This is how India looks from space on the eve of Diwali - an Indian festival of crackers.
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Astonishing Facts About America
- The U.S. government poisoned alcohol during Prohibition in the 20s and 30s, killing over 10,000 people
- Every hour, at least 1 person is killed by a drunk driver in the U.S.
- 100 acres of Pizza are served in the U.S. every day
- Just 2.5 million people lived in the U.S.A. in 1776. Today it’s 314 million.
- If you have $10 in your pocket and no debts,you are wealthier than 25% of Americans.
- 7% OF AMERICANS CLAIM THEY NEVER BATH
- Americans spend 5 cents per day by flushing their toilets
- Thousands of Americans migrated to the USSR in the 1930s during the Great Depression.
- Russia & America are less than 4 km apart at the nearest point.
- 9 million people are in prisons around world, and a quarter of them are in the U.S.
- There are at least 97 people called "LOL" in the U.S.
- The U.S. purchased Alaska from Russia for just US$7.2 million in 1867.
- 40% of births in the U.S. come from unmarried women.
- It's completely legal for minors to smoke cigarettes in the U.S. and parts of Europe. What they can't do is purchase it
- 1 in 3 Americans is obese
Why Windows 10 and not Windows 9 ?
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God Particle Could Destroy The Whole Universe !
The famous scientist Stephen Hawking has suggested that the Higgs boson particle has the potential to break down space and time.
The Large Hadron Collider caused a panic among the public during its discovery for the Higgs Boson due to belief that a sufficiently high-energy collision could produce a black hole that would eat up the whole planet.
Now Professor Stephen Hawking's new book "Starmus", raises similar concerns due to its preface in which the celebrated physicist suggests that the Higgs Boson could destroy the entire universe.
While he stresses that such an eventuality is extremely unlikely, the possibility exists that should the particle become unstable at high energy levels it could collapse complete space and time.
"The Higgs boson potential has the troublesome feature that it might become metastable at energies above 100 billion giga electron volts," he wrote. "This could mean that the universe could undergo devastating vacuum decay, with a tiny bubble of the true vacuum expanding at the speed of light."
"This could happen at any time and we wouldn’t see it coming."
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| Stephen Hawking lecturing at KU Leuven University, Belgium, October 2011 |
The Large Hadron Collider caused a panic among the public during its discovery for the Higgs Boson due to belief that a sufficiently high-energy collision could produce a black hole that would eat up the whole planet.
Now Professor Stephen Hawking's new book "Starmus", raises similar concerns due to its preface in which the celebrated physicist suggests that the Higgs Boson could destroy the entire universe.
While he stresses that such an eventuality is extremely unlikely, the possibility exists that should the particle become unstable at high energy levels it could collapse complete space and time.
"The Higgs boson potential has the troublesome feature that it might become metastable at energies above 100 billion giga electron volts," he wrote. "This could mean that the universe could undergo devastating vacuum decay, with a tiny bubble of the true vacuum expanding at the speed of light."
"This could happen at any time and we wouldn’t see it coming."
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Some Spectacular Images
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| how rain looks from plane |
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| There is a swing on the edge of a cliff in Ecuador. It has no safety measures and is called the ‘Swing at the End of the World |
5 Good Things About Hitler
5. Animal protection
After the suicide of his niece, Hitler witnessed the autopsy and became so disgusted that he renounced meat forever. Today, it is acknowledged by historians that he followed a vegetarian diet during the war. At social occasions, he sometimes gave graphic descriptions of how animals were slaughtered to discourage the guests from eating meat
4. Rocket technology
Werner von Braun, developed the V-2 as director of Hitler’s research station at Peenemunde. He was was a part of the Nazi Party and commissioned Schutzstaffel Officer. After the war, Britain, the US and the Soviet Union all gained access to the V-2′s technical designs and liaised with the German scientists responsible for developing it. Braun eventually got captured by the allies and later became a naturalized citizen in USA and went on to work with NASA, furthering pioneering in rocket science that paved the way for destruction and creation as well. His best achievement there was undoubtedly the development of the Saturn V booster rocket, that enabled man to finally touch the moon, in July 1969.
