Cool Global Selfie From NASA…Do You See Yourself !!!

 

NASA’s 3.2 gigapixel mosaic of … us

Last Earth Day, NASA asked us take pictures of ourselves and post to social media using the hashtag #GlobalSelfie. And here’s the result.

This is NASA's massive, 3.2 gigapixel mosaic of ... us.  And we look good.  Image via NASA.

Will Ferrell?  Or his doppleganger.  Grabbed from NASA's global selfie.

To see the individual selfies, click into the big, zoomable version of the global selfie here.

This past Earth Day (April 22, 2014), NASA invited you – and everyone else on the planet – to take part in a worldwide celebration. They asked us to take pictures of ourselves wherever we were on Earth, then post to social media using the hashtag #GlobalSelfie. And here’s the result. It’s a 3.2 gigapixel global selfiecomposed of 36,422 individual images. NASA said:

People on every continent – 113 countries and regions in all – posted selfies. From Antarctica to Yemen, Greenland to Guatemala, Micronesia to the Maldives, Pakistan, Poland, Peru – and on. The image was assembled after weeks of curating more than 50,000 #globalselfie submissions – not all were accessible or usable – from Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, Google+ and Flickr.

Click here to read more about this image.

Bottom line: Cool global selfie from NASA, taken for and around last Earth Day 2014. Do you see yourself?

 

source:::: earth sky news site

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Joke of The Day !!!

Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson went on a camping trip. As they lay down for the night, Holmes said:” Watson, look up into the sky and tell me what you see?”

Watson said, “I see millions and millions of stars.”

Holmes: “And what does that tell you?”

Watson: “Astronomically, it tells me that there are millions of galaxies and potentially billions of planets. Theologically, it tells me that God is great and that we are small and insignificant. Meteorogically, it tells me that we will have a beautiful day tomorrow. What does it tell you?”

Holmes: “Somebody stole our tent.”

 

source::::: joke a day.com

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Photograph Of the Day…

Ed Oelofse and his pal Sylvester the Cheetah ) - Mans best friend is usually a dog but meet the BIG CAT who has formed a heart-warming bond with its trainer after being rescued as an orphaned cub. Four-year-old Sylvester the cheetah has such a close bond with his trainer, 31-year-old Ed Oelofse, from Zimbabwe, he will happily sit side by side with Ed, even though in the wild a super quick cheetah like Sylvester could easily kill a grown man. The young cheetah was found abandoned in the wild after a lion savagely attacked and killed his mother, and four siblings.

Ed Oelofse and his pal Sylvester the Cheetah. Man’s best friend is usually a dog but meet the big cat who has formed a heart-warming bond with its trainer after being rescued as an orphaned cub. Four-year-old Sylvester the cheetah has such a close bond with his trainer, 31-year-old Ed Oelofse, from Zimbabwe, he will happily sit side by side with Ed, even though in the wild a super quick cheetah like Sylvester could easily kill a grown man. The young cheetah was found abandoned in the wild after a lion savagely attacked and killed his mother and four siblings.Picture: Caters   

source::::The Telegraph UK

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Amazing Facts… You Will Enjoy Reading !!!

 


OK, “blow your mind” is a bit dramatic. But Amazing Facts You’ll Probably Enjoy and Like….

 Google’s founders were willing to sell to Excite for under $1 million in 1999—but Excite turned them down.

. There was a third Apple founder. Ronald Wayne (pictured at home in 2010) sold his 10% stake for $800 in 1976.

 

 According to Amazon, the most highlighted Kindle books are the Bible, the Steve Jobs biography, and The Hunger Games.

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 A California woman once tried to sue the makers of Cap’n Crunch because Crunch Berries contained “no berries of any kind.”

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 In a 2008 survey, 58% of British teens thought Sherlock Holmes was a real guy, while 20% thought Winston Churchill was not.

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 At one point in the 1990s, 50% of all CDs produced worldwide were for AOL.

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 A British man changed his name to Tim Pppppppppprice to make it harder for telemarketers to pronounce.

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 J.P. Morgan once offered $100,000 to anyone who could figure out why his face was so red. No one solved the mystery.

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Prairie dogs say hello with kisses.

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 Jonas Salk declined to patent his polio vaccine. “There is no patent,” he said. “Could you patent the sun?”

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* The 50-star American flag was designed by an Ohio high school student for a class project. His teacher originally gave him a B–.

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. After leaving office, Lyndon Johnson let his hair grow out.

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Sean Connery turned down the Gandalf role in Lord of the Rings. “I read the book. I read the script. I saw the movie. I still don’t understand it.”

