Saturday, January 01, 2005

How old are you today?

Calculate your exact age!
To know for exactly how many days, hours and seconds you have walked the earth...

NEWS FLASH!
I'm only 17! :)

The Earth spins once every 24 hours which gives us the length of the day. It also orbits around the Sun once every year, which is about 365 days.

However, other planets spin and orbit at different speeds, so their days and years are different lengths.

Work out your age on other planets!

According to it I'm a 52 year old lady on Venus (waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!) , still 17 :) on Mars. and still an infant on Uranus, Neptune and Pluto. This is simply fascinating!!!

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Know how it happened...

Sunday 26 December 2004: at 0100 GMT, an 8.9 magnitude earthquake occurs on the seafloor near Aceh in northern Indonesia. This earthquake generated a huge tsunami wave, hitting the coasts of Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Myanmar, India, Sri Lanka, Maldives and even Somalia. The below image shows how the wave moved towards the surrounding coasts. Click on this link to see an animation. (650 KB)

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What kind of a Blogger are you?




You Are a Link Blogger!
Your blog is more about cool links than thougtful posts.
Better to be entertaining and brief than longwinded and boring!



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Friday, December 31, 2004

The worst is not over yet!

Days after the massive tidal waves ravaged the coastline of eight Asian countries, the known death toll has crossed 1,23,000, with untold number of people still missing, as the cataclysm resonated! Each day seems to bring on more distress. The tsunami has left a large number of bodies, washed ashore, most of them yet to be found. Four days after the disaster, hundreds of bodies still lay under the debris of ravaged buildings and some even lay scattered in waterlogged fields. Bodies have littered the streets of several coastal regions in India, Indonesia and Sri Lanka. The worst nightmares of medical experts have come true

Water-borne diseases like cholera, diarrhea, malaria and typhoid are the worst diseases stalking the survivors. Shortage of medicines and disinfectants is another hurdle.

Homelessness, starvation, threat of epidemics, false alerts triggering off panic attacks.....

Will the nightmares ever end?

Animals, they say have an uncanny sixth sense. Did they have a forewarning of the quake?

Meanwhile, a modern day Nostradamus claims to have predicted the great killer quake. Read on...

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Tuesday, December 28, 2004

10 Gmail Give-aways!!!

Gmail invites for anyone who (still) cares. Just leave your first and last names, along with your email addresses. I'll send the invites along.

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