The highest waterfall in the world - Angel. Waterfall's height is 979 meters (according to some information 1059 meters), height of continuous falling is 807 meters. Angel falls is named in honour of pilot James Ankhelya who has flown through the falls in 1935. Angel waterfall is located in wild district of Venezuela, and it is possible to reach there only by air.
Friday, November 21, 2008
Sunday, October 19, 2008
The most expensive potatoes in the world
It would seem that even simply potatoes can cost thousands. Resourcefulness citizents who lives on island Nurmuate annually harvest no more than 100 tons of class "La Bonnotte" per year.
As that piece of potato (on a legend, this sort developed by supreme god of Incas) exclusively soft, it harvested only manually.
The most expensive potatoes in the world cost about 500 euros per kilogram.
As that piece of potato (on a legend, this sort developed by supreme god of Incas) exclusively soft, it harvested only manually.
The most expensive potatoes in the world cost about 500 euros per kilogram.
Sunday, August 10, 2008
Queen Mary 2 - Largest Ship in the world
Queen Mary 2 - the largest ship in the world.
Weighs 150 thousand tons, it’s more than thousand blue whales. It’s length like four football fields.
Total on liner board are forty-two wireless internet access point. Ship network area based on network technologies Cisco, servers and workstations, Dell and IBM solutions for retail outlets. Computer system includes 26 ship stations Dell based on Intel Xeon.
Queen Mary 2 moves by four powerful electric engines "Mermaid". Using engines "Mermaid" allowed to renounce the propeller shaft, that’s why are reduce noise and vibration level. Together engines "Mermaid" are up 85 megawatt power complex in the 157 thousand horsepowers, which allows the ship to exceed a speed of 28 knots (55.6 kilometres per hour).
Queen Mary 2 drives by boat joystick, located in the captain's bridge. Boat looks like floating city rather ship.
Cabins description:
1310 cabins area 18 - 209 sq. m.
1017 cabins with view of ocean,
293 cabins without view of something ,
953 cabins with balconies,
30 cabins are equipped for the invalids.
Types of rooms:
Q1: two-floor-cabin of 209 sq. m. :On the second floor are located bedroom and private balcony; on the first floor is living room with sofa, coffee table, dining table and a desk, two marble bathrooms with jacuzzi and shower, toilet and bidet.
Q2, Q3: area of 111 sq. m. and 74 sq.m. : bedroom and living room, private balcony, marble bathroom with a jacuzzi and shower. Second bathroom with shower only.
Dining:
On board there are :14 bars and 10 restaurants.
Sport, entertainment:
theater, cinema, library, casino, cigar room, nightclub, spa center, sauna, massage. 3 outdoor pool; 2 closed pool; 8
jacuzzi, a fitness center.
Additional services:
Self-service laundry.
Weighs 150 thousand tons, it’s more than thousand blue whales. It’s length like four football fields.
Total on liner board are forty-two wireless internet access point. Ship network area based on network technologies Cisco, servers and workstations, Dell and IBM solutions for retail outlets. Computer system includes 26 ship stations Dell based on Intel Xeon.
Queen Mary 2 moves by four powerful electric engines "Mermaid". Using engines "Mermaid" allowed to renounce the propeller shaft, that’s why are reduce noise and vibration level. Together engines "Mermaid" are up 85 megawatt power complex in the 157 thousand horsepowers, which allows the ship to exceed a speed of 28 knots (55.6 kilometres per hour).
Queen Mary 2 drives by boat joystick, located in the captain's bridge. Boat looks like floating city rather ship.
Cabins description:
1310 cabins area 18 - 209 sq. m.
1017 cabins with view of ocean,
293 cabins without view of something ,
953 cabins with balconies,
30 cabins are equipped for the invalids.
Types of rooms:
Q1: two-floor-cabin of 209 sq. m. :On the second floor are located bedroom and private balcony; on the first floor is living room with sofa, coffee table, dining table and a desk, two marble bathrooms with jacuzzi and shower, toilet and bidet.
