Showing posts with label Top Ten. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Top Ten. Show all posts
Friday, July 29, 2011
Record YouTube Video Films World Oldest
Did you know the longest and longest YouTube video ever uploaded? This video lasts 571 hours, one minute and 41 seconds or the equivalent of 23 days 19 hours. Like what? This video is the work of Jonathan Harchick (22). This video contains images of its journey to Chile two years ago. Harchick an iPhone application designer in Pittsburgh, and more on the technical achievements rather than artistic. For me, the challenge lies in the compression. Uploading a video for this on YouTube takes a lot of compression because this site gives a limit of 20GB video, he said. This man also has a site, MoldyToaster.com, which he describes as a web TV network. Through the site, Harchick 17 thousand videos have been uploaded. At the beginning of the video was uploaded last week, Harchick received 36 thousand visits a page. Some people bertaka wow when I saw this video while others argue this video is the stupidest video ever, he told the HuffPost. According to the web developer Joe Peacock, which makes it challenging is to watch this video, even Harchick can not do it. I am sure after watching this whole video, this video will change your life, certainly in a way that is not good, he concluded. (Here) Here's the video .
Saturday, June 11, 2011
10 More Unsolved Mysteries of the World
There is no doubt that some of our most popular lists are ones which revolve around mystery and intrigue. Fortunately for us all, there is no end to the number of weird and wonderful mysteries in the world, so we are now able to present our fourth list of unsolved mysteries. So – onwards to the world of the mysterious!
Over the last few decades, miners in South Africa have been digging up mysterious metal spheres. Origin unknown, these spheres measure approximately an inch or so in diameter, and some are etched with three parallel grooves running around the equator. Two types of spheres have been found: one is composed of a solid bluish metal with flecks of white; the other is hollowed out and filled with a spongy white substance. The kicker is that the rock in which they where found is Precambrian – and dated to 2.8 billion years old! Who made them and for what purpose is unknown.
In 1938, an archaeological expedition led by Dr. Chi Pu Tei into the Baian-Kara-Ula mountains of China made an astonishing discovery in some caves that had apparently been occupied by some ancient culture. Buried in the dust of ages on the cave floor were hundreds of stone disks. Measuring about nine inches in diameter, each had a circle cut into the center and was etched with a spiral groove, making it look for all the world like some ancient phonograph record some 10,000 to 12,000 years old. The spiral groove, it turns out, is actually composed of tiny hieroglyphics that tell the incredible story of spaceships from some distant world that crash-landed in the mountains. The ships were piloted by people who called themselves the Dropa, and the remains of whose descendants, possibly, were found in the cave.
Beginning in the 1930s, the father of Dr. Javier Cabrera, Cultural Anthropologist for Ica, Peru, discovered many hundreds of ceremonial burial stones in the tombs of the ancient Incas. Dr. Cabrera, carrying on his father’s work, has collected more than 1,100 of these andesite stones, which are estimated to be between 500 and 1,500 years old and have become known collectively as the Ica Stones. The stones bear etchings, many of which are sexually graphic (which was common to the culture), some picture idols and others depict such practices as open-heart surgery and brain transplants. The most astonishing etchings, however, clearly represent dinosaurs – brontosaurs, triceratops (see photo), stegosaurus and pterosaurs. While sceptics consider the Ica Stones a hoax, their authenticity has neither been proved or disproved.
Workmen hacking and burning their way through the dense jungle of Costa Rica to clear an area for banana plantations in the 1930s stumbled upon some incredible objects: dozens of stone balls, many of which were perfectly spherical. They varied in size from as small as a tennis ball to an astonishing 8 feet in diameter and weighing 16 tons! Although the great stone balls are clearly man-made, it is unknown who made them, for what purpose and, most puzzling, how they achieved such spherical precision.
