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Image of the Day… Colorful Christmas Island …

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When Aqua flew over Christmas Island on Nov. 11, 2014, the MODIS instrument aboard took a visible picture of Christmas Island. Image Credit: NASA Goddard MODIS Rapid Response

When Aqua flew over Christmas Island on Nov. 11, 2014, the MODIS instrument aboard took a visible picture of Christmas Island. Image Credit: NASA Goddard MODIS Rapid Response

A NASA satellite has captured a colourful photo of Christmas Island in the Southern Indian Ocean from space.

Christmas Island, an Australian Territory, is a coral atoll (a ring-shaped reef, island, or chain of islands made up of coral) in the northern Line Islands.

When NASA’s Aqua satellite flew over Christmas Island on November 11, 2014, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer took a visible picture of the small atoll.

The island is only 135 square kilometres in area and has a tropical equatorial climate with a wet season that runs from December to April.

Although an Australian Territory, Christmas Island is located 2,600 km north-west of Perth, Western Australia.

The island is famous for land dwelling red crab which scramble to the sea each November to release eggs.

(This article was published on December 24, 2014)
SOURCE::::www.thehindubusinessline.com
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Image of the Day… Frosty Slopes on MARS…!!!

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This image of an area on the surface of Mars, approximately 1.5 by 3 kilometers in size, shows frosted gullies on a south-facing slope within a crater.

At this time of year, only south-facing slopes retain the frost, while the north-facing slopes have melted. Gullies are not the only active geologic process going on here. A small crater is visible at the bottom of the slope.

The image was acquired on Nov. 30, 2014, by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera, one of six instruments on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. The University of Arizona, Tucson, operates HiRISE, which was built by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., Boulder, Colorado. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Project for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, Washington.

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Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona
Caption: Livio Tornabene, Ryan Hopkins, Kayle Hansen and Eric Pilles  

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Message For the Day…” Maintain Your Body as Temple Where God Resides…”

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Jesus sacrificed His life and poured out His blood to instill Love and Compassion in the heart of man, so that you are happy when others are happy and sad when others are sad. Let Me call upon you today, to give up, in honour of this holy occasion, two evils from your mind: self praise and talking scandal! Give them up! Instead adopt one habit: the habit of loving service to the distressed. If you spend all your time and energy in worldly comfort and sensual delight, you are disgracing this human existence. Do not spend your life in just enjoying food; eat as much as is necessary for living. Maintain your body as temple where God resides. Keep it clean, fresh and fragrant by developing compassion and love; Let holy thoughts, words and deeds emerge from you. Do not demean it by using it for low, trivial and unholy tasks. Wherever you are, make this resolution today! 

Sathya Sai Baba

Joke of the Day… ” Do you think I am a stupid …” ? !!!

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Two guys were fishing down by the Ohio River on different sides of the riverbank at night. Guy number one was catching a whole bunch of fish for his family, but guy number two hadn’t caught any and was frustrated and called out to guy number one “How come you’ve been catching all them there fish and I ain’t caught a single one?”

Guy number one replied, ” I don’t know…. why don’t ya come on over here?”

“I don’t know…. I don’t see a bridge, and their aint no boat, and I don’t swim to well”

Guy number one picks up his flashlight, turns it on, and replies, ” Why don’t you walk across this here beam off light?”

Guy number two was outraged and replied “do you think am stupid? When I get half way you’ll turn it off!!!” 

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Image of the Day…” Holiday Lights On the Sun …” !!!

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Holiday Lights on the Sun: Imagery of a Solar Flare

The sun emitted a significant solar flare, peaking at 7:28 p.m. EST on Dec. 19, 2014. NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, which watches the sun constantly, captured an image of the event. Solar flares are powerful bursts of radiation. Harmful radiation from a flare cannot pass through Earth’s atmosphere to physically affect humans on the ground, however — when intense enough — they can disturb the atmosphere in the layer where GPS and communications signals travel. This flare is classified as an X1.8-class flare. X-class denotes the most intense flares, while the number provides more information about its strength. An X2 is twice as intense as an X1, an X3 is three times as intense, etc.

