I was planning to use this space for wailing and gnashing teeth over the FUBAR state of the airports in London right now and the fact that I’ll be trying to get onto a plane from Gatwick on Saturday morning, then continue with some snarky predictions about how the whole situation would be handled by [...]
A page of amazing photographs from the first few seconds of an atomic bomb blast.
A fuel depot near Hemel Hempsted exploded early this morning. The blast was allegedly heard in parts of Holland.
I realise that this is the wrong thought to be having about it all, but isn’t this an amazing picture:
All ten lanes of a section of the M25 were shut down today after a truck carrying hydrogen peroxide caught fire and was essentially vapourised.
(The result is vaguely similar to the episode of Mythbusters where they try to clean a cement truck using explosives.)