Q2, Q3: area of 111 sq. m. and 74 sq.m. : bedroom and living room, private balcony, marble bathroom with a jacuzzi and shower. Second bathroom with shower only.
Dining:
On board there are :14 bars and 10 restaurants.
Sport, entertainment:
theater, cinema, library, casino, cigar room, nightclub, spa center, sauna, massage. 3 outdoor pool; 2 closed pool; 8
jacuzzi, a fitness center.
Additional services:
Self-service laundry.
Thursday, July 31, 2008
World's most expensive beer - Samuel Adam's Utopias
Beer is one of the oldest alcoholic beverage ever known, even the ancient Egyptians brewed beer. Beer is the most popular drink overall after water and tea.
Samuel Adam's Utopias – world's most expensive beer which costs around $100 per bottle (24 oz) or about $65 per pint, sold in copper bottles resembling the copper brewing kettles, named after one of the founding fathers of the USA.
Samuel Adam's Utopias it is strongest beer in the world, the alcohol content is 25%. The process of making this beverage can take up to 12 years, giving it the unique and rich flavors.
The production of world's most expensive beer was limited to 8,000 bottles per year.
Samuel Adam's Utopias – world's most expensive beer which costs around $100 per bottle (24 oz) or about $65 per pint, sold in copper bottles resembling the copper brewing kettles, named after one of the founding fathers of the USA.
Samuel Adam's Utopias it is strongest beer in the world, the alcohol content is 25%. The process of making this beverage can take up to 12 years, giving it the unique and rich flavors.
The production of world's most expensive beer was limited to 8,000 bottles per year.
Thursday, July 17, 2008
Cheapest pistol in the world - Liberator
Cheapest pistol in the world - Liberator. It was created in 1942 for Resistance Movement (civilian population in the occupied territories). This pistol was created to get arms ( you kill soldier and took his weapon), as well as for other purposes .
A primitive, single-loaded pistol developed for the rapid and massive manufacturing and was extremely cheap to manufacture. This is unique weapon, which manufactured faster than reload (every 6.6 seconds was making a new one). Loading takes approximately 10 seconds. (Some sources claim that the average rate of one gun was 7.5 seconds).
These pistols were produced by General Motors , you think that company produced cars, etc. but this company knew perfectly interpreted in stamping details, and that was necessary for the manufacture this gun. Each gun costs for U.S. government $ 1.75 (some sources claim $ 2.15).
Weapon were dropped by aircraft in thousands on the occupied zone. To weapon’s kit which droped for resistance movement included:
(a) Gun FP45 Liberator;
(b) 10 bullets in;
(c) Manual instruction
(d) Stick-cleaning rod for pushing the bullet.
The extra bullets could deposited in pistol. Due to the smooth barrel , the maximum range of aiming was less than 8 meters (In fact, approximately 3 meters). Gun had a weight 445g without bullets , length 141 mm and barrel’s length 102 mm.
During the years of war was produced more than 1 million units, will give just an example over its production were working 300 workers, each 6.6s. (some sources - 7 seconds) was created a new unit, its production was 24 hours per day, for 7 days, for 11 months. Most "Liberators" were destroyed after the war (they simply was dumped into the sea by British)
A primitive, single-loaded pistol developed for the rapid and massive manufacturing and was extremely cheap to manufacture. This is unique weapon, which manufactured faster than reload (every 6.6 seconds was making a new one). Loading takes approximately 10 seconds. (Some sources claim that the average rate of one gun was 7.5 seconds).
These pistols were produced by General Motors , you think that company produced cars, etc. but this company knew perfectly interpreted in stamping details, and that was necessary for the manufacture this gun. Each gun costs for U.S. government $ 1.75 (some sources claim $ 2.15).
Weapon were dropped by aircraft in thousands on the occupied zone. To weapon’s kit which droped for resistance movement included:
(a) Gun FP45 Liberator;
(b) 10 bullets in;
(c) Manual instruction
(d) Stick-cleaning rod for pushing the bullet.
