Antonov. The World’s Heaviest and Largest Jet

The Antonov An-225 is the world’s heaviest and largest jet for strategic airlift transport built by Antonov Design Bureau. It is larger than the Airbus A380 airliner and is listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the largest airplane. It has a landing gear system of 32 wheels and a wing span of 291 feet and designed for the Soviet space program in 1988 to airlift the Energia rocket’s booster, Buran space shuttle or ultra-heavy and oversize freight up to 250,000 kg internally or 200,000 kg on the upper fuselage.

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Mother is mother.. Risking her life to save her kid....

Baby Monkey hit by scooter at Jaipur

12 Ways to Know That You Love Someone

TWELVE:
You talk with him/her late at night and when you go to bed you still think of him/her.

ELEVEN:
You walk really slowly when you are with him/her.

TEN:
You don't feel Ok when he/she is far away.

NINE:
You smile when you hear his/her voice.

EIGHT:
When you look at him/her,you do not see other people around you. You see only him/her.

SIX:
He/She is everything you want to think.

FIVE:
You realise that you smile every time you look at him/her.

FOUR:
You would do anything to see him/her.

THREE:
While you have been reading this, there was a person in your mind all the time.

TWO:
You've been so busy thinking of that person that you didn't notice that number 7 is missing.

ONE:
You are going to check above if that's true and now you are silently laughing to yourself.

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Humans Interesting Facts

This is weird but true!

While sitting at your desk make clockwise circles with your right foot. (go ahead no one will see you) While doing this, draw the number "6" in the air with your right hand.

Your foot will change direction.

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• People with higher number of moles tend to live longer than people with lesser number of moles.
• When filming summer scenes in winter, actors suck on ice cubes just before the camera rolls - it cools their mouths so their breath doesn't condense in the cold air.
• Humans were first infected with the HIV virus in the 1930s.
• Thinking about your muscles can make you stronger.
• If left alone, 70% of birthmarks gradually fade away.
• Grapefruit scent will make middle aged women appear six years younger to men. The perception is not reciprocal and the grapefruit scent on men has no effect on women's perception.
• Women blink twice as many times as men do.
• Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
• We are about 1 cm taller in the morning than in the evening. Layers of cartilage in the joints gets compressed during the day.
• There are approx. 550 hairs in the eyebrow.
• The strongest muscle in the human body is the tongue.
• The life span of a taste bud is 10 days.
• The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
• The largest known kidney stone weighed 1.36 kilograms.
• Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.
• Kidney stones come in any color--from yellow to brown.
• Babies are born without kneecaps. They appear when the child is 2-6 years of age.
• Your body is creating and killing 15 million red blood cells per second!
• The average human produces 10,000 gallons of saliva in a lifetime.
• If you ate too many carrots you would turn orange.
• The force of 1 billion people jumping at the same time is equal to 500 tons of TNT.
• A baby is born every seven seconds.
• You can tell if a skunk is about if you smell only .000000000000071 ounce of its spray.
• You breathe about 10 million times a year.
• The colder the room you sleep in, the better the chances are that you'll have a bad dream.
• The foot is the most common body part bitten by insects.
• The most common time for a wake up call is 7 a.m.
• The typical person goes to the bathroom 6 times a day.
• The fastest growing nail is on the middle finger.
• The most sensitive finger on the human hand is the index finger.
• The human body weighs 40 times more than the brain.
• After eating too much, your hearing is less sharp.
• A person swallows approx. 295 times while eating dinner.
• Your urine will turn bright yellow if you eat too much asparagus.
• There are more people alive today than have ever died.
• The human body is better suited to two four-hour sleep cycles than one eight-hour one.
• A man's beard contains between 7000 and 15,000 hairs.
• A beard grows an average of 140mm a year
• A hair is 70 per cent easier to cut when soaked in warm water for two minutes
• Women's hair is about half the diameter of men's hair
• During an average lifetime, a man will spend 3,350 hours removing 8.4 meters of stubble
• 4.5 million people have their health 'adversely affected' by air pollutants each year.
• 4 million children die each year from inhaling smoke from indoor cooking fires that burn wood and Dung
• 4 million people die annually from diarrhea infections, caused by poor sanitary conditions
• The hardest bone in the human body is the jawbone.

