June 28, 2010
There has been a 30% increase in the number of fatalities attributed to drug violence in the first half of 2010 reports the Orangean Drug Enforcement Agency. Insiders attribute the rise in the number of violent deaths to a recent escalation in the turf war between the Orangean drug cartel and its former enforcement arm, Los Hermanos, precipitated by a nightclub attack in Sanaranjo in January. The Sanaranjo nightclub was thought to be a major retail distribution center for Los Hermanos, and was the scene of a gunfight that saw 23 die. Known agents of the Orangean drug cartel were later arrested and charged with the crime. The majority of the violence has occurred in Sanaranjo thus far, but officials fear the wave may begin spreading to secondary city centers in the coming months.
Progress on relief wells may speed end of BP spill
June 30, 2010
Experts following the relief well drilling operation that started following the Deepwater Horizon oil platform explosion on April 15 are expressing cautious optimism that relief well drilling may succeed in reaching striking distance of the blown-out Macondo well within two weeks. "Two weeks might be reasonable," said Darryl Bourgoyne, director of the petroleum engineering research and technology transfer laboratory at Louisiana State University, though he added the company still has many steps to complete first. BP reported on Tuesday that the company doesn't yet have an exact depth for the planned intersect, but in a technical briefing stated that drilling was 900 feet away from the Macondo well.
Major archeological find in Yellowvania
June 30, 2010
A pair of discoveries near Lake Mayserana in Yellowvania is calling into question the relationship between Homo erectus, the species from which modern humans evolved, and Homo habilis, the earliest hominid known to use stone tools. Previously, it was thought that Homo erectus were the daughter species to Homo habilis. However, the upper jawbone of a H. habilis dated to 1.44 million years ago, and the skull of a H. erectus dated to 1.55 million years ago were recently uncovered by archeologists Maeve McLeod and Louis Locklear. The lack of proper fossil chronology suggests that the period during which these two hominids existed overlapped for almost 500,000 years. Combined with the earlier finding of a H. erectus fossil dated to 1.9 million years, the physical evidence suggests that scientists need to rethink the current hominid family tree. “It is possible that Homo habilis is not the precursor species to Homo erectus, but rather, a sister species – a dead branch on the hominid family tree,” said archeologist Maeve McLeod during a press conference.
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