by editor at Wednesday, March 17, 2010 in Nature
Tags: atmospheric electrical discharge, lightning storm, lightning strike, lightning strike facts
Lightning Strike
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Would you like to know some interesting facts about lightning? Well, it’s a beautiful sight to see all right, but it’s also rather dangerous and unpredictable, and can be quite impossible to predict. Today scientists all over the world are gathering information on lightning, monitoring the temperature, and even creating it artificially in laboratories. This article will tell you some interesting facts about lightning.
Did you know that each year, our earth experiences almost an average of 25 million lightning strikes? This is during an average of 100,000 thunderstorms! That roughly translates to almost a hundred lightning bolts per second. Makes you quake in your shoes, doesn’t it? You would also be surprised to know that when lightning strikes, thunder can be heard from about 12 miles away from the starting point. The average length of a bolt of lightning is almost a quarter of a second – and there are 3-4 strikes usually.
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by editor at Monday, January 11, 2010 in Wildlife
Tags: animals, weird animals
Weird Animals
Photo by floridapfe
We can not deny the fact that Human Imagination has endless boundaries and is free from any limitation. Modern technology has made it easier for us to express our imaginations in a viewable format, by introducing photo editing software. With the use of Photo Editing Soft wares, we can modify, edit and make changes to a snap of any object. Also, we can not deny that nature has its own ways to show its presence, it can be in any form. There are so many things in this world in living form and non-living form which shows the creativity of the nature and amazes the human mind.
Shown below are 20 weird looking animals which exist in this world of full of surprises. You might think these pictures are a good work of photo editing, but they are 100% real. Some of them you may find cute, amazing or shocking.
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by editor at Tuesday, October 20, 2009 in Bizarre
Tags: strange buildings, top strange buildings
Strange Buildings
There are many strange constructions that the world has experienced and some of the most interesting ones are listed below:
1. The Crooked House at Sopot, Poland:
This house has been build since January 2003 and got completed by the end of the year. This finished architecture got based on Jan Marcin Szancer, the famed Polish drawer with children’s book illustration as a part of the inspiration. The House has been constructed on the illustrations of Swedish painter who is also based at Sopot. It is a much celebrated twisted looking house with pictures and paintings of all kinds being placed there.
Photo by abhijeet.rane
2. Forest Spiral, Hundertwasser Building, Darmstadt, Germany:
This is another house that is strange enough and is rightfully named, “Forest Spiral”. This building was built in Darmstadt between 1998 and 2000. This was made by the famed architect Friedensreich Hundertwasser who is also an Austrian architect as well as painter. He is renowned for his revolutionary as well as rich and colorful designs that created stirs. There are different kinds of organic forms of shape and structure coming through this form that brings about the interesting sides and edges to it. The incorporation of inordinately unshapely patterns brings a living edge to the whole style. There are about 105 apartments, a total and widespread landscape as well as courtyard for the running stream that is within. There is a turret and even a restaurant at some corner of the cocktail bar.
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by editor at Tuesday, October 13, 2009 in Inventions and Discoveries
Tags: accidental inventions, inventions, top accidental inventions
Accidental Inventions
These happen to be the voted top ten inventions that the world has ever received. They have definitely influenced the shape and stature of the world in differing ways. Without these the world would not have had half the fun it has now.
This got discovered by Frank Epperson who was indeed making the soda pop with the mixing of popular drink with soda water powder mixed in water. As he forgot midway and left the soda out on the porch all night, he found out the next morning, the frozen soda pop sitting on a stick.
Photo by LukeDaDuke
This was the accidental invention of the first icicle as reported. 18 years later he started selling them with patented name to it. This was then known as the Eppsicle.
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by editor at Thursday, October 08, 2009 in Mobile Phones
Tags: top touch screen phones, touch screen phones
Touch Screen Phones
Some of the most important touchscreen phones coming to the market are available according to the buyers’ type. They have some of the greatest choices around with even some long extended freshly introduced mechanics that were once done away with. The clicking sensation of these often comes to our fingers with some of the greatest touchscreen land sensations that work with us.
Some of the favors of finger stroking revolutions have finally arrived with touchscreen devices piling up through our mobile phones as well as positive cascading off the shelves from older phone sensations. Some of the tricks and mechanics of older phones have got to be coming back with touchscreen phones in order to make for some interesting changes.