After the suicide of his niece, Hitler witnessed the autopsy and became so disgusted that he renounced meat forever. Today, it is acknowledged by historians that he followed a vegetarian diet during the war. At social occasions, he sometimes gave graphic descriptions of how animals were slaughtered to discourage the guests from eating meat
4. Rocket technology
Werner von Braun, developed the V-2 as director of Hitler’s research station at Peenemunde. He was was a part of the Nazi Party and commissioned Schutzstaffel Officer. After the war, Britain, the US and the Soviet Union all gained access to the V-2′s technical designs and liaised with the German scientists responsible for developing it. Braun eventually got captured by the allies and later became a naturalized citizen in USA and went on to work with NASA, furthering pioneering in rocket science that paved the way for destruction and creation as well. His best achievement there was undoubtedly the development of the Saturn V booster rocket, that enabled man to finally touch the moon, in July 1969.
Making Deflector Shields Possible !
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University of Leicester students wrote an interesting paper on the possibility of creating Star Wars–type deflector shields to protect a spaceship or other similar bodies from enemy laser attacks in today’s world! According to these students, you would need to use a strong magnetic field to contain a dense, ultra-hot plasma field around your spaceship. More is the frequency of the radiations needed to be deflected, more dense should be the plasma field.
6 Breathtaking Abandoned Structures
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| A sunken yacht in Antarctica |
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| Brilliant Light shines through a barren church in Canada. |
The Man With Half A Head !
Coming straight to the point - no, it’s not photoshopped. A police report about the incident involving this man quite literally describes him with the exact words, “half a head.”
Two Greatest Firearm Designers of All Time
John Moses Browning
January 23, 1855 – November 26, 1926
born in Ogden, Utah, America
Browning patented 128 designs for firearms. He invented the gas-operated machine gun, an improvement over Maxim’s recoil operation. All machine guns since 1895 have used Browning’s gas operation.
He invented the 1911 model of the Colt .45 handgun, which is recoil-operated, and was standard issue for the U. S. military from 1911 until 1985. It is one of the most popular handguns in the world. His design has not changed at all functionally.
He also invented the lever action shotgun, based on Henry’s rifle design with a few modifications. Then, 6 years later in 1893, he invented the pump action shotgun. After 7 years, he still managed to top himself with the semiautomatic shotgun, the first ever. It is recoil-operated, and remained in production, changing only cosmetically, for 98 years.
He invented the Browning Automatic Rifle, a fully automatic 30-06 and a street sweeper if there was one.
He invented the 1919 .30 machine gun, and then even topped this with the 1921 .50 BMG. He also invented several cartridges still popular today, the ACP rounds in .25, .32, .38, .380, .45; and the .50 BMG.
Mikhail Kalashnikov
10 November 1919 – 23 December 2013
born in Altai Krai, Russia
January 23, 1855 – November 26, 1926
born in Ogden, Utah, America
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He invented the 1911 model of the Colt .45 handgun, which is recoil-operated, and was standard issue for the U. S. military from 1911 until 1985. It is one of the most popular handguns in the world. His design has not changed at all functionally.
He also invented the lever action shotgun, based on Henry’s rifle design with a few modifications. Then, 6 years later in 1893, he invented the pump action shotgun. After 7 years, he still managed to top himself with the semiautomatic shotgun, the first ever. It is recoil-operated, and remained in production, changing only cosmetically, for 98 years.
He invented the Browning Automatic Rifle, a fully automatic 30-06 and a street sweeper if there was one.
He invented the 1919 .30 machine gun, and then even topped this with the 1921 .50 BMG. He also invented several cartridges still popular today, the ACP rounds in .25, .32, .38, .380, .45; and the .50 BMG.
Mikhail Kalashnikov
10 November 1919 – 23 December 2013
born in Altai Krai, Russia
Kalashnikov designed about 150 models of small and big weapons. The most famous of them are:
AK-47
AKM
AK-74 / AKS-74U / AK-74M / AKS-74
AK-101 / AK-102
AK-103 / AK-104
AK-105
AK-12
RPK / RPK-74
PK / PKM / PKP
Saiga semi-automatic rifle
AK-47
AKM
AK-74 / AKS-74U / AK-74M / AKS-74
AK-101 / AK-102
AK-103 / AK-104
AK-105
AK-12
RPK / RPK-74
PK / PKM / PKP
Saiga semi-automatic rifle
His gun AK-47 proved to be the biggest revolution in firearm history. It is one of the most common, durable and trusted arm of all times.
