Sunday, 26 January 2014

This eerie, abandoned theme park in China is called 'Wonderland". It never opened to the public.

This eerie, abandoned theme park in China is called 'Wonderland". It never opened to the public.

The ruins of a half-built theme park sat near a highway in the Chenzhuang Village, about 20 miles outside of Beijing, China. Developers promised it would be the largest amusement park in Asia, to cover 120 acres, and named it Wonderland. It never opened.




It stood abandoned, surrounded by fields of corn and houses. The only visitors who ever went there were the local children and the occasional photographer, who were met by signs warning them of potential poisons in the soil and to enter at their own risk. People have reported that sometimes, when visiting the site, there were still be parking attendants in the abandoned parking lot, probably to attend to curios visitors. Local farmers started to reclaim the abandoned site to grow their various crops.




Construction stopped in 1998 after disagreements with the local farmers over property prices. Ten years later, in 2008, developers tried to restart construction. They were unsuccessful. When it was clear that there was no hope left that Wonderland would ever be completed and opened to the public, it was razed to the ground in May 2013. The developers are now planning to build a luxury product supermarket on the site.




Whether that idea will ever get off the ground remains to be seen.




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The Elephant In The Room













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Get Cosmic-ized with 'The Year in Space' Calendar: Review

Now you can be organized AND learn something new about the Cosmos every day! Continue reading →



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Australian Scientists have created a hangover free beer! I love science.

Australian Scientists have created a hangover free beer! I love science.

Hangovers are rough. Some people say that the reason we have hangovers is that when we drink alcohol, we're just borrowing happiness and fun from the next day. In reality, the reason we suffer from hangovers is because alcohol dehydrates our body— and the hangover is a result of that.




Hangovers, which were once considered an inevitable punishment for drinking too much alcohol, may now be preventable thanks to the beer loving country of Australia. A group of scientists have brewed a hangover-free beer.




The Australian scientists were able to create this miracle drink by adding electrolytes to different types of beer. Unfortunately, it seems as if the hangovers are only really prevented when the electrolytes are added to light beer, as opposed to regular beer.




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The first traffic light ever created killed someone within a month of being used, but not in the way you would expect!

The first traffic light ever created killed someone within a month of being used, but not in the way you would expect!

The very first traffic light was a cold blooded killer. When it was first put up in 1868, it was installed outside the Houses of Parliament in London, but it only took less than a month before it claimed it's victim. Ironically, it was designed to control traffic to save lives—butthe light suddenly exploded and killedthe traffic cop whose job was to operate the traffic light.




An interesting thing about this first light is that is used the same colors that modern traffic lights use. They inventors of the light borrowed the colours from the rail road system, which used the colours red and green! As to why those colours we're chosen for the rail road, nobody knows. The best guess people have is that red has always sort of been a signal for danger, and green is a colour that calms people.




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Grand Canyon Gets Younger

Last year the news was that the Grand Canyon was way older than expected. New work says the opposite. Here's how it all makes sense.



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Early Spanish Hunter-Gatherer Was Dark and Blue-Eyed

Long before there were farmers in Europe there were dark-skinned, blue-eyed hunter-gatherers who had surprisingly modern immunities to diseases.



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