The Oera Linda Book is a controversial Frisian manuscript covering historical, mythological, and religious themes that first came to light in the 19th century. Themes running through the Oera Linda Book include catastrophism, nationalism, matriarchy, and mythology. The text alleges that Europe and other lands were, for most of their history, ruled by a succession of folk-mothers presiding over a hierarchical order of celibate priestesses dedicated to the goddess Frya, daughter of the supreme god Wr-alda and Irtha, the earth mother. The claim is also made that this Frisian civilization possessed an alphabet which was the ancestor of Greek and Phoenician alphabets. The current manuscript carries a date of 1256. Internal claims suggest that it is a copy of older manuscripts that, if genuine, would have been written by multiple people between 2194 BC and AD 803. [Source]
Fossils, as we learned in grade school, appear in rocks that were formed many thousands of years ago. Yet there are a number of fossils that just don’t make geological or historical sense. A fossil of a human hand print for example, was found in limestone estimated to be 110 million years old. What appears to be a fossilized human finger found in the Canadian Arctic also dates back 100 to 110 million years ago. And what appears to be the fossil of a human footprint, possibly wearing a sandal, was found near Delta, Utah in a shale deposit estimated to be 300 million to 600 million years old.
Humans were not even around 65 million years ago, never mind people who could work metal. So then how does science explain semi-ovoid metallic tubes dug out of 65-million-year-old Cretaceous chalk in France? In 1885, a block of coal was broken open to find a metal cube obviously worked by intelligent hands. In 1912, employees at an electric plant broke apart a large chunk of coal out of which fell an iron pot! A nail was found embedded in a sandstone block from the Mesozoic Era. And there are many, many more such anomalies.
The Ark is considered the greatest of all hidden treasures and its discovery would provide indisputable truth that the Old Testament is hard fact. Its recovery remains the goal of every modern archaeologist and adventurer. Its purpose was as a container for the ten commandments given on stone tablets by God to Moses on Mount Sinai. According to the book of Exodus, the Ark is made of shittim wood (similar to acacia) and gold-covered inside and out. It was topped by a mercy seat comprising two cherubs also made of gold. It was believed to have supernatural powers due to several events, including causing the death of a man, who attempted to steady the Ark as the oxen hauling it stumbled, bringing down the walls of Jericho in one battle, and showering misfortune on the Philistines after they captured it in another. There are several speculations around the final resting place of the Ark, and whilst it would take a shrewd operator to find it, it would need a brave or even foolhardy person to open it!
Angel Hair is a rare phenomenon that has so far defied explanation. It is made up of silken threads that rain down on to the earth, but reach out to touch it and it will almost certainly vanish before your eyes. It is a world wide phenomenon with the most regular occurrences from North America, New Zealand, Australia, and western Europe. There is no known proof for what causes this substance, or even what it is made up of. Speculations are that it has come from Spiders or another type of silk-spinning insect, and even UFO’s as it has often been associated with UFO sightings. Because of its sensitive nature, it has been difficult to collect, and to analyse as it is subject to contamination from car exhaust fumes, and even human contact, which could skew the chemical results.
The Piri Reis Map is a famous pre-modern world map created by 16th century Ottoman-Turkish admiral and cartographer Piri Reis. The map shows part of the western coasts of Europe and North Africa with reasonable accuracy, and the coast of Brazil is also easily recognizable. Various Atlantic islands including the Azores and Canary Islands are depicted, as is the mythical island of Antillia. The map is noteworthy for its depiction of a southern landmass that some controversially claim is evidence for early awareness of the existence of Antarctica. Some scholars claim this and other maps support a theory of global exploration by a pre-classical undiscovered civilization. [Source]
This article is licensed under the GFDL because it contains some quotations from Wikipedia.
Additional text for this article is courtesy of The Skeptical News.
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The Grooved Spheres
Over the last few decades, miners in South Africa have been digging up mysterious metal spheres. Origin unknown, these spheres measure approximately an inch or so in diameter, and some are etched with three parallel grooves running around the equator. Two types of spheres have been found: one is composed of a solid bluish metal with flecks of white; the other is hollowed out and filled with a spongy white substance. The kicker is that the rock in which they where found is Precambrian – and dated to 2.8 billion years old! Who made them and for what purpose is unknown.
