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The Titanic: Jack Should Have Survived

Titanic, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet was should I say epic!!! Indeed one of the greatest love story I have heard and watched my whole life. Well, that’s still debatable ;-) Don’t yank on me yet… I have remembered watching it, believe it or not, I have watched it alone, pity me, way back when I’m still in my high school days, and yeah it’s probably fine during that time to have watched it alone, though having some company would be great! Okay so what do we have here? Ah the ordeal when Jack and Rose were already on a piece of wood after the Titanic sunk. There had been a lot of debate that Jack shouldn’t die that night. He should have done a couple or maybe more things to keep himself alive ;-) ‘My Heart Will Go On’, much like the chorus from Celine Dion’s, the tragic conclusion of ‘Titanic’ will live on in all of our hearts until the day we die. And just probably, we will tell the story to our kids so just to relive the moment. Well, I should

Super Earth, ExoPlanet and The Ocean to Sustain Life

As curious as it is when we were kids, we always tend to look up in the sky then wonder if there’s a life other than us? Aliens as we call them and we’ve only braced our imagination through the movies, still, questions never answered. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration or NASA keeps on looking at every angle in the universe in search for life. Then year 2015, came a great discovery… They are calling it The Exoplanets. NASA's Kepler space telescope celebrated its 1,000th exoplanet discovery earlier this month, an impressive milestone in the search for life on other worlds. Just for a quick glance on what Exoplanet is, according to Wiki, an exoplanet or extrasolar planet is a planet that orbits a star other than the Sun, a stellar remnant, or a brown dwarf. Nearly 2000 exoplanets have been discovered (1931 planets in 1221 planetary systems including 484 multiple planetary systems as of 6 July 2015). There are also rogue planets, which do not orbit any

Food Manufactured in China: All Fake

The first impressions I had when I heard something made in China, it’s all fake… Quality is very poor… A waste of money… Well, I’m talking anything about electronics… What if one day, it came to your doorstep a fake food? Would you consider eating them? Can your curiosity take you the courage to taste it? How in the world China come up with something like this? It is so alarming, not to mention this is way too dangerous… The lack of effective food safety laws in China has created a monster of terrible proportions. It is one thing to replicate designer merchandise and rip off manufacturers, and quite another to dare to imitate Mother Nature and mess with the nutritious ingredients that comprise the staples of human diets. China’s population of 1.3 billion is hungry for both food and wealth, and this combination often nurses corruption, especially when there’s no government watchdog preventing the commission of such crimes. Where can you find the obvious culprits

Sex Addict: What Its Like And How To Cope With It

Please take time to reassess our topic here as it is much serious than I thought… I’m browsing the net to look something to read about, then came across one subject that more often than not, we tend to take this for granted… We might engage ourselves with sex probably more than we should or simply it is just the thing nowadays… I have read an article claiming that sex is indeed the greatest form of exercise. Well, needless to say, I’ve been there and I can say that it might be true, but not for everyone… Have you asked yourself how little is little, and how much is too much? If you’re trying to have it as much as you do and as much as you can, you might be suffering from an addiction. The “psychiatrist’s bible” may not be officially recognize that there is a sex addiction but people with the condition say it’s all too real. It seems like sex addiction makes headlines every time a public figure is caught in a cheating scandal. Tiger Woods: sex addict. Anthony Weiner:

Aliens Are Living With Us, They are Resembling Humans

Since the time I discovered that I can already think on my own, yes it is not just recently ;-), there is a lot of curiosity about ourselves as human living alone in the universe… We called the other species not from our planet as “Aliens”, well, there were documented events proving that indeed there were other lifeforms besides us!!! According to Wiki, by definition, Alien or Extraterrestrial life is life that does not originate from Earth. It is also called alien life, or, if it is a sentient and/or relatively complex individual, an "extraterrestrial" or "alien" (or, to avoid confusion with the legal sense of "alien", a "space alien"). These as yet hypothetical forms of life range from simple bacteria-like organisms to beings far more complex than humans. The possibility that viruses might exist extraterrestrially has also been proposed. "Exobiology" or "astrobiology" is the development and testing of hypotheses

