Source sciences: November 2010

Tuesday, November 30, 2010

World's LONGEST officially Place name

Llanfairpwllgwyngyll (long form Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch), also spelt Llanfair Pwllgwyngyll and commonly known as Llanfair PG or Llanfairpwll, is a village and community on the island of Angelesy inWales , situated on the Menai Strait next to Menai Bridge and across the strait from Bangor.

The long form of the name is the longest officially recognised place name in theUnited Kingdom and one of thelongest in the world, being 58 letters in length (51 letters in the Welsh alphabet, where "ch" and "11" count as single letters).
The name is Welsh for "St Mary's church in the hollow of the white hazel near to the rapid whirlpool and the church of St Tysilio of the red cave".

Taken From : http://myamazingfact.blogspot.com/2008/07/worlds-longest-officially-place-name.html

Balancing of 16 spoons on face world record set by School Boy

Taken From : http://myamazingfact.blogspot.com/2008/07/alancing-of-16-spoons-on-face-world.html

Tuesday, November 23, 2010

World’s most dangerous bird

The Cassowaries are the world’s most dangerous birds, capable of dealing fatal blows.
They are very unpredictable, aggressive creatures, especially if wounded or cornered.
The Cassowary lives in the rain forests of Australia and New Guinea and are actually pretty shy animals if undisturbed, but if you get to close and it thinks you’re a threat you could receive a bone-breaking kick or get sliced by its dagger-like sharp claws.

During WWII, soldiers stationed in New Guinea were warned to stay away from these birds, but some of them still became victims.

The Cassowary is also one of the most difficult animals to keep in the Zoo because of the frequent injuries suffered by Zoo keepers that look after them.

This bird can take care of itself, but, unfortunately, this doesn’t seem to help it very much against human cruelty and it is on the endangered species list, along with so many others…

Taken From : http://myamazingfact.blogspot.com/2008/07/worlds-most-dangerous-bird.html

Amazing White Diamond - The albino crocodile

Taken From : http://myamazingfact.blogspot.com/2008/07/amazing-white-diamond-albino-crocodile.html

Amazing Cloaking device makes colour red invisible

Cloaking devices have long been the stuff of science fiction and fantasy - helping Klingons elude the Enterprise in Star Trek and Harry Potter hide underneath an invisibility cloak. But now scientists say that device is one step closer to becoming the real deal.

It's not perfect yet - the computer-modeled device can only hide the red wavelength. So an object inside the device would only be hidden if you were wearing polarized red-tinted glasses.

"But this is a first design step toward creating an optical cloaking device that might work for all wavelengths of visible light," says lead researcher Vladmimir Shalaev in a press release.

The device uses nanoscale needles - objects so small they're measured in billionths of a meter - and layers them in a cylindrical shape around a central spoke, like a winding staircase.

The design is able to guide light around an object, important to complete a realistic cloak. (If light were only repelled from the object, you'd still notice a hole or shadow where the object was located. With the wrapping around the object, you'd see behind the object, as if it weren't there.)

Despite being limited to one wavelength of light, researchers say the cloak could be made any size and used for military applications.

A solider could be cloaked from those wearing night vision goggles, for example.

Taken From : http://myamazingfact.blogspot.com/2008/07/amazing-cloaking-device-makes-colour.html

An Ancient Greek Computer

In 1901 divers working off the isle of Antikythera found the remains of a clocklike mechanism 2,000 years old. The mechanism now appears to have been a device for calculating the motions of stars and planets by Derek J. de Solla Price.