His two quotes are famous worldwide, which describe his sadness on the huge misuse of his weapons.
- "I'm proud of my invention, but I'm sad that it is used by terrorists ... I would prefer to have invented a machine that people could use and that would help farmers with their work — for example a lawn mower."
- "I'm proud of my invention, but I'm sad that it is used by terrorists ... I would prefer to have invented a machine that people could use and that would help farmers with their work — for example a lawn mower."
- "Blame the Nazi Germans for making me become a gun designer ... I always wanted to construct agriculture machinery." [Source : Wikipedia]
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5 Worst Ways To Die
All men must die, but some deaths are significantly better than others. Carbon monoxide poisoning sounds pretty pleasant, and freezing to death is allegedly kind of peaceful. Even walking the plank could be a bad-ass way to go, but this list isn't about nice ways to die. From slow, to strange, to unbelievably embarrassing, here are 5 worst ways to die.
Execution by Elephant
Source: Wikipedia
In South and Southeast Asia, elephants were trained to crush, dismember and torture prisoners, especially mutinous soldiers, in public arenas. Because elephants are such intelligent animals, they were able to take directions well. An Asian elephant could kill a victim immediately if that was the desired outcome, but he/she could also draw it out if they were feeling particularly vindictive. Often it would take hours for a victim to die.
Source: Wikipedia
Leaders were so fond of using an elephant to kill enemies not just for physical reasons, but also psychological one. Death by elephant signified both absolute power over man as well as man’s control of nature. A combination of the two was thought to be the most complete type of power, and it validated the ruler’s position.
While the practice was suppressed and eventually eradicated (we hope) during the 18th and 19th centuries when European colonization popularized quieter forms of torture and sneakier types of suppression, many travel logs recounting public executions by elephants still exist.
Execution by Elephant
Source: Wikipedia
Source: Wikipedia
Leaders were so fond of using an elephant to kill enemies not just for physical reasons, but also psychological one. Death by elephant signified both absolute power over man as well as man’s control of nature. A combination of the two was thought to be the most complete type of power, and it validated the ruler’s position.
While the practice was suppressed and eventually eradicated (we hope) during the 18th and 19th centuries when European colonization popularized quieter forms of torture and sneakier types of suppression, many travel logs recounting public executions by elephants still exist.
5 Surprising Things You Can See From Space
5) The Seasons
Photo credit: NASA/Reto Stockli
Us land-dwellers can see this fascinating transformation of seasons, thanks to satellite imagery from NASA. When monthly images of the planet are combined in an animation, they reveal the ebb and flow of polar ice, the dry and wet seasons in the tropics, as well as the growth and death cycles of vegetation throughout the world.
Perhaps most mesmerizing is seeing how Arctic ice forms and then recedes each year.
Photo credit: NASA/Reto Stockli
Us land-dwellers can see this fascinating transformation of seasons, thanks to satellite imagery from NASA. When monthly images of the planet are combined in an animation, they reveal the ebb and flow of polar ice, the dry and wet seasons in the tropics, as well as the growth and death cycles of vegetation throughout the world.
Perhaps most mesmerizing is seeing how Arctic ice forms and then recedes each year.
Top 10 Most Spoken Languages In The World
10) French
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Number of speakers: 129 million
Often called the most romantic language in the world, French is spoken in numerous countries, including Belgium, Canada, Rwanda, Cameroon, and Haiti. Oh, and France too. We’re actually very lucky that French is so popular, because without it, we might have been stuck with Dutch Toast, Dutch Fries, and Dutch kissing (ew!).
To say “hello” in French, say “Bonjour” (bone-JOOR).
9) Malay-Indonesian
Number of speakers: 159 million
Malay-Indonesian is spoken – surprise – in Malaysia and Indonesia. Actually, we kinda fudged the numbers on this one because there are many dialects of Malay, the most popular of which is Indonesian. But they’re all pretty much based on the same root language, which makes it the ninth most-spoken in the world.
