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Tuesday 8 October 2013

Amazing Facts


  • A strong jet stream can add or subtract microseconds from a day
  • Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis is an illness that only 4 % of the people that have it live for more than 10 years. However, Stephan Hawking has survived for over 50 years with it! Making him one of the strongest human beings around.
  • For over 150 years, scientists have known that fires can be extinguished with sound waves, but they still don't know how

Coal Ash Is More Radioactive than Nuclear Waste

  • By burning away all the pesky carbon and other impurities, coal power plants produce heaps of radiation
  • Neurologist Oliver Sacks reported a case of a man whose perception of time was so radically skewed that it took him several hours to wipe his nose, even though he felt like he was doing it at a normal rate.
  • Although you might not want to leave your protective gear(helmet) at home, just know that if you do, drivers will be a lot more scared of hitting you.

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    1. general theory of relativity. the time runs slow around an object of high mass and velocity

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  2. how much mass can a jet-stream have????

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  3. no , jetstreams affect the speed of rotation of earth , relativity has nothing to do with it , here newton's 3rd law can have a role , the jetstream moves at a great speed , the opposite force is experienced by earth as a result earth's rotation changes by a few microseconds

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