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How About the Bermuda Triangle Mystery That Faded Away?
what's the most mysterious and blood-chilling place on Earth the first thing that comes to mind is most likely the infamous Bermuda Triangle this area has earned its spooky reputation after swallowing numerous ships and airplanes which then disappeared Without a Trace but is this place really so terrifying let's ask scientists but first I'll tell you a story or two one of the most infamous disappearances in the Bermuda Triangle was Mary Celeste the ship was found adrift in the Atlantic Ocean on December 4th 1872. it was days after its Journey began Captain Benjamin Briggs with his wife and a two-year-old daughter were heading from New York to Genoa in Italy with some important cargo besides the family of the captain there were seven other crew members on board the ship Days Later a British ship day gradia came across Mary Celeste by accident strangely the ship was floating under a partial sail everything on board was intact there was nothing strange with this situation except for one thing there was nobody on board the ship and the Lifeboat was missing there were no traces of people on the ship it couldn't be a pirate attack since all the belongings of the crew as well as the cargo were untouched theories like an undersea earthquake an attack of a giant squid or a natural disaster can be ruled out as well they just don't fit it was a clear day the ship was in perfect condition why would people leave it and never come back whatever the reason neither the crew nor the Lifeboat has ever been found it was November 29 1925 when the SS Cotopaxi left Charleston South Carolina and headed for Havana Cuba carrying a big load of coal and 32 crew members the story has that several days later the steamer ran into a severe storm got water in its hold and started to list dramatically on December 1st the ship sent out a distress call and since then nothing has been heard from the crew ever again the ship was believed to have vanished Into Thin Air until it was found 95 years later foreign scientists found SS Cotopaxi and it turned out there was nothing mysterious about its story at the moment the ship lies at the bottom of the ocean about 35 miles away from Saint Augustine Florida researchers are also sure that the ship did send a distress signal during a storm which most likely led to the sinking of the vessel USS Cyclops was a huge carrier ship that used to supply fuel to the American Fleet on January 8 1918 heavy and full of Manganese ores the ship departed from Rio de Janeiro and headed for Baltimore being only a couple of years old the ship wasn't supposed to experience any problems all 309 people on board felt safe and calm but this feeling turned out to be deceptive because somewhere around March 4th 1918 the ship disappeared Into Thin Air without sending a distress call or indicating it was having problems in any other way in the history of the U.S Navy this case Remains the accident that caused the largest loss of life at a time SS Alfaro was a much more recent disappearance this cargo ship left Jacksonville Florida on October 1st 2015 with 33 crew members and tons of vehicles trailers and containers on board the huge vessel was supposed to deliver its load to Puerto Rico but something went wrong a regular tropical storm that started miles away suddenly transformed into a powerful hurricane that rushed towards El Faro it started to circle around the cargo ship making the communication from The Vessel go silent but the most shocking thing was that after causing all this commotion the hurricane miraculously retreated in the same direction it had come from weeks later after a thorough and extensive search Rescuers finally located the ship it was still in one piece and sitting upright on the bottom at a depth of 15 000 feet but the blood chilling truth was that there was no trace of the crew members on board for airplanes probably the most inexp on December 5th 1945. this case got the name the Lost Patrol Flight 19 was the code name for five planes that departed from a naval base in Florida on a training flight no one knows for sure what happened to the planes but they never returned to the base most experts believe the commander of this group Charles Taylor got lost and led the planes in the wrong direction those were the machines that could land on water so hypothetically after getting low on fuel the pilots could ditch and wait for help rocking on the surface of the ocean but it didn't happen although two rescue Martin Mariner planes were searching the area all through the night and the next day they found no trace of the five disappeared planes but the most spine chilling coincidence was that one of the rescue planes failed to return to the base as well all six planes vanished Into Thin Air as if they had never existed there have been several other plane disappearances when aircraft went off Radars and never returned in some cases Pilots had to send out a Mayday distress call in others they disappeared in the blink of an eye when everything seemed to be going perfectly fine of course over the years there have been loads of theories trying to explain the phenomenon of the Bermuda Triangle for example some researchers believe that ships and planes crash and disappear in the area due to methane gas and it has indeed been proven that in some areas of the ocean floor there are massive storages of this gas therefore when gas gets released into the water the process can sink ships and make planes crash potentially it can happen so fast that a craft in distress doesn't even have time to send SOS [Music] the theory of a wormhole is preferred by those who love sci-fi in short a wormhole is a space-time shortcut while the existence of wormholes hasn't been proven yet this doesn't stop some people from believing that this phenomenon is what causes vanishings in the Bermuda Triangle another sci-fi theory is based on the interface of space civilizations it's quite convenient to blame such disappearances on extraterrestrial forces though why they would choose exactly this area for their abductions remains unknown [Music] waterspouts or simpler tornadoes in the ocean are said to have been spotted in the Bermuda Triangle this weather phenomenon raises water many feet up into the air potentially this can make a ship disappear with ease the human error Theory may sound rather disappointing for those who love mysteries but some are sure that all the crashes and disappearances in the Bermuda Triangle happen due to people's mistakes there are too many confusing islands that are hard to distinguish from one another as well as difficult weather conditions there and now let's see what modern day scientists have to say disappointingly they claim there's no mystery in the Bermuda Triangle whatsoever the loss and disappearance of planes and ships is just a fact of probabilities researchers are sure that there's no evidence that in the Bermuda Triangle mysterious events occur more often than in any other well-traveled large region of the ocean the sheer volume of all that traffic in an area that is pretty hard to navigate gives us such unsettling statistics but on a percentage basis the number of vessels and aircraft missing in the Bermuda Triangle is the same as anywhere else in the world and what theory do you believe.
By Aamir Adam9 months ago in Earth
These words struck me to the depths of my soul.
infatuation love passion very strong feelings that every human being experiences at least once in their life but is it always a storm of emotions or is it a calm and Silent contemplation of the object of love the problem is that many men don't know how to express their feelings so how does a woman know that a man is in love with her the first sign of true love in a young man is shyness and a young woman courage both genders tend to approach each other and each assimilates the qualities of the other claimed French politician playwright and novelist Victor Hugo it's an interesting reflection isn't it in fact when a man is in love and just starting to court a woman he restrains himself as much as possible afraid of offending her pushing her away or showing his flaws and he tries to play in her field as much as possible he organizes romantic dates prepares surprises and overall behaves like a true Prince Charming the one she has dreamed of since childhood women's magazines insist that a man in love never looks at other women let's hear what they say a man never takes his eyes off you your gaze grabs his attention and he can't do anything about it he doesn't notice other women they don't exist to him if Angelina Jolie and Sharon Stone walk by his side he wouldn't even look at them there is admiration and excitement in his eyes do you know what that is those are the feelings that accompany love and they protected like an airbag in a car protects the driver when you notice that kind of gays directed at you you will surely understand that love we don't deny it but we'll tell you a parable about a man in love and a wise woman who was more beautiful than anyone in the world even the radiant son admired the beautiful woman walking along the path towards a stream suddenly it noticed that a man was following her Inseparable like a shadow the woman walked a bit further and turned around again he was still following her what do you want ask the woman why do you insist on following me I am in love with you he replied placing his hand over his heart look it only beats for you and this sun shines for you and the birds singing your honor my eyes only see you as the whole world fades in comparison to your beauty I love you and I can't live if you don't believe me and don't give me your love in return oh poor man the woman shook her head and smiled you say you're in love with me but is it really true of course it is he exclaimed reaching out his hands to her as if she were a goddess you fell in love with me because you haven't seen my sister she is even more beautiful than me and younger too turn around she's also walking along the strange path and will soon be by your side the man looked back and became displeased when he saw an ugly hunched old woman approaching him with a cane in one hand and a bucket in the other disappointed he looked back at the woman he loved you deceived me there is no Young Beauty there is only an old woman but you also deceived me when you swore your love to me and spoke sweet words while turning around to look at another woman and what do modern men say it's all very simple the first time I genuinely liked a girl I simply found her on one of the social networks and added her as a friend confessed one enamored man I started by introducing her to my friends this was very important to me because I wanted to show her that I was ready to let her into my life said another when we started talking I literally absorbed every word she said even if it was nonsense smile III that's how romance goes dear ladies and if you suspect that someone is in love with you but won't admit it ask them directly why they follow you everywhere and pay attention to you offer to look at your sister and then you will know exactly how genuine and deep their feelings are for you may your true love find you as is our sincere wish for you.