The extra bullets could deposited in pistol. Due to the smooth barrel , the maximum range of aiming was less than 8 meters (In fact, approximately 3 meters). Gun had a weight 445g without bullets , length 141 mm and barrel’s length 102 mm.
During the years of war was produced more than 1 million units, will give just an example over its production were working 300 workers, each 6.6s. (some sources - 7 seconds) was created a new unit, its production was 24 hours per day, for 7 days, for 11 months. Most "Liberators" were destroyed after the war (they simply was dumped into the sea by British)
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
The biggest gun in the world - Dora
The biggest gun in the world was developed in the 1930s by Krupp for destroying large, heavily fortified targets. The shell «Dora» punched armor in the thickness of 1 m or 8-metre ferro-concrete overlapping. In the beginning the supergun has received the name "Gustav", but the tradition of firm to give to the products female names it has appeared more strongly, and the invention has changed "sex".
Transported the super gun was with the help of several trains (all to 60 locomotives and wagons with the personnel in quantity some hundred persons).
Engineering preparation of district was conducted by 1,5 thousand workers and one thousand sappers of 4 weeks. As the equipment of the biggest gun «Dora» was delivered in 106 wagons by five trains, in a place of deployment of the weapon have constructed the whole switchyard.
Quantity of service personnel «Dora» - 4139 soldiers, officers and civilians. Among other things calculation tools include protection battalion, a transport battalion commandant, Field bakery, camouflage squadron, a field office mail and marching battalion… brothel with staff in 40 "workers".
Data about supergun application near Sevastopol are contradictory. In memoirs Manstein asserted, that «Dora» has let out on the Soviet fortress of 80 shells. The German gun was soon marked by the Soviet pilots who struck to its position serious blow and have damaged energytrain.
In the morning on June, 5th, 1942 two diesel locomotives with powerful capacity in 1050 horsepowers everyone have rolled out this construction in weight of 1350 tons on a fighting crescent position and have established to within centimetre. The first shot consisted of a shell 7088 kg, two powder charges on 465 kg everyone is powerful, sleeves 920 kg is powerful. The trunk lift has given it an eminence in 53 degrees.
Specially for updating of shooting a little at some distance from «Dora» the aerostat has been lifted in air. At a shot the service command hid in shelter for some hundred of metres. The shot caused effect of mini earthquake. The roar at combustion for 6 milliseconds from above 900 kg of gunpowder and pushing out of a 7-ton shell was simply monstrous - in the wagon for 3 kilometres, under the certificate of contemporaries-eyewitnesses, the dishware jumped up. Recoil pressed a railway line on 5 centimetres.
After a capture of Sevastopol "Dora" have sent under Leningrad, in station Tajtsy area. When operation on break of blockade of a city has begun, Germans hastily evacuated a supergun to Bavaria. In April, 1945 at approach of Americans, the biggest gun in the world have blown up.
The most exact estimation to this miracle of military technics was given by the chief of the Joint Staff of land forces of fascist Germany colonel general Frants Galder: «the Present work of art, however useless».
Transported the super gun was with the help of several trains (all to 60 locomotives and wagons with the personnel in quantity some hundred persons).
Engineering preparation of district was conducted by 1,5 thousand workers and one thousand sappers of 4 weeks. As the equipment of the biggest gun «Dora» was delivered in 106 wagons by five trains, in a place of deployment of the weapon have constructed the whole switchyard.
Quantity of service personnel «Dora» - 4139 soldiers, officers and civilians. Among other things calculation tools include protection battalion, a transport battalion commandant, Field bakery, camouflage squadron, a field office mail and marching battalion… brothel with staff in 40 "workers".
Data about supergun application near Sevastopol are contradictory. In memoirs Manstein asserted, that «Dora» has let out on the Soviet fortress of 80 shells. The German gun was soon marked by the Soviet pilots who struck to its position serious blow and have damaged energytrain.
