WORLD'S BIGGEST
WORLD'S BIGGEST INDOOR SWIMMING-POOL
World Water Park...Edmonton, Albert, Canada......SIZE..5 Acres
WORLD'S BIGGEST OFFICE COMPLEX ... CHICAGO
Chicago Merchandise Mart...Illinois, USA
WORLD'S BIGGEST SHOPPING MALL
South China Mall, Dongguan, China...892,000 meter-square
Shops on 6 floors
WORLD'S BUSIEST AIRPORT..... NEW YORK
J.F.K International Airport , New York........USA
WORLD'S WIDEST BRIDGE ... AUSTRALIA
Sydney harbor bridge, Australia....16 lanes of car traffic...8 lanes in the upper floor, 8 in the lower floor
WORLD'S LONGEST BRIDGE..... CHINA
Donghai Bridge , China ........32.5 kilo meters
WORLD'S BIGGEST PASSENGER-SHIP
MS Freedom of the Seas..4300 passenger Capacity Inside
Update on cruise ship: The Oasis
Apparently, the largest cruise ship is now the Oasis from Royal Caribbean
Royal Caribbean is nearly finished building the biggest cruise ship to ever hit the water.
Oasis of the Seas, which will cost nearly $1.5 billion, is scheduled to make its maiden voyage on Dec. 1. It's five times the size of the Titanic and can accommodate 6,296 cruisers; almost 45 per cent more than the biggest ships now operating.
Included in the amenities are a park with 2,000 bushes and trees, a high-diving pool and a bar that moves up and down between decks. They'll also be doing a production of "Hairspray."
Specific "neighbourhoods" include Central Park, Boardwalk, the Royal Promenade, the Pool and Sports Zone, Vitality at Sea Spa and Fitness Center, Entertainment Place and Youth Zone.
Tor Olsen, one of the ship's captains, said he hopes folks don't disembark at various island-stopping points.
"This ship itself is the destination," he said. "This is better than a lot of the islands."
Rates start at less than $800 per person double occupancy for a seven-night cruise. Of course, you also could book the two-level, four-person Royal Loft suite for a little more than $20,000 for four guests.
Oasis of the Seas, which will cost nearly $1.5 billion, is scheduled to make its maiden voyage on Dec. 1. It's five times the size of the Titanic and can accommodate 6,296 cruisers; almost 45 per cent more than the biggest ships now operating.
Included in the amenities are a park with 2,000 bushes and trees, a high-diving pool and a bar that moves up and down between decks. They'll also be doing a production of "Hairspray."
Specific "neighbourhoods" include Central Park, Boardwalk, the Royal Promenade, the Pool and Sports Zone, Vitality at Sea Spa and Fitness Center, Entertainment Place and Youth Zone.
Tor Olsen, one of the ship's captains, said he hopes folks don't disembark at various island-stopping points.
"This ship itself is the destination," he said. "This is better than a lot of the islands."
Rates start at less than $800 per person double occupancy for a seven-night cruise. Of course, you also could book the two-level, four-person Royal Loft suite for a little more than $20,000 for four guests.
Basilica of our Lady of Peace, Yamoussoukro o.
Inside sitting capacity.....18,000 Outside overflow capacity..100, 000
WORLD'S BIGGEST PLANE..... AIRBUS
Airbus A380.....555 Passenger s
WORLD'S BIGGEST BUS
Neoplan Jumbo -cruiser....2 in 1 bus..double deck bus..170 passenger capacity
WORLD'S HIGHEST STATUE......BRAZIL
CHRIST THE REDEEMER STATUE...RIO.D.J...BRAZIL
WORLD'S TALLEST BUILDING... DUBAI
Burj Dubai....900 meters high. To be finally completed 2008
WORLD'S LARGEST PALACE....... .ROMANIA
Palace of the Parliament...Bucharest, Romania .... more than 500 bedrooms, 55 kitchens,120 sitting rooms
WORLD'S BIGGEST STADIUM... .BRAZIL
MARACANA STADIUM.... RIO D.J....BRAZIL.....CAPACITY.199,000
WORLD'S COSTLIEST STADIUM... ENGLAND
New WEMBLEY STADIUM, London..90, 000 capacities......cost...$1.6 billion
MOST COMPLEX INTER-CHANGE ... TEXAS
Interstate 10 Highways Interchange..Houston, Texas.
