Thursday, March 30, 2006

Bermuda triangle

Firstly, the Bermuda triangle isn't actually a triangle. The area has a large amount of unexplained losses of ships, small boats, and aircraft. It is strange how they have never found any remains of the disappearing vehicles. Countless theories attempting to explain the many disappearances have been offered throughout the history of the area. The most practical seem to be environmental and those citing human error. The size of the triangle varies from 500,000 square miles to three times that size and estimates range from about 200 to no more than 1,000 incidents in the past 500 years. Howard Rosenberg claims that in 1973 the U.S. Coast Guard answered more than 8,000 distress calls in the area and that more than 50 ships and 20 planes have gone down in the Bermuda Triangle within the last century. Many theories have been given to explain the extraordinary mystery of these missing ships and planes. They vary from evil extraterrestrials to people with anti-gravity devices or other weird technologies. Or the area could just have very bad weather there. But we believe that the report below makes the most sense.

Gas bubbles causing sinking of ships?
A British scientist claims to have solved the mystery of the Bermuda Triangle - and says the explanation could fix the world's energy problems. Geologist Dr Ben Clennell told a conference that the phenomenon where planes, ships and people have vanished was caused by giant gas bubbles. The gas bubbles resulted from underwater landslides releasing frozen methane gas which had built up over millennia. The methane ice "gas hydrate" was produced by deep-sea bacteria feeding beneath the ocean bed. The effect of these apple-sized bubbles rising to the surface could be disastrous because the release of a large quantity of methane would reduce the density of seawater, making the ship sink like a stone!

Possible Theories
There have been loads of theories attempting to explain what is in the Bermuda Triangle. Some people think that the area is a focus of strange energies, while others think that it is the site of the Lost City Of Atlantis. Even UFO activity has been attributed to the mysterious disappearances over the area. Some believe that there is no mystery at all, and that every disappearance has a rational explanation. Whatever the answer may be, the Bermuda Triangle has already taken it's place as one of the most famous mysteries in history.

Have a look at this link for more details...
http://www.bermuda-triangle.org/

Thursday, March 02, 2006

Is it Twele midnight AM or Twele midnight PM?

Twelve midnight A.M. and twelve midnight P.M., or 00:00 A.M. and 00:00 P.M., mean nothing at all. They are simply the midpoints that divide the day into two equal halves.

Each and every day begins exactly at midnight, and each A.M. begins precisely thereafter. Similarly, each P.M. begins immediately after noon. No meaning can be assigned to 12:00 A.M. (00:00 A.M.), or to 12:00 P.M. (00:00 P.M.). They are merely reference points meant to simplify timetables for us.

Along the same line, the Universal Day, established by the International Convention in 1884 in Washington, D.C., U.S.A., operates according to World Time, or Universal Time at Greenwich, England. The logic regarding Midnight and Noon also applies to Greenwich Mean Time, commonly referred to as GMT or Zulu time; Midnight and Noon represent markers, or "page breaks" in the day and in the night, and may be represented by 00:00 o’clock.

Greenwich, England also holds the distinction of being at the point of zero longitude, where East meets West. The 1884 international agreement also recognized this line of zero degrees longitude as the prime meridian, a point from which all points on the earth’s surface are measured.

Wednesday, December 21, 2005

Why do golf balls have dimples?

Because the dimples maximize the distance golf balls travel. Dimpled balls travel up to four times farther than smooth-surfaced golf balls.

In the early days of golf, smooth-surfaced balls were used until golfers discovered that old, bumpy balls traveled longer distances. The science of aerodynamics helps explain the dimpled phenomenon. The dimples reduce the drag on a golf ball by redirecting more air pressure behind the golf ball rather than in front of it. The higher levels of pressure behind the golf balls force them to go far distances.

The dimples change the levels of pressure by bringing the main air stream very close to the surface of the golf ball. The dimples, or "turbulators," increase the turbulence in the layer of air located next to the surface of the ball. This high-speed air stream near the ball increases the amount of pressure behind the ball-thereby forcing the ball to travel farther.

Quite interesting right.

Thursday, December 15, 2005

Do you know why clocks run clockwise?

Mechanical clocks were invented in the northern hemisphere by inventors who were trying to make models of the sun's movement in the sky.

If you watch the sun from the northern hemisphere, you have to face south. Then the sun will rise on your left and pass over your head to set on your right. Since the hour hand on the clock was made to follow the sun's motion through the sky, it moves from left to right over the top of the clock - clockwise. The hands are actually modeled after the shadow on a sundial.