more than anything to be like a large creature with no face, only arms and guts in which it slowly swallowed everything around it."

"If it swallows some things, then it also spits others out"

"Here is some leaf litter from part of the forest floor which the lake swallowed, chewed around for a few years and then spat out as indigestible.
These leaves were in perfect condition, but as dry as it's possible to imagine."

So it seems to be a living entity, demonstrably fussy, finding it a hard time getting a decent meal and likely depressed.

http://www.richard-seaman.com/Travel/TrinidadAndTobago/Trinidad/PitchLake/

Didn't Captain Kirk kick this lakes ass?

This is a quote from a tourist some time before the article:

"Unlike a sterile and lifeless parking lot, you soon get a sense here that this lake is somehow alive. Roy said that a forty foot by forty foot hole completely fills itself in within 3 days."

"The lake is constantly pulling things into itself, almost like a slow motion black hole. It's supposed to have "feelers" stretching outward for several miles, additional veins of pitch which stretch out from the main lake."

"this photo of him peeling back the hardened skin of the lake."

"The lake seemed to me more than anything to be like a large creature with no face, only arms and guts in which it slowly swallowed everything around it."

"If it swallows some things, then it also spits others out"

"Here is some leaf litter from part of the forest floor which the lake swallowed, chewed around for a few years and then spat out as indigestible. These leaves were in perfect condition, but as dry as it's possible to imagine."

So it seems to be a living entity, demonstrably fussy, finding it a hard time getting a decent meal and likely depressed.

http://www.richard-seaman.com/Travel/TrinidadAndTobago/Trinidad/PitchLake/

Flat out wrong.

http://www.richard-seaman.com/Aircraft/AirShows/SpaceShipOne2004/

From the article:

The White Knight drops SpaceShipOne when they reached an altitude of about 50,000 feet (15 kilometers), and it takes 30 or 40 minutes for them to reach this altitude. Along the way they levelled out for some time while they checked all of the onboard systems.

PHOTOS

As they spiralled higher above the desert, it became harder to even see where they were; eventually, though, they got high enough for contrails to start forming. Finally, around 7:50AM and 47,000 feet (14,250 meters) the White Knight released SpaceShipOne, which glided for about 10 seconds then lit its rocket engine.

So yes, they use a rocket in the second stage, but describing it as a "mobile launch platform" makes it sound like an aircraft carrier. They used conventional lift to reach almost to the top of the stratosphere before firing off the rocket.

As a student at Drexel, I have had the privilege of hearing about this research firsthand - it is more than convincing. There is no doubt in my mind that he is 100% correct. For those of you in doubt - he is not claiming that all stones were "cast" or "molded" into places. Only the ones at the top and on the outside of most of the "newer" pyramids. The older pyramids do not use this technology. It is believed the egyptians discovered this technology as they were building and their pyramids became more sofisticated as a result. You can just look at the pictures:

The Bent Pyramid (an older pyramid), its obvious blocks put into place from a quarry up until where it bends.
http://www.richard-seaman.com/Travel/Egypt/Dahshur /BentPyramid/EgyptianPoliceman.jpg

Now, look inside the Red Pyramid (a newer pyramid), tell me they carved 26 million bricks with such perfect precision. They carved Limestone, using copper tools (ahem, softer than limestone), so perfectly together that you can't even fit a playing card between them? I don't think so.
http://www.richard-seaman.com/Travel/Egypt/Dahshur /AllPyramids/StaircaseInsideRedPyramid.jpg

This article can also be found on the New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/01/science/01pyrami d.html?ref=science

As a student at Drexel, I have had the privilege of hearing about this research firsthand - it is more than convincing. There is no doubt in my mind that he is 100% correct. For those of you in doubt - he is not claiming that all stones were "cast" or "molded" into places. Only the ones at the top and on the outside of most of the "newer" pyramids. The older pyramids do not use this technology. It is believed the egyptians discovered this technology as they were building and their pyramids became more sofisticated as a result. You can just look at the pictures:

The Bent Pyramid (an older pyramid), its obvious blocks put into place from a quarry up until where it bends.
http://www.richard-seaman.com/Travel/Egypt/Dahshur /BentPyramid/EgyptianPoliceman.jpg

Now, look inside the Red Pyramid (a newer pyramid), tell me they carved 26 million bricks with such perfect precision. They carved Limestone, using copper tools (ahem, softer than limestone), so perfectly together that you can't even fit a playing card between them? I don't think so.
http://www.richard-seaman.com/Travel/Egypt/Dahshur /AllPyramids/StaircaseInsideRedPyramid.jpg

This article can also be found on the New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/01/science/01pyrami d.html?ref=science

... or even a wallaby?

Those aren't as much funny as they are really spooky. these pages have some pictures of such shadows; but contain other non-work-safe disturbing images too.

I first learned about these in the irtc, where the winning entry one month was a ray-tracing of these shadows.

It's just windows 95 with a hacked boot screen that shows the Air Force logo, wallpaper showing the a-10 warthog, and IE opens with the homepage set to the us military

The immediate areas surrounding Chernobyl will not be habitable for thousands of years. The surrounding areas will not be habitable for hundreds of years.

Hint:

You're wrong.

It did crash at the Paris Air Show in 1973. There's even a video of it here (towards the bottom of the page)

The crash was actually caused by a Frence Mirage Jet up there trying to photograph it, and nearly crashing with it.