I recently had very awkward experience and without knowing my face turned red and feels very sweaty... why laughing out my stupidity. friends telling me OMG your blushing your blushing... Even I try my very best to hide my shyness I cant because my face is showing that I'm in the spot, being embarrassed or being in my uncontrollable awkward moment. I really hate this kind of emotion or what ever it is. emotions. feelings, reaction or what. so what is BLUSHING and why? do we blush???
Blushing occurs when you are in a state of excitement, anger or embarrassment. Children and young people are more prone to blushing and some people easily and frequently blush when they are confronted by stressful situations. Unfortunately, the fear of blushing (erythrophobia) causes even more embarrassment and blushing. Blushing is not under your voluntary control as it is caused by the autonomic nervous system that controls the muscles of the blood vessels of your face. In an embarrassing situation your body releases adrenaline as part of the fight or flight response. This hormone triggers the blood vessels to dilate, and the increased blood flow in your cheeks makes your face red. Besides our emotional state, high temperatures, alcohol and certain illnesses and medications can also cause us to have flushed faces This empathy and social intelligence appears to develop in humans at an early age, around the time we enter school and we begin to engage in social situations with others . By studying the development of this social intelligence, psychologists have found that blushing from embarrassment develops alongside our consciousness of others. This lends further support to the notion that blushing has a purely social basis. If the philosopher Thomas Hobbes was correct in his description of early societies as being "nasty, brutish and short" [source: Hobbes], then blushing may have developed as a means for displaying genuine regret over an insult to someone else. Since we humans are animals, too, a glance at our neighbors on the Tree of Life shows us that insults can lead to violence. As a result, animals have developed ways of displaying apologetic signs to show others they're sorry for what they've done. Think about your dog rolling over after being caught digging in the yard. Exposing his or her belly to you shows you the dog is not challenging your anger at the situation -- it's a demonstration of contrition. For most people, it's pretty difficult to continue to feel anger toward the dog once he or she has rolled over. So blushing could be a way humans show their own contrition for bad social form.
Explore the world from the palm of your hand with Google Earth.
Fly around the planet with a swipe of your finger with Google Earth for Android. Explore distant lands or reacquaint yourself with your childhood home. Search by voice for cities, places, and businesses. Browse layers including roads, borders, places, photos and more. Visit the Earth Gallery to find exciting maps such as real-time earthquakes, planes in flight, hiking trails, city tours, and more.
Just downloaded GOOGLE earth... and it really amaze me using this tool navigating and exploring places. and take note I also explore the universe ahahah..... I searched Milky way and black hole out of curiosity. this is such an amazing tool I searched a lot of strange new discoveries using this Google earth and even search my place and saw the roof of my house hahahah... this really amaze me. and scares me as the same time how technology can gives instant image of current earth status. amazing!
here's some images I found through browsing the net about Google earth:
1. Heart shape island.
Not surprisingly this heart-shaped island discovered on Google Earth became a huge hit on Valentine’s Day. It’s located in the Adriatic off the Croatian coast and is currently uninhabited. It’s 130,000 square yards in size and has been named Galesnjak. The owner of the island was not even aware of its shape until he was inundated with requests from romantic couples who wanted to rent the island!
2. Mysterious lines in ocean floor
After this Google Earth find people began wondering if it was the lost city of Atlantis. Excited explorers certainly thought so (or hoped so). The grid was found off the coast of Africa and the markings are believed to be streets. The area is said to be the size of Wales. Google Earth engineers quashed the hype by announcing that the grid was actually a digital artifact created by the sonar boats collecting mapping data, but some people still believe otherwise…
3. Spotted new structures
has spotted new structures in China's Gobi Desert. The Telegraph reports that the area is close to the headquarters of China's space program, Jiuquan, Gansu. It is also not so far from an old nuclear test site that China used to use.
There are a number of areas -- rectangle shaped, circular shaped, and airport runway shaped.
Whether the areas are used for space exploration or army testing is unclear, but Tim Ripley, a defense expert, told the Telegraph that the circular structures look much like the missile test ranges found in the U.S. around Area 51.
Read more: http://articles.businessinsider.com/2011-11-14/news/30396566_1_google-earth-airport-runway-structures#ixzz26XIHV9Rk
Even though you won’t find it on a map, the Bermuda Triangle is a very real place. In the past there have been many stories of disappearing ships, planes and people. Although there is a reasonable explanation for many incidents, some are still a mystery.
The Bermuda Triangle is located off the coast of Floridabetween Miami, Puerto Rico and the Bermudas. It covers about 500 000 square miles of the Atlantic Ocean. It is also known as the Devil’s Triangle because Bermuda was once called Islands of the Devils. The coasts around the island are surrounded by dangerous reefs that ships ran into throughout thecenturies.
Unusual events around the Bermuda Triangle go back to the voyages of Christopher Columbus. He sometimes reported that compass readings were wrong. Many journalists have tried to prove that a numberaccidents and unusual things have happened in the region. Some cases show that there are noexplanations for them.
One of the best-known incidents is the disappearance of Flight 19 during a training exercise of the US Navy. In December, 1945 five American bombers left Fort Lauderdale, Florida on a routine mission. 14 crewmembers disappeared after sending several radio messages. When a rescue plane went to search for the Navy bombers it also vanished.
What went wrong during the mission is not fully known. Compasses showed wrong directions and visibilitywas bad so the flight leader decided to navigate by landmarks which he saw below. Then there was asudden storm and radio contact broke off. Wrecked parts of Flight 19 have never been recovered.
Ships have also disappeared in the Bermuda Triangle. Among them is the Mary Celeste, an American merchant ship, in 1872. The ship was sailing from New York to Genoa, but was later found off the coast of Africa without any crew members on board. Although there is no evidence that the Mary Celeste even entered the Bermuda Triangle there are many whoconnect its mysterious disappearance with the area.
There are many theories about why so many airplanes and ships have disappeared in the Bermuda Triangle. Somesuggest that there are special magnetic fields that cause unknown physical forces. Others say that the lost continent of Atlantis sank in the region causing mysterious events. There is even a theory about unknown chemicals in the waters of the Atlantic.
Some experts, however, point out that the region north of the Caribbean is not as safe as it may seem. It is one of two places on Earth where the compass points to the geographic North Pole. It is also a region in which the weather is unpredictable and where storms can emerge quickly. There are strong currentsbecause of shallow places and deep trenches in the ocean. These factors can confuse even experiencedsailors.
Over 1,000 people were killed in The Bermuda Triangle during the 20th century. Scientists have concluded that this figure is normal and most disappearances have a logical explanation. The myth of the Bermuda Triangle, however, remains.
What is a Black Hole A black hole is formed when a star of sufficient mass (at least 3 time the size of our sun) undergoes gravitational collapse, with most or all of its mass compressed into a sufficiently small area of space, causing infinite spacetime curvature at that point (a "singularity"). Such a massive spacetime curvature allows nothing, not even light, to escape from the "event horizon," or border. Stars are powered by nuclear fuel; most stars use hydrogen. The larger a star is, the faster it will use up its fuel, and thus, the sooner it "dies". If the stars are large enough, however, then the gravitational pull will crush the star to 'zero volume', or in the Schwarzschild radius. This forms a black hole The closest known black hole to Earth is Cygnus X-1, which is located about 8000 light years away. What would happen to our Solar System if the Sun were to suddenly become a black hole? Not much! Other than getting very dark and very cold, nothing else would change. The planets would not be sucked into the black hole. Their orbits would not change since the mass of the Sun has not changed. Only the space the Sun occupies has changed. The gravity of a black hole is very powerful only when you are very close to it. Why are black holes black?
In order for a rocket to leave the surface of Earth, it must travel faster than 25,000 miles per hour (7 miles per second). This is called escape velocity. If the rocket has a speed less than the escape velocity of an object, the object's gravity will pull it back down. The escape velocity of a black hole is greater then 186,000 miles per second. That means a rocket would have to travel faster than 186,000 miles per second in order to leave the black hole. The speed of light is 186,000 miles per second, so light doesn't travel fast enough to leave the black hole, hence it is black. If you get close enough to a black hole you will see the back of your own head! This effect is called an Einstein ring, this is caused by the intense gravity around a black hole. When you are near a black hole at certain distances the light that leaves from the back of your head will travel though space that is bent so much by gravity that it will enter your eyes.
What would happen to an astronaut if he tripped and fell into a black hole?
