Chile miners return to their homes

itnnews | October 16, 2010
All but two of the 33 men trapped underground in Chile for 69 days have left hospital and returned home. LINK: Youtube

Trapped Chilean miners sing national anthem in footage from inside mine

The first video footage of the 33 Chilean miners who have been trapped underground for three weeks shows the men in good spirits, singing the national anthem and chanting, "Long live Chile, and long live the miners."

The men shot the video with a camera sent down to them through a small shaft drilled to their emergency shelter in the San José mine. LINK: Youtube

Dr Mason on New Horizon Spacecraft and New Solar System Discovered

New Horizons' voyage through the Jupiter system in 2007 provided a bird's-eye view of a dynamic planet that has changed since the last close-up looks by NASA spacecraft. A combination of trajectory, timing and technology allowed it to explore details no probe had seen before, such as lightning near Jupiter's poles, the life cycle of fresh ammonia clouds, boulder-size clumps speeding through the planet's faint rings, the structure inside volcanic eruptions on its moon Io, and the path of charged particles traversing the previously unexplored length of the planet's long magnetic tail.

New Horizons passed our solar system's largest planet on its way to Pluto, which it should reach in 2015. I was right!!!

European Southern Observatory In Chile Discovers New Solar System.

The team used an instrument known as the High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher (HARPS) to locate the system.

Geneva University Observatory's Chiristophe Lovis led the team that made the discovery. He noted that it was possibly "the system with the most planets yet discovered."

The solar system is known to harbor five exoplanets (those outside of our solar system) circling a sun-like star HD 10180, and is suspected to contain two additional planets.

"It's a very interesting discovery," said Dante Minniti, an expert on exoplanets at Universidad Católica. "They have discovered a system of five planets, and if the other two are confirmed, this system would be the most similar to our own." LINK: Youtube

Dancing Merengue Dog

Dancing Dog Doing The Merengue. Smartest dog ever!

Please note that this dog is from Chile, her name is Carrie, and the owner's name is Jose Fuentes. LINK: Youtube

Chilean Volcano

Photo: Martin Rietze

Martin Rietze took this photo last December at the Villarica Volcano in Chile. Along with many other amazing shots, his work can be seen at his website ALPE (Alien Landscapes on Planet Earth). Don’t miss his Jupiter animation under the Astronomy thumb. LINK: Neatorama

How Not to Right an Overturned Truck

(YouTube Link)

This video is from the scene of a highway accident in Chile three weeks ago. A recovery crew managed to flip the overturned tractor trailer back upright, but didn’t think about what would happen to the truck afterward.

Via: reddit, Via: Neatorama

Subtle Sunken Beach House, Shipwreck or Ruin by the Sea?

Like a washed-up shipwreck or ancient waterside war fortress, this simple beach-front home by Izquierdo Lehmann in Chile seems very much a part of its environment – from the earth it is carved out of to the stacked stones that buttress the sides and keep the retaining walls from caving in. LINK

Hero Dog Tries to Help Mortally Wounded Dog - Chile

A dog in Chile is unfortunately hit by a car. Another dog drags the wounded dog to the side of the road. The hero dog ran away and has not been found since.

At the end of the video the narrator says the injured dog survived. Unfortunately, according to Jorge Rivas, operations manager for Vespucio Norte Highway in Santiago, the poor animal died. LINK, Via: Youtube

World’s Largest Swimming Pool

f you like doing laps in your local pool, hold onto your goggles: the creators of the world’s largest swimming pool are on a mission to spread their technology across the world.
Already drawing the crowds in the South American resort of San Alfonso del Mar in Chile, this artificial lagoon and swimming pool is eight hectares in size and contains an incredible 250,000 cubic meters of water. LINK

Chile's Llaima volcano erupts Jan 01/08

(Raw video)January 01/08...The Llaima volcano in southern Chile erupted, sending up a huge plume of smoke and coating the surrounding wilderness park with ash, forcing the evacuation of dozens of tourists, emergency officials said.

There were no reports of damages or injuries.

The volcano is in the Araucania region in southern Chile, inside Conguillio National Park and about 82 km from the city of Temuco. LINK