Indonesia is a fascinating place; a nation made up of over 13,000 islands it is the sixth most populated country in the world. Malaysia borders on two of the larger parts of Indonesia (including the island of Borneo), and is mostly known for its capital city of Kuala Lumpur.
To say “hello” in Indonesian, say “Selamat pagi” (se-LA-maht PA-gee).
Being Left-Handed Might Help You Survive An Apocalypse!
Being Left-Handed Might Help You Survive The Apocalypse!
The end is nigh, society is collapsing, and civilization is falling apart. People are struggling for whatever things they can find in order to make it through the night. Chances are, you’ve been part of (or at least overheard) a conversation about what you’d require to get you through the apocalypse (like some sort of survival kit). You probably have never heard someone say that they’d like to be left-handed, but yes! that should actually be the first answer they think of. If you’ve seen Rocky, you know how much of an advantage left-handed fighters have, and studies have shown that the more lawless the society, the greater that advantage is.
The population percentage of left-handed people in the world is approximately 10 percent, but in some societies that number is far greater. Among Venezuela’s Yanomami tribe, about 5 in every 1,000 people are murdered yearly—and about23 percent of the population is left-handed. For the Eipo in Indonesia, the murder rate is 3 in 1,000, and they’re about 27 percent left-handed (being 10% an average). And then there are the people of Jimi Valley in Papua New Guinea, who have a murder rate of 5.4 in 1,000 and an above-average instance of left-handed people at 13 percent.
The study, conducted by the Institute of Evolutionary Sciences, University Montpellier, shows a measurable difference between the most violent societies and the most peaceful ones. For instance, the Dioula from West Africa have a murder rate of 0.013 in 1,000 murder and a left-handed rate of only 3 percent. Researchers speculate that the advantage of being left-handed in a violent society isn’t just a matter of survival, it’s a matter of natural selection and allowing one generation to pass its left-handed traits on to the next.
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The end is nigh, society is collapsing, and civilization is falling apart. People are struggling for whatever things they can find in order to make it through the night. Chances are, you’ve been part of (or at least overheard) a conversation about what you’d require to get you through the apocalypse (like some sort of survival kit). You probably have never heard someone say that they’d like to be left-handed, but yes! that should actually be the first answer they think of. If you’ve seen Rocky, you know how much of an advantage left-handed fighters have, and studies have shown that the more lawless the society, the greater that advantage is.
The population percentage of left-handed people in the world is approximately 10 percent, but in some societies that number is far greater. Among Venezuela’s Yanomami tribe, about 5 in every 1,000 people are murdered yearly—and about23 percent of the population is left-handed. For the Eipo in Indonesia, the murder rate is 3 in 1,000, and they’re about 27 percent left-handed (being 10% an average). And then there are the people of Jimi Valley in Papua New Guinea, who have a murder rate of 5.4 in 1,000 and an above-average instance of left-handed people at 13 percent.
The study, conducted by the Institute of Evolutionary Sciences, University Montpellier, shows a measurable difference between the most violent societies and the most peaceful ones. For instance, the Dioula from West Africa have a murder rate of 0.013 in 1,000 murder and a left-handed rate of only 3 percent. Researchers speculate that the advantage of being left-handed in a violent society isn’t just a matter of survival, it’s a matter of natural selection and allowing one generation to pass its left-handed traits on to the next.
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The Roswell Mystery
It all started on the first week of July or according to alternate sources, last week of June, 1947 when a pilot named Kenneth Arnold reported seeing several objects while flying near Mt Rainier, Washington. His descriptions of the objects that flew like "geese" and moving "like a saucer would if you skipped it across the water" became the term "Flying Saucers", and thus the age of the UFO was born.
Many newspapers in the country picked up the story from the wire services, and the publicity gave birth to a rash of Sightings that kept the papers and the public fascinated throughout that summer... and indeed, to this day. One of those Sightings happened on a ranch outside Corona, New Mexico.
Early in July, 1947, after hearing about Arnold's "flying saucers", ranch foreman Mac Brazel told the Sheriff of Chaves County about some strange material he had found on the Foster Ranch, and that he was sure it was the remains of a "flying disk". Sheriff Wilcox passed this information on to the Roswell Army Air Force base and the base intelligence officer, Major Jessie Marcel, was immediately detailed to look into the matter.