The astronaut would be stretched like a piece of spaghetti! The closer he got to the black hole, the stronger the force of gravity would be. In fact, the pull of gravity increases so fast, that the gravity tugs on his feet more than on his shoulders. With his feet being pulled into the black hole faster than his shoulders, he would be stretched out farther and farther, like a piece of spaghetti.
can you tell how strong snail is? can you imagine this little slimy crawling in our garden is stronger than we can imagine?
The muscular strength of s
nails is surprisingly great. An experiment on a Helix aspersa weighing 1/4 oz showed it could drag vertically a weight of 2 1/2 oz., or ten time its own weight. Another snail weighing 1/3 oz. was able to drag in a horizontal direction along a smooth table twelve reels of cotton, a pair of scissors, a screwdriver, a key, and a knife, weighing in all no less than 17 oz. or more than fifty times its own weight.
• Physical expression will be limited and stiff, with few arm and hand movements. Hand, arm and leg movement are toward their own body the liar takes up less space.
• A person who is lying to you will avoid making eye contact.
• Hands touching their face, throat & mouth. Touching or scratching the nose or behind their ear.Not likely to touch his chest/heart with an open hand.
Emotional Gestures & Contradictions
• Timing and duration of emotional gestures and emotions are off a normal pace. The display of emotion is delayed, stays longer it would naturally, then stops suddenly.
• Timing is off between emotions gestures/expressions and words. Example: Someone says "I love it!" when receiving a gift, and then smile after making that statement, rather then at the same time the statement is made.
• Gestures/expressions don’t match the verbal statement, such as frowning when saying “I love you.”
• Expressions are limited to mouth movements when someone is faking emotions (like happy, surprised, sad, awe, )instead of the whole face. For example; when someone smiles naturally their whole face is involved: jaw/cheek movement, eyes and forehead push down, etc.
Interactions and Reactions
• A guilty person gets defensive. An innocent person will often go on the offensive.
• A liar is uncomfortable facing his questioner/accuser and may turn his head or body away.
• A liar might unconsciously place objects (book, coffee cup, etc.) between themselves and you.
Verbal content
• A liar will use your words to make answer a question. When asked, “Did you eat the last cookie?” The liar answers, “No, I did not eat the last cookie.”
•A statement with a contraction is more likely to be truthful: “ I didn't do it” instead of “I did not do it”
• Liars sometimes avoid "lying" by not making direct statements. They imply answers instead of denying something directly.
• The guilty person may speak more than natural, adding unnecessary details to convince you... they are not comfortable with silence or pauses in the conversation.
• A liar may leave out pronouns and speak in a monotonous tone. When a truthful statement is made the pronoun is emphasized as much or more than the rest of the words in a statement.
• Words may be garbled and spoken softly, and syntax and grammar may be off. In other
words, his sentences will likely be muddled rather than emphasized.
If you believe someone is lying, then change subject of a conversation quickly, a liar follows along willingly and becomes more relaxed. The guilty wants the subject changed; an innocent person may be confused by the sudden change in topics and will want to back to the previous subject.
• Using humor or sarcasm to avoid a subject.
Final notes:
Obviously, just because someone exhibits one or more of these signs does not make them a liar. The above behaviors should be compared to a persons base (normal) behavior whenever possible.
Most lie detecting experts agree that a combination of body language and other cues must be used to make an educated guess on whether someone is telling the truth or a lie.
sometimes ignorance is bliss. After gaining this knowledge, you may be hurt when it is obvious that someone is lying to you. The following deception detection techniques are used by police, forensic psychologists, security experts and other investigators.
sometimes "what doesn't kill you will only makes you stronger" actually most of the time.
be a guard of your own self. don't let people manipulate you with their lies and always seek god and ask for wisdom to know what is wrong and give you the courage to do what is right.
just found out today. that the hottest planet is not the one that is closest to the sun. It's Venus,
Venus is the second closest planet to the Sun. Telescopes reveal little about the planet due to global cloud cover. Venus' mass and volume are quite similar to Earth's (Venus' mass is 81.5% of Earth's and its volume is 86% of Earth's). Its almost circular orbital period is 224.7 Earth days. A 0.76 albedo makes Venus the brightest planet, earning it the nickname 'the Morning Star'. (The 19th Century astronomer Franz Von Paula Gruithuisen believed that inhabitants on the planet were responsible for lighting objects in celebration of the accession of a new emperor.) Until the early 1960s, Venus was believed to possibly be oceanic even though the temperature was enough to make it a vast desert. Finally, in 1962, the Mariner 2 spacecraft passed by Venus and sent back data putting an end to this hopeful theory.
The atmosphere consists almost entirely (96%) of carbon dioxide (CO2), a greenhouse gas responsible for the incredibly hot, greater than 400ºC conditions on Venus, surpassing the melting point of lead. The rest of the atmosphere is comprised of 3% nitrogen, 0.003% water vapor, and small quantities of other gases. The atmosphere rises to about 400km above the surface of the planet. The clouds situated around 30 km above the surface are rich in sulfuric acid; during precipitation the acid rain evaporates before hitting the ground. In 1970, the Soviet Union landed the first spacecraft on the planet's surface, Venera 7, which sent back information for 23 minutes before losing contact with ground control (most likely due to the temperature). On October 21, 1975, Venera 9 landed and sent back the first image of the rocky Venusian surface (thereby confirming the high temperatures), returned atmospheric data, and found the rotation period to be 243.2 days, longer than one Venusian year. A Venusian day lasts 118 Earth days, and the Sun rises in the west and sets in the east since Venus rotates in the opposite direction to Earth. I wonder if us humans, can live on Venus. if its they say that Venus is the twin planet of the Earth. can we live on Venus if planet earth became too polluted and not livable anymore? answer? The planet Venus has many of the elements found on Earth, but conditions there are not hospitable to human life. It is too hot (average 464 °C or 867°F) and the carbon dioxide atmosphere has a crushing pressure nearly 100 times that at sea level on Earth (92 bar). Under these conditions, there is also no liquid water on the planet's surface, and the only "rain" (high up in the atmosphere) consists of sulfuric acid!
Floating Cities Several novel proposals have suggested establishing aerial colonies 50 kilometers above the surface, where the temperature and pressure are closer to Earth's.
awwwts... I love beach but I don't like to be in hot places... so i dont think I will like it there.
First let me clarify that everything about Hitler was freaky, not just these listed facts below. I don’t want anyone thinking I’m saying he was otherwise normal. But these particular facts are far less known in terms of common knowledge, and that’s why I’m sharing them with you today. It became an obsession for me at one point. One which finally ebbed a bit, thank God. In the process I learned a number of bizarre things about Adolf Hitler.
1. Hitler had only one ball.
Hitler had only one testicle.This one is interesting, considering most would say Hitler had fairly large gonads. Guess it was all just a show to make up for what he was actually missing. I had a difficult time figuring out how he only came to have 1 and it seems he may have been injured during WWI and had to have it removed. Seems they amputated his conscience along with it.
2. Hitler dated his niece.
Hitler dated, and got down with, his niece. Yes, it’s true. Geli was the daughter of Hitler’s half-sister. She was 23 at the time she committed suicide. Oh, wait. That might have been murder. But since the evidence pointed to Hitler, well, no charges were brought .Hitler’s first love was a girl he thought to be Jewish. This could explain it all, couldn’t it? When Hitler was 16 years old he fell for a girl named Stefanie Isak. He was obsessed. As you can imagine, it didn’t work out. Adolph used to fantasize about throwing himself off a bridge in despair – and killing her too. How romantic.
3. Hitler was one kinky Fuhrer
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Hitler was one kinky Fuhrer. It is highly suspected that Hitler had unusual desires in the bedroom. Specifically, being tinkled on. While this may sound like a joke, it’s been cited as probable by well-regarded historians. Believe it or not!
4. Hitler invented blow up doll.
Hitler invented the concept of the plastic girl. Don’t hold your breath. You’re not going to guess this one. In order to avoid the situation of his soldiers, who have the same needs as anybody else, sleeping with one another (in which case they would have to be executed) or sleeping with the locals of regions they visited (and potentially procreating with Jews and being executed for that), Hitler came up with yet another brilliant idea: the blow-up doll. .Hitler approved the creation of sex dolls are blond and blue eyed. The size is small and does not take a lot of places in the backpacks of the soldiers.
5. High school drop-out.
He was a high school dropout. Not only that, but he repeated his sixth year and was rejected twice from art school. This takes the phrase “Hitler’s stupid” to a very different place. While absolutely agreeing that the man’s coming into power and entire regime is stupid (in that ridiculous, horribly absurd way), there was a genius to his craft of speech to make people believe not only the insane things he claimed, but also that they could be achieved. That craft? As an orator. The root of dictator is shared with dictate: a speaking role, a performing role.