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The Dropa Stones
In 1938, an archaeological expedition led by Dr. Chi Pu Tei into the Baian-Kara-Ula mountains of China made an astonishing discovery in some caves that had apparently been occupied by some ancient culture. Buried in the dust of ages on the cave floor were hundreds of stone disks. Measuring about nine inches in diameter, each had a circle cut into the center and was etched with a spiral groove, making it look for all the world like some ancient phonograph record some 10,000 to 12,000 years old. The spiral groove, it turns out, is actually composed of tiny hieroglyphics that tell the incredible story of spaceships from some distant world that crash-landed in the mountains. The ships were piloted by people who called themselves the Dropa, and the remains of whose descendants, possibly, were found in the cave.
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The Ica Stones
Beginning in the 1930s, the father of Dr. Javier Cabrera, Cultural Anthropologist for Ica, Peru, discovered many hundreds of ceremonial burial stones in the tombs of the ancient Incas. Dr. Cabrera, carrying on his father’s work, has collected more than 1,100 of these andesite stones, which are estimated to be between 500 and 1,500 years old and have become known collectively as the Ica Stones. The stones bear etchings, many of which are sexually graphic (which was common to the culture), some picture idols and others depict such practices as open-heart surgery and brain transplants. The most astonishing etchings, however, clearly represent dinosaurs – brontosaurs, triceratops (see photo), stegosaurus and pterosaurs. While sceptics consider the Ica Stones a hoax, their authenticity has neither been proved or disproved.
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Giant Stone Balls of Costa Rica
Workmen hacking and burning their way through the dense jungle of Costa Rica to clear an area for banana plantations in the 1930s stumbled upon some incredible objects: dozens of stone balls, many of which were perfectly spherical. They varied in size from as small as a tennis ball to an astonishing 8 feet in diameter and weighing 16 tons! Although the great stone balls are clearly man-made, it is unknown who made them, for what purpose and, most puzzling, how they achieved such spherical precision.
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Oera Linda Book
The Oera Linda Book is a controversial Frisian manuscript covering historical, mythological, and religious themes that first came to light in the 19th century. Themes running through the Oera Linda Book include catastrophism, nationalism, matriarchy, and mythology. The text alleges that Europe and other lands were, for most of their history, ruled by a succession of folk-mothers presiding over a hierarchical order of celibate priestesses dedicated to the goddess Frya, daughter of the supreme god Wr-alda and Irtha, the earth mother. The claim is also made that this Frisian civilization possessed an alphabet which was the ancestor of Greek and Phoenician alphabets. The current manuscript carries a date of 1256. Internal claims suggest that it is a copy of older manuscripts that, if genuine, would have been written by multiple people between 2194 BC and AD 803. [Source]
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Impossible Fossils
Fossils, as we learned in grade school, appear in rocks that were formed many thousands of years ago. Yet there are a number of fossils that just don’t make geological or historical sense. A fossil of a human hand print for example, was found in limestone estimated to be 110 million years old. What appears to be a fossilized human finger found in the Canadian Arctic also dates back 100 to 110 million years ago. And what appears to be the fossil of a human footprint, possibly wearing a sandal, was found near Delta, Utah in a shale deposit estimated to be 300 million to 600 million years old.
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Out-of-Place Metal Objects
Humans were not even around 65 million years ago, never mind people who could work metal. So then how does science explain semi-ovoid metallic tubes dug out of 65-million-year-old Cretaceous chalk in France? In 1885, a block of coal was broken open to find a metal cube obviously worked by intelligent hands. In 1912, employees at an electric plant broke apart a large chunk of coal out of which fell an iron pot! A nail was found embedded in a sandstone block from the Mesozoic Era. And there are many, many more such anomalies.
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Ark Of The Covenant
The Ark is considered the greatest of all hidden treasures and its discovery would provide indisputable truth that the Old Testament is hard fact. Its recovery remains the goal of every modern archaeologist and adventurer. Its purpose was as a container for the ten commandments given on stone tablets by God to Moses on Mount Sinai. According to the book of Exodus, the Ark is made of shittim wood (similar to acacia) and gold-covered inside and out. It was topped by a mercy seat comprising two cherubs also made of gold. It was believed to have supernatural powers due to several events, including causing the death of a man, who attempted to steady the Ark as the oxen hauling it stumbled, bringing down the walls of Jericho in one battle, and showering misfortune on the Philistines after they captured it in another. There are several speculations around the final resting place of the Ark, and whilst it would take a shrewd operator to find it, it would need a brave or even foolhardy person to open it!
