Monday, November 30, 2009

Facts of the World!!


-          A pack-a-day smoker will lose approximately 2 teeth every 10 yrs.
-          People do not get sick from cold weather; it's from being indoors a lot more.
-          When you sneeze, all bodily functions stop ... even your heart!
-          It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
-          40 people are sent to the hospital for dog bites every minute.
-          Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until they are 2-6 years old.
-          The average person over fifty will have spent 5 years waiting in lines.
-          The toothbrush was invented in 1498.
-          The average housefly lives for one month
-          The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute.
-          Your feet are bigger in the afternoon than the rest of the day.
-          The REAL reason ostriches stick their head in the sand is to search for water.
-          The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning it's head are the rabbit and the parrot.
-          The first Harley Davidson motorcycle built in 1903 used a tomato can for a carburetor.  
-          Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
-          The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
-          A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
-          There are more chickens than people in the world.   
-          Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
-          A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
-          An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
-          Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
-          In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.
-          A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
-          The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
-          The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
-          The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
-          "Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
-          What is called a "French kiss" in the English speaking world is known as an "English kiss" in France.
-          In 1386, a pig in France was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child.

-          A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off.

-          Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.

-          You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.

-          It's against the law to have a pet dog in Iceland!

-          Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day.

-          Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people.

-          Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, every time you breathe.

-          The elephant is the only mammal that cannot jump.

-          One quarter of the bones in your body, are in your feet.

-          Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.

-          Honey is the only food that does not spoil. Honey found in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs has been tasted by archaeologists and found edible.

-          The longest recorded flight  of a chicken is 13 seconds.

-          A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years.

-          A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue.

Wednesday, November 25, 2009

How is Artificial Rain made?

The need to develop and improve rainmaking techniques in terms of design, operation, monitoring and evaluation by giving them a more scientific character is today's need.

This includes using computers to study cloud formations and help the rainmaking operations achieve the goals of the project. The role of weather modification, or rainmaking, is an important component in water resource management.

The process involved in artificial rainmaking involves three easy-to-understand stages. The first stage is agitation. That is using chemicals to stimulate the air mass upwind of the target area to rise and form rain clouds.

The chemicals used during this stage are calcium chloride calcium carbide, calcium oxide, a compound of salt and urea, or a compound of urea and ammonium nitrate. These compounds are capable of absorbing water vapor from the air mass, thus stimulating the condensation process.

The second stage is building-up stage. Here the cloud mass is built up using chemicals such as kitchen salt, the T 1 formula, urea, ammonium nitrate, dry ice, and occasionally also calcium chloride to increase nuclei which also increase the density of the clouds. In the third stage of bombardment chemicals such as super-cool agents: silver iodide and dry ice are used to reach the most unbalanced status which builds up large beads of water (Nuclei) and makes them fall down as raindrops.

In planning every stage a high degree of expertise and experience is required, in selecting the types and amounts of chemicals to use, while taking into consideration weather conditions, topographical conditions, wind direction and velocity as well as the location or delimitation of the area for chemical seeding. Several other ideas are also involved in rainmaking. Rockets containing rainmaking chemicals are fired into the clouds either from the ground or from aircraft.

From a highly pressurized canister, a jet of rainmaking chemicals is shot directly into the cloud base, to coerce clouds that normally hang above mountaintops to cluster up and rain on the mountain or their slopes.
Rainmaking chemicals are added to super-cooled clouds, i.e., those at altitudes above 18,000 meters, to stimulate the formation of ice crystals in the cloud or cloud cluster.




Wednesday, November 4, 2009

All Best Ideas Poem


If you send a Gift
Your relationship would certainly shift

If you send a Flower
Your relationship would increase in power

If you send a Cake
A cheerful person you could make

If u send a Balloon
You would your relationship immune

If u send a Toy
You would give the young one a great joy

You could send them all
Without visiting the mall

Just sit at home, be calm