6. Hitler doesn't know how to draw a image of face.
While having artistic ambitions, there are a lot of burgeoning movements that he simply couldn’t stand: cabaret, expressionism, and jazz music, for example. This contradiction can be accounted for by the ideological background of the artists that worked in each of the fields. Cabaret, for instance, was actively in political opposition to nazism and supported the free love of homosexuals, ineffectual citizens, and debauchery in general. Expressionism, like jazz, is not inherently political although the practitioners were in large part Jewish. Unlike jazz, the link to the artistic style and Jewish tradition is not apparent in expressionism (which doesn’t mean that Hitler’s hatred isn’t as well).
7. Hitler in time magazine.
In 1938, Times Magazine announced Hitler the Man of the Year — although political correctness has corrected this to Person of the Year. Joseph Stalin got it the following year, and then again in 1942 (aside from Winston Churchill and George W. Bush, the only person to win twice). Sure enough, Time has made some silly choices for the award, such as Middle Americans, Baby Boomers, the computer, and — my personal favorite — You, but Hitler! This comes well after the publication of Mein Kampf and its translation into English. Oh well, this can serve as a warning. To be the Person of the Year, you must have power, political or otherwise. Hitler is a good example of what evils power can spawn.
8. Lazy bastard.
Adolf Hitler was a lazy bastard. He slept late, often until two o'clock in the afternoon. After he dragged himself out of bed, he'd read the papers then go for a stroll. In the evening, he'd watch movies which Goebbels had selected for him.
9. Hitler never took of his jacket.
For an orator, personal appearance is very important. As a result, Hitler never took of his jacket in public (presumably afraid of sweat marks), always wore pre-tied neckties (heaven forbid it should be out of place!), only wore full-length underwear (not so easily explained), etc. And since we’re here, we might as well take a bash at his mustache: no one could convince him that it didn’t work with the get-up. One day, he deluded himself, it will catch on because everyone will want to be like the Führer. I personally think it suits Chaplin much better.
10. Real don juan type.
There were a number of ladies — one of his nieces included — that didn’t much mind the little mustache. These women all shared one other passion, aside from his mo: suicide, or at the very least a romancing of death. His first girlfriend committed suicide; his last attempted it twice before finally fulfilling the dream in 1945 with her lover in her arms. In between, the stories are no different. The man really had an effect on women! A real Don Juan type.
11. Hitler scared of blades.
If it is true that he liked to be dominated, then this next Hitler quirk is a very curious counterpart: he was afraid of blades in other peoples hands to the point of feeling terrified during haircuts. This must stem from paranoia that many people wanted to take his life (which they did). For the same reason, he always shaved himself, just in case. It’s really another exhibition of his weakness — apparent by simply looking at his frame — but it really is a wonderful to imagine Hitler screaming on the barber’s chair as if he were at the dentist.
12. Love being kicked
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What these women got from him sexually is another question. Perhaps it would be better to say “what he got from them.” Psychological assessments of Hitler, undertaken in his lifetime, concluded that he probably adored being urinated and defecated on. In fact, any sexual report regarding the man, be it psychological or a recount, suggests that he was rather strange in the sack. For example, he supposedly begged to be kicked repeatedly by one woman and is said to have had his guards videotape the torture of Jewish people for his own home-viewing pleasure.
Why elephant afraid of mice? I really wanted to know if this is just a myth or a fact is dumbo really afraid of little micey...???
One funny reason that many people felt this myth might be true is because they thought an elephant might fear a mouse creeping into its trunk while asleep - stopping it from breathing. However this logic has a fatal flaw. Apart from the fact that no mouse in his right mind would choose such a crazy place for a snooze, any sleeping elephant would easily smell such a suicidal rodent.
And the force that an elephant has for blowing obstructions from their trunks is plenty adequate to shoot a mouse out like a ball from a cannon.
The rumour that elephants are scared of mice is very persistent and there are whole collections of jokes circulating on this topic. However, these jokes are just as incorrect as all the stories about women who scream and jump on the nearest chair at the sight of a mouse.
Why aren't the elephants scared?
Basically, elephants flee from danger and are afraid of whatever they don't know. Zoo and circus elephants, however, know practically everything about their environment, and they certainly know mice. Whenever large quantities of hay and straw are delivered to a stable, there are often a few mice hidden in the bales.
In their search for food, mice quickly discover the elephants' many leftovers. Furthermore, a stable is an ideal home for a mouse. It has everything it needs: food, nesting material, warmth and quiet hiding places.
Why do the elephant keepers hunt the mice?
Since mice can carry diseases, the elephant keepers work hard to keep down their numbers. There is no such thing, however, as a mouse-free stable.
Elephant and mouse
Are mice afraid of elephants?
A few years ago, a sleep researcher at Zurich University studying elephants filmed them at night for several weeks. The evidence clearly shows that some daredevil mice were not afraid to climb over sleeping elephants in order to steal their leftovers. Yet the elephants' sleep, it was observed, was not disturbed by the little creatures.
Another wrong assumption is that elephants are afraid that while they are asleep, a mouse might crawl up their trunk and suffocate them. Even if this were likely to happen, it would most certainly trigger an enormous sneezing fit which would prove disastrous for the mouse in question.
How do elephants catch the mice?
Neither is it healthy for mice to get too close to elephants when they are awake. The elephants will lash out and kick at them and overly cheeky mice will usually not be able to evade the blow, for elephants are agile animals, capable of moving with unexpected speed. What is more, an elephant's foot measures several mice in size. The effect of an elephant using its foot against a mouse is thus very much like that of a human using a rolled-up newspaper to swat a fly.
ok so much of information about this elephant afraid of mice.
but after I watched this video from myth busters. I don't know what to believed in anymore.
Anyone who's ever tried to bathe a cat knows that these pets generally aren't fans of water. Even a few drops flicked their way will send cats scurrying in the other direction. There are exceptions to that rule, however. An extraordinary cat named Hawkeye has his own custom-made scuba diving gear that his owner designed and had made for a pretty penny. And it doesn't take coercing to get Hawkeye in the water; he'll hop into his owner's swimming pool of his own accord. Read more about Hawkeye's underwater adventures in How could a cat scuba dive?
But what would it take to coerce a 445-pound (201-kilogram) tiger to get wet?
Like Hawkeye, Odin doesn't mind the water either, although he has some added incentive for getting wet. His trainer tosses meat into the pool, which the white tiger eagerly dives in after by holding his breath to retrieve the tasty morsel. But it wasn't the trainer that initially gave Odin his water wings. Instead, Odin picked up the behavior from another tiger at the animal park.
Odin's swimming wouldn't come as a surprise to any knowledgeable tiger expert. Of all the big cat species, tigers in particular are known for their swimming capabilities. When most tigers swim, they don't spend much time fully submerged like the white Bengal, but taking a dip wouldn't be out of the ordinary since swimming serves a few key purposes.
A woman from Spain's soggy region of Galicia, Angeles Duran, said Friday she had registered the star at a local notary public as being her property.
"There was no snag, I backed my claim legally, I am not stupid, I know the law. I did it but anyone else could have done it, it simply occurred to me first." That is a quote directly from her.
She want's to also tax everyone on the planet for use of the Sun, with 50% going to Spain's government, 20% to Spain's pension plan, 10% to research, 10% to end world hunger and the remaining 10% for herself...
She plans on giving most of the money to Spain? When EVERYONE uses the Sun? What's wrong with this picture? Personally I think she is both crazy and stupid, though she argues against that. I know that there is a law saying no country can own the moon, but apparently the Sun is fair game? I don't think so, honey!
A) The Sun supports all of us, not just Spain, so get over yourself.
B) Owning the Sun is just as ridiculous as the guy that claimed the moon and the rest of the planets.
and C) What the F-word are you thinking?!How selfish can you be to use most of the so-called taxes on this ridiculous venture to forward only your own country? When all of us use it?
Please...Angeles Duran, never breed. It's for everyone's good.
In what she’s admitted to be nothing short of an oddball scheme to save the flailing failing Spanish economy (hey, at least they’re not quite Portugal, Greece, or Ireland), 49-year-old Angeles Duran has quite officially claimed she legally owns the Sun after being issued a document proclaiming her the sole owner by a Spanish notary. Now she plans to rescue her country’s economy by taxing “everyone on the planet” for basking in her UV-rays. (Let’s just thank she beat the US government to it, they could probably pull it off and would hardly be above it.)