WORLD'S BIGGEST EXCAVATOR
Built by KRUPP of Germany.....45,500 tons..95 meters high..215 meters long
WORLD'S LARGEST MOSQUE...... PAKISTAN
Shah Feisal mosque...Islamabad..Pakistan
Inside hall capacity ..35, 000 outside overflow capacity.. 150,000
WORLD'S BIGGEST HOTEL... LAS VEGAS
MGM Grand Hotel..Las Vegas..6, 276 rooms
WORLD'S MOST EXPENSIVE HOTEL . DUBAI. U.A.E
Burj Al Arab Hotel, Dubai..only 7 Star Hotel in the World
Cheapest room.$1000 per night....Royal suit.$28,000 per night
WORLD'S BIGGEST CHURCH BUILDING... NIGERIA
Winners` C hapel...Canaanland .... Otta....Nigeria
Inside Sitting Capacity..50,000 Outside Overflow Capacity..250,000
WORLD'S BIGGEST ROMAN-CATHOLIC CATHEDRAL.... IVORY-COAST
Thursday, November 11, 2010
Japanese Robots
Japan has developed a strategy of the national space mission. The new strategy stipulates the landing of robots on the Moon by 2020. The robots will build an unmanned station on the south pole of Earth’s satellite. The station will be functioning automatically to generate power for equipment. A wheeled rover is to land on the Moon already in 2015.
Japan ’s Yomiuri newspaper wrote that the total amount of investments in the lunar project was evaluated at 200 billion yens ($2.2 billion). Japan had to considerably cut the budget of the program because of the financial crisis.
The program to explore the lunar surface is divided into two parts. A wheeled rover equipped with a seismograph will be launched to the moon before 2015. The rover will analyze the inner structure of the moon and will transmit image and video files to Earth.
The lunar base will be built and equipped during the next five years. The base will allow to supervise a group of lunar robots within the radius of 100 kilometers.
The construction of Japan’s first base on the moon will mark a new step on the way to new technologies in the field of space exploration.
Japanese scientists said that the robotic devices would be able to generate electric power autonomously.
The previous government of Japan with Taro Aso at the head actively discussed the lunar exploration program. However, the appearance of the new administration in the United States made Japan pay more attention to the exploration of Mars and smaller planets. The Japanese administration has changed too, but the new government of the nation still considers the strategy of the lunar exploration a priority.
It is worthy of note that India and China have recently been promoting their own programs of space exploration too. Therefore, Japan tries to keep leadership in the field of peaceful exploration of Earth’s satellite.
Viktor Kirichenko of Russia’s Institute for Robotic Science and Engineering Cybernetics said in an interview with Pravda.Ru that the robotic exploration of the solar system planets and the Moon was one of the top priorities in the development of space robotic science.
“The goals, which can be achieved in this direction, can be divided in three groups. The first one is connected with autonomous surface research robots. Such robots will provide information about the structure of the surface of a celestial body, the availability of mineral resources, climate conditions and other natural factors which can be very important for would-be manned missions.
“The robots will act like reconnaissance men who will help humans understand the nature of a planet. The second group is the robots designed to create and maintain objects of on-planet infrastructure. Mobile robotic devices equipped with mechanic arms and visual facilities will be able to conduct a whole range of works to build power-generating stations complete with communication and life support systems for humans an many other things.
“The third group is helper robots who will deal with routine operations to maintain the planetary base and provide everything else that humans may need there,” the scientist said.
Michelle Obama
Michelle Obama wears her most distinctive outfits twice for Vogue magazine
11.02.2009
Michelle Obama wears her most distinctive outfits twice for Vogue magazine
Michelle Obama, the wife of the 44th President of the United States, will grace the cover of the March issue of Vogue magazine, the most influential magazine in the fashion industry. The glossy encyclopedia of style and beauty has published the photos of perhaps all First Ladies of the USA. Michelle Obama will be the second one of them to grace the cover of the magazine, following Hillary Clinton, Itar-Tass reports.
