Anoushy 0 Posted March 1, 2006 If a spaceship approached a black hole, it would appear to go slower the closer it got to it; Then it would appear to stop ... turn orange, then red, and fade into nothingness! Dogs have twice as many muscles for moving their ears as people do; A giraffe can clean its own ears with its tongue! In ancient <ST1:PLACE w:st="on"><ST1:COUNTRY-REGION w:st="on">Egypt</ST1:COUNTRY-REGION></ST1:PLACE>, the process of mummification took about 70 days; Scientists estimate that over 70 million mummies were made in <ST1:PLACE w:st="on"><ST1:COUNTRY-REGION w:st="on">Egypt</ST1:COUNTRY-REGION></ST1:PLACE>! The human jaw can chew with 200lbs of pressure; Alligators snap their jaws shut with 2,000 lbs of force. It took 38 years for radio to reach 50 million listeners; It took four years for the Internet to reach 50 million users. At an ocean depth of 45 yards, less than 1 percent of the sun's light is still visible; Sharks can detect light 10-times dimmer than what humans can see. Number of days a human can live without water: 3; Number of days a cockroach can live without its head: 9. There are 2.5 trillion stars in the Milky Way; There are 250 trillion blood vessels in the human body. Sound level the human ear can withstand without damage: 130 decimals; Sound level of an average rock concert: 150 decimals. Lightning strikes the earth about 100 times every second; One lightning bolt could power a 100-watt light bulb for three months. When complete, the International Space Station will be the length of a football field; ... and the ISS will be visible to the naked eye to over 90 percent of the world's population. Estimated number of robots in use around the world: 1.4 million; Worldwide, about 50 percent of industrial robots are used in making cars. Some snails can sleep up to three years at a time; Over a lifetime, the average person will spend 25 years sleeping. Over 130,000 cell-phone screens could fit onto one IMAX screen; An IMAX projector weighs about 2 tons — the weight of a small car!; And the average height of an IMAX screen is 8 storys high! A helicopter's main rotor spins about 300 times a minute; Number of times a puffin flaps its wings each minute: 300! Each year, 125,000 tons of batteries are discarded in the <ST1:COUNTRY-REGION w:st="on"><ST1:PLACE w:st="on">U.S.</ST1:PLACE></ST1:COUNTRY-REGION>; That's the weight of the <ST1:PLACE w:st="on"><ST1:PLACENAME w:st="on">Washington</ST1:PLACENAME> <ST1:PLACETYPE w:st="on">Monument</ST1:PLACETYPE></ST1:PLACE> and Lincoln Memorial combined. There are 4 million miles of roads in the <ST1:COUNTRY-REGION w:st="on"><ST1:PLACE w:st="on">U.S.</ST1:PLACE></ST1:COUNTRY-REGION> alone; That's enough to stretch from the earth to the moon 8 times! A 150 lb. person would weigh only 25 pounds on the moon; On the sun, that same person would weigh 4,200 lbs. The blink of an eye lasts about 1/10 of a second; The average person blinks about 4.2 million times per year. The average life of a taste bud is 10 days; The number of taste buds on the tongue: 10,000. The average human heart beats about 75 times a minute; In one year a human heart pumps enough blood to fill an Olympic-size pool. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kurios 0 Posted March 6, 2006 hmmmm quite nice thore se perhe hain but interesting hain Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Kiran 2 Posted March 7, 2006 Oh my goodness amazing Share this post Link to post Share on other sites