Abandoned

There's a certain romance and mystique associated with shipwrecks when seen as ancient artifacts hiding in the gloom. Where we might imagine untold treasures locked behind their rusting hulls, in reality it's often a mess of old fuel, corroded bombs, and toxic waste.A new study analyzing the World War II shipwreck V-1302 John Mahn, in the Belgian part of the North Sea, has found substances leaking from the old wreck are still influencing the surrounding microbiology and geochemistry some 80 years after the ship sank to…

via Paramount At this stage, even the most optimistic of Star Trek fans will have resigned themselves to the fact that the long-gestating fourth installment in the Kelvin timeline is pretty much cursed, and perilously close to being forever lost to development hell. If we’re being honest, everything about the project so far has been disastrous on virtually every level, so maybe it’s not surprising at all that the pieces simply won’t come together. S.J. Clarkson was initially tasked to get the band back…

If you are a vehicle enthusiast, you will not feel good when you see an abandoned car or bike in a parking lot or on the side of a road. Be it a normal car or a luxury car it is nothing short of a nightmare for its owner to see his car rusting away. If it is a luxury car like Rolls Royce, it would easily make your heart and soul ache. Rolls Royce as a brand is known for making some of the most luxurious and comfortable cars in the world. We have come across images of several Rolls Royce cars that are abandoned by their…

via Warner Bros. A lot of fans may not want to hear it based on the incredibly polarizing nature of the character, but Jesse Eisenberg’s Lex Luthor may have turned out to be the single most important figure in the entire SnyderVerse had Zack Snyder’s original plans for the DCEU not been cut off at the knees in the wake of the Justice League fisaco. After all, the nefarious businessman was responsible for uniting the Trinity in the third act of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice after unleashing Doomsday, which…

An illustration of the Mars Sample Fetch Rover on the surface of the Red Planet.Illustration: AirbusThe Anon rover was built for Mars, but its interplanetary mission got derailed. The car-sized robot is now undergoing tests at a quarry near London in hopes that it could one day go to the Moon instead. Over the past two weeks, Airbus has been testing its sample fetch rover in a quarry near Milton Keynes in the U.K., which nicely simulates alien environments. The developing team is hoping that the rover might eventually…

via 20th Century Fox A franchise that earned over $1.5 billion at the box office across three installments hardly sounds like a candidate to be given the boot and ended much earlier than planned, but the law of diminishing returns quickly set in when it came to The Chronicles of Narnia. The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe was a colossal hit in December of 2005, hauling in almost $750 million and drawing strong notices from critics, fans of the source material, and brand new converts. The trick wasn’t repeated…

Earlier this month we covered the bizarre story of the sudden death of an e-bike rental company. The shared mobility brand Bolt Mobility apparently shuttered operations overnight, leaving thousands of e-bikes and e-scooters abandoned in cities across the US. The move was all the more puzzling as these vehicles likely totaled hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of equipment, if not into the millions. It began with five US cities that reported an overnight exit from Bolt Mobility, leaving the deserted e-bikes…

Warner Bros’s previously announced Batgirl film is the latest big-budget project that will never see the light of day, despite being in post-production, with shooting already completed. Hollywood is brutal – for every film released there are numerous others that never make it to the big screen. These are projects in which the studios invest millions – only for them to be spurned at the script stage, trapped in that infamous “development hell”, or even halted mid-production. Part of the appeal of abandoned films is that we…

Perhaps the most anticipated event of the year in the crypto community will see Ethereum’s transition from PoW to PoS. Ethereum (ETH), the second-largest asset by market capitalization in the cryptocurrency sector, is making tremendous progress as the industry as a whole is beginning to get back on its feet after being knocked down by a recent bearish storm. On-chain analytics firm Santiment reports an addition of 131 whales to the Ethereum network in recent weeks, alongside the recovery in the Ethereum price in…

Screenwriter Stuart Beattie has revealed that Disney had once been working on a trilogy of Star Wars films centring around Ewan McGregor’s Obi-Wan Kenobi.However, the planned trilogy was abandoned after the underwhelming box office performance of the 2018 spin-off Solo: A Star Wars Story.Beattie said he wrote a draft of the first Obi-Wan Kenobi film, which was eventually reworked into the Disney Plus series Obi-Wan Kenobi.Speaking to The Direct, he revealed that he did not work directly on the series at all, though…