I found a very interesting article which involves an oceanographer who finds things that have been dumped in the ocean. Some things he found were 80,000 Nike Sneakers, a spill of 29,000 bathtub toys, five million Lego pieces spilled off Land's End, England, around 2000 17-inch computer monitors that spilled in the Pacific. This was all written by Curtis C. Ebbesmeyer. He says that many of the beachcombers search for messages in a bottle, and one Dutch beachcomber named Wim Kruiswijk, ranks best of all-time. He hauled home 435 bottled notes while searching the southern North Sea. He divided the all into types like, Jokes, Religion, Love notes, Drawings. He discusses any of the biblical notes that were found and they are all about "water and "the sea".
One other very interesting article that I found on the website was called Chasing Storms in Rapid City, an Interview with Charlie Summers. The article was written by Brian Conley and Sina Najafi. Charlie Summers is a research scientists who pilots the only airplane in the world that's capable of flying through thunderstorms to get data for scientific research. Brian and Sina asked him questions about his career and why he chose to do what he does. He was asked how the aircraft is constructed and what is unusual about it, and he said that the plane has armor-plating over the edges and it's wrapped over the wings, and it is glued on and riveted. In order to protect the canopy, there's very thick Lexan glass so the hail won't break in, they even had to modify the engine a little bit. It isn't a jet and it has a nine-cylinder radial engine that burns gas. Each pilot trains the next pilot, and the first pilot was trained by a meteorologist. The average flight doesn't usually last very long because of the fuel, it normally lasts about two hours which to them is long enough if you spend a half hour inside the thunderstorm. They're only in the storm for maybe five or six minutes at a time. There are actually levels of thunderstorms they aren't sure if they're going to survive or not, once they're in the middle of the thunderstorm the instruments they use have no idea which way they're going, so they have use feeling to determine where they are. The only thing that really harms the plane is the ice because they have no capability of keeping it off the plane. He said when you're in the thunderstorm you can't really see anything, but you can hear the hail hitting the windshield which sounds like a hammer just pounding on the plane.