How to Extract Gold from Electronics Using Household Materials

You have read the title right folks; on this article we will learn how to extract GOLD from your electronic junks just using common household chemicals. First, what you'll going to do is collect as much electronic junks as you can from your friends, neighbors or just simply from anyone! You need not to be a super genius to accomplish this as this is not rocket science. Just remember and always bear in mind the phrase "SAFETY FIRST" as you'll be handling hazardous materials ;-) You might be needing goggles, gloves, simple face mask and the likes, and perform this experiment on a well-ventilated area or as much as possible, in an open space. Prepare the following: Hydrochloric Acid Hydrogen Peroxide PCB Boards A lot of toilet bowl cleaners have Hydrochloric acid; you can use them if you can’t purchase HCL Acid from a nearby store. Hydrogen Peroxide on the other hand is easy. If you have the materials needed, you can now start the experiment ;-) Break th

The World's First Windowless Plane

An airplane or aeroplane (informally plane) is a powered, fixed-wing aircraft that is propelled forward by thrust from a jet engine or propeller. Airplanes come in a variety of sizes, shapes, and wing configurations. The broad spectrum of uses for airplanes includes recreation, transportation of goods and people, military, and research. Most airplanes are flown by a pilot on board the aircraft, but some are designed to be remotely or computer-controlled. Just for a short history, in 1799, Sir George Cayley set forth the concept of the modern airplane. He was building and flying models of fixed-wing aircraft in 1803, and he built a successful passenger-carrying glider in 1853. Between 1867 and 1896 the German pioneer of human aviation Otto Lilienthal developed heavier-than-air flight. The Wright brothers flights in 1903 are recognized as "the first sustained and controlled heavier-than-air powered flight". Following WWI, aircraft technology continued to develop. Airplanes h

Global Warming: Global Warning

Remember the movie The Day After Tomorrow? When the media interviewed the Director/Producer of that movie, he claims that it should be shown immediately as it will become more of a documentary rather than a movie. The Atlanta governor has declared a state of emergency for 89 counties as a wave of “crippling ice” befalls much of The Peach State in a storm the National Weather Service warns, “may be of historic proportions.” This statewide IcePocalypseMageddon occurs a little more than a week after Georgia’s last devastating ice storm, when the National Guard was called in to aid thousands of people stranded in their homes, vehicles, and schools. The polar vortex dropped temperatures from Chicago to Mexico a few weeks prior, breaking more than 50 records and leaving Minneapolis with sub-zero temperatures for 62 straight hours. That U.S. weather patterns seem more at home in the Book of Revelation than February hasn’t made an impact on Senator Ted Cruz, who joked to attendees of

Steam Devil Caused by a Cold Front in Lake Michigan

An Arctic vortex drifted into Illinois on January 6 and caused an unusual sight – steam rising from Lake Michigan. This phenomenon is known as a steam devil, and it is due to the cold front of the vortex moving over the warmer water and humidifying, causing the visible steam. According to Wiki, a steam devil is a small, weak whirlwind over water (or sometimes wet land) that has drawn fog into the vortex, thus rendering it visible. They form over large lakes and oceans during cold air outbreaks while the water is still relatively warm, and can be an important mechanism in vertically transporting moisture. Because of the very high water temperatures, smaller steam devils and steam whirls can form over geyser basins even in warm weather. Although steam devils are generally quite a rare phenomenon, hot springs in Yellowstone Park produce them on a daily basis. You could probably remember the Yellowstone Park being featured on the movie 2012. A precondition for the formation

