Video Games Facts

Lesser known video games facts

Good information for gamers tho..

Nuclear testing in Nevada

This is what nuke testing did to a patch of desert in Nevada

Testing at Nevada Test Site (NTS) took place between 1951 and 1992. So 41 years. There were only 23 Plowshares shots at NTS out of 928 total tests, so that's only about 2% of all of the tests.

Interestingly, a large portion of the tests were in Operation Plowshare, investigating their use for construction/excavation. All the craters you see in this image are from below ground tests and are collapse features from subsidence into the largely vaporized detonation zone.

Is this a city?

Apparently this was not a city

It's Wadi Al-Salaam, an Islamic cemetery. It covers nearly 1500 acres and has an estimated 5 million bodies buried underneath. This is the largest cemetery in the world.

Fish Catches Bird in Flight

First confirmed record of a freshwater fish preying on birds in flight

This is the first confirmed record of a freshwater fish preying on birds in flight, according to reports in the Journal of Fish Biology. Rumours of such behaviour by the African tigerfish (Hydrocynus vittatus), which has been reported as reaching one metre in length, have circulated since the 1940s.

An African tigerfish caught on the Lower Zambezi River.

Breaking Bad Walter White

The evolution of Walter White

Breaking Bad is sadly gone from this Earth forever, but that won’t stop fans of the series from paying tributes to it. The latest comes from UK artist Olly Moss, who drew stylized miniature Walt Whites portraying the many versions of Walt’s character transformation. There’s regular Walt, pants less Walt, bald Walt, Heisenberg, meth suit Walt, and finally dying Walt. Each one captures the iconic character in a charming portrayal of his many evolutions.