By Aamir Adam9 months ago in Marriage
5 tips from the Dalai Lama to every WOMAN seeking her LOVE
the world is full of single women who are already desperate to find love frustrated women spend their money on female psychological counseling buying books on how to attract the opposite sex and how many women sign up for various relationship courses which in many cases do nothing but waste their money perhaps instead of all these useless activities it's worth looking within yourself and finding your own answer to the question of love we suggest turning to the age-old wisdom of Buddhism and analyzing what the Dalai Lama said phrases from this wise man about Harmony in relationships Dalai Lama quotes about love we will never be in harmony with the world around us unless we make peace with ourselves the Dalai Lama's first wise piece of advice is to make peace with oneself you should not wait for gifts from fate or Prince Charming because you may end up with nothing to find happiness start with yourself any man will be interested in a self-sufficient woman who is confident in herself who knows what she wants from life a man with a strong personality interests and work is a person you'll want to know better and women who are looking for a protector or a sponsor are not of interest to strong men nobody wants to marry a woman from the daughter archetype who cannot solve her own problems self-esteem does not improve just by finding a partner first you need to get rid of the complexes that prevent you from building a happy life Humanity was created to be loved and things to be used the world is in chaos because everything is backwards men often accuse women of being interested they say all women want is their fat wallet and gifts but men who see women as pretty dolls are no better than them this is what the Dalai Lama says value genuine feelings and stop objectifying each other love cannot be bought with money and feelings are much more important than gifts and flowers the person quickly realizes that they are being used and milked and will walk away forever a relationship based on trust and respect will Thrive for years remember not getting what you want is sometimes true luck the Dalai Lama talks about not turning the search for a partner into the goal of your life sometimes being alone can teach us more than being in a relationship and if Fate has not given you what you want now it is an opportunity to learn something new a single person can also be happy treat those who leave your life with understanding and wisdom they may simply have occupied a place in it in vain bringing only harm and suffering only by letting them go can you move forward the planet does not need a large number of successful people it needs people with whom you can live well it does not matter what education you have whether your job is prestigious or whether you earn a lot of money a man who loves you will live with you not with your merits he needs a warm respectful and loving woman men appreciate confident women despite their appearance and merits so you don't have to spend all your time and money to fit into the standards of beauty and success we need more people with whom it is Pleasant to spend time and have a quiet life love in its purest and most Sublime form is the strongest absolute and unconditional desire for happiness for another person it is a desire that Springs from the heart regardless of how that person treats us by maintaining a positive attitude towards life it is possible to be happy even in the most adverse circumstances happiness is the absence of suffering remember that the best relationships are those in which mutual love surpasses the need to possess the other the warmth and love we give are much more important than the warmth and love we receive only when we share warmth and love and feel genuine concern for others that is show compassion do we acquire the conditions for true happiness it follows that to love is more important than to be loved the more you are Guided by love the more fearless and free your actions will be some people are fat others thin some are very beautiful but if you look at them all in x-rays you will only see a room full of skeletons what are you looking for happiness love peace of mind don't go to the other side of the planet to look for them you will return disappointed Afflicted and desperate look for them on the other side of yourself deep in your heart the phrases about love and relationships the wisdom that the Dalai Lama has given us deserve more attention than deceptive courses do not make finding a man the goal of your life take care of yourself of your development and do not Chase success with the opposite sex fate may have other plans for you and love will come just a little later that will be an important lesson for you.
By Aamir Adam9 months ago in Motivation
What if the moon was closer to Earth
you hear some noise in the street and Rush up to the window to check what caused it you look up at the sky and just stand there speechless the Moon is giant it looks much larger than usual and it's both beautiful and scary so what would your life be like if the moon moved twice as close to Earth as it is now unfortunately it would be quite a catastrophic scenario you see the moon has a pretty strong gravitational pull on Earth's oceans it produces two high tides and two low tides per day but with the moon so close to us the tides would get eight times higher some regions would be completely covered with water during the day the water would only retreat at night many islands and highly populated Coastline territories would become uninhabited because of this many other regions would experience frequent devastating floods but if you think it would be the only consequence let me tell you this the moon also has a tidal effect on dry land that's why if our planet's natural satellite was to suddenly relocate its gravitational pull would increase Making Waves of energy reverberate throughout the planet this would affect earth's crust triggering earthquakes and starting volcanic eruptions now let's leave Earth and the giant moon for a while and have a look at Jupiter's moon EO which is the most volcanically active World in our solar system this volcanism comes from the push and pull from Jupiter's gravity two other moons of the gas giant also have an effect on poor EO that's why eo's surface is littered with hundreds of volcanoes most of them are spewing sulfurous plumes high above the surface of the Moon our planet might face the same fate should the moon move so close to it and that's not all Earth's spin would start to slow down over time look the moon's gravity pulls the oceans and the resulting friction between the water and the ocean floor slows Earth's spin yes Earth is slowing down even now as you're watching this video but this process is almost imperceptible around one thousandth of a second per century if the moon was twice as close to us the rotation of our planet would slow much more making days and nights longer if people managed to survive unexpected earthquakes high tides and volcanic eruptions and got used to longer days and nights they would get an award solar eclipses spectacular events that occur when the moon passes between the Sun and Earth would happen much more frequently since the moon would cover a much larger area in the sky it would pass in front of the sun more often people on Earth would be able to see the sun's outer atmosphere called the corona it would shine beautifully around the silhouette of the Moon such solar eclipses would also last much longer but what if the moon didn't shorten the distance overnight what if it was a much slower and much more gradual process then our planet's crust would shift more slowly Tides wouldn't change so dramatically either this would let living creatures on the planet get used to the new conditions and adjust in time longer days and nights would likely change the climate and animals would have to evolve to adapt to it their eyes would have to change to be able to deal with brighter Moonlight at night prey would have to learn to hide better but Predators on the other hand would have more advantages when hunting but what catastrophe would have to happen to make the moon move so close to Earth well it could be some massive object like a giant asteroid passing very close to the Earth Moon system if the moon was in the way of this space traveler it could take energy from Earth's satellite which would cause the moon to spiral towards our planet Have You Ever Seen The Other Side of the Moon ah I caught you of course not but maybe you've seen it in photos in that case have you ever wondered why the two sides look so different well let me tell you we can't see the other side of the moon people believe this is because the moon doesn't rotate around its axis but this is not true the moon does rotate it just does it at the same rate as its orbital motion this is a particular case of tidal locking called synchronous rotation the first time we ever saw a Far Side was only in 1959 all thanks to the Soviet Luna missions and later the U.S Apollo program now when Luna 3 and other spacecraft transmitted the first Far Side images they revealed a far more cratered hemisphere that looked more like Mercury or Jupiter's moon Callisto it looked completely different from what we were used to and that's when we learn how me the other side is no seriously just look at it the near side can boast it's thinner and smoother crust these beautiful dark splotches are called lunar mare the last remnants of ancient lava flows and when I say ancient I mean it they're more than 3 billion years old meanwhile The Far Side crust is thicker and crater pot the lava flows had almost no effect on these impact craters it's also devoid of any large-scale mare low-key looks like dried white cheese to be honest don't you agree that the nearby side is much more beautiful write your thoughts in the comments so only 50 years ago we learned something about the apparent differences but then the scientists discovered something weird both sides are different even in the geochemical composition and not only in this our side was thinner than The Far Side by several miles but where did such significant differences come from on an ordinary floating Stone own ball for scientists this was a mystery they started coming up with a lot of theories the melted Moon theory was the main one for a while it said that it was the Earth's fault that our moon looks like this this happened several billion years ago the moon was born because of a collision one day an object about the size of Mars crashed into the Earth at that moment a piece broke off from it which later became the moon however this piece was somewhere 15 times closer to Earth than it is now some scientists created pictures of the so-called early mode unlike our cute little white ball the early moan was a strange looking boiling Scarlet ball that piece didn't leave us after the separation it became tidally locked very soon after the Earth after the Collision was still an incandescent nightmare full of fire and lava it was boiling at a temperature of 4 500 degrees Fahrenheit and since the moon has always been turned toward us with one side this side has melted down a little this would explain why the moon's surface the so-called mantle is thinner on the near side than on the far side during the boiling of the earth certain elements evaporated from it they then settled on the moon this would explain the difference in geochemical composition between the two sides but there was a plot hole in this theory if that's what happened then where did rare foreign chemical elements come from such as unusual isotopes of phosphorus potassium or tungsten the nearby site is full of them and they couldn't have come from the