Vogue will dedicate eight pages of its March issue to the First Lady of the USA and publish an interview, which Michele Obama gave the magazine prior to the inauguration ceremony in Washington.
In the interview Michelle promised to take her daughters to school every morning, every time she could. "I'm going to try to take them to school every morning - as much as I can. But there's also a measure of independence. And obviously there will be times I won't be able to drop them off at all. I like to be a presence in my kids' school. I want to know the teacher; I want to know the other parents," Michelle said in the interview.
The magazine will definitely tell of First Lady’s style and taste. It is worthy of note that Michelle, unlike other guests of the respectable magazine, picked the outfits for the photo session herself, without Vogue stylists’ help.
Michelle appears on the photos wearing the outfits in which she has already appeared in public: a black dress by Narciso Rodriguez, which she wore on the voting day, as well as a magenta dress by Jason Woo, who designed her ball gown for the inauguration.
Vogue editors believe that Michelle Obama has a very good taste in clothes and that she knows what looks good on her. Andre Leon Talley, the author of the March issue cover story, said that he admired Michelle’s easy manners. "She's so accessible, natural and normal. There's nothing affected about her," he said.
Mrs. Obama said she was aware of how much public attention her wardrobe was getting, but added that she made no apologies for her choices.
"I'm not going to pretend that I don't care about it," she said. "But I also have to be very practical. In the end, someone will always not like what you wear — people just have different tastes."
The two kinds of evolution
Many in society are not aware of the difference between micro-evolution and macro-evolution. Micro-evolution is true science and it involves biological variations within a "kind" such as varieties of dogs, cats, horses, cows, etc. Charles Darwin assumed that because micro-evolution occurs in nature that macro-evolution (biological variations across kinds) would also be possible if given enough time.
The genes already exist in all species for micro-evolution but not for macro-evolution. Micro-evolution doesn't involve the creation of any new genes. Macroevolution would involve the emergence of entirely new genes. Evolutionists put their hope and faith in random mutations as a source for the generation of entirely new genes. There is no evidence that random genetic mutations caused by environmental forces such as radiation can generate entirely new genes. Furthermore, true mutations are almost always harmful precisely because they are accidents in the genetic code.
Another problem for macro-evolution is the issue of survival of the fittest. How can a partially evolved species be fit for survival? A partially evolved trait or organ that is not completely one or the other will be a liability to a species, not a survival asset.
How could partially-evolved plant and animal species survive over supposedly millions of years if their vital organs and tissues were still in the process of evolving? How, for example, were animals breathing, eating, and reproducing if their respiratory, digestive, and reproductive organs were still incomplete and evolving? How were species fighting off possibly life-threatening germs if their immune system hadn't fully evolved yet? The fossil record furnishes no true evidence of partially-evolved species.
Most biological
variations are the result of new combinations of already existing genes, not because of mutations. All real evolution in nature is simply the expression of previously existing genes that didn't have opportunity for expression before. If the genes for a particular trait don't exist then there can be no evolution of that trait
We all carry in our bodies both expressed and unexpressed genes. For example, a husband and wife who both have black hair give birth to a child with blond hair. Would you call that evolution? Where did the blond hair come from? Obviously, the couple with black hair also were carrying genes for blond hair. The genes for blond hair did not evolve. The genes for blond hair already existed in the couple. However, the genes for blond hair were not expressed in the couple carrying them. Only the genes for black hair were expressed in the couple. Eventually the genes for blond hair were expressed in a child they brought into the world.
People often wonder how all the varieties or "races" of people could come from the same original human ancestors. Well, in principle, that's no different than asking how children with different color hair ( i.e., blond, brunette, brown, red) can come from the same parents who both have black hair. Just as some individuals today carry genes to produce descendants with different color hair and eyes, humanity's first parents, Adam and Eve, possessed genes to produce all the variety and "races" of men. You and I today may not carry the genes to produce every variety or race of humans, but humanity's first parents did possess such genes.