According to Helium online, the document “described ‘Sol’ (the sun’s proper name) as ‘a star of spectral type G2, located in the center of the solar system, located at an average distance from Earth of about 149,600,000 kilometers.’
Duran, who maintains she ‘backed [her] claim legally,’ is ‘not stupid,’ and knows the law, stated: “I did it but anyone else could have done it, it simply occurred to me first.” This because, she says, international law concerning ownership of celestial bodies applies only to states and makes no reference to individuals.
Which points out the problem in her loophole: that she was issued her papers by the Spanish state assumes that Spain, or any nation for that matter, ever had the power to grant ownership over of such a celestial body (and implicitly had the ability to control it)…
Not just an abstract problem, such a situation calls into question the relative absurdity that is owning any sort property – what is it about a piece of paper scribbled on by the right hand that enacts the quasi-magical binding contractual power of ownership over property, be it earthly, heavenly, or even of another man with the same emotions and mental faculties?
Duran, ever the hard-taxing land grabber, is hardly looking for an answer, stating: “If there is an idea for how to generate income and improve the economy and people’s well being, why not do it?” A surprisingly worthy question, but couldn't such an argument be made for such things as extreme as slavery (after all, far easier than the Earth or sun to control are certainly the thoughts and actions of another man)– especially considering she means ‘one people’s well being’ at the very literal expense of many other’s?
Mount Everest has claimed the lives of over 216 known mountain climbers in recorded history. The area above 26,000 feet is called “the Death Zone”, where breathing fresh oxygen from canisters is necessary for all but the most experienced climbers. The atmospheric pressure is about a third of that at sea level, so there is about one third the amount of oxygen to breathe. The air is so thin, recovery of bodies is impossible. As such, many victims lay where they took their last breath.
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“PLEASE don’t leave me,” the dying woman cried. Two climbers heard the screams of Francys Arsentiev, an American woman who had fallen after succumbing to snow blindness and found herself separated from her husband. They were in the “death zone,” low on oxygen, and the woman was on the side of a steep cliff; carrying her was not an option. The trip just to get down to her would be a risk for their own lives. The two climbers, Ian Woodall and Cathy O’Dowd, climbed down to her and did what they could to keep her company, but it was too late. They administered oxygen and tried to tend to Fran, but there was nothing they could do. Ian and Cathy returned down to base camp to ask for help and report their findings.
Eight years later the two climbers would return (above), and in an attempt to give Francys a proper burial, they would place an American flag on her along with a note from her family. At the time of her death, no one knew what had happened to her husband Sergei; all that was found was his pick axe and rope nearby. On the date of her death, other climbers had last seen Sergei far ahead of Francys on the descent after the two had accidentally become separated. Sergei later had backtracked up toward the summit, despite knowing he did not have enough Oxygen to last. His own exposure levels to the climate on Mount Everest were nearing the maximum recommendation, and he was already beginning to suffer from frostbite. Still, Sergei would not leave his wife behind.
It was later discovered that Sergei had made his way back and located Francys, and descended toward the cliff she lay on as she screamed for help. Sadly, he fell to his death trying to reach his dying wife.
(below left: Francys memorial. Below center & right: Francys Arsentiev before her death)
Possibly the most famous body on Everest is that of “Green Boots,” an Indian climber named Tsewang Paljor. Paljor was a Constable with the Indo-Tibetan Border Police who took his last breath on the 10th of May during the famous 1996 Mount Everest Disaster. Paljor was part of a three-man group that was attempting to be the first Indian team to ascend Mt. Everest from the Northeastern route. The weather that season was worse than other years and 1996 proved to be one of the deadliest seasons for Mount Everest climbers. When the storm rolled in, visibility went to zero and the temperature dropped considerably. Separated from the climbers in his group and suffering from the cold, Paljor found a small cave and huddled inside for protection from the elements. Little did he know that would be his resting place for the next 15 years. (below)
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One of the more storied climbers that met his fate on Everest was George Mallory, a famous English Mountaineer. In 1924, Mallory fell to his death during a storm while attempting to be the first to reach the summit of Everest. His body was discovered in 1999 during the Mallory and Irvine Research Expedition. Decades earlier, Chinese climbers had reported seeing a “European body” laying face down on a shelf off the main trail. Given the description and the date of the find, experts had always assumed it was the body of Andrew Irvine. Irvine was another famous English Mountaineer who had attempted the ascent of Everest with Mallory and perished in the same storm.
During a 1933 Everest expedition, climbers found Andrew Irvine’s axe and rope. Because of this, it was widely believe to be Irvine’s body discovered by the Chinese. When the body was found during the 1999 search expedition, it was discovered to be that of George Mallory, not Irvine. Mallory was found face down in a bunch of shale with his arms spread out and up. His skin was in remarkably good condition but was tanned from 75 years of sun exposure. After examining the body, experts hypothesized that Mallory’s rope had failed as he was found with a short severed rope tied around his waist. He was also found with a golf ball-sized hole in his forehead, indicating he might have suffered blunt force trauma from striking a sharp rock. Andrew Irvine has never been found.
Video of the Mallory Body Find on Everest:
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The morbidity of seeing hundreds of bodies along one’s ascent up Mount Everest is only trumped by the fascination of the levels of preservation of many of the bodies. The temperatures are ideal for long-term preservation, and perhaps some of these corpses will serve as studies for generations thousands of years from now.
Or maybe not?
The Nepalese consider Mount Everest sacred, and do not want it to become a graveyard. Many parents of those who have perished have asked for the bodies to be left as they were when they died, but this is against Nepalese law. As soon as a body can be reached for retrieval, it is and then is brought down for identification and burial. Those too high for retrieval will have stone tombs (called cairns) constructed around the corpses to shield them from the elements and the view of other climbers. A few corpses located on shallow ledges were rolled off to be buried in the snow below, away from the trail.
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A more recent story is that of David Sharp. David was an English mountaineer who, in 2005, ascended Everest in a group but attempted the final climb by himself. At one point he stopped in a small cave and eventually froze to the point he could not move. As he lay near death below the summit, he was passed by over 40 other climbers both on their way up and their way down. Sharp had stopped to rest and protect himself from the elements in the same cave Green Boots had used. Since David was not moving, the 40 climbers that passed by had either not seen him or assumed he was Green Boots. A group of sherpas in a later expedition on the way up to the summit noticed Sharp just off the trail, alive and moaning. When the sherpas reached David, he was not coherent, and badly frostbitten, but he was able to say his name and which party he was with. After giving him some oxygen, the sherpas attempted to help him climb down – but he could not stand under his own power. Realizing Sharp was not going to be able to move, the sherpas pulled David into the sunlight hoping the sun exposure would warm him up. By the time the sherpas returned to camp to report their find, David was dead. The last party to see Sharp alive was the documentary crew filming the ascent of double-amputee Mark Inglis. Since they were filming, they had cameras rolling when they approached David and the footage was used in the documentary.
“Dying for Everest” – a short documentary outlining the David Sharp case including video of Sharp next to Green Boots:
Below: David Sharp’s memorial, David Sharp, and Green Boots’ Cave where David Sharp was found
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Some died peacefully in their sleep, while others (who fell and/or became injured) were left to die slowly of hypothermia. Until recently, the statistics were nearly one in four climbers dies attempting to reach the summit. Advancements in technology and experience have led to a better survival rate of climbers. Currently about 1,000 climbers a year attempt to reach the summit, and on average 15-20 perish. Expeditions are the primary source of income for Nepal, and licenses to ascend start at around $25,000. If you have lesser experience and want to ascend with an experienced group, several companies will lead you to the top with a team of sherpas for prices starting around $40,000 per person.
Quick video of a discovered body:
Many climbers fall into trouble but cannot be helped because it would endanger the life of another climber or a team. Basically, because of the cost and conditions on the mountain, if you run into trouble, you're on your own.
You know what else is left on the mountain? An estimated 120 tons of trash. Seriously? Why do you climb the mountain? You go to the trouble of spending the money and energy for training, you get to the mountain and you can't take your goddam garbage back down? Unbelievable.
Nepal now requires climbers to remove their garbage or lose their deposit which has decreased recent additions to the pile. Why wasn't that just a common sense kind of thing in the first place?
this is a fact. bodies saw in the mountains where still there and decided let them rest in peace.