earth there were also other theories another one said that initially we had two teeny tiny moons later they merged into a big one hence the difference in their composition but this Theory sounds a bit crazy and it has a plot hole too for example the transition between the two sides is way too soft if our moon was actually two tiny moons this transition would be more abrupt so scientists were kind of at a loss on this one but recently they finally figured out what really happened to the Moon all thanks to NASA's Grail orbiters they spent over a year whizzing around the Moon mapping it out and studying its composition using this data scientists have created around 360 computer simulations they contain different impacting objects of many sizes traveling at different speeds scientists were comparing the results with our current Moon they try to determine which result was the closest to what we have today and so they finally solved this 50 year old mystery the answer lies in a collision with a dwarf planet this Collision occurred 4.3 billion years ago this huge object was slightly larger than series for those who don't know Ceres is one of the dwarf planets of our solar system its diameter is 580 miles you could say that one France or one Germany would fit into it so this giant object crashed into the moon somewhere near the South Pole this Collision was so strong that it changed the image of the Moon forever it left a trail of 3 500 miles behind it would take you 14 hours by plane to fly that distance this crater covered the entire near Side of the Moon it caused damage to the moon's mantle it also created a so-called South Pole Aiken base or Spa Basin this is an impact crater and has a diameter of 1600 miles which is like adding one UK plus one Germany it's important though the formation of this Basin was a defining event in the history of the Moon and it's the second largest impact crater in the solar system the Collision also caused a powerful hot wave to spread across the moon this wave scattered over the remnants of those rare warm minerals scientists found on the nearby side that's how our beautiful side became home to something called procellarum creep terrain or pkt for short this is basically a compositional anomaly a concentration of potassium phosphorus and other rare elements like thorium you can say that those minerals are a gift to us from Deep base anyway there were many and I mean many collisions in the moon's history all of them only deep in this already large crater that's why the mantle on the near side was Getting Thinner and thinner with the ears also our gifted minerals gave off a lot of heat so the mantle has melted a little bit more and more oops this accidentally caused the moons of volcanoes to wake up volcanic activity has increased on the near side intense lava flows filled the old empty craters ta-da and this is how the beautiful lunar mare was born and that's about how it all happened all this information was found thanks to the researchers from Brown Purdue Stanford universities and NASA's JPL the research was published by the Journal of geophysical research planets so you can read about it in more detail if you're interested there are still many things we need to learn about the moon the highest prior priority is the return Mission from the South Pole the Aitkin Basin samples brought from there will be used to determine the age of the Moon its history and the nature of the crust and mantle more accurately another critical Target is the mosque of Jens this is the name of a large lava plane on The Far Side of the Moon studying it will help us better understand the difference between the two sides as well as tell us how the other side was formed all this knowledge is significant for understanding the history of the moon but it's also handy for space exploration in general scientists use the moon as a reference point to determine the age of other planets and entire worlds in Space the moon helps us determine the chronology of the life of the whole solar system so stay tuned for new exciting research and discoveries you're strapped in your seat in the vast open space with Earth behind you getting smaller and smaller all around you are toggles and controls to keep the spacecraft intact you and two other crew members are working hard at those controls out the window you see some meteorites flying by and stars and planets out in the distance you're about to be one of the first people to land on the moon after years of research and testing you have to consider all the steps perfectly otherwise you could face many complications like crashing into a flying asteroid or even being left in the vacuum of space without any way of getting on track research shows that around one-third of all moon landings faced many problems launching towards the moon requires a special rocket traveling at more than 25 000 miles per hour and once in lunar orbit the spacecraft can detach itself from the rocket and navigate its way to the surface of the Moon and land sounds simple right well figuring out the math to land was the reason Landing a human on the moon used to seem like a ridiculous idea but scientists were able to pull it off by studying and observing the flight of helicopters unlike an airplane that needs velocity to take off the large propellers on a helicopter give it a good push to fly around it basically has to twirl with enough Force to lift its own weight from the ground with that in mind we need to consider the gravitational force pulling everything down on Earth the force of gravity is 32 feet per second squared on the moon it's only five feet per second squared so we got landing on Earth figured out for the most part but what about landing on a surface that barely assists you in that there had to be three steps doing all the research and math needed for calculating the proper conditions using a test vehicle to practice it and using a flight simulator to imitate the conditions of the moon's atmosphere Choppers weren't really good references for landing gravity is doing most of the work and the spacecraft looks nothing like a helicopter they needed to simulate a spaceship of only five six the weight of it since the gravitational pull on the moon is weaker than on Earth navigating it under these conditions is vital for when the real thing comes the scientists of NASA decided to get a crane hanger to lift the spacecraft with cables while simulating the flight and Landing kind of like stunt actors in a movie with cables attached them for Action fight scenes but it still wasn't enough to determine if you could actually land properly on the moon without the safety cables to help you they needed proper freedom so it was back to the drawing board they were about to throw in the towel until they came up with a brilliant idea to simulate The Landing conditions on the Moon by installing a sort of detachable Jet fan into the bottom of the spacecraft to keep consistent thrust upwards by doing this they were able to create a scenario where the craft would be five six of its weight on Earth and without the safety cables to hold it but after many trials and errors the only way to see if landing on the moon was possible was by actually doing it so being so far away from Earth you and your team see the moon out your window it's a lot bigger than it looks from Earth its surface fills up the entire window but landing won't be a piece of cake the spaceship has to orbit around the Moon to determine the best time to land and don't worry that's why you have a team for that it can take more than 24 hours to know when and where the perfect place to land is after performing various tests and measurements and once you get the best calculations the actual spaceship detaches from the orbiting one and makes its way downwards this is where the helicopter physics come into play a helicopter needs to Tilt at least five degrees to move forward after ascending from the ground same for going backwards but that's because we have gravity to assist it up above the Moon soaring through the vacuum of space the ship would need to Tilt at least 30 to 40 degrees to move forward as soon as the ship reached a nice spot for landing it would go back to 90 degrees and slowly land on the surface as you get closer you can see the moon's surface just a few feet away this is the tricky part but it's a success the team back on Earth couldn't be happier the crew members are also thrilled about what you've achieved you put on your spacesuit and gear and climb down the ladder you leave your first footprint on the moon and look out at the distance ahead of you the Earth is just a little blue dot far away you're able to bounce around in the near zero gravity Now That's What I Call moonwalking after spending much time on the moon it's time to head back Neil Armstrong the first man to step on the moon spend only about two and a half hours on its surface before returning but oh no you forgot the keys inside the ship and now you're stranded nah just kidding although it would have made a good plot twist you get back and launch the spacecraft back into orbit to reunite with the other ship above you and once you've reattached you exit the moon's orbit and head back to Earth by sending humans to the Moon consistently the next big step can be achieved by landing on Mars the famous exploration rover Curiosity traveled around the surface of Mars and gathered information needed for humans to land there and NASA is aiming to have the first humans up there after 2030. the journey will be hundreds of times harder than the one towards the moon but many scientific questions will be answered once it happens humans may be able to gather some of the natural resources there and even build outposts and colonies there are endless possibilities as well as challenges the journey from the Earth to the Moon is around 250 000 miles Mars is around 35 million miles away there could be a possibility of a new human Outpost station on Mars building a new Society of scientists and Engineers to make the most out of the conditions it would be completely self-sufficient providing proper ways for farming and Agriculture and by having humans on Mars for so long scientists can properly understand the planet but to understand how the human body responds to deep space environment we'd have to have a lot of practice before getting that ticket to Mars the closest experience of having a colony in the middle of nowhere is the Amazon Scott station on the South Pole it's designed to withstand all the harsh conditions of the freezing dry coal being at the bottom of the world can be pretty stressful without proper practice the journey may not be as far as Mars or the Moon but being on the South Pole is like arriving on a whole new planet the station itself is equipped to provide the proper conditions everyone needs to be comfortable besides the strong heating system the station has a recreational room for sports and music a library a lounge and even a greenhouse to grow all the right veggies and fruits in fact the greenhouse is the only way you'd get to feel like you're in a rainforest and even before applying there you'd have to get screened to see if you can handle the isolation for months not that you'd be completely alone but still away from civilization Antarctica's whole population consists of scientists and engineers and you need to be examined by a doctor to determine if you're physically fit to stay there the station is built there for scientists to study space in things related to geology being in the biggest desert in the world can take its toll on you when leaving the station you have to wear at least three layers of gloves and extremely thick sweaters and jackets to withstand the cold they even compared stepping on the South Pole to walking on the moon.