The genes must first exist or otherwise the evolution cannot occur. All real evolution simply is an expression over time of what already existed previously in the genetic pool of a population.
Evolution just doesn't happen. Something has to direct the formation and transformation of biological matter for evolution to occur. That something is what we call genes. Genes are located on the DNA molecule (the genetic code). DNA is the abbreviated name for the genetic code and it is exactly that - a code. It is a molecular string of chemical information.
Again, the genes exist in all species for micro-evolution (variation within biological kinds) but not for macro-evolution (variation across biological kinds), and there is no scientific evidence that random genetic mutations caused by natural forces such as radiation can or will generate entirely new genes for entirely new traits.
Many people have wrong ideas about evolution. For example, in November of 2004, articles appeared in major U.S. newspapers saying that running may have contributed to the evolution of man.
The simple fact is that physical traits and characteristics are determined and passed on by genes - not by running or any other form of exercise. Traits or characteristics which are acquired from the environment simply cannot be passed on to offspring (i.e. a woman who loses her finger will not cause her baby to be born with a missing finger; changing the color and texture of your hair will not affect the color and texture of your children's hair. Even if an ape ever did learn to walk and run upright it still would not be able to pass on this trait to its offspring. Only the changes that occur in the genes (genetic information) of reproductive cells ( i.e. sperm and egg) can be passed on to offspring. That is a simple fact of biology.
Adaptation is the result of natural selection. Let's imagine, for example, that all humans only have black hair, but the environment changed so that only humans with red hair can survive. Some of the black-haired humans also are carrying unexpressed genes for red hair. Over time some children are born with red hair. The red-haired ones survive (are "selected") while all the black-haired ones die off. The red-haired children will ensure that the human species will continue to exist under the new and changed environment. That's biological adaptation!
Natural selection doesn't create or produce biological traits. Natural selection can only "select" from what is produced. The term "natural selection" is simply a figure of speech. Nature, of course, doesn't do any conscious selecting. If a biological variation occurs that helps a species to survive then we say that the species was "selected". Natural selection is just another name for "survival of the fittest".
What about genetic and biological similarities between species? Genetic and biological similarities between species are no proof of a common biological ancestry. What if the similarities between species are due to a common Designer who designed similar functions for similar purposes?
Biologically speaking, only genetic similarities within a biological "kind" can be used as proof of relationship since only members or varieties within a "kind" are capable of inter-breeding and reproducing, thus establishing proof of a relationship.
Genetic information, like any other information, doesn't happen by chance. Therefore, it's far more logical to believe that the genetic similarities between all forms of life are because of a common Designer or Genetic Engineer (God) who designed similar functions for similar purposes in all the various forms of life.
What about all the non-coding segments of DNA commonly known as "Junk DNA"? Evolutionists believe that the presently "non-coding" segments of DNA were at one time useful (that they actually coded for something) in an evolutionary past but became broken-down and, therefore, now don't code for anything. Evolutionists believe that these "broken-down" genes will someday, by chance mutations, evolve into entirely new genes. How wrong they are. The latest science shows that "Junk DNA" isn't junk after all! It's we who were ignorant of how useful these segments of DNA really are. Recent scientific research published in scientific journals such as Nature has revealed that the "non-coding" segments of DNA are very useful, after all, and even essential in regulating gene expression and intracellular activities.
Visit www.icr.org to read excellent articles by scientists who believe the scientific evidence supports creation. For a more in-depth study of the subject, please read the larger version of author's article "The Natural Limits of Evolution" at his website.
The author, Babu G. Ranganathan, has his B.A with concentrations in theology and biology and has been recognized for his writings on religion and science in the 24th edition of Marquis "Who's Who In The East". The author's articles may be accessed at www.religionscience.com. The author's recently published children's story "The Selfish Apple Tree" is available from WestBow Press.
Saturday, November 6, 2010
Imagination Without Limits
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