HI I'm soleil I dont really spend much time on this blog because of my busy schedule at work and when I have free time I spend it with my kids. but as much as possible I want squeeze in my time to write on my page. hope you enjoy dropping by ! :)
I recently had very awkward experience and without knowing my face turned red and feels very sweaty... why laughing out my stupidity. friends telling me OMG your blushing your blushing... Even I try my very best to hide my shyness I cant because my face is showing that I'm in the spot, being embarrassed or being in my uncontrollable awkward moment. I really hate this kind of emotion or what ever it is. emotions. feelings, reaction or what. so what is BLUSHING and why? do we blush???
Blushing occurs when you are in a state of excitement, anger or embarrassment. Children and young people are more prone to blushing and some people easily and frequently blush when they are confronted by stressful situations. Unfortunately, the fear of blushing (erythrophobia) causes even more embarrassment and blushing. Blushing is not under your voluntary control as it is caused by the autonomic nervous system that controls the muscles of the blood vessels of your face. In an embarrassing situation your body releases adrenaline as part of the fight or flight response. This hormone triggers the blood vessels to dilate, and the increased blood flow in your cheeks makes your face red. Besides our emotional state, high temperatures, alcohol and certain illnesses and medications can also cause us to have flushed faces This empathy and social intelligence appears to develop in humans at an early age, around the time we enter school and we begin to engage in social situations with others . By studying the development of this social intelligence, psychologists have found that blushing from embarrassment develops alongside our consciousness of others. This lends further support to the notion that blushing has a purely social basis. If the philosopher Thomas Hobbes was correct in his description of early societies as being "nasty, brutish and short" [source: Hobbes], then blushing may have developed as a means for displaying genuine regret over an insult to someone else. Since we humans are animals, too, a glance at our neighbors on the Tree of Life shows us that insults can lead to violence. As a result, animals have developed ways of displaying apologetic signs to show others they're sorry for what they've done. Think about your dog rolling over after being caught digging in the yard. Exposing his or her belly to you shows you the dog is not challenging your anger at the situation -- it's a demonstration of contrition. For most people, it's pretty difficult to continue to feel anger toward the dog once he or she has rolled over. So blushing could be a way humans show their own contrition for bad social form.
Saturday, September 15, 2012 | 4:45 AM | 0 Girly Says
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Explore the world from the palm of your hand with Google Earth.
Fly around the planet with a swipe of your finger with Google Earth for Android. Explore distant lands or reacquaint yourself with your childhood home. Search by voice for cities, places, and businesses. Browse layers including roads, borders, places, photos and more. Visit the Earth Gallery to find exciting maps such as real-time earthquakes, planes in flight, hiking trails, city tours, and more.
Just downloaded GOOGLE earth... and it really amaze me using this tool navigating and exploring places. and take note I also explore the universe ahahah..... I searched Milky way and black hole out of curiosity. this is such an amazing tool I searched a lot of strange new discoveries using this Google earth and even search my place and saw the roof of my house hahahah... this really amaze me. and scares me as the same time how technology can gives instant image of current earth status. amazing!
here's some images I found through browsing the net about Google earth:
1. Heart shape island.
Not surprisingly this heart-shaped island discovered on Google Earth became a huge hit on Valentine’s Day. It’s located in the Adriatic off the Croatian coast and is currently uninhabited. It’s 130,000 square yards in size and has been named Galesnjak. The owner of the island was not even aware of its shape until he was inundated with requests from romantic couples who wanted to rent the island!
2. Mysterious lines in ocean floor
After this Google Earth find people began wondering if it was the lost city of Atlantis. Excited explorers certainly thought so (or hoped so). The grid was found off the coast of Africa and the markings are believed to be streets. The area is said to be the size of Wales. Google Earth engineers quashed the hype by announcing that the grid was actually a digital artifact created by the sonar boats collecting mapping data, but some people still believe otherwise…
3. Spotted new structures
has spotted new structures in China's Gobi Desert. The Telegraph reports that the area is close to the headquarters of China's space program, Jiuquan, Gansu. It is also not so far from an old nuclear test site that China used to use.
There are a number of areas -- rectangle shaped, circular shaped, and airport runway shaped.
Whether the areas are used for space exploration or army testing is unclear, but Tim Ripley, a defense expert, told the Telegraph that the circular structures look much like the missile test ranges found in the U.S. around Area 51.
Read more: http://articles.businessinsider.com/2011-11-14/news/30396566_1_google-earth-airport-runway-structures#ixzz26XIHV9Rk
Even though you won’t find it on a map, the Bermuda Triangle is a very real place. In the past there have been many stories of disappearing ships, planes and people. Although there is a reasonable explanation for many incidents, some are still a mystery.
The Bermuda Triangle is located off the coast of Floridabetween Miami, Puerto Rico and the Bermudas. It covers about 500 000 square miles of the Atlantic Ocean. It is also known as the Devil’s Triangle because Bermuda was once called Islands of the Devils. The coasts around the island are surrounded by dangerous reefs that ships ran into throughout thecenturies.
Unusual events around the Bermuda Triangle go back to the voyages of Christopher Columbus. He sometimes reported that compass readings were wrong. Many journalists have tried to prove that a numberaccidents and unusual things have happened in the region. Some cases show that there are noexplanations for them.
One of the best-known incidents is the disappearance of Flight 19 during a training exercise of the US Navy. In December, 1945 five American bombers left Fort Lauderdale, Florida on a routine mission. 14 crewmembers disappeared after sending several radio messages. When a rescue plane went to search for the Navy bombers it also vanished.
What went wrong during the mission is not fully known. Compasses showed wrong directions and visibilitywas bad so the flight leader decided to navigate by landmarks which he saw below. Then there was asudden storm and radio contact broke off. Wrecked parts of Flight 19 have never been recovered.
Ships have also disappeared in the Bermuda Triangle. Among them is the Mary Celeste, an American merchant ship, in 1872. The ship was sailing from New York to Genoa, but was later found off the coast of Africa without any crew members on board. Although there is no evidence that the Mary Celeste even entered the Bermuda Triangle there are many whoconnect its mysterious disappearance with the area.
There are many theories about why so many airplanes and ships have disappeared in the Bermuda Triangle. Somesuggest that there are special magnetic fields that cause unknown physical forces. Others say that the lost continent of Atlantis sank in the region causing mysterious events. There is even a theory about unknown chemicals in the waters of the Atlantic.
Some experts, however, point out that the region north of the Caribbean is not as safe as it may seem. It is one of two places on Earth where the compass points to the geographic North Pole. It is also a region in which the weather is unpredictable and where storms can emerge quickly. There are strong currentsbecause of shallow places and deep trenches in the ocean. These factors can confuse even experiencedsailors.
Over 1,000 people were killed in The Bermuda Triangle during the 20th century. Scientists have concluded that this figure is normal and most disappearances have a logical explanation. The myth of the Bermuda Triangle, however, remains.
What is a Black Hole A black hole is formed when a star of sufficient mass (at least 3 time the size of our sun) undergoes gravitational collapse, with most or all of its mass compressed into a sufficiently small area of space, causing infinite spacetime curvature at that point (a "singularity"). Such a massive spacetime curvature allows nothing, not even light, to escape from the "event horizon," or border. Stars are powered by nuclear fuel; most stars use hydrogen. The larger a star is, the faster it will use up its fuel, and thus, the sooner it "dies". If the stars are large enough, however, then the gravitational pull will crush the star to 'zero volume', or in the Schwarzschild radius. This forms a black hole The closest known black hole to Earth is Cygnus X-1, which is located about 8000 light years away. What would happen to our Solar System if the Sun were to suddenly become a black hole? Not much! Other than getting very dark and very cold, nothing else would change. The planets would not be sucked into the black hole. Their orbits would not change since the mass of the Sun has not changed. Only the space the Sun occupies has changed. The gravity of a black hole is very powerful only when you are very close to it. Why are black holes black?
In order for a rocket to leave the surface of Earth, it must travel faster than 25,000 miles per hour (7 miles per second). This is called escape velocity. If the rocket has a speed less than the escape velocity of an object, the object's gravity will pull it back down. The escape velocity of a black hole is greater then 186,000 miles per second. That means a rocket would have to travel faster than 186,000 miles per second in order to leave the black hole. The speed of light is 186,000 miles per second, so light doesn't travel fast enough to leave the black hole, hence it is black. If you get close enough to a black hole you will see the back of your own head! This effect is called an Einstein ring, this is caused by the intense gravity around a black hole. When you are near a black hole at certain distances the light that leaves from the back of your head will travel though space that is bent so much by gravity that it will enter your eyes.
What would happen to an astronaut if he tripped and fell into a black hole?