By Aamir Adam9 months ago in Earth
Terrifying True Story Behind the Mothman
on a rainy evening in a dark dense forest you hear the crunch of branches your heart starts beating faster you're afraid to look in the direction of the sound but you're still slowly turning your head a feeling of horror freezes you you can't escape and you're sure that some animal is looking at you now by this point it stopped raining an ominous Silence has fallen over the forest the clouds disperse and the dim light from the full moon illuminates the trees among which you notice a human silhouette he's tall and is hiding in the shadows he isn't moving waiting for your next actions two glowing red eyes light up his dark face terrified you point the flashlight Beam at the monster the scary creature opens its Wide Wings and flies away Into the Night you've just seen the Mothman one of America's most famous monsters this is an urban legend but the monster really exists and doesn't exist at the same time it all started in West Virginia in the small town of Point Pleasant in the early 20th century it was an industrial place with factories producing harmful toxic substances closer to the 50s all these plants were closed but people didn't dispose of waste from the factories properly therefore harmful substances began to penetrate the surrounding nature and pollute forests and water these events became a prologue to the appearance of the Mothman [Music] for the first time City residents heard about the monster in the 60s four young people were driving past the Dark Forest and stopped by a local power plant there they saw a big man with red eyes and wide wings like those of a moth the teenagers were terrified and immediately drove away from that place they came to the local sheriff and told him everything that had happened the police quickly examined the forest and the area near the station searching for the monster but found nothing meanwhile a local newspaper wrote an article about it soon other people also began to report that they had seen a mysterious creature some thought the Mothman was a human or an animal that mutated after getting poisoned by toxic substances these rumors were nothing but fairy tales from Sci-Fi movies so people started ignoring these stories after a while then after the monster's first appearance a catastrophe happened in the city the Silver Bridge the main road to Point Pleasant couldn't withstand the traffic before the winter holidays the bridge collapsed under the heavyweight and many cars fell down the tragedy brought a lot of grief to the town and people were trying to figure out how could this happen some suggested that the crash could be related to the Mothman no he didn't destroy the bridge but people said they had seen this creature many times before the tragedy it looked like the Mothman was a harbinger of trouble further investigation revealed that the road collapsed because of poor Bridge maintenance but this version faded amid the rumors about the Mothman after the crash reports about The Mothman stopped people no longer saw the monster and forgot about it but then in the 70s author John Keel wrote a book about the mysterious monster from Point Pleasant he liked discussing stories about extraterrestrial civilizations and other urban legends so he couldn't miss the case of the Mothman he wrote about how the unknown Beast could be an unconscious premonition of Point Pleasant's inhabitants of the tragedy on the bridge the book became popular all over the U.S John Keel made the Mothman a superstar Hollywood created a movie based on the book and the small town became the center of Attraction for thousands of tourists the Mothman has become as popular as the Loch Ness monster and Bigfoot people organize an annual Festival in honor of this character if earlier the Beast was a harbinger of disaster now it's become the cause of the economic growth of Point Pleasant tourists come to get in touch with the legend and spend a lot of money locals open cafes and hotels organize tours and make souvenirs one sculptor even installed a Sinister monster statue the Mothman has evolved from local myth to a brand in this case it turns out that even though he doesn't exist it's not entirely true many messages about the Mothman appear all over the world it said that people see him shortly before major disasters but of course it's yet to be proven one guy did research and found out that all the books and materials about the Mothman were written by fans of myths and urban legends and that there was not a single scientific proof or observation that the monster really existed now remember the events associated with the Mothman the collapse of the bridge the release of toxic substances and other tragedies the flying creature with red eyes has become the embodiment of mass Hysteria when many people are under stress or grief they may experience the same unconscious reaction in such a depressed state people really begin to believe and see things that don't exist a similar feeling appears during a strike or other Mass events you may disagree with the majority opinion but when you find yourself in a crowd that demands something you seem to be infected by their mood this is quite a typical thing for our mentality when you're experiencing grief along with hundreds and thousands of people around your brain becomes sensitive to any information you may see a large Heron or an owl in this state and mistake it for the Mothman and other people will unknowingly support you and believe in the monster there have been many cases of mass hysteria in the world one of the most striking ones happened in France in the 16th century when the inhabitants of Strasbourg began to dance for several weeks this event is called the dancing plague at first one woman started dancing in the city's Central Square a week later other locals joined her infected with her bout of sinister fun according to one version the mass dancing hysteria began against the backdrop of hunger and diseases that Europe was experiencing at that time people were under constant stress and their minds decided to relieve stress in an unusual way another version says that people were poisoned by some fungus that grew on wheat grains the fungus somehow affected people's psyche and made them dance but let's get back to our monster in addition to the stress associated with the collapse of the bridge and the release of toxic waste in the forest people could have been oppressed by herons and owls people called The Mothman bird-like in the first reports because of his red eyes and wings therefore some researchers claimed that the residents of Point Pleasant had seen a big Heron or a sandhill crane with wide wings and red markings around the eyes the sandhill crane doesn't live in West Virginia but it can fly over this territory and even make a stop there to have a snack also people could have seen a giant owl sitting in a tree the eyes of these animals can glow red at night people reported seeing about 28 cranes from 2017 to 2019. imagine living in a city where shops streets and monuments remind you of the Mothman people have been talking about him for years believing in him and then you see a giant Heron in the forest surely the first thing you'll think about is the Mothman so people may be telling the truth when they say they've seen him or at least they might believe they're telling the truth in any case the Mothman is neither a product of an extraterrestrial civilization nor a radioactive mutant animal people created this creature with their minds and Faith such things always attract people because they give us the feeling that we know something that most people don't something mysterious Additionally the Mothman brings a lot of money to the residents of Point Pleasant and it's much more profitable for them to support the rumors about the monster than to prove that it doesn't exist.
By Aamir Adam9 months ago in Fiction
Quantum Computers vs Supercomputers What are they?