Many newspapers in the country picked up the story from the wire services, and the publicity gave birth to a rash of Sightings that kept the papers and the public fascinated throughout that summer... and indeed, to this day. One of those Sightings happened on a ranch outside Corona, New Mexico.
Early in July, 1947, after hearing about Arnold's "flying saucers", ranch foreman Mac Brazel told the Sheriff of Chaves County about some strange material he had found on the Foster Ranch, and that he was sure it was the remains of a "flying disk". Sheriff Wilcox passed this information on to the Roswell Army Air Force base and the base intelligence officer, Major Jessie Marcel, was immediately detailed to look into the matter.
On July 8th, the local newspaper printed a story that the Roswell AAF had released the news of the "capture of a flying saucer". This story was quickly put on the news-wires, and soon newspapers across the country were all running stories about the Captured Saucer.
No copy of the original press release exists today, but the following is generally thought to be the closest to the original:
"The many rumors regarding the flying disk became a reality yesterday when the intelligence office of the 509th Bomb Group of the Eight Air Force, Roswell Army Air Field, was fortunate enough to gain possession of a disc through the co-operation of one of the local ranchers and the Sheriff's Office of Chaves county.
"The flying object landed on a ranch near Roswell sometime last week. Not having phone facilities, the rancher stored the disc until such time as he was able to contact the Sheriff's office, who in turn notified Major Jesse A. Marcel, of the 509th Bomb Group Intelligence office.
"Action was immediately taken and the disc was picked up at the rancher's home. It was inspected at the Roswell Army Air Field and subsequently loaned by Major Marcel to higher headquarters."
(San Francisco Chronicle - July 9, 1947)
What is intriguing about the first accounts is the large number of errors that exist in such a short report.
The debris found didn’t look like a disc, the object didn't land but crashed, and the rancher (Mac Brazel) didn’t store any disc.
Clearly, the author of the press release wasn’t certain what had happened. This is shown even more in the Roswell Daily Record account of the press release. According to Lt. Walter Haut, the man who wrote the press release, he stopped at the office of the Roswell Daily Report to give them the press release, and the differences between the San Francisco Chronicle version and the RDR version probably stem from questions that Haut answered for the local writer who knew Haut. This seems to make sense, as there was usually friction between the town and the air base, and any good commander would try to cooperate with the local paper.
By the end of the day (July 8), the Army Air Force base in Fort Worth had examined the wreckage and identified it not as a flying saucer, but as a high altitude weather balloon carrying a radar target made of aluminum and balsa wood. An AAF news release correcting the misidentification was published by the RDR on July 9, but by then it was too late. The Roswell paper, sheriffs office and the Air Force base were already being deluged with calls from all over the country looking for a story.
The correction did eventually quell most of the speculation, and by the end of the week, the story had, for the most part, disappeared from the news. By the end of the year, the Roswell Incident had slipped into obscurity, destined to be no more than a footnote in the annals of UFO literature- until 1978, when Stanton Friedman, an unemployed scientist and part-time UFO lecturer, was prompted to revisit this obscure event.
On Feb 21, 1978, Stanton Friedman was in Baton Rouge, La after giving a lecture on UFOs and interviewed a man over the phone that said that he had handled the wreckage of a crashed spaceship. Friedman found it difficult to get excited about this story (page 12, Crash at Corona) but did a little checking. This was made harder because Jesse Marcel, the man who made the claim, couldn’t remember either the month or even the year of the event.
It was one year later, Feb 10, 1979, that William Moore found the clippings of the affair referred to by Jesse Marcel, and his and Friedman’s interest suddenly became very active.
Their research started the saga that has made Roswell the most celebrated case ever in the literature of UFOs.
Many books and articles have been published about Roswell, and as anyone who has read more than one of them knows, the tale is confusing. There are many different competing versions, and each succeeding book seems to contradict the others. So if the mainstream literature can't agree, then what REALLY happened?