Choosing one among the wide range of choices can be tricky but then it is interesting to note as well. Some of the present fancier styles can be quite interesting but then being old fashioned is also quite the norm. Some of the fancier styles bring about additional QWERTY keyboard specifications as well as enough satisfaction for navigational keys. The perfect solutions of different types of navigation come right ahead in the clear with some of the dominant features coming across today’s mobile phones.
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by editor at Wednesday, October 07, 2009 in Desserts,Nature
Tags: best deserts, top deserts
Top 10 Deserts
The usual words that one naturally associates with the term – deserts are; sand, heat, dry, utter chaos! Anyway you do not always have to feel dread every time you think of vast stretches of desert land as we have summed up around ten of the best deserts in the world. Here you can take a look at all eth reasons why some of these beautiful, amazing and sometimes downright lovely deserts should not give you the sinking feeling inside. Take a look at what makes these deserts some of the best in the world.
This desert, located in Bolivia would change your conception of the idea of deserts completely. It happens to be the largest salt desert in the world but the beauty of the place is exceptional. The desert is completely flat and the so large and crystal in its salty nature that the whole sky seems to be reflected in it creating the ground in different shades of blue.
Photo by Auré from Paris
Another beautiful aspect of the desert is the numerous lakes that you will find here; these lakes are in multiple colors because of the minerals that make it up. The effect of these soothing colors is remarkable.
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by editor at Monday, October 05, 2009 in Sports
Tags: top weird sports, weird sports
Weird Sports
There are many weird sports that are present from around the world. From each region of the world, along with the very popular common sports there are also those really popular but very weird kinds of sports. They come in forms of entertainment as well as form professional leagues depending of the kind of extension they have in terms of mass popularity, even if they be confined within a particular region.
Photo by andy is andy
Some areas of the world in fact do not celebrate some of the really popular sports but are pretty glorious with some rather strange ones. For instance North Americans don’t even know about cricket while people of South America have no clue of what hockey is and so on.
There are some rather unusual sports which are rather fun to play and do not conform to any of the rules or conformities of some of the major sports of the world and yet they are taken very seriously by those who practice them.
Some of the sports that deject all forms of boundaries in terms of games and playing are as follows:
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by editor at Friday, September 18, 2009 in Mountains and Peaks
Tags: nanga parbat
This is the 9th highest peak in the world. The literal meaning of this peak is “naked mountain”. The etymological root of this mountain is in Sanskrit. It is derived from the words: “nanga’” meaning naked or bare and “parvat” meaning mountain. Due to its bare rugged structure it is being named so. It is also known as the Killer Mountain. It has been one of the deadliest mountains to climb so far and thus the name. It is not only very high and rugged but also intense and dangerous with its differing peak surroundings. The overall terrain is quite rugged.
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The western anchor to the Himalayas, this mountain is one of the highest peaks being one of the eight thousanders coming from the Himalayas. The Indus River lies in the right south of this range. It is located in the Astore District. The North of Pakistan in Kashmir is area being taken over by the mountain peak. Right at the north of it is the Karakoram ranges.
The straight shooting high vertical limit of the range is one of the main features of this range. The local terrains dissipate in non-uniform directions in different ways. The south of the Nanga Parbat is the one of the highest mountain faces of the world as relief. This Rupal Face rises about 4,600m above the base feet. The north of the complex is quite gently sloping. The Rakhiot Flank rises well above 7,000m right from the Indus River slope. It is just 27km away from the general elevation of ten greatly elevating points of the Earth. The entire structure surrounding this mountain is quite complex and have several unpredictable elevations.
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by admin at Friday, September 18, 2009 in Mountains and Peaks
Tags: Jheel Saiful Muluk, Lake Saiful Muluk, Pakistan, Saiful Muluk
This is a lake being located at the end of northern valley that is also known as the Kaghan Valley. It is located near Naran which lies at the east of Manshera District. The east district of Manshera is the North-East Froniter Province of Pakistan as well. This lies at an altitude of 3,224m above sea level. This happens to be one of the highest lakes in Pakistan.
The lake is right over 14 km from the road from Naran. This location can be reached while starting from Manshera, and then crossing via Balakot and Kaghan. Trekking through a foot from Naran there are clear lakes that take about 4-6 hours to cross. The summer months stay really great in weather with the water being quite clear. The sunlight actually brightens up the whole atmosphere in summer with the clarity of water being the highest.
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