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 If you start counting at one and spell out the numbers as you go, you won’t use the letter “A” until you reach 1,000.

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The medical term for ice cream headaches is sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia.

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 After Leonardo da Vinci’s death, King Francis I of France hung the Mona Lisa in his bathroom.

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In Spain, Mr. Clean is known as Don Limpio.

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 In Qaddafi’s compound, Libyan rebels found a photo album filled with pictures of Condoleezza Rice.

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Marie Curie’s notebooks are still radioactive. Researchers hoping to view them must sign a disclaimer.

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When three-letter airport codes became standard, airports that had been using two letters simply added an X.

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Fredric Baur invented the Pringles can. When he passed away in 2008, his ashes were buried in one.

For more amazing facts follow @mental_floss on Twitter. Images courtesy of Getty Images and Thinkstock. Ronald Wayne image via Karen T. Borchers/MCT/Landov.

 

source::::: mentalfloss site

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Message For the Day…” As Senses are Unreliable ,Reactions Produced are also Equally Unreliable…”

You hear some good news and a little later, you hear some sad news. Sometime after that you hear harsh and abusive words. Your ears heard all words of praise and blame alike. But when happy news was told, your heart felt elated, and it shrunk when sad news was heard. The same heart got enraged when the ears heard harsh words and was filled with joy when it heard words of praise! The ears by themselves are incapable of any reaction; they merely transmit the message. Thus the senses by themselves are not conscious, they are inconscient (Jada). Then how can the operations of these senses and the experiences resulting from them be deemed as Truth or Reality (Sathya)? Understand clearly that as the senses are unreliable, the reactions produced by them are also equally unreliable. If you enquire along these lines, you will develop discrimination and can easily overcome sorrow.

 

Sathya Sai Baba

 

 

 

” இன்று தத்தாத்ரேயா ஜெயந்தி … ”

 

 

 

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மனிதன் இயற்கையை மதிக்கத் தவறியதால் தான், இன்று, மழை பெய்வது அரிதாகி விட்டது. ஆனால், அந்தக் காலத்தில் அப்படி இல்லை. புழு, பூச்சியைக் கூட தன் குருவாக நினைத்தான் மனிதன். கடவுளே மானிடப் பிறப்பெடுத்து, இயற்கையை குருவாக ஏற்று, அதனிடமிருந்து பாடம் கற்றுக்கொண்ட கதை தெரியுமா உங்களுக்கு?

அத்திரி முனிவரின் மனைவி அனுசூயா, கணவனின் மனம் அறிந்து நடக்கும் பதிவிரதை, கணவனிடம் மிகுந்த பக்தி கொண்டவள். இவள், மும்மூர்த்திகளின் தரிசனம் வேண்டி, தவமிருந்தாள். இதையறிந்த மும்மூர்த்திகளும் அவள் முன், துறவிகள் வடிவில் வந்தனர். அவளது பெருமையை உலகறியச் செய்வதற்காக, தங்களுக்கு நிர்வாணக் கோலத்தில் பிச்சையிடும்படி வேண்டினர். கற்புத்தெய்வமான அனுசூயா, தன் கணவர் அத்திரி மகரிஷியை மனதில் நினைத்து, அவர்கள் மீது, அவர் பாதத்தைக் கழுவிய தீர்த்தத்தை தெளித்தாள். உடனே, மும்மூர்த்திகளும், மூன்று குழந்தைகளாயினர். அந்தக் குழந்தைகளை அத்திரி மகரிஷி ஒன்று சேர்த்து, தத்தாத்ரேயன் என்று, பெயரிட்டு வளர்த்து வந்தார்.

ஒரு நாள், காட்டிற்கு வேட்டையாட வந்த, யது என்ற மன்னன், காட்டில் தத்தாத்ரேயர் ஆனந்தமாக இருந்ததைக் கண்டு, ஐயனே… உலகில் உள்ள ஒவ்வொருவரும் ஏதாவது ஒரு கவலையுடன் வாழுந்து வரும் நிலையில், நீங்களோ வெகு ஆனந்தமாக இருக்கிறீர்களே… உங்களுக்கு இத்தகைய ஆனந்த மார்க்கத்தை கற்றுக் கொடுத்த குரு யார், எனக்கும் கூறுங்கள்… என்று, கேட்டான். எனக்கு ஒன்றல்ல பல குருமார்கள் இருக்கின்றனர். அதில், இந்த பூமிதான் முதல் குரு; இதனிடமிருந்து பொறுமையையும், பிறருக்கு நன்மை செய்வதையும் கற்றேன். தண்ணீரிடமிருந்து, சுத்தத்தைக் கற்றேன். எல்லாரிடமும் பழகினாலும், யாரிடமும் பற்று வைக்காத குணத்தை, காற்றிடம் படித்தேன்.  பரந்து விரிந்திருந்தாலும், எதனிடமும் தொடர்பு இல்லாதது வானம். அந்த தொடர்பற்ற நிலையை ஆகாயமே எனக்கு தெரிவித்தது. ஒரே சூரியன் என்றாலும், எல்லா குடங்களின் நீரிலும் பிரதிபலிப்பது போல, பல சரீரங்களை ஒரே ஆத்மா எடுப்பதைப் பார்த்தேன். வேடனின் வலையில் சிக்கிய புறாக்களைப் பார்த்து, தானும் சிக்கிய தாய் புறாவைப் பார்த்து, பாசபந்தமே துன்பத்திற்கு காரணம் என, உணர்ந்தேன்.

