Sunday, 1 September 2013

The Kjeragbolten. Rogaland, Norway

Kjeragbolten is a Norwegian boulder, located in the Kjerag mountain in Rogaland, Norway. The rock itself is a 5 m³ glacial deposit wedged in the mountain's crevasse. It is a popular tourist destination and is accessible without any climbing equipment. However, it is suspended above a 984-meter deep abyss. It is also a popular site for BASE jumping

A teen named Conrad manged to make in a secret small fusion reactor in his backyard, and he almost got killed by it.

The teen, who shares his last name with the fusor's original designer, Philo T. Farnsworth, and self-proclaimed mad scientist Hubert J. Farnsworth, began work on the project at age 16. He started by contacting members of the international amateur fusion community for guidance.

Sun burn response in whales can give clues to Anti Ageing in Humans: Research

Researchers from the Newcastle University, UK revealed in the month of August 2013 that the way whales reacted to sunlight explained about the ageing process of humans. Some of the whale species reacted to the sunlight by getting darker in UV exposure, a process which is similar to the way humans tan. Other whales have the capability of protecting themselves from getting tanned by turning their genes on and off.

Mountain goats are not actually goats!

Yes, they do fashion the woolly coats, cloven feet, and horns but not the same kind as “true goats.” The high altitudes that they reside in call for fur that is thicker and shaggier than that of a domesticated farm goat.

Their hooves are specially built for climbing and descending those ungodly mountain slopes; a rubbery padding covers the bottom of their hooves. And to fend off all those predators, their horns are long and pointy.

Biologically, these goats actually are actually antelopes and sometimes referred to as goat-antelopes. Mountain goats are not goats in the same way that koala bears are not bears and Komodo dragons are not dragons.

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