The astronaut would be stretched like a piece of spaghetti! The closer he got to the black hole, the stronger the force of gravity would be. In fact, the pull of gravity increases so fast, that the gravity tugs on his feet more than on his shoulders. With his feet being pulled into the black hole faster than his shoulders, he would be stretched out farther and farther, like a piece of spaghetti.
can you tell how strong snail is? can you imagine this little slimy crawling in our garden is stronger than we can imagine?
The muscular strength of s
nails is surprisingly great. An experiment on a Helix aspersa weighing 1/4 oz showed it could drag vertically a weight of 2 1/2 oz., or ten time its own weight. Another snail weighing 1/3 oz. was able to drag in a horizontal direction along a smooth table twelve reels of cotton, a pair of scissors, a screwdriver, a key, and a knife, weighing in all no less than 17 oz. or more than fifty times its own weight.
Thursday, September 13, 2012 | 2:22 AM | 0 Girly Says
I don't lie!
Body Language of Lies:
• Physical expression will be limited and stiff, with few arm and hand movements. Hand, arm and leg movement are toward their own body the liar takes up less space.
• A person who is lying to you will avoid making eye contact.
• Hands touching their face, throat & mouth. Touching or scratching the nose or behind their ear.Not likely to touch his chest/heart with an open hand.
Emotional Gestures & Contradictions
• Timing and duration of emotional gestures and emotions are off a normal pace. The display of emotion is delayed, stays longer it would naturally, then stops suddenly.
• Timing is off between emotions gestures/expressions and words. Example: Someone says "I love it!" when receiving a gift, and then smile after making that statement, rather then at the same time the statement is made.
• Gestures/expressions don’t match the verbal statement, such as frowning when saying “I love you.”
• Expressions are limited to mouth movements when someone is faking emotions (like happy, surprised, sad, awe, )instead of the whole face. For example; when someone smiles naturally their whole face is involved: jaw/cheek movement, eyes and forehead push down, etc.
Interactions and Reactions
• A guilty person gets defensive. An innocent person will often go on the offensive.
• A liar is uncomfortable facing his questioner/accuser and may turn his head or body away.
• A liar might unconsciously place objects (book, coffee cup, etc.) between themselves and you.
Verbal content
• A liar will use your words to make answer a question. When asked, “Did you eat the last cookie?” The liar answers, “No, I did not eat the last cookie.”
•A statement with a contraction is more likely to be truthful: “ I didn't do it” instead of “I did not do it”
• Liars sometimes avoid "lying" by not making direct statements. They imply answers instead of denying something directly.
• The guilty person may speak more than natural, adding unnecessary details to convince you... they are not comfortable with silence or pauses in the conversation.
• A liar may leave out pronouns and speak in a monotonous tone. When a truthful statement is made the pronoun is emphasized as much or more than the rest of the words in a statement.
• Words may be garbled and spoken softly, and syntax and grammar may be off. In other
words, his sentences will likely be muddled rather than emphasized.
If you believe someone is lying, then change subject of a conversation quickly, a liar follows along willingly and becomes more relaxed. The guilty wants the subject changed; an innocent person may be confused by the sudden change in topics and will want to back to the previous subject.
• Using humor or sarcasm to avoid a subject.
Final notes:
Obviously, just because someone exhibits one or more of these signs does not make them a liar. The above behaviors should be compared to a persons base (normal) behavior whenever possible.
Most lie detecting experts agree that a combination of body language and other cues must be used to make an educated guess on whether someone is telling the truth or a lie.
sometimes ignorance is bliss. After gaining this knowledge, you may be hurt when it is obvious that someone is lying to you. The following deception detection techniques are used by police, forensic psychologists, security experts and other investigators.
sometimes "what doesn't kill you will only makes you stronger" actually most of the time.
be a guard of your own self. don't let people manipulate you with their lies and always seek god and ask for wisdom to know what is wrong and give you the courage to do what is right.
just found out today. that the hottest planet is not the one that is closest to the sun. It's Venus,
Venus is the second closest planet to the Sun. Telescopes reveal little about the planet due to global cloud cover. Venus' mass and volume are quite similar to Earth's (Venus' mass is 81.5% of Earth's and its volume is 86% of Earth's). Its almost circular orbital period is 224.7 Earth days. A 0.76 albedo makes Venus the brightest planet, earning it the nickname 'the Morning Star'. (The 19th Century astronomer Franz Von Paula Gruithuisen believed that inhabitants on the planet were responsible for lighting objects in celebration of the accession of a new emperor.) Until the early 1960s, Venus was believed to possibly be oceanic even though the temperature was enough to make it a vast desert. Finally, in 1962, the Mariner 2 spacecraft passed by Venus and sent back data putting an end to this hopeful theory.
The atmosphere consists almost entirely (96%) of carbon dioxide (CO2), a greenhouse gas responsible for the incredibly hot, greater than 400ºC conditions on Venus, surpassing the melting point of lead. The rest of the atmosphere is comprised of 3% nitrogen, 0.003% water vapor, and small quantities of other gases. The atmosphere rises to about 400km above the surface of the planet. The clouds situated around 30 km above the surface are rich in sulfuric acid; during precipitation the acid rain evaporates before hitting the ground. In 1970, the Soviet Union landed the first spacecraft on the planet's surface, Venera 7, which sent back information for 23 minutes before losing contact with ground control (most likely due to the temperature). On October 21, 1975, Venera 9 landed and sent back the first image of the rocky Venusian surface (thereby confirming the high temperatures), returned atmospheric data, and found the rotation period to be 243.2 days, longer than one Venusian year. A Venusian day lasts 118 Earth days, and the Sun rises in the west and sets in the east since Venus rotates in the opposite direction to Earth. I wonder if us humans, can live on Venus. if its they say that Venus is the twin planet of the Earth. can we live on Venus if planet earth became too polluted and not livable anymore? answer? The planet Venus has many of the elements found on Earth, but conditions there are not hospitable to human life. It is too hot (average 464 °C or 867°F) and the carbon dioxide atmosphere has a crushing pressure nearly 100 times that at sea level on Earth (92 bar). Under these conditions, there is also no liquid water on the planet's surface, and the only "rain" (high up in the atmosphere) consists of sulfuric acid!
Floating Cities Several novel proposals have suggested establishing aerial colonies 50 kilometers above the surface, where the temperature and pressure are closer to Earth's.
awwwts... I love beach but I don't like to be in hot places... so i dont think I will like it there.
First let me clarify that everything about Hitler was freaky, not just these listed facts below. I don’t want anyone thinking I’m saying he was otherwise normal. But these particular facts are far less known in terms of common knowledge, and that’s why I’m sharing them with you today. It became an obsession for me at one point. One which finally ebbed a bit, thank God. In the process I learned a number of bizarre things about Adolf Hitler.
1. Hitler had only one ball.
Hitler had only one testicle.This one is interesting, considering most would say Hitler had fairly large gonads. Guess it was all just a show to make up for what he was actually missing. I had a difficult time figuring out how he only came to have 1 and it seems he may have been injured during WWI and had to have it removed. Seems they amputated his conscience along with it.
2. Hitler dated his niece.
Hitler dated, and got down with, his niece. Yes, it’s true. Geli was the daughter of Hitler’s half-sister. She was 23 at the time she committed suicide. Oh, wait. That might have been murder. But since the evidence pointed to Hitler, well, no charges were brought .Hitler’s first love was a girl he thought to be Jewish. This could explain it all, couldn’t it? When Hitler was 16 years old he fell for a girl named Stefanie Isak. He was obsessed. As you can imagine, it didn’t work out. Adolph used to fantasize about throwing himself off a bridge in despair – and killing her too. How romantic.
3. Hitler was one kinky Fuhrer
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Hitler was one kinky Fuhrer. It is highly suspected that Hitler had unusual desires in the bedroom. Specifically, being tinkled on. While this may sound like a joke, it’s been cited as probable by well-regarded historians. Believe it or not!
4. Hitler invented blow up doll.
Hitler invented the concept of the plastic girl. Don’t hold your breath. You’re not going to guess this one. In order to avoid the situation of his soldiers, who have the same needs as anybody else, sleeping with one another (in which case they would have to be executed) or sleeping with the locals of regions they visited (and potentially procreating with Jews and being executed for that), Hitler came up with yet another brilliant idea: the blow-up doll. .Hitler approved the creation of sex dolls are blond and blue eyed. The size is small and does not take a lot of places in the backpacks of the soldiers.