quantum computers versus supercomputers what are they you may have heard the term supercomputers and quantum computers but may not have ever gotten around to understanding what they are in their true sense we know that supercomputers and quantum computers sound like very powerful computers but exactly how powerful are they and how do super computers and quantum computers compete against each other why do we even need such systems that they are this powerful what kind of costs are we looking at welcome to another video of the modern day geeks today we're going to find out what is a quantum and supercomputer and what do they do supercomputers have been essential in advancing the boundaries of science over time in order to create sophisticated ai models that can learn from trillions of examples speak hundreds of different languages seamlessly analyze text images and video together create augmented reality tools and more meta earlier this year launched the ai research super cluster which is one of the fastest ai supercomputers however quantum computers were created as a result of the search for a faster computing device than supercomputers zoo chongxie 2.1 the world's fastest programmable superconducting quantum computer was unveiled by the university of science and technology of china last year it is a million times quicker than a traditional computer that's right one million times faster than a supercomputer google debuted a quantum ai campus in santa barbara california during the i o conference last year it included a quantum data center research laboratories for quantum hardware and chip fab facilities for quantum processors within 10 years the tech giant hopes to construct a practical error-corrected quantum computer future quantum computers will be quicker and more effective than supercomputers in solving complicated problems however does this indicate that supercomputers will soon be obsolete let's investigate let's have a brief look at the evolution of both of these technologies in the 1960s the first supercomputer was created the creation of contemporary supercomputers however came much later in the 1990s asci red intel's first one teraflop supercomputer was created in 1997. the summit an ibm machine that is now the second fastest computer in the world is tripled in processing power by the fugaku supercomputer at the raiken center for computational science in japan a maximum performance of 442 010 teraflops have been recorded for the fugaku now as far as the quantum computer is concerned richard feynman and yuri manan initially presented the idea of quantum computers in the 1980s the first quantum computer was created in 1998 2017 saw ibm make the first commercial announcement of a quantum computer let's hear it in the words of syrinjoy ganguly a senior data scientist he says quantum computing has seen a major boost in the last 10 to 15 years companies worldwide are investing in various quantum technologies and making their quantum hardware today we're in the nisq noisy intermediate scale quantum era working on 100 cubic quantum systems they may not deliver perfect results read noisy and erroneous but you can still work on them however we are still very far from achieving the maturity level to have a fully fault tolerant quantum computer now how does the functionality of both these technologies differ the super computers we see today whether they be ibm sierra or sunway taihoo light run at a high compute to i o ratio what this means is that a supercomputer uses more processors than a typical computer because it is more powerful one of the top five fastest supercomputers in the world the sunway taihoo light contains over 40 960 processing modules each with 260 processor cores while a traditional computer uses binary quantum computers use qubits which have much more computing capacity and are subatomic particles like electrons or photons only a regulated quantum state at temperatures below zero or in chambers with an extremely high vacuum allows the qubits to function quantum computing on the other hand is predicated on two phenomena qubit's capacity for superposition allows them to do a million calculations at once by being in several states at once qubits can't sustain their condition for extended periods of time since they are sensitive to their surroundings as a result long-term information storage is not possible with quantum computers quantum entanglement was defined by einstein as eerie activity at a distance no matter how far away they are two or more quantum systems can nevertheless entangle with one another gauging the state of one entangled qubit reveals information about the other qubit because of its correlation the processing speed of quantum computers is accelerated by this special characteristic perhaps the most important question that can be posed in regarding efficiency supercomputers are subject to the standard physics laws the speed increases with the number of processors super computers are significantly less effective than quantum computers which use quantum mechanics to do tasks china has claimed to create a quantum computer in 2020 that is 100 trillion times faster than any supercomputer at doing calculations a new energy-based benchmark for the quantum advantage has been developed by u.s researchers and it has been used to demonstrate that noisy intermediate scale quantum and isq computers consume orders of magnitude less energy than the most powerful supercomputer while doing a given task the topic of whether a quantum computer can execute calculations beyond the capabilities of even the most potent conventional supercomputer is becoming more and more important as supercomputers grow in size and dependability this capability known as the quantum advantage or quantum supremacy is the turning point for quantum computers from scientific wonders to practical tools however assessing quantum advantage is challenging as seen by the discussions that followed google's september 2019 assertion of advantage for their sycamore nisq chip sycamore according to google experts can solve a practical issue in just 200 seconds but a powerful supercomputer would need 10 000 years to do the same work the supercomputer could perform the operation in just 2.5 days according to ibm physicists who said this was a massive exaggeration one month later thereby disproving the claim of superiority researchers are currently looking for problems that today's developing quantum computers can solve more quickly than the most potent conventional computers in an effort to benchmark the development effort calculating the output of random quantum circuits is one activity that obviously lends itself to a quantum computer rqc google based its 2019 claim of quantum advantage on this benchmark the essential question is whether the quantum computer solves the problem more efficiently than the most potent quantum simulator the problem can be addressed by running a quantum simulator software on a conventional supercomputer and now for the development and infrastructure cost a supercomputer would cost between 100 million and 300 million to build that's extremely costly but still doesn't sound too bad for a rich organization for instance the sunway taihoo light from china costs around 273 million us dollars the annual maintenance costs range from 4 million to 7 million usd the cost of quantum computers however is prohibitive tens of billions of dollars will be spent on only the hardware components to make quantum computers economically feasible the price per qubit must be dramatically reduced a single cubic currently costs around 10 000 usd additionally maintaining a vacuum or a subzero temperature environment where qubits may operate in a quantum state is exceedingly costly while a non-quantum algorithm may be used on a quantum computer a quantum algorithm such as grover's algorithm for searching an unstructured database or shors algorithm for factoring cannot be used on a supercomputer what about the applications of supercomputers when dealing with huge data sets both supercomputers and quantum computers are used let's examine some usage cases weather forecasting a supercomputer generates the weather information we receive on smart devices supercomputers not only forecast rain in your city but they also forecast hurricane paths saving thousands of lives the world's most potent supercomputer is being developed by microsoft and the uk's met office as part of a 1.2 billion pound agreement agreed last year to improve readiness for catastrophic weather occurrences supercomputers provide light on intricate academic subjects experiments in the lab are costly and time-consuming so it makes sense to recreate the laboratory trials using supercomputers for instance several supercomputers were used to globally combat the covet virus and create vaccinations what about the use of quantum computers we are unable to conduct operations on a qubit at the moment that takes more than a few microseconds the quantum data is destroyed as a result making it challenging to employ for ai or other general tasks according to ganguly a computer device called qram which will enable storing quantum states for several hours is now under development applications for quantum computers may be found in areas like medication development to investigate drug combinations and interactions quantum computers are employed drugs are often purchased through a costly and dangerous process called trial and error computational chemistry unlike supercomputers quantum computers concentrate on the simultaneous presence of zero and one providing enormous computing power to effectively map the molecules cartography using quantum key distribution quantum computers make it easier to have secure communications there is a drawback though in a recent message us president joe biden urged federal organizations to use quantum resistant encryption on their most crucial systems the most commonly used encryption method rsa is built on 2048 bit integers this encryption might be broken by a quantum computer however we don't currently have a quantum computer that can do this function.
By Aamir Adam9 months ago in Geeks
Why We Are Not Allowed to Visit Antarctica
we've all dreamed of visiting the Arctic and witnessing the natural wonders of polar bears frolicking on ice floes or the Aurora Borealis dancing across the sky well sorry to break it to you but you won't find any tourists flocking to Antarctica anytime soon why you may ask let's dive into it first off where is Antarctica it's located in the southern hemisphere specifically at the South Pole the southern ocean surrounds it and most of the continent is covered by Ice making it one of the most remote and frigid places on Earth now have you ever met someone who's visited Antarctica probably not it's one of the least visited places on the planet and only a handful of Lucky explorers have seen its interior which is mostly made up of glaciers and Ice Fields but trust me when I say the wildlife and scenery are out of this world why shouldn't you travel to Antarctica well for starters the environment is incredibly fragile and can be easily damaged plus there are no native human populations on the continent so your travels would essentially be like visiting an uninhabited Island and let's not forget that it's also one of the most expensive destinations to travel to despite all that Antarctica is not exactly guarded like a fortress but there is an international agreement called the Antarctic treaty this treaty was negotiated to prevent any unwanted activity on the continent and ban some forms of testing done there by member states but the primary reason we can't just Waltz into Antarctica is that it has a delicate ecosystem that needs protection the treaty states that Antarctica should be used for peaceful purposes only and should be free from any human activity that could harm the environment scientists are still learning about the continent's unique ecosystem and our activity and machines could disrupt the delicate balance that exists there if you're still itching to go to Antarctica getting permission isn't exactly a walk in the park U.S citizens for example need to complete a special form and send it to the office of ocean and polar Affairs and once you're there you'll need to follow some strict guidelines to protect the environment like not disturbing any Wildlife or taking souvenirs like rocks plants or animals now technically can you live in Antarctica well there are no laws Banning people from living there permanently it's a very inhospitable environment and unsuitable for human habitation temperatures can reach negative 76 degrees Fahrenheit and Below making it nearly impossible for anyone to survive without the proper equipment and experience plus the nearest piece of land is over one thousand miles away making any inhabitants completely cut off from the rest of the world who knows maybe one day we'll get the chance to visit this unique and fascinating continent but until then let's admire it from afar let's now talk a bit about the discovery of Antarctica unlike other places that were already inhabited Antarctica never had a native human population ancient Greek philosophers had an idea about the continent and called it antarctos meaning opposite the bear the Bears it refers to are not the polar ones though but rather the great and little bear constellations which are only observable in the northern hemisphere as a result the term signifies the opposite of the land of the bear wailing and ceiling voyages in the late 1700s and early 1800s would venture further south When rounding Cape Horn at the tip of South America it was known that going further south often meant stronger winds but also the risk of hitting floating ice of all sizes and winds and seas that could prove dangerous to the ship and crew Captain James Cook was the first to cross the Antarctic Circle on January 17 1773 in the Ross sea region he reached a point further north a year later and though he didn't cite land he came to within 50 miles and saw deposits of rock held in icebergs indicating that a more southerly land existed the first sighting of Antarctica is widely acknowledged to have taken place in January of 1820 during The Voyage of two shifts under the command of Captain Fabian Gottlieb Von belling's house as part of a two-year exploratory Expedition around the world to discover new lands the captain's ships were the first to have crossed the Antarctic Circle since cook the first Undisputed landing on Antarctica didn't happen until much later on January 24 1895 at Cape Adare during the whaling Voyage of the ship Antarctic led by Henrik bull a small boat with six or possibly seven men on board rode ashore during calm conditions you might not believe it but Antarctica is actually a desert with all that ice you think it'd be like a winter wonderland with snowball fights and hot cocoa all day long when we think of deserts we picture camels and cacti and people struggling to find water but in Antarctica it's a whole different story The Struggle isn't to find water it's to find anything that's not covered in ice and the average rainfall has been just over 0.4 inches in the past 30 years that's like a few drops of rain compared to what we're used to so technically it's not the dunes or sizzling heat that makes a desert well a desert it's the lack of precipitation but don't worry if you ever find yourself lost in Antarctica you won't have to worry about getting thirsty just make sure you bring a jacket and some mittens because it's cold enough to make you into a popsicle not only is Antarctica one of the driest places on Earth but it's also the coldest the windiest and the highest talk about overachieving the Penguins and scientists down in Antarctica have at times found themselves in a bit of a pickle when it comes to time you see unlike the rest of us on this big blue planet there is no Antarctica time zone all the lines of longitude meet at a single point at the South Pole making it a bit of a head scratcher when trying to figure out what time it is now you might be thinking but how do the scientists and researchers keep track of time down there good question they typically stick to the time zone of the country they departed from however with stations from all over the world on the Antarctic Peninsula things can get a little wacky imagine trying to coordinate with your neighboring countries without accidentally waking them up in the middle of the night you might think that not much could survive in a place where the temperature is extremely cold the sun barely shows up and the wind could blow you away faster than a tumbleweed well as in many places on Earth life found a way in Antarctica too believe it or not this Frozen continent is buzzing with activity it's home to billions of krill which in turn attract lots of seals and more penguins than you can shake a fish at but don't let their cute and cuddly appearance fool you penguins are the ultimate swimmers with streamlined bodies that would make Olympic medal winners jealous they come ashore to breed and chill but their real talent is stealing Pebbles from each other and forming mathematically precise huddles to stay warm Antarctica is also home to the largest species of penguin on Earth it's called the emperor penguin sure these creatures are flightless birds but that doesn't mean they can't jump in fact some of them can leap up to 120 inches and let's not forget about the seals with their furry bodies and special songs these marine mammals are protected by the Antarctic treaty and they're thriving in the Cool Waters of the Southern Ocean too but the real stars of the show are the whales during the Antarctic summer these huge creatures show up in droves to Chow Down on the Abundant Krill it's indeed like a whale Buffet down there.
