Measuring more than 1,000 miles from southwest to northeast and 500 miles from north to south, the Gobi is a vast desert in Asia, spanning from northern China to southern Mongolia. Following major cataclysms that left the desert in its current condition, the ancient inhabitants said to have taken refuge in underground cities, which they had terraformed inside of gigantic natural caves and subterranean caverns. More from Robert Sepehr.
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U.S. Forces in Afghanistan have released aerial footage of the Massive Ordnance Air Blast (MOAB) strike on an Islamic State cave and tunnel systems in the Achin district. The bombing took place Thursday. It appears as if the network of caves collapsed and the earth flattened as a pillar of smoke rose up in the sky. The US miitary claimed to have killed at least 36 ISIS fighters. More from RT America.
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Written language, the hallmark of human civilization, didn’t just suddenly appear one day. Thousands of years before the first fully developed writing systems, our ancestors scrawled geometric signs across the walls of the caves they sheltered in. Paleoanthropologist and rock art researcher Genevieve von Petzinger has studied and codified these ancient markings in caves across Europe. The uniformity of her findings suggest that graphic communication, and the ability to preserve and transmit messages beyond a single moment in time, may be much older than we think. Von Petzinger shares her research in a Ted Talk.
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A normal sinkhole discovered in Wyoming in the 1970s turned out to be chock-full of ancient treasures. The sinkhole was discovered at the base of the Big Horn Mountains in northern Wyoming and dubbed The Natural Trap Cave. Before the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) placed a grill over the top of the cave to protect the public, scientists rappeled to the bottom of the naturally cold environs to find several well-preserved remains of animals who plunged to their deaths from 12,000 to 23,000 years ago. Hosts Joe Bereta and Steve Zaragoza delve deeper into this story in this edition of SourceFed.
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Gigantic, mutant crabs attack a party of scientists on a shrinking Pacific atoll in today’s Trillion Dollar Movie. Attack of the Crab Monsters is the handiwork of legendary B-movie filmmaker Roger Corman. It’s one of 
10 pictures he completed in 1957 alone, shooting this thriller on several locations in the Los Angeles area, including the Bronson Caves, Marineland of the Pacific and Leo Carrillo State Park.
Long before he played “The Professor” on “Gilligan’s Island,” Russell Johnson appeared as Hank Chapman, a technician who emerges as the hero on a scientific expedition to stop the killer crabs. We’re told there are many crabs, but in actuality, we only see one at a time, flailing its pincers menacingly, not only dismembering its victims but also devouring their brains. In the process, the crab inherits the victims’ thought processes and speaking abilities.
The perfect date: Dinner at Red Lobster, followed by a nightcap watching this silly, but often quite hilarious example of that ultimate 1950s genre — the A-bomb test that goes horribly amok, spawning monstrosities in some remote locale. As Eccentric Cinema reviewer Brian Lindsey attested, “Ridiculous and cheesy, with a nonsensical plot completely shot through with holes, Crab Monsters is also surprisingly fun.” Enjoy and do return again next Friday for another Trillion $ Movie.
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What’s Hercules’ son Maciste doing as a time traveler? Find out in FIRE MONSTERS AGAINST THE SON OF HERCULES (1962), which transports our intrepid hero back to prehistoric times to wrangle with dinosaurs
and tangle with moonbat cavemen who have stolen the women of a sun-worshiping tribe. The dinosaurs don’t breathe any fire, the cavemen have underwear on beneath their loincloths, and there’s not even a Solyndra cameo!
Still, the excitement mounts as Maciste (played by Rex Lewis from SEXTETTE) leads the sun-men into the bowels of a volcano to pummel the moonbats and save the enslaved women from a fate worse than death. Today’s Trillion $ Movie offering was shot on a shoestring, in Yugoslavia, in glorious Cro-Magnacolor, more than 50 years ago. Stop by every Friday for a new Trillion Dollar Movie (T$M), something vintage from the vaults of YouTube.
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