5. High school drop-out.
He was a high school dropout. Not only that, but he repeated his sixth year and was rejected twice from art school. This takes the phrase “Hitler’s stupid” to a very different place. While absolutely agreeing that the man’s coming into power and entire regime is stupid (in that ridiculous, horribly absurd way), there was a genius to his craft of speech to make people believe not only the insane things he claimed, but also that they could be achieved. That craft? As an orator. The root of dictator is shared with dictate: a speaking role, a performing role.
6. Hitler doesn't know how to draw a image of face.
While having artistic ambitions, there are a lot of burgeoning movements that he simply couldn’t stand: cabaret, expressionism, and jazz music, for example. This contradiction can be accounted for by the ideological background of the artists that worked in each of the fields. Cabaret, for instance, was actively in political opposition to nazism and supported the free love of homosexuals, ineffectual citizens, and debauchery in general. Expressionism, like jazz, is not inherently political although the practitioners were in large part Jewish. Unlike jazz, the link to the artistic style and Jewish tradition is not apparent in expressionism (which doesn’t mean that Hitler’s hatred isn’t as well).
7. Hitler in time magazine.
In 1938, Times Magazine announced Hitler the Man of the Year — although political correctness has corrected this to Person of the Year. Joseph Stalin got it the following year, and then again in 1942 (aside from Winston Churchill and George W. Bush, the only person to win twice). Sure enough, Time has made some silly choices for the award, such as Middle Americans, Baby Boomers, the computer, and — my personal favorite — You, but Hitler! This comes well after the publication of Mein Kampf and its translation into English. Oh well, this can serve as a warning. To be the Person of the Year, you must have power, political or otherwise. Hitler is a good example of what evils power can spawn.
8. Lazy bastard.
Adolf Hitler was a lazy bastard. He slept late, often until two o'clock in the afternoon. After he dragged himself out of bed, he'd read the papers then go for a stroll. In the evening, he'd watch movies which Goebbels had selected for him.
9. Hitler never took of his jacket.
For an orator, personal appearance is very important. As a result, Hitler never took of his jacket in public (presumably afraid of sweat marks), always wore pre-tied neckties (heaven forbid it should be out of place!), only wore full-length underwear (not so easily explained), etc. And since we’re here, we might as well take a bash at his mustache: no one could convince him that it didn’t work with the get-up. One day, he deluded himself, it will catch on because everyone will want to be like the Führer. I personally think it suits Chaplin much better.
10. Real don juan type.
There were a number of ladies — one of his nieces included — that didn’t much mind the little mustache. These women all shared one other passion, aside from his mo: suicide, or at the very least a romancing of death. His first girlfriend committed suicide; his last attempted it twice before finally fulfilling the dream in 1945 with her lover in her arms. In between, the stories are no different. The man really had an effect on women! A real Don Juan type.
11. Hitler scared of blades.
If it is true that he liked to be dominated, then this next Hitler quirk is a very curious counterpart: he was afraid of blades in other peoples hands to the point of feeling terrified during haircuts. This must stem from paranoia that many people wanted to take his life (which they did). For the same reason, he always shaved himself, just in case. It’s really another exhibition of his weakness — apparent by simply looking at his frame — but it really is a wonderful to imagine Hitler screaming on the barber’s chair as if he were at the dentist.
12. Love being kicked
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What these women got from him sexually is another question. Perhaps it would be better to say “what he got from them.” Psychological assessments of Hitler, undertaken in his lifetime, concluded that he probably adored being urinated and defecated on. In fact, any sexual report regarding the man, be it psychological or a recount, suggests that he was rather strange in the sack. For example, he supposedly begged to be kicked repeatedly by one woman and is said to have had his guards videotape the torture of Jewish people for his own home-viewing pleasure.
Why elephant afraid of mice? I really wanted to know if this is just a myth or a fact is dumbo really afraid of little micey...???
One funny reason that many people felt this myth might be true is because they thought an elephant might fear a mouse creeping into its trunk while asleep - stopping it from breathing. However this logic has a fatal flaw. Apart from the fact that no mouse in his right mind would choose such a crazy place for a snooze, any sleeping elephant would easily smell such a suicidal rodent.
And the force that an elephant has for blowing obstructions from their trunks is plenty adequate to shoot a mouse out like a ball from a cannon.
The rumour that elephants are scared of mice is very persistent and there are whole collections of jokes circulating on this topic. However, these jokes are just as incorrect as all the stories about women who scream and jump on the nearest chair at the sight of a mouse.
Why aren't the elephants scared?
Basically, elephants flee from danger and are afraid of whatever they don't know. Zoo and circus elephants, however, know practically everything about their environment, and they certainly know mice. Whenever large quantities of hay and straw are delivered to a stable, there are often a few mice hidden in the bales.
In their search for food, mice quickly discover the elephants' many leftovers. Furthermore, a stable is an ideal home for a mouse. It has everything it needs: food, nesting material, warmth and quiet hiding places.
Why do the elephant keepers hunt the mice?
Since mice can carry diseases, the elephant keepers work hard to keep down their numbers. There is no such thing, however, as a mouse-free stable.
Elephant and mouse
Are mice afraid of elephants?
A few years ago, a sleep researcher at Zurich University studying elephants filmed them at night for several weeks. The evidence clearly shows that some daredevil mice were not afraid to climb over sleeping elephants in order to steal their leftovers. Yet the elephants' sleep, it was observed, was not disturbed by the little creatures.
Another wrong assumption is that elephants are afraid that while they are asleep, a mouse might crawl up their trunk and suffocate them. Even if this were likely to happen, it would most certainly trigger an enormous sneezing fit which would prove disastrous for the mouse in question.
How do elephants catch the mice?
Neither is it healthy for mice to get too close to elephants when they are awake. The elephants will lash out and kick at them and overly cheeky mice will usually not be able to evade the blow, for elephants are agile animals, capable of moving with unexpected speed. What is more, an elephant's foot measures several mice in size. The effect of an elephant using its foot against a mouse is thus very much like that of a human using a rolled-up newspaper to swat a fly.
ok so much of information about this elephant afraid of mice.
but after I watched this video from myth busters. I don't know what to believed in anymore.
Anyone who's ever tried to bathe a cat knows that these pets generally aren't fans of water. Even a few drops flicked their way will send cats scurrying in the other direction. There are exceptions to that rule, however. An extraordinary cat named Hawkeye has his own custom-made scuba diving gear that his owner designed and had made for a pretty penny. And it doesn't take coercing to get Hawkeye in the water; he'll hop into his owner's swimming pool of his own accord. Read more about Hawkeye's underwater adventures in How could a cat scuba dive?
But what would it take to coerce a 445-pound (201-kilogram) tiger to get wet?
Like Hawkeye, Odin doesn't mind the water either, although he has some added incentive for getting wet. His trainer tosses meat into the pool, which the white tiger eagerly dives in after by holding his breath to retrieve the tasty morsel. But it wasn't the trainer that initially gave Odin his water wings. Instead, Odin picked up the behavior from another tiger at the animal park.
Odin's swimming wouldn't come as a surprise to any knowledgeable tiger expert. Of all the big cat species, tigers in particular are known for their swimming capabilities. When most tigers swim, they don't spend much time fully submerged like the white Bengal, but taking a dip wouldn't be out of the ordinary since swimming serves a few key purposes.
A woman from Spain's soggy region of Galicia, Angeles Duran, said Friday she had registered the star at a local notary public as being her property.
"There was no snag, I backed my claim legally, I am not stupid, I know the law. I did it but anyone else could have done it, it simply occurred to me first." That is a quote directly from her.
She want's to also tax everyone on the planet for use of the Sun, with 50% going to Spain's government, 20% to Spain's pension plan, 10% to research, 10% to end world hunger and the remaining 10% for herself...
She plans on giving most of the money to Spain? When EVERYONE uses the Sun? What's wrong with this picture? Personally I think she is both crazy and stupid, though she argues against that. I know that there is a law saying no country can own the moon, but apparently the Sun is fair game? I don't think so, honey!
A) The Sun supports all of us, not just Spain, so get over yourself.
B) Owning the Sun is just as ridiculous as the guy that claimed the moon and the rest of the planets.
and C) What the F-word are you thinking?!How selfish can you be to use most of the so-called taxes on this ridiculous venture to forward only your own country? When all of us use it?
Please...Angeles Duran, never breed. It's for everyone's good.
In what she’s admitted to be nothing short of an oddball scheme to save the flailing failing Spanish economy (hey, at least they’re not quite Portugal, Greece, or Ireland), 49-year-old Angeles Duran has quite officially claimed she legally owns the Sun after being issued a document proclaiming her the sole owner by a Spanish notary. Now she plans to rescue her country’s economy by taxing “everyone on the planet” for basking in her UV-rays. (Let’s just thank she beat the US government to it, they could probably pull it off and would hardly be above it.)