Strange but true coincidents. Some of these happened to me personally.

• After your hands become coated with grease, your nose will begin to itch.
• Any tool, when dropped, will roll to the least accessible corner.
• When you dial a wrong number, you never get an engaged line.
• If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the next morning you will have a flat tire.
• In a very busy day, your boss only approaches you when you are taking a break.
• If you change queues, the one you have left will start to move faster than the one you are in now.
• When the body is immersed in water, the phone begins to ring.
• The probability of meeting someone you know increases when you are with someone you don’t want to be seen with.
• When you try to prove to someone that the machine will not work, it will.
• The severity of the itch is inversely proportional to the reach.
• At any event, the people whose seats are furthest from the aisle arrive last
• As soon as you sit down to a cup of hot coffee, the boss will ask you to do something that will last till your coffee is cold.
• You remember you have to mail a letter when you are near the mail box.

Interesting Human Body Facts

- A full bladder is roughly the size of a soft ball.

- Approximately 75% of human feces is made of water.

- It takes the food seven seconds to get from your mouth to your stomach.

- One human hair can support 3kg.

- Human thighbones are stronger than concrete.

- The attachment of human muscles to skin is what causes dimples.

-Your thumb is the same length of your nose.

- A woman's heart beats faster than a man's.

- If the average male never shaved, his beard would be 13 feet long when he died.

- Men without hair on their chests are more likely to get cirrhosis of the liver than men with hair.

- There are about one trillion bacteria on each of your feet.

- Side by side, 2000 cells from the human body could cover about one square inch.

- Women blink twice as much as men.

- The average person's skin weighs twice as much as their brain.

- When you are looking at someone you love, your pupils dilate, they do the same when you are looking at someone you hate.

- It takes twice as long to lose new muscle if you stop working out than it did to gain it.

- You're ears secrete more earwax when you are afraid than when you aren't.

- Your body uses 300 muscles to balance itself when you are standing still.

- If saliva cannot dissolve something, you cannot taste it.

- The average woman is 5 inches shorter than the average man.


Side Note: You checked out the length of your thumb ... Didn't you ???

THE WORLD'S BEST JOB EVER

The job description for 'the best job in the world'

Tourism officials in Australia are describing it as "the best job in the world".

They want someone to work on a tropical island off the Queensland coast.

No formal qualifications are needed but candidates must be willing to swim, snorkel, dive and sail.

In return, the successful applicant will receive a salary of A$150,000 ($103,000, £70,000) for six months and get to live rent-free in a three-bedroom villa, complete with pool.

Feeding fish

We need a special person. They are going to be pretty busy having a good time Anthony Hayes, Chief Executive, Tourism Queensland

Anthony Hayes, Chief Executive, Tourism Queensland, said: "It doesn't sound too bad does it? We are looking for someone to tell the stories of the Great Barrier Reef and we have come up with what we think is the dream job."

The post is being advertised as "caretaker" on Hamilton Island in Australia's Whitsunday Islands.

The new recruit will work for just 12 hours a month. Duties include feeding some of the hundreds of species of fish and collecting the island's mail.

They will also need to prepare a blog, a photo diary and video updates to attract tourists to the area.

"There are hundreds of islands scattered along the Great Barrier Reef," Mr Hayes told the BBC. "We are looking for someone who can go and explore all the different islands then report back to the world on what they see.

"We need a special person. They are going to be pretty busy having a good time."

Hamilton Island, where the temperature is warm all year round, is the largest inhabited island in the region. It boasts blue skies, crystal water and pure sands.

Thousands of applications

About two million tourists visit the various islands each year, but most stay on the mainland and visit only on day trips.

The job is being advertised around the world. Candidates have until 22 February to submit an online video application.

GREAT BARRIER REEF World's largest coral reef system 1,600 miles long 2,900 individual reefs 400 species of coral 2,000+ different fish species Source: BBC Science & Nature

In May, 10 shortlisted candidates and one wildcard, voted for by visitors to the Tourism Queensland website, will be invited to the islands for a four-day final interview process. The successful candidate will start the new job on 1 July.

