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What Would Happen If You Fell Into A Black Hole? By: Natalie Wolchover Published: 04/13/2012 03:23 PM EDT on Lifes Little Mysteries In this weekly series, Life's Little Mysteries provides expert answers to challenging questions.
Black holes are without question some of the strangest places in the universe. Bachmann Trains Rail King Ready-To-Run HO Scale Train Set: Toys & Games. Czech ice wine production aided by cold snap Pictures. Myanmar refugees flee to safety Pictures. Open wide: The diver who nearly got swallowed by a whaleshark. By Daily Mail Reporter Updated: 15:37 GMT, 21 July 2011 Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water...
This diver almost got sucked into the mouth of a massive whale shark while it fed on thousands of plankton. The shark, the sea's largest fish, is actually incredibly docile. The relieved diver escaped from the encounter unscathed and continued to enjoy the presence of the extraordinary animals. Jaws: This diver almost got sucked into the mouth of a massive whale shark as it fed on plankton. Earthquake. Global plate tectonic movement Earthquakes are measured using observations from seismometers.
The moment magnitude is the most common scale on which earthquakes larger than approximately 5 are reported for the entire globe. The more numerous earthquakes smaller than magnitude 5 reported by national seismological observatories are measured mostly on the local magnitude scale, also referred to as the Richter scale. Philippines earthquake buries residents Pictures. Romania's government collapses Pictures. Prehistoric Lake Vostok unearthed Pictures. Whale shark. The whale shark (Rhincodon typus) is a slow-moving filter feeding shark and the largest known extant fish species.
The largest confirmed individual had a length of 12.65 m (41.50 ft) and a weight of more than 21.5 metric tons (47,000 lb), and unconfirmed reports of considerably larger whale sharks exist. Claims of individuals over 14 m (46 ft) long and weighing at least 30 mt (66,000 lb) are not uncommon. The whale shark holds many records for sheer size in the animal kingdom, most notably being by far the largest living nonmammalian vertebrate, rivalling many of the largest dinosaurs in weight. It is the sole member of the genus Rhincodon and the family, Rhincodontidae (called Rhiniodon and Rhinodontidae before 1984), which belongs to the subclass Elasmobranchii in the class Chondrichthyes. The species originated about 60 million years ago. Distribution and habitat[edit] Giant whale shark washes ashore Pictures. Giant whale shark washes ashore Pictures. One Town's War on Gay Teens.
Every morning, Brittany Geldert stepped off the bus and bolted through the double doors of Fred Moore Middle School, her nerves already on high alert, bracing for the inevitable.
"Dyke. " Pretending not to hear, Brittany would walk briskly to her locker, past the sixth-, seventh- and eighth-graders who loitered in menacing packs. "Whore. " Like many 13-year-olds, Brittany knew seventh grade was a living hell. But what she didn't know was that she was caught in the crossfire of a culture war being waged by local evangelicals inspired by their high-profile congressional representative Michele Bachmann, who graduated from Anoka High School and, until recently, was a member of one of the most conservative churches in the area. Michele Bachmann's Holy War Brittany didn't look like most girls in blue-collar Anoka, Minnesota, a former logging town on the Rum River, a conventional place that takes pride in its annual Halloween parade – it bills itself the "Halloween Capital of the World. " Watch-out-we-got-a-badass-over-here-meme.png (PNG Image, 769 × 595 pixels) - Scaled (94%)
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We're the senior class, and we need to leave something "special" to out schools. I need ideas, heck, we all need ideas so we can either continue the tradition or even start the tradition. Here's what I have so far: Senior prank ideas so far: 1)spray painted handicap symbols on all the teacher and administration parking 2) Alarm clocks in every locker 3) put goldfish in dixie cups filled with water and put the open ends on the floor. Keep in mind that all pranks are alright as long as they don't cost the school thousands of dollars (don't glue the doors, or burn down the school or pul the fire alarm --- this is stupid, especially since you have computers they may be damaged. College Confidential - View Profile: himsa169. Senior Prank Ideas. Tylerc Well, it's that time of year.
The school year is drawing to a close, and I'm a senior. It would be a crime to not pull a senior prank, especially given my strong dislike for the administration. Pick a Lock in SECONDS with a Bump Key - Scam School. Necromagenvions GamePad - Viewing Blog - StumbleUpon. - StumbleUpon. Small Favors Catalog - artwork by Lawrence Yang - StumbleUpon. Here are the pieces I'm showing at the Giant Robot NY Small Favors show, up from March 27th to April 14th, 2010.
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20 Obscure Words to Describe Collectors. You probably know that numismatists study and collect coins and currency, and you may even know that philatelists study and collect stamps.
But other groups of collectors have their own less-heralded nouns, too. How Did the Duck Hunt Gun Work? If you’re a geek of a certain age, a good portion of your childhood probably revolved around sitting too close to the TV, clutching a plastic safety cone-colored hand gun and blasting waterfowl out of a pixilated sky in Duck Hunt (also, trying to blow that dog’s head off when he laughed at you).
The Duck Hunt gun, officially called the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) Zapper, seems downright primitive next to the Nintendo’s Wii and Microsoft’s Kinect, but in the late 80s, it filled plenty of young heads with wonder. How did that thing work? Annie get your Zapper The Zapper’s ancestry goes back to the mid 1930s, when the first so-called “light guns” appeared after the development of light-sensing vacuum tubes.
In the first light gun game, Ray-O-Lite (developed in 1936 by Seeburg, a company that made parts and systems for jukeboxes), players shot at small moving targets mounted with light sensors using a gun that emitted a beam of light. Gone in a Flash. Why Do Fake Phone Numbers Start With 555? As soon as an actor in a movie or TV show starts rattling off a phone number, every viewer knows what the first three digits will be: 5-5-5. How did “555” become the convention for fake phone numbers, and are there any real 555 numbers? Let’s dial up some answers. Why do TV and movies need the fake 555 numbers? What Are Eye Boogers, Anyway? Every morning when I wake up, I’ve got stalagmites of crust in my eyes.
What is this stuff, and where does it come from? That crust is a type of rheum, a thin mucus naturally discharged from our eyes, noses and mouths. Rheum is made up of mucus, skin cells, oils and dust. The rheum that comes from the eyes and forms eye boogers is called gound, which you may know as eye sand, eye gunk, sleep dust, sleep sand, sleep in your eyes, or eye shnooters. 10 Buildings Shaped Like What They Sell. Looking for a good way to advertise your business?
Why not shape your headquarters like what you sell or offer? It’s worked out pretty well for these businesses and groups. 1. 25 Words You Might Not Know Are Trademarked. Many items we use every day, like zippers and escalators, were once brand names. Even heroin, which no one should use any day, was a brand name. These names are or were trademarked, but are now often used to describe any brand in a product category. 1. 22 Fictional Characters Whose Names You Don’t Know. You know the characters, but you might not know their full names. Store these away for future trivia nights. 15 Wonderful Words With No English Equivalent. The Global Language Monitor estimates that there are currently 1,009,753 words in the English language. Mental_floss Blog & 9 Innovative Outdoor Ads. When I first saw this health club bus shelter ad with a scale built into the seat, my first reaction was, "That's brutal.
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