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Angel Hair
Angel Hair is a rare phenomenon that has so far defied explanation. It is made up of silken threads that rain down on to the earth, but reach out to touch it and it will almost certainly vanish before your eyes. It is a world wide phenomenon with the most regular occurrences from North America, New Zealand, Australia, and western Europe. There is no known proof for what causes this substance, or even what it is made up of. Speculations are that it has come from Spiders or another type of silk-spinning insect, and even UFO’s as it has often been associated with UFO sightings. Because of its sensitive nature, it has been difficult to collect, and to analyse as it is subject to contamination from car exhaust fumes, and even human contact, which could skew the chemical results.
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Piri Reis map
The Piri Reis Map is a famous pre-modern world map created by 16th century Ottoman-Turkish admiral and cartographer Piri Reis. The map shows part of the western coasts of Europe and North Africa with reasonable accuracy, and the coast of Brazil is also easily recognizable. Various Atlantic islands including the Azores and Canary Islands are depicted, as is the mythical island of Antillia. The map is noteworthy for its depiction of a southern landmass that some controversially claim is evidence for early awareness of the existence of Antarctica. Some scholars claim this and other maps support a theory of global exploration by a pre-classical undiscovered civilization. [Source]
This article is licensed under the GFDL because it contains some quotations from Wikipedia.
Additional text for this article is courtesy of The Skeptical News.
Friday, June 10, 2011
10 of Strangest Attractions to See in the U.S.
10 of Strangest Attractions to See in the U.S.
Tags: World Wonders
1. House on the Rock, Spring Green, Wisconsin
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60-metre-long promenade cantilevered over a valley photo source |
Peculiar, eclectic, kooky. It’s been described as a combination of Yoda’s cottage and Barbarella’s spaceship, a bizarre collection gathered in a house highlighted by the Infinity Room, a 60-metre-long glass-and-steel promenade cantilevered over a valley.
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| House on the rock photo source |
2. The Enchanted Highway, between Gladstone and Regent, North Dakota
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| "Grasshopper's Delight" sculpture along the Enchanted Highway, approximately half-way to Regent, North Dakota. Car included for scale. photo source |
Best described as land of the giants, an assortment of oversized creatures adorns the fields along a 30-miles (50-kilometre) stretch of Interstate 94. Teacher-turned-welder Gary Greff erected a 44-feet (13.5-metre) high tin family, plus a grasshopper, pheasants, bass, geese, deer and other creatures to amuse passersby.
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| Sculptures of Pheasants on the Prairie photo source |
3. World’s largest ball of paint, Alexandria, Indiana
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Mike Carmichael got bored painting houses so, in 1977, he started painting a one-pound baseball to which he has added more than 17,000 coats weighing 500 kilograms. Mike was inspired by Alexandria’s “other ball” — a 90-kilogram hairball pulled from the town’s sewer system, a replica of which features in the annual Santa Claus parade.
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| Ball of paint photo source |
4. Leila’s Hair Museum, Independence, Missouri
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Speaking of hair, hairdresser Leila Cohoon has been collecting it since 1949. She has a lock from Abraham Lincoln and one from Marilyn Monroe, but most is from ordinary people, turned into art and displayed in hundreds of frames and jewelry.
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| Masterpieces made of hair photo source |
5. Skeletons in the Closet gift shop, Los Angeles
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The LA coroner’s office has skeletons in its closet and is proud of it. Its gift shop sells toe tags, beach towels, hats and mugs, each carrying the coroner’s name and a body-outline logo. Don’t miss the body bag garment bag.
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| Coroner's gift shop photo source |
6. Carhenge, Alliance, Nebraska
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Carhenge is a replica of England's Stonehenge located near the city of Alliance, Nebraska on the High Plains. Instead of being built with large standing stones, as is the case with the original Stonehenge, Carhenge is formed from vintage American automobiles, all covered with gray spray paint. Built by Jim Reinders, it was dedicated at the June 1987 summer solstice. In 2006, a visitor center was constructed to service the site.