According to Helium online, the document “described ‘Sol’ (the sun’s proper name) as ‘a star of spectral type G2, located in the center of the solar system, located at an average distance from Earth of about 149,600,000 kilometers.’
Duran, who maintains she ‘backed [her] claim legally,’ is ‘not stupid,’ and knows the law, stated: “I did it but anyone else could have done it, it simply occurred to me first.” This because, she says, international law concerning ownership of celestial bodies applies only to states and makes no reference to individuals.
Which points out the problem in her loophole: that she was issued her papers by the Spanish state assumes that Spain, or any nation for that matter, ever had the power to grant ownership over of such a celestial body (and implicitly had the ability to control it)…
Not just an abstract problem, such a situation calls into question the relative absurdity that is owning any sort property – what is it about a piece of paper scribbled on by the right hand that enacts the quasi-magical binding contractual power of ownership over property, be it earthly, heavenly, or even of another man with the same emotions and mental faculties?
Duran, ever the hard-taxing land grabber, is hardly looking for an answer, stating: “If there is an idea for how to generate income and improve the economy and people’s well being, why not do it?” A surprisingly worthy question, but couldn't such an argument be made for such things as extreme as slavery (after all, far easier than the Earth or sun to control are certainly the thoughts and actions of another man)– especially considering she means ‘one people’s well being’ at the very literal expense of many other’s?
Mount Everest has claimed the lives of over 216 known mountain climbers in recorded history. The area above 26,000 feet is called “the Death Zone”, where breathing fresh oxygen from canisters is necessary for all but the most experienced climbers. The atmospheric pressure is about a third of that at sea level, so there is about one third the amount of oxygen to breathe. The air is so thin, recovery of bodies is impossible. As such, many victims lay where they took their last breath.
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“PLEASE don’t leave me,” the dying woman cried. Two climbers heard the screams of Francys Arsentiev, an American woman who had fallen after succumbing to snow blindness and found herself separated from her husband. They were in the “death zone,” low on oxygen, and the woman was on the side of a steep cliff; carrying her was not an option. The trip just to get down to her would be a risk for their own lives. The two climbers, Ian Woodall and Cathy O’Dowd, climbed down to her and did what they could to keep her company, but it was too late. They administered oxygen and tried to tend to Fran, but there was nothing they could do. Ian and Cathy returned down to base camp to ask for help and report their findings.
Eight years later the two climbers would return (above), and in an attempt to give Francys a proper burial, they would place an American flag on her along with a note from her family. At the time of her death, no one knew what had happened to her husband Sergei; all that was found was his pick axe and rope nearby. On the date of her death, other climbers had last seen Sergei far ahead of Francys on the descent after the two had accidentally become separated. Sergei later had backtracked up toward the summit, despite knowing he did not have enough Oxygen to last. His own exposure levels to the climate on Mount Everest were nearing the maximum recommendation, and he was already beginning to suffer from frostbite. Still, Sergei would not leave his wife behind.
It was later discovered that Sergei had made his way back and located Francys, and descended toward the cliff she lay on as she screamed for help. Sadly, he fell to his death trying to reach his dying wife.
(below left: Francys memorial. Below center & right: Francys Arsentiev before her death)
Possibly the most famous body on Everest is that of “Green Boots,” an Indian climber named Tsewang Paljor. Paljor was a Constable with the Indo-Tibetan Border Police who took his last breath on the 10th of May during the famous 1996 Mount Everest Disaster. Paljor was part of a three-man group that was attempting to be the first Indian team to ascend Mt. Everest from the Northeastern route. The weather that season was worse than other years and 1996 proved to be one of the deadliest seasons for Mount Everest climbers. When the storm rolled in, visibility went to zero and the temperature dropped considerably. Separated from the climbers in his group and suffering from the cold, Paljor found a small cave and huddled inside for protection from the elements. Little did he know that would be his resting place for the next 15 years. (below)
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One of the more storied climbers that met his fate on Everest was George Mallory, a famous English Mountaineer. In 1924, Mallory fell to his death during a storm while attempting to be the first to reach the summit of Everest. His body was discovered in 1999 during the Mallory and Irvine Research Expedition. Decades earlier, Chinese climbers had reported seeing a “European body” laying face down on a shelf off the main trail. Given the description and the date of the find, experts had always assumed it was the body of Andrew Irvine. Irvine was another famous English Mountaineer who had attempted the ascent of Everest with Mallory and perished in the same storm.
During a 1933 Everest expedition, climbers found Andrew Irvine’s axe and rope. Because of this, it was widely believe to be Irvine’s body discovered by the Chinese. When the body was found during the 1999 search expedition, it was discovered to be that of George Mallory, not Irvine. Mallory was found face down in a bunch of shale with his arms spread out and up. His skin was in remarkably good condition but was tanned from 75 years of sun exposure. After examining the body, experts hypothesized that Mallory’s rope had failed as he was found with a short severed rope tied around his waist. He was also found with a golf ball-sized hole in his forehead, indicating he might have suffered blunt force trauma from striking a sharp rock. Andrew Irvine has never been found.
Video of the Mallory Body Find on Everest:
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The morbidity of seeing hundreds of bodies along one’s ascent up Mount Everest is only trumped by the fascination of the levels of preservation of many of the bodies. The temperatures are ideal for long-term preservation, and perhaps some of these corpses will serve as studies for generations thousands of years from now.
Or maybe not?
The Nepalese consider Mount Everest sacred, and do not want it to become a graveyard. Many parents of those who have perished have asked for the bodies to be left as they were when they died, but this is against Nepalese law. As soon as a body can be reached for retrieval, it is and then is brought down for identification and burial. Those too high for retrieval will have stone tombs (called cairns) constructed around the corpses to shield them from the elements and the view of other climbers. A few corpses located on shallow ledges were rolled off to be buried in the snow below, away from the trail.
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A more recent story is that of David Sharp. David was an English mountaineer who, in 2005, ascended Everest in a group but attempted the final climb by himself. At one point he stopped in a small cave and eventually froze to the point he could not move. As he lay near death below the summit, he was passed by over 40 other climbers both on their way up and their way down. Sharp had stopped to rest and protect himself from the elements in the same cave Green Boots had used. Since David was not moving, the 40 climbers that passed by had either not seen him or assumed he was Green Boots. A group of sherpas in a later expedition on the way up to the summit noticed Sharp just off the trail, alive and moaning. When the sherpas reached David, he was not coherent, and badly frostbitten, but he was able to say his name and which party he was with. After giving him some oxygen, the sherpas attempted to help him climb down – but he could not stand under his own power. Realizing Sharp was not going to be able to move, the sherpas pulled David into the sunlight hoping the sun exposure would warm him up. By the time the sherpas returned to camp to report their find, David was dead. The last party to see Sharp alive was the documentary crew filming the ascent of double-amputee Mark Inglis. Since they were filming, they had cameras rolling when they approached David and the footage was used in the documentary.
“Dying for Everest” – a short documentary outlining the David Sharp case including video of Sharp next to Green Boots:
Below: David Sharp’s memorial, David Sharp, and Green Boots’ Cave where David Sharp was found
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Some died peacefully in their sleep, while others (who fell and/or became injured) were left to die slowly of hypothermia. Until recently, the statistics were nearly one in four climbers dies attempting to reach the summit. Advancements in technology and experience have led to a better survival rate of climbers. Currently about 1,000 climbers a year attempt to reach the summit, and on average 15-20 perish. Expeditions are the primary source of income for Nepal, and licenses to ascend start at around $25,000. If you have lesser experience and want to ascend with an experienced group, several companies will lead you to the top with a team of sherpas for prices starting around $40,000 per person.
Quick video of a discovered body:
Many climbers fall into trouble but cannot be helped because it would endanger the life of another climber or a team. Basically, because of the cost and conditions on the mountain, if you run into trouble, you're on your own.
You know what else is left on the mountain? An estimated 120 tons of trash. Seriously? Why do you climb the mountain? You go to the trouble of spending the money and energy for training, you get to the mountain and you can't take your goddam garbage back down? Unbelievable.
Nepal now requires climbers to remove their garbage or lose their deposit which has decreased recent additions to the pile. Why wasn't that just a common sense kind of thing in the first place?
this is a fact. bodies saw in the mountains where still there and decided let them rest in peace.