In the morning on June, 5th, 1942 two diesel locomotives with powerful capacity in 1050 horsepowers everyone have rolled out this construction in weight of 1350 tons on a fighting crescent position and have established to within centimetre. The first shot consisted of a shell 7088 kg, two powder charges on 465 kg everyone is powerful, sleeves 920 kg is powerful. The trunk lift has given it an eminence in 53 degrees.
Specially for updating of shooting a little at some distance from «Dora» the aerostat has been lifted in air. At a shot the service command hid in shelter for some hundred of metres. The shot caused effect of mini earthquake. The roar at combustion for 6 milliseconds from above 900 kg of gunpowder and pushing out of a 7-ton shell was simply monstrous - in the wagon for 3 kilometres, under the certificate of contemporaries-eyewitnesses, the dishware jumped up. Recoil pressed a railway line on 5 centimetres.
After a capture of Sevastopol "Dora" have sent under Leningrad, in station Tajtsy area. When operation on break of blockade of a city has begun, Germans hastily evacuated a supergun to Bavaria. In April, 1945 at approach of Americans, the biggest gun in the world have blown up.
The most exact estimation to this miracle of military technics was given by the chief of the Joint Staff of land forces of fascist Germany colonel general Frants Galder: «the Present work of art, however useless».
Saturday, May 10, 2008
Stalker in Real Life
Few days ago there was an interesting action «Stalker RealPlayer 3» passing on territory of Chernobyl on motives of known game Stalker. People simply came off on radioactive territories, played strike ball and have fun - actually they have received a huge amount of adrenaline and X-ray =)
source on Russian, and all photos
source on Russian, and all photos
Monday, May 5, 2008
Evergreen DN-2000 - cheapest Mp3 player in the world
Evergreen DN-2000 is cheapest Mp3 player in the world - product of japanese company Evergreen which decided to produce cheapest Mp3 players.
It runs for 5-hours on a single AAA battery and supports 1GB SD cards and this for only 58x60x13mm and 30g.
Price of Evergreen DN-2000 only $8.5 but do you want it? is it necessary for you?
It runs for 5-hours on a single AAA battery and supports 1GB SD cards and this for only 58x60x13mm and 30g.
Price of Evergreen DN-2000 only $8.5 but do you want it? is it necessary for you?
Thursday, May 1, 2008
Longest bus in the world
The world’s longest bus has been presented Shanghai's Busworld Asia 2007, it works only in cities without corners or the other way would be to drive from one block to another without turning.
This 83 foot (25 meter) long bus has a capacity of 300 passengers and 40 seats, is divided into 3 compartments, due to this its speed limit is up to 51mph max (82 km/h), probably to avoid any unwanted incident.
But then with that kind of speed this bus would cause traffic jam that might clog up the city, one of the reason being that it is almost impossible to over take the bus.
The world’s longest bus will be primarily used for traveling between in Beijing and Hangzhou.
This attractive bus does come at a high price - between $155,000 to $250,000
Really long bus =)
This 83 foot (25 meter) long bus has a capacity of 300 passengers and 40 seats, is divided into 3 compartments, due to this its speed limit is up to 51mph max (82 km/h), probably to avoid any unwanted incident.
But then with that kind of speed this bus would cause traffic jam that might clog up the city, one of the reason being that it is almost impossible to over take the bus.
The world’s longest bus will be primarily used for traveling between in Beijing and Hangzhou.
This attractive bus does come at a high price - between $155,000 to $250,000
Really long bus =)
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Whale Shark - Biggest fish in the world
Whale Shark (Rhinodon typus) - Biggest fish in the world. Whale Shark the largest kind of sharks, and also largest of nowadays living fishes. Whale sharks often grow to 45 feet and 15 tons.
Despite the impressive sizes, the whale shark is absolutely safe for the humans, as eats like a whale, exclusively plankton and other small organisms which it filters, involving in itself water.
Some pics and videos of world's biggest fish.
Despite the impressive sizes, the whale shark is absolutely safe for the humans, as eats like a whale, exclusively plankton and other small organisms which it filters, involving in itself water.
Some pics and videos of world's biggest fish.
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