உணவுக்காக தூண்டிலில் சிக்கிய மீனைப் பார்த்து, ஆசையே சுதந்திரத்தை இழப்பதற்கு காரணம் என்பதை, அறிந்தேன். தேனீக்கள் சேர்த்த தேனை, யாரோ ஒருவன் கொண்டு போனதைப் பார்த்து, பொருளை தானம் செய்ய வேண்டியதன் அவசியத்தை உணர்ந்தேன். உணவுக்காக அங்கும் இங்கும் அலையாமல் இருந்த இடத்திலிருந்த படியே கிடைக்கும் உணவைக் கொண்டு திருப்தியடையும் மலைப்பாம்பைப் போல், நானும் திருப்திப்பட வேண்டும் என, உணர்ந்தேன்… என்று, அடுக்கிக் கொண்டே போனார். பார்த்தீர்களா… இயற்கை நமக்கு நன்மைகளை மட்டுமல்ல, உலகவியல் வாழ்வுக்கும் ஆசானாக இருக்கிறது. இயற்கையின் ஒவ்வொரு அம்சத்தையும் கருத்தூன்றி பார்ப்பதுடன், பாதுகாக்கவும் செய்யுங்கள். தத்தாத்ரேயர் ஜெயந்தி, வைகாசி தசமியன்று நடக்கும். கோவை மாவட்டம் குமாரலிங்கம் கிராமத்தில், தத்தாத்ரேயருக்கு கோவில் உள்ளது. பழநியிலிருந்து, 21 கி.மீ., உடுமலையிலிருந்து, 18 கி.மீ., தூரத்தில் இவ்வூர் உள்ளது.

source::::DINAMALAR…TAMIL DAILY.

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Quotable Quotes….

Every Artist gives his own name to his work.
But there is no artist like a “MOTHER”,
who gives birth to a child,
But gives Father’s name !!!
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Life is in Constant Conflict Between Love Ego.
Love Always Wants To Say Sorry
Ego Always Wants To Hear It.!
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Someone asked Life:
Why are you so difficult…????!!!
Life Smiled and said “You people never appreciate easy things”…
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Forgive others,
not because they deserve forgiveness,
but because you deserve Peace…
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Unbelievable fact —
Our body is full of water but wherever it hurts, blood comes out
Our heart is full of Blood but whenever it hurts, TEARS come out.
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If you have a “Magnetic” personality and
yet people don’t get attracted to you – it’s not your fault.
They have “Iron” deficiency in their bodies.
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Pearl of the Day:
“If You want to feel Rich,
Just Count All The Things You have, That Money cannot Buy.”
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The best relationship is not the one that brings together perfect
people,
but when each individual learns to live with the imperfections of
others
and can admire the other person’s good qualities !!!

 

source::::Unknown… input from a friend of mine

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Joke of the Day !!!

> THE WATER TRICK
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> A woman goes to the doctor, worried about her husband’s temper.
> The doctor asks, “What’s the problem? The woman says, “Doctor,
> I don’t know what to do. Every day my husband seems to lose his temper for no reason. It scares me.”
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> The doctor says, “I have a cure for that. When it seems that your husband is getting angry, just take a glass of water and start swishing
> it in your mouth. Just swish and swish, but don’t swallow it until he either leaves the room or calms down.”
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> Two weeks later the woman comes back to the doctor, looking fresh and reborn.
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> The woman says, “Doctor that was a brilliant idea! Every time my husband started losing it, I swished with water. I swished and swished, and he calmed right down! How does a glass of water do that?”
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> The doctor says, “The water itself does nothing. It’s keeping your mouth shut that does the trick.”

 

source:::: input from a friend of mine

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