By Aamir Adam9 months ago in Earth
This HABIT Destroys MAN Brain
it should become obvious why things like pornography not just the accessibility of pornography but the intensity of pornography can negatively shape real world romantic and sexual interactions this is a serious concern the discussion is happening now the underlying neurobiological mechanisms You Now understand and this isn't to pass judgment on whether or not people like or don't like pornography that's an ethical discussion it's a moral discussion that has to be decided for each individual by virtue of age Etc but again any activity that evokes a lot of dopamine release will make it harder to achieve the same level and certainly the greater level of dopamine through a subsequent interaction so yes indeed many people are addicted to pornography and yes indeed many people who regularly indulge in pornography experience challenges in real world romantic interactions fortunately most people do not experience or pursue enormous increases in dopamine leading to these severe drops in Baseline many people do however and that's what we call addiction when somebody pursues a drug or an activity that leads to huge increases in dopamine and now you understand that afterward the Baseline of dopamine drops because of depletion of dopamine the readily releasable pool the dopamine is literally not around to be released and so people feel pretty lousy and many people make the mistake of then going and pursuing the dopamine evoking the dopamine releasing activity or substance again thinking mistakenly that it's going to bring up their Baseline it's going to give them that Peak again not only does it not give them a peak their Baseline gets lower and lower because they're depleting dopamine more and more and more and we've seen this over and over again when people get addicted to something then they're not achieving much pleasure at all you even see this with video games people will play a video game they love it it's super exciting to them and then they'll keep playing and playing and playing and either one of two things happens typically both first of all I always say addiction is a progressive narrowing of the things that bring you pleasure so oftentimes what will happen is the person only has excitement and can achieve dopamine release to the same extent doing that behavior and not other behaviors and so they start losing interest in school they start losing interest in relationships they start losing interest in Fitness and well-being and depletes their life and eventually what typically happens is they will stop getting dopamine released from that activity as well and then they drop into a pretty serious depression and this can get very severe and people have commit suicide from these sorts of patterns of activity but what about the more typical scenario what about the scenario of somebody who is really good at working during the week they exercise during the week they drink on the weekends well that person is only consuming alcohol maybe one or two nights a week but oftentimes that same person will be spiking their dopamine with food during the middle of the week now we all have to eat and it's nice to eat foods that we enjoy I certainly do that I love food in fact but let's say they're eating foods that really evoke a lot of dopamine release in the middle of the week they're drinking one or two days on the weekend they are one of these work hard play hard types so they're swimming a couple miles in the ocean in the middle of the week as well uh they're going out dancing once on the weekend sounds like a pretty pretty Balanced Life as I describe it well here's the problem the problem is that dopamine is not just evoked by one of these activities dopamine is evoked by all of these activities and dopamine is one currency of craving motivation and desire and pleasure there's only one currency so even though if you look at the activities you'd say well it's just on the weekends or this thing is only a couple times a week if you looked at dopamine simply as a function as a chemical function of Peaks and Baseline it might make sense why this person after several years of work hard to play hard would say yeah you know I'm feeling kind of burnt out I'm just not feeling like I have the same energy that I did a few years ago and of course there are age-related reasons why people can experience drops in energy but oftentimes what's happening is not some sort of depletion in cellular metabolism that's related to aging what's happening is they're spiking their dopamine through so many different activities throughout the week that their Baseline is progressively dropping and in this case it can be very subtle it can be very very subtle and that's actually a very sinister function of dopamine we could say which is that it can often drop in imperceptible ways but then it once it reaches a threshold of low dopamine you just feel like we can't really get pleasure from anything anymore what used to work doesn't work anymore so it starts to look a lot like the more severe addictions or the more acute addictions to things like cocaine and amphetamine which leads to these big increases these big spikes in dopamine and then these very severe drops in the Baseline now of course we all should engage in activities that we enjoy I certainly do everybody should a huge part of life is pursuing activities and and things that we enjoy the key thing is to understand this relationship between the Peaks and the Baseline and to understand how they influence one another because once you do that you can start to make really good choices in the short run and in the long run to maintain your level of dopamine Baseline maybe even raise that level of dopamine Baseline and still get those Peaks and still achieve those feelings of elevated motivation elevated desire and craving because again those Peaks and having a sufficiently healthy high level of dopamine Baseline are what drove the evolution of our species and they're really what Drive the evolution of anyone's life progression too so they're a good thing dopamine is a good thing.
By Aamir Adam9 months ago in Men
Space Oddity Alert! Discover the Most Uncommon Facts Hiding in the Cosmos!