No copy of the original press release exists today, but the following is generally thought to be the closest to the original:
"The many rumors regarding the flying disk became a reality yesterday when the intelligence office of the 509th Bomb Group of the Eight Air Force, Roswell Army Air Field, was fortunate enough to gain possession of a disc through the co-operation of one of the local ranchers and the Sheriff's Office of Chaves county.
"The flying object landed on a ranch near Roswell sometime last week. Not having phone facilities, the rancher stored the disc until such time as he was able to contact the Sheriff's office, who in turn notified Major Jesse A. Marcel, of the 509th Bomb Group Intelligence office.
"Action was immediately taken and the disc was picked up at the rancher's home. It was inspected at the Roswell Army Air Field and subsequently loaned by Major Marcel to higher headquarters."
(San Francisco Chronicle - July 9, 1947)
What is intriguing about the first accounts is the large number of errors that exist in such a short report.
The debris found didn’t look like a disc, the object didn't land but crashed, and the rancher (Mac Brazel) didn’t store any disc.
Clearly, the author of the press release wasn’t certain what had happened. This is shown even more in the Roswell Daily Record account of the press release. According to Lt. Walter Haut, the man who wrote the press release, he stopped at the office of the Roswell Daily Report to give them the press release, and the differences between the San Francisco Chronicle version and the RDR version probably stem from questions that Haut answered for the local writer who knew Haut. This seems to make sense, as there was usually friction between the town and the air base, and any good commander would try to cooperate with the local paper.
By the end of the day (July 8), the Army Air Force base in Fort Worth had examined the wreckage and identified it not as a flying saucer, but as a high altitude weather balloon carrying a radar target made of aluminum and balsa wood. An AAF news release correcting the misidentification was published by the RDR on July 9, but by then it was too late. The Roswell paper, sheriffs office and the Air Force base were already being deluged with calls from all over the country looking for a story.
The correction did eventually quell most of the speculation, and by the end of the week, the story had, for the most part, disappeared from the news. By the end of the year, the Roswell Incident had slipped into obscurity, destined to be no more than a footnote in the annals of UFO literature- until 1978, when Stanton Friedman, an unemployed scientist and part-time UFO lecturer, was prompted to revisit this obscure event.
On Feb 21, 1978, Stanton Friedman was in Baton Rouge, La after giving a lecture on UFOs and interviewed a man over the phone that said that he had handled the wreckage of a crashed spaceship. Friedman found it difficult to get excited about this story (page 12, Crash at Corona) but did a little checking. This was made harder because Jesse Marcel, the man who made the claim, couldn’t remember either the month or even the year of the event.
It was one year later, Feb 10, 1979, that William Moore found the clippings of the affair referred to by Jesse Marcel, and his and Friedman’s interest suddenly became very active.
Their research started the saga that has made Roswell the most celebrated case ever in the literature of UFOs.
Many books and articles have been published about Roswell, and as anyone who has read more than one of them knows, the tale is confusing. There are many different competing versions, and each succeeding book seems to contradict the others. So if the mainstream literature can't agree, then what REALLY happened?
New Quantum Camera Capable of Clicking Photographs of 'Ghosts'
"Spooky" quantum cameras can capture images from photons that never interacted with the objects pictured.
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By utilizing a phenomenon that Einstein famously called "spooky," scientists have successfully caught "ghosts" on film for the first time using quantum cameras.
25 Facts That are Just Unbelievable
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Russia ( 17 million sq. km.) has a larger surface area than Pluto ( 16.6 million sq. km.)
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It's more likely that you die on the way to buy lottery ticket than actually winning the lottery.
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The fear of long words is called Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia ( How Ironic ! )
10 Mind-Blowing Unsolved Mysteries.
10 )The Wow! Signal
One summer night in 1977, Jerry Ehman, a volunteer for SETI, or the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, may have become the first man ever to receive an intentional message from an alien world. Ehman was scanning radio waves from deep space, hoping to randomly come across a signal that bore the hallmarks of one that might be sent by intelligent aliens, when he saw his measurements spike.
The signal lasted for 72 seconds, the longest period of time it could possibly be measured by the array that Ehman was using. It was loud and appeared to have been transmitted from the constellation Sagittarius near a star called Tau Sagittarii, 120 light-years away.