Comet ISON Might be Seen in the Philippines

I was always fascinated by what’s on our solar system. May it be asteroids, heavenly planets, stars or anything that made up our universe is quite a spectacle for me! Once in a while, I try to look up in the sky hoping to see something spectacular like an eclipse or a meteor shower. We may be in good luck just before the 2013 will end, a comet will probably appear right before our very eyes! Introducing the Comet ISON. Comet ISON, also known as C/2012 S1 or Comet Nevski–Novichonok, is a sungrazing comet discovered by Vitali Nevski and Artyom Novichonok on 21 September 2012. Thanks to Wiki, we can indulge ourselves to know more about this comet. Using the 0.4-meter (16 in) reflector of the International Scientific Optical Network (ISON), the discovery was made near Kislovodsk, Russia. Data processing was carried out by automated asteroid-discovery program CoLiTec. Precovery images by the Mount Lemmon Survey from 28 December 2011 and by Pan-STARRS from 28 January 2012 were quic

What Causes Myterious Sounds All Over the World

There were a lot of rumors spreading across the internet saying that a lot of people are hearing strange sounds and some say that there’s so loud noise that even set off car alarms. Sometimes they describe it as a hum or low rumble; other times it’s a whine, thump, or even a melody. Often the sounds have been recorded and posted online, fueling rumors and conspiracy theories. According to Wiki, the Hum is a phenomenon, or collection of phenomena, involving a persistent and invasive low-frequency humming, rumbling, or droning noise not audible to all people. Hums have been widely reported by national media in the UK and the United States. The Hum is sometimes prefixed with the name of a locality where the problem has been particularly publicized: e.g., the "Bristol Hum", the "Taos Hum", or the "Bondi Hum". Data from a Taos Hum study suggests that a minimum of two percent and perhaps as many as 11 percent of the population could detect the Taos Hum and

Europe Might Be Dog's Origin

Dog is a man's best friend. That's all we have to say everytime we talk about our beloved dogs. There were several species of them and every one of us have our own fave. But have you asked yourself where they might come from? Or perhaps, how the first dog look like? Curious as it is, let's find out! Scientists have been dogged by this evolution question for years: Just where did man's best friend first appear? Though DNA studies have implicated east Asia and the Middle East, the earliest known doglike fossils come from Europe. Now a large DNA study is lining up with the fossils, some 19,000 to 32,000 years ago suggesting dogs originated in Europe. Even though experts said it won't end the debate, they praised the new work and their latest disscovery. Scientists generally agree that dogs emerged from wolves to become the first domesticated animal.  Maybe drawn by food in garbage dumps and carcasses left by human hunters, their wolf ancestors began to associa

The Future of Food: World's First Test-Tube Burger

To all health-conscious people, eating meat is definitely a no-no. Though, research shows that we all need meat for its protein content, there were still people who prefer to eat non-meat meals, they are the vegetarians. However, on a recent experiment by a group of scientists, they have successfully cultured a laboratory-grown beef. Scientists unveiled the world's first lab-grown beef burger, serving it up to volunteers in London in what they hope is the start of a food revolution. The team in Maastricht took cells from organic cows and placed them in a nutrient solution to create muscle tissue. They then grew this into small strands of meat, 20,000 of which were required to make the burger. The costs of cultured beef are likely to fall as more is produced and the team claim, although it is very expensive, it could be available in supermarkets within 10 to 20 years. Proponents of test tube meat cite a variety of reasons for why it is worth supporting, from animal

NASA's Curiosity Rover Found Evidence of Water on Mars

There were a lot of explorations done to search for other heavenly bodies on the universe where man could possibly live! Mars is the nearest feasible to explore. Did NASA found something there worth to prove that we could live there? Well, they did more than that. NASA has found out that Mars have once a habitual environment! As a matter of fact, NASA’s curiosity rover has collected compelling evidence that ancient Mars was a very wet place. They were looking for water on Mars? Yes, some of it fit to drink, there’s water, there’s water everywhere. Thanks to discoveries by NASA's Curiosity rover, shown on the right is the picture of ancient Mars that has emerged during the past few months, which has been exploring the Red Planet since touching down inside Gale Crater in August 2012. Presented together recently here at the European Planetary Science Congress, though the announcements have come in dribs and drabs, they provide compelling evidence that Mars was quit