you take off from Earth and park your spacecraft somewhere near the moon you're now almost 240 000 miles away from your home planet that's almost 100 widths of the United States now you take out a giant hammer and an enormous chisel using the robotic arms of your spaceship you place the Chisel at the Earth's north pole and strike its head with the hammer Earth splits open like an eggshell and you see it another planet it's Thea and it's hiding inside our planet like a yolk in an egg you'd need to go back in time 4.5 billion years to find out how it got there this beautiful nebula will soon become our solar system colored dust and various space debris are slowly coming closer toward the Common Center soon this jigsaw puzzle of debris becomes too heavy and dense the temperature inside the giant is rising soon it gets so high that it triggers a nuclear chain reaction Another Second and Bam there's an explosion so powerful that the shock waves travel far into dark space and the blinding Flash from this blast can be seen from the other side of the Milky Way galaxy when the dust clears a little you can see that a bright light is still shining at the very center of the explosion this newborn star is the sun it weighs as much as 333 000 Earths if the sun was a bucket you'd need 1.3 million earth-sized planets to fill it you are interested in a small object over there 93 million miles away from the Sun this pile of rocks and hot lava is Earth right now the planet is busy forming its core while the oceans of lava are gradually cooling down but a few tens of million years after the sun's birth you notice a strange object hurtling toward Earth it's Thea this small planet was born at about the same time as Earth and now it's following a crazy spiral trajectory at enormous speed scientists believe Thea was kind of a ball Jupiter and Venus played with Venus was pulling Thea in One Direction then Big Brother Jupiter pulled it back but the sun makes up 99.8 percent of the mass of the entire solar system that's why the star sets its own rules it makes Thea move in almost the same orbit as Earth so they inevitably come closer and closer to each other until they become next door neighbors we see that Thea is the size of Mars and as wide as the Atlantic Ocean from New York to Portugal [Music] a collision can't be avoided Thea is traveling toward Earth at nearly 9 000 miles per hour that's 11 times faster than the speed of sound if the smaller Planet crashes into Earth at a particular angle Earth will most likely be torn apart as well as Thea itself the Collision will cause a huge blast visible on other planets even on a bright day nothing will be left but some burning dust and debris even if Thea touches Earth only lightly it'll still knock out a chunk of our planet the size of Australia but the collision with Thea happens at a perfect 45 degree angle it strikes the Earth at tremendous speed the explosion literally vaporizes huge amounts of rock and the shock wave sends the remaining debris into Earth's orbit a huge crater is formed at the impact site soon it gets filled with boiling lava the remnants of Thea and the ejected fragments of earth begin to orbit our planet according to one version these fragments form Two Moons at first they travel together but one day they get too close to each other and Collide forming one large space body the other Theory claims that all the shards start being pulled by the remnants of Thea some time later they form the moon as we now know it at that point in the past though it's just Red Hot Rock and lava the collision at this angle slightly tilts our planet and accelerates its rotation it's because of Thea that we have different seasons and 24 hours in a day Earth has lithospheric plates these are enormous solid pieces that make up the crust of our planet after the collision with Thea they start to break and crack it causes carbon a primary component of all known life on Earth to start moving all over our planet so Earth gets some kind of metabolism after a few hundred million years the first living creatures start to appear on our planet over nearly 4 billion years simple single-celled organisms have been evolving into the life you see today according to scientists such a collision is a very rare event the probability that somewhere out there there's a planet like ours that has survived the same catastrophe is extremely small this may be the reason why we are yet to find traces of other civilizations out there in space meanwhile the remains of Thea are still here on Earth of course it doesn't look like an entire planet stuck inside our own most of the fragments have melted and blended into the Earth's crust if you take the top layer off our planet you'll see two huge lava blobs the size of entire continents they're right below Africa and the Pacific Ocean presumably these are the remains of Thea they didn't mix with Earth's mantle because of different densities it's like mixing water and oil in a glass the oil will always float up over the water and create an even layer on top of it but if you raise those lava patches up to the surface they'd be 100 times higher than Mount Everest other remains of Thea might be on the moon the Apollo space missions brought back many soil samples for analysis scientists have concluded that the Moon is very similar to Earth and structure people could drill deep down and take samples there then they'd analyze the blobs from Earth if their structure matched it'd be 100 proof that Thea did hit Earth 4.5 billion years ago and that's how he got the Moon but for the time being Thea remains somewhat mysterious ah Earth the Third Rock From the Sun the Blue Planet you get it its atmosphere is made up of around 78 nitrogen 21 oxygen and one percent argon water vapor and carbon dioxide a nice balance for any living creatures to breathe the weather here is also perfect for life to exist unlike places like Saturn Mercury or any other celestial object in our solar system we have the troposphere to thank for that it's the densest part of the atmosphere on our planet and is five to nine miles wide it's the layer of the atmosphere that always affects our weather and secures the right conditions for life to exist and to have bodies of water Earth is just sitting in its orbital path minding its own business revolving around the Sun until bam Venus and Mars swoop in and spoil the fun no one wants to leave poor Earth alone these two relatively large celestial objects moving toward Earth will have dire consequences for our planet starting with changes in its orbiting trajectory path the planet's orbits in the solar system have to maintain the right balance so that nothing goes Haywire of course if any large object approaches Earth they would throw our orbiting path off course the planets will revolve around each other which will cause plenty of natural disasters on our lands this will also affect our rotation timing potentially slowing it down days will not flow but drag by animals that rely on daytime will need to readjust their biological clocks nocturnal animals will also need to figure out how to cope with the long nights humans have adjusted pretty well to the 24 hours a day timing time itself is just a human construct to measure things we'll have a tough time sleeping and adjusting to the stretched day marine animals rely on the natural current flow to migrate around the oceans with Mars and Venus crashing the party it looks like they will also need to find New Paths Birds migrating to other lands throughout the year will also be confused and not know what to do in general the Earth's temperature will rise and massive heat waves and permanent climate changes will occur this brings us to our next issue the heat the radical temperature rise will turn everything into a Barren desert it'll be summer all year long especially if Venus is in the picture most of the planet will dry up and won't be suitable for growing crops Venus is hot I mean really hot even though it's not the closest planet to the sun it's still the hottest the temperatures on Venus are close to 900 degrees Fahrenheit which will melt you like an ice cube the lands on Venus are generally flat probably due to the temperatures it's mainly hot because its atmosphere is thick and traps the Hazardous gases inside if Venus inches its way towards us it'll invite those gases to our atmosphere and compromise it Mars or the red planet as we know it is very cold that might stay the same if it starts rotating around us it's also home to the largest dormant volcano in our solar system which makes Mount Everest look like a tiny Bush compared to a tree with so much instability it might just wake up one day and spew up molten lava Mars has a very thin atmosphere which makes the planet Chiller its gravity is quite similar to ours it's actually very cold and has ice caps in the poles covered with carbon dioxide the same is true for mercury you can only last there as long as you can hold your breath and be in The Sweet Spot between the sunrise and sunset the three planets orbiting each other will eventually Collide it's just a matter of time and the moon just hanging out like a fly on the wall will be so insignificant that something will eventually throw it off course and another planet will capture to its orbit or in the most dire case it will collide with one of the two intruding planets Earth will experience extreme tidal waves like nothing before the two new planets revolving around Earth will cause a major imbalance making our gravity shift out of control each tidal wave will be bigger than the previous one and will cover the dry land plenty of little scattered islands in the oceans will be completely submerged coastal cities and towns will also be home to fish flat countries in general will need boats to get around dams and dikes won't be enough to stop the water from coming in everyone needs to move towards Higher Ground to escape the floods with the climate getting hotter the polar caps will melt like ice cream on a sweltering summer day and add to the water level rising within a few months the whole Arctic will be nothing but liquid but wait there's more the crust will wear out due to the instability of the Earth's surface and fluctuating Gravity the Earth's crust is mainly made up of oxygen which means we're basically walking on air we might experience more earthquakes than before and dormant volcanoes will wake up from their deep Slumber the skies will be covered in Ash making flights impossible no one can travel by sea or by air importing and exporting will become history the overall climate will get hotter just like in Venus the three planets orbiting each other and their huge mass might even unintentionally welcome other planets and celestial bodies to join the party Frozen Plains mountains with white Peaks glistening in the distant sun and rustic Red Snow welcome to Pluto where nothing makes sense anymore looking at it from a distance the ice ball planet is mostly predictably winter shades of white and light blue once you land on the surface you'll notice familiar blue skies as well but see that whale-shaped red stain running along the Equator right there to the left of the white heart-shaped region there she blows this spot is bigger than Alaska and it's a mystery to scientists that's not red clay soil or anything you'll see on Earth that's Pluto's version of eyes scientists believe it's red because the atmosphere drops this strained suit-like chemical called thola on the surface it's the same stuff that explains the red cap on Pluto's Moon Sharon now let's zoom in closer on the whale oh look we have a mountain range yes Pluto's Red Ice is like rock hard enough to form into entire mountains those white Peaks standing out against the dark red aren't snowy caps like we have on Earth that's frozen methane for such a small planet Pluto's mountains are epic bigger than Everest and made entirely of ice such a bizarre landscape can't be found anywhere else in our solar system yeah Pluto is a pretty harsh cold place temperatures there can dip to minus 400 degrees Fahrenheit the coldest ever recorded on Earth was in Antarctica a measly minus 135. now let's head back to the heart of Pluto that's actually a vast plain covered in nitrogen eyes scientists discover that Pluto's heart makes the winds on