Ehman wrote the words "Wow!" on the original printout of the signal, thus its title as the "Wow! Signal."
All attempts to locate the signal again have failed, leading to much controversy and mystery about its origins and its meaning.
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| Original Printout of Wow! Signal |
One summer night in 1977, Jerry Ehman, a volunteer for SETI, or the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, may have become the first man ever to receive an intentional message from an alien world. Ehman was scanning radio waves from deep space, hoping to randomly come across a signal that bore the hallmarks of one that might be sent by intelligent aliens, when he saw his measurements spike.
The signal lasted for 72 seconds, the longest period of time it could possibly be measured by the array that Ehman was using. It was loud and appeared to have been transmitted from the constellation Sagittarius near a star called Tau Sagittarii, 120 light-years away.
Ehman wrote the words "Wow!" on the original printout of the signal, thus its title as the "Wow! Signal."
All attempts to locate the signal again have failed, leading to much controversy and mystery about its origins and its meaning.
Awesome Playing Card Structures
Bryan berg, the Guinness book of world record holder with his amazing talent of Cardstacking. His most dramatic card building is 26 feet tall which dwarfs its creator, in which he used 1060 decks of cards. This sculpture of the Dallas skyline set a new world record for the tallest free-standing card-stack in 2007, unbroken till date.
Top 10 Strangest Laws around the World
1.Singapore
In a bid to keep the streets of this super-efficient city clean, the authorities in Singapore decided in 1992 to ban chewing gum completely and permanently.
2.Eraclea, Italy
Many holidaymakers head to the sandy beach at Eraclea to escape the hordes of tourists in nearby Venice. Unfortunately, those who enjoy building sandcastles can think again – it’s forbidden.
In a bid to keep the streets of this super-efficient city clean, the authorities in Singapore decided in 1992 to ban chewing gum completely and permanently.
2.Eraclea, Italy
Many holidaymakers head to the sandy beach at Eraclea to escape the hordes of tourists in nearby Venice. Unfortunately, those who enjoy building sandcastles can think again – it’s forbidden.
Weird Diseases : Terrible Medical Patients' Stories
The living statue syndrome (or Stone man syndrome)
Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva (FOP) is one of the rarest, painful and most disabling genetic conditions in which bones form in muscles, tendons, ligaments and other connective tissues. These bones develop across joints thus restricting movement and forming a second skeleton. The body thus looks like a living statue. Unfortunately, there is no effective treatment for this condition. Injuries and surgeries can further deteriorate the condition. This genetic disease doesn’t have ethnic, racial, or gender patterns and has been found to affect just one in two million people.
Jeannie Peeper became aware of her disorder when she was 8. Her left wrist had locked in a backwards position as a new bone had grown in her arm. Jeannie’s doctors took a muscle biopsy from her left forearm. That caused another bone growth that had frozen the joint. Over the next decade, she grew more bones across her back disfiguring her, her right elbow locking, and her left hip freezing. Once she hit her hip on the corner of the table. It caused another bone growth. This time her right hip froze. Since then she has been in a wheelchair.
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Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva (FOP) is one of the rarest, painful and most disabling genetic conditions in which bones form in muscles, tendons, ligaments and other connective tissues. These bones develop across joints thus restricting movement and forming a second skeleton. The body thus looks like a living statue. Unfortunately, there is no effective treatment for this condition. Injuries and surgeries can further deteriorate the condition. This genetic disease doesn’t have ethnic, racial, or gender patterns and has been found to affect just one in two million people.
Jeannie Peeper became aware of her disorder when she was 8. Her left wrist had locked in a backwards position as a new bone had grown in her arm. Jeannie’s doctors took a muscle biopsy from her left forearm. That caused another bone growth that had frozen the joint. Over the next decade, she grew more bones across her back disfiguring her, her right elbow locking, and her left hip freezing. Once she hit her hip on the corner of the table. It caused another bone growth. This time her right hip froze. Since then she has been in a wheelchair.
Beautiful Birds : Would they Become History ?
According to International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), 1253 birds fall under the "endangered" category. Majority of these birds are endangered due to humans.
Some really beautiful birds, which are sadly endangered to a great extent.
1) Vulture
Estimated Population : 2 - 3 Thousand.
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