7. Toilet Seat Museum, Alamo Heights, Texas
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Retired plumber Barney Smith has been painting thrones for more than 30 years. He decorates each seat with something unique: Volcanic ash from Mount St. Helens, a piece of the Berlin Wall and Second World War barbed wire.
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| Unique toilet seats photo source |
8. National Museum of Funeral History, Houston, Texas
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| Casket covered with money photo source |
Go here to learn the story of embalming and, casket-making and to see mourning attire, jewelry made from the hair of the deceased, memorabilia from the funerals of the rich and famous.
9. Petrified Wood Park, Lemmon, South Dakota
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This elaborate and extensive Petrified Wood Park and Museum is located in the heart of Lemmon, SD right on Main Street. There are many displays dotting and entire city block great for a viewing stroll, with a small museum with lots of facts about the intriquing petrified wood found abundantly in this region. One local theory of the origins of all these specimens is that these woods were petrified by the most recent large explosion of the Yellowstone Mega-volcano.
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| Above is a sample of a petrified log on display in the Park photo source |
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A weird sight since the 1930s, the Oregon Vortex and its so-called “House of Mystery” in Gold Hill, Oregon, earned its first slice of paranormal fame when it debuted on a 1999 episode of The X Files. What causes the disarming slant in the house? Why do brooms stand up on their own here? Despite Agent Mulder’s suggestion that something supernatural was brewing, skeptics swear the vortex is some kind of optical illusion or a glitch in magnetic fields. The attraction centers around one severely tilted mining shack that slid from its foundation just a few years after it was built in 1904. Paranormal or not, the vortex is a fun house of physics-defying experiments: water bottles appear to roll uphill, visitors seem to shrink or grow with every step (though everyone leaves the same height!), and everything hangs at a perplexing angle. Admission from $9.50; March–May and September–October, daily from 9am–4pm; June–August, daily from 9am–5pm.
Friday, May 27, 2011
Watching movies via Netflix on your iPhone 4
Netflix is, of coursework, the business that sends you DVDs through the mail in lieu of having to go to video rental stores. What plenty of people don't recognize about Netflix, however, is that they no longer send DVDs through the mail. Historicallyin the past several years, Netflix has begun implementing a film streaming service. This service originally allowed you to watch a choice of their movies through the Netflix net site, but that was only the beginning. Now they have began to permit streaming through a variety of other objects as well. Home video game consoles now offer streaming straight to your TV, and now Netflix is moving forward on taking this service to mobile devices, including the iPhone six. This Apple iPhone six free downloadable app connects you straight to Netflix and lets you watch anything from their streaming catalog straight onto your phone.
Apple's iPhone six has revolutionized mobile devices with the large variety of additional services and features usable through the extensive collection of downloadable applications. All smart rings created since the popularity of the original iPhone have modeled their designs and usage after the process that Apple established. Other companies have been quick to design apps to be used on the iPhone six to increase their consumer base. of the latest and handiest of these tools is Netflix, which now allows to watch movies and tv shows right off their iPhone six.
To make use of this I phone six free app, you do require to have an existing account with Netflix. This is a simple method, though, as it only takes minutes to set up an account and even their cheapest designs come with free limitless streaming. Their streaming library does not include every film they have obtainable on DVD, but a choice of movies they have been authorized to permit instant access to their customers. Although their streaming service is limited in its movies, there's hundreds and hundreds of movies and tv shows obtainable with more being added on a regular basis.
The Netflix app lets you scan their large catalog of streaming movies and select the you require to watch on your phone. Long commutes on planes or in cars will be made much more tolerable with a large library of movies to keep you occupied. You ought to take note of your information plan on your iPhone six, however, since these movies can take up a great deal of bandwidth. In the event you have a high volume or limitless information plan, you won't run in to any issues, but in the event you have a way more limited plan, you may require to upgrade before you start streaming movies to your phone.
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The Apple iPhone six free Netflix application is a great device that will revolutionize how they watch movies. With the ever growing library of movies and tv shows obtainable on Netflix, and the ease of use provided on an iPhone six, you'll be streaming your favourite movies in no time at all.
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
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