the planet blow craters are also big and some of them show signs of filling and erosion that's something that happens right here on Earth when land is worn away and shaped by natural forces like wind water and ice that's erosion so what makes all this so special on Pluto it could be evidence of tectonic plate activity you know big plates of land surfing on liquid rock forming Mountain trains breaking continents apart putting them back together that's something scientists so far have only ever seen on Earth not on any other planet in the solar system now looks like Pluto could be more like our own planet that and there's water on Pluto one third of its surface in fact but of course it's not like earth water it's more like a rocky slushy yum still no signs of Life out there at least not for now it's taken a long time to get the little information we know about Pluto it was first discovered almost 100 years ago and deemed the ninth planet from the sun until 2006 when its official Planet membership card was revoked Poor Pluto it was dubbed the biggest dwarf planet in the Kuiper belt a region outside our solar system full of other dwarf planets and icy bodies circling the Sun a few months before that they launched the New Horizons Mission it was the first space probe researchers sent to Pluto in 2006 zipping at over 35 000 miles per hour that's 45 times the speed of sound it still took the probe almost a decade to reach its destination that's how far away the tiny planet is in fact Pluto is nearly 40 times the distance from Earth to the sun if you were there looking up at the sky you'd see the Sun as a tiny dot like any other star in the sky once New Horizons finally reach Pluto in 2015 it got close enough to get some incredible pictures of the surface it also collected important data and observations like those strange red spots and that heart-shaped region but Pluto gets even stranger especially its orbit most other planets go around the Sun in almost perfect circles with the sun close to the center the sun is nowhere near the center of Pluto's orbit and the orbit is so stretched out that Pluto sometimes crosses into Neptune's path and gets closer to the Sun than the blue gas giant so the unusual effect of the strange orbit Pluto sometimes has an atmosphere and sometimes not when it's closer to the Sun a thin atmosphere of nitrogen forms but once the planet starts moving further away from our sun the atmospheres freezes and falls to the surface in an ice storm of epic proportions Pluto is probably a lot smaller than you imagine if you put it on a map of the Earth it would only span about halfway across the U.S yet this little planet has five moons spinning around it and life on Pluto would be one endless year for us humans imagine no birthdays your whole life since it was discovered in 1930 we still haven't seen it complete a full circle around the Sun one year on Pluto is 248 Earth years and we'll finally see that happen on March 23 2178 mark your calendar back when Apollo missions were launched astronauts returning from the Moon claimed that Moon dust the gray sand like dust covering much of the satellite surface smelled and tasted yes they actually tasted it like gunpowder but the stuff Moon dust is made of is nothing like gunpowder about half of its composition is silicon dioxide glass from impacts with meteorites they hit the surface of the Moon at incredible speeds whoa the high temperature makes the topsoil will fuse into glass and the impact shatters it right afterwards creating the gray and clingy dust the rest of moon dust ingredients are minerals such as iron calcium and magnesium while old-fashioned gunpowder consist mainly of saltpeter charcoal and sulfur in other words Moon dust shouldn't smell like gunpowder but it does besides when astronauts brought samples of it back to Earth there was no smell left at all when explanation could be that the Moon is similar in a way to Earth's sand deserts like the Sahara it's extremely dry and arid when you sniff the air in a desert you don't smell anything but if you get caught in the rain there the moisture will raise all kinds of odors from the ground that were previously trapped in the dry sand with moon dust it might be similar while on the surface of the Moon it doesn't smell at all not that the astronauts could sniff at it wearing their spacesuits though but when brought back inside the landing module the dust came into contact with moisture in the air and started emitting its strange odor another reason for this could be a reaction of moon dust to the solar wind ionized particles from the Sun hit the bare surface of the Moon and stay there there's no thick atmosphere to protect it from those ions so they travel freely right to the ground they're very lightweight so they can fly off and sort of evaporate from the slightest of nudges and when astronauts took the moon dust samples to The Landing module those particles could have started moving around and giving off the specific smell this might also explain why the samples didn't keep the rotor when brought back to Earth since the particles are so light they might have flown off the samples already in the landing module and when they were placed in airtight containers there were little or no ions left on them another explanation is that those airtight containers weren't so airtight after all Moon dust is basically very small crystals with extremely sharp edges they unexpectedly made tiny Cuts in the seals letting in air and moisture and so the ionized particles leaked out of the containers scientists believe they should study Moon dust on the surface of the Moon itself to find out everything about its properties now there are hundreds of thousands of craters on the surface of the Moon made by Falling asteroids but one of them drew a lot of attention it turned out to not be just an impact crater but a tube looking most like an entrance to a Cave System scientists found a specific Echo pattern that suggested there was a hollow area beneath they discovered more Echo patterns at a couple of places near the hole so there could be more lunar tubes there but in this big tube you could place an entire football field researchers believe there could be an entire geological Wonderland under the surface it could be a good shelter for astronauts landing on the moon or even be a harbor for a lunar Colony no one ever managed to stay on the moon for more than three days because of the conditions on the satellite wide range of temperatures low atmosphere no magnetic field would protect life on the surface from things like radiation or solar wind astronauts wear spacesuits they can't protect them over long periods of time but a lava tube could when a lava flow cools it gets a hard crust which later thickens and creates a roof over that same lava it continues to flow but when it stops the channel can drain and that's how an empty tube appears our planet also has Lava Tubes but they're not as big as the one found on the moon back in 1178 I wasn't around then at least five people in England claim they had seen the moon split into two from its upper tip it was in the shape of a crescent at the time of the event when the crack widened fire started blazing from it which the single monk who chronicled it described it as a flaming torch spraying up spewing out fire hot coals and sparks then the moon started shifting around and pulsating but soon stopped and turned a slightly darker shade.
By Aamir Adam9 months ago in Earth
there are rarely any friends in life you can really value.
when a man who had no friends was asked why this happened he responded friendship is like a diamond it's rare expensive and there are a lot of fakes if you made one mistake then a second and a third at some point you would say there are no real diamonds in the world there are only fakes and another man added a friend is a person to be valued and treasured but unfortunately there are rarely any friends in life you can really value Haruki murakami in his book Norwegian Forest also talks about this through the voices of his characters do you like loneliness she asked propping her cheeks with her hands traveling alone eating alone sitting in a classroom apart from everyone else I don't like being alone I just don't make any extra acquaintances I answered I don't want to be disappointed in people there's a wonderful and sad parable about the Friendship of a boy and an apple tree and it's useful for everyone to know it those who do not have friends and those who have them why have a listen and answer the question for yourself the little boy became friends with the apple tree in the forest he often came to it swung on its branches ate the apples it gave him made wreaths of the leaves and imagined himself a real king of the forest on a hot day when he got tired of playing the apple tree would shelter him from the Sun and the boy would fall asleep in its shade and the apple tree had faith in an honest and sincere friendship time passed the boy grew up and began to visit the friend more rarely he had new friends and new interests but sometimes he still visited the apple tree one day he came to it again and the tree saw that he was very upset what happened to you my friend asked the apple tree looking into his eyes why do you no longer play with me do not swing on my branches do not imagine yourself a king a king must have money and I don't have any the boy answered glumly neither do you but I have apples take them and sell them then you will have money and you will be my good and happy friend again the boy plucked the apples took them away with him and sold them but he did not return to the apple tree and it waited a long time for him looking at the road where he always came to it one day he did show up and again was unhappy with life why did you take so long to come the apple tree asked I have missed you because I have a lot of problems everyone has a family and children and I can't have a family of my own because I don't have a home what's the point of our friendship if you can't give me a home I can the apple tree replied cut down my branches and build yourself whatever home you want then you will be happy again he cut off all its branches went away and built himself a house and then married and enjoyed life until his old age without remembering his apple tree but one day he came back to it and again instead of the joy of seeing it he complained about life I'm sick of everything I want to sail away somewhere so I don't have to see anyone I need a boat but I don't know where to get one The Apple Tree was silent looking at his friends sadly but the man took out his ax and Swinging it several times he cut down its trunk to make a boat out of it and when he had succeeded he left without even looking back at the poor tortured stump left from his friend time passed frequent rains watered the apple tree stump the sun warmed the ground around it wild animals sometimes climbed on it and rested enjoying life but the stump was not happy about anything it no longer saw the meaning and what it used to Value more than anything else in the world but the world did not cease to exist and one day the stump released a little green Sprout from its Soul which quickly turned into a young beautiful apple tree full of strength it began to live and again learn to enjoy every new day but one day a little boy came to it and said hi let's be friends The Apple Tree trembled with all its branches but did not answer him it no longer believed an honest and sincere friendship George Carlin American stand-up comedian actor writer screenwriter and producer once said inside every cynical person is a disappointed idealist who knows maybe he used to be such an apple tree for someone too in The Vampire Diaries Damon Salvatore says the hardest thing is getting over people who have brought only pain and disappointment will argue with him the hardest thing is to forget such friends and if you know someone who has no friends don't rush to condemn them that doesn't always mean they are bad themselves maybe they have been an apple tree for someone too often and now they have simply stopped believing in honest and sincere friendship and that's very sad isn't it not having friends shows that a person has many reasons not to trust people.
By Aamir Adam9 months ago in Families