Mr Hayes says he is expecting thousands of applications: "I'm having to beat my staff off with a stick at the moment because most of them want to apply too."

And the Best Job in the World Goes to ???

After a worldwide search, Ben Southall was chosen as Tourism Queensland’s Islands Caretaker, or what we like to call the ‘Best Job in the World’. The role is a newly created position designed to help promote the Islands of the Great Barrier Reef to the world.

Ben was selected from more than 34,000 people from around the globe who applied for the Best Job in the World. He will work for six months exploring the Islands of the Great Barrier Reef and report on his travels through regular blog posts.

Applications for the job opened in January 2008, with would-be caretakers sending in 60-second videos showing their creativity and skills. From a shortlist of 50 applicants, Ben was amongst the final 16 applicants who travelled to Queensland in early May for the final selection process.

The interviews were held on the Whitsunday Islands and involved all 16 applicants taking on a range of tasks from swimming, snorkelling, tasting local cuisine as well as undergoing formal interviews and tests. The announcement of the successful applicant was a truly electric moment as Ben’s name was read out in front of the world’s cameras. The other applicants, who by now were all firm friends, rushed to congratulate him.

All of the candidates were very special but Ben’s adventurous spirit, energy and passion for the outdoors proved an irresistible combination. The 34-year-old charity fundraiser from Petersfield in Hampshire, UK is now donning his new work uniform – a wetsuit and flippers – and will keep himself busy exploring one of the great natural wonders of the world.

Ben will immerse himself in life above and below the Islands of the Great Barrier Reef. A keen diver and sailor, he’s going to experience the full wonder and ecological diversity of the reef and islands. And you can follow Ben’s adventures through this blog!

The 10 Fastest Super Computers on the Planet

These computers are so fast that the lowest ranked super computer on this list is still over thousands of times as fast as your average desktop PC.

7 Of the top 10, are located right here in the United States. The only other countries with a machine that ranks in the top 10 are Germany, India and Sweden.

1. Blue Gene/L by IBM (USA)
   
   Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s Terascale Simulation Facility uses this IBM Blue Gene/L super computer for advanced scientific simulations. It was recently upgraded and now has 73,728 GB of memory and a peak speed of 596 teraFlops. This is the most powerful supercomputer in the world.
2. JUGENE by IBM (Germany) Jugene is among the newest members of the BlueGene/P family by IBM. Housed in the Forschungszentrum Juelich research facility in Juelich, Germany, it runs at a peak speed of 223 teraFlops via a grand total of 65,500 processors.
3. Altix ICE 8200 by SGI (USA) The SGI Altix ICE 8200 uses Intel Xeon (Clovertown) 3000 MHz Processors and is housed at the New Mexico Computing Applications Center. It has a peak speed of 172 teraFlops.
4. EKA by HP (India) The EKA is housed at the Computational Research Laboratories, by TATA SONS in India. At 170 teraFlops, it is the fastest computer in Asia. The EKA uses Intel Xeon (Clovertown) processors.
5. Cluster Platform 3000 BL460c by HP (Sweden) This Supercomputer is located at a government agency in Sweden. It has 13,728 processors cranking out a peak performance of 146 teraFlops
6. Red Storm by Cray Inc. (USA)Red Storm reaches a peak performance of 127 teraFlops with over 26,500 Dual Core Opteron Processors. It is located at the NNSA/Sandia National Laboratory.
7. Jaguar by Cray Inc. (USA) Jaguar is similar to Red Storm, both were built by Cray. Jaguar uses 23,016 Dual Core Opteron Processors for a peak performance of 119 teraFlops.
8. BlueGene by IBM (USA) This Bluegene (one of many) is located at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center in New York. It uses 40,960 PowerPC processors to reach a peak performance of 114 teraFlops.
9. Franklin by Cray Inc. (USA)This Cray XT4 uses Opteron Dual Core processors to achieve a peak performance of over 100 teraFlops. It has a whopping 39 Terabytes of memory.
10. New York Blue by IBM (USA)Yet another member of the Bluegene family resides in New York City. New York Blue uses 36,864 PowerPC processors to produce a peak performance of 103 teraFlops. Overall it contains 18.4 Terabytes of memory.