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Image Credit: NASA/SDO 

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America to Australia in 6 Hours !!!

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From America to Australia in Under 6 Hours

Just 100 years ago, getting from America to Europe was a voyage that took several days by ocean liners. With the invention of airplanes, that travel time was significantly shortened to under 24 hours. At the apex of the era of transatlantic flight, the Concorde was able to fly 100 passengers at mach 2.0 speeds from New York to London in just over 3.5 hours.
Now, the European Space Agency (ESA) just greenlighted the next stage of modern transportation – the hypersonic flight. The ESA has approved a new round of funding to project LAPCAT (Long-Term Advanced Propulsion Concepts and Technologies).
Hypersonic Plane
Ignoring its funny name, the new plane will fly at mach 5.0 speeds (that’s five times the speed of sound!), using liquid hydrogen engines. The planes will be able to travel from England to Australia in four hours, carry 300 passengers and even fly to space in just 15 minutes.

The new kind of engine is being developed by the British company Reaction Engines, who is said to invest over 60 million GBP in the development, and are going to start builing a full-scale prototype engine.
Hypersonic Plane
Current jet engines require that airplanes carry liquid oxygen as a coolant because in speeds beyond mach 3.0 the engines cannot use external oxygen for cooling. The new type of engine can use external oxygen freely, allowing it to cool down its engines from over 1,000°c (1,832°f) to -150°c (-328°f) in a fraction of a second.
Hypersonic Plane
Experts are hailing this development as the biggest advancement in aviation since the invention of the jet engine. The cost of a single plane is estimated to be a whopping $1.1 Billion and will have no windows.

 

Hypersonic passenger plane LAPCAT A2 explainer

 

The Long-term Advanced Propulsion Concept and Technologies (LAPCAT) was developed by British company Reaction Engines Limited (REL) and funded by the European Space Agency (ESA). The 139-meter long hypersonic plane has four liquid hydrogen-powered Synergistic Air-Breathing Rocket Engine (SABRE) engines and can carry up to 300 passengers.
It can travel up to 6,100 kilometer per hour – five times faster than the Airbus A380. By using liquid hydrogen as fuel instead of fossil fuel it is also greener and would only produce water vapor and nitrous oxide instead of carbon emissions. SOURCE: Research and Technology Agency, Reaction Engines Limited (REL), Transport Research & Innovation Portal

 

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Coldest Village on Earth … Now You will Realise That Your City or Town is a Paradise !!!

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The Coldest Village on Earth !!!

If you think that the winter where you live is cold, the people in the village of Oymyakon, Russia will have a good chuckle at your expense. Located in the heart of Siberian, Oymyakon is considered to be the coldest inhabitable place in the world. With a temperature record of −90°f (−67°c) back in 1933, and an average of −60°f (−50°c) in January, it’s easy to see why.

When Amos Chappel, a photographer from New-Zealand, travelled to this frozen location, he brought back incredible pictures depicting the daily lives of the 500 inhabitants of this extraordinary village.

 

The coldest Village on Earth

The local market in Yakutsk 

The coldest Village on Earth

 

The coldest Village on Earth

The coldest Village on Earth

 

A coal-burning plant provides the locals with heating 

The coldest Village on Earth

 

The coldest Village on Earth

The coldest Village on Earth

The coldest Village on Earth

To keep his cows warm, a local farmer built them a special barn. 

The coldest Village on Earth

The coldest Village on Earth

 

The village sign: Oymyakon – “Pole of Cold” 

The coldest Village on Earth

 

The coldest Village on Earth

 

The coldest Village on Earth

Some of the images were taken in nearby Yakutsk – the coldest city in the world.

For more of Amos’ work, visit his website: amoschapplephoto.com 

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Jokes For the Day…. ” The Day Before i die …” !!!

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Over dinner, Jill said to John, “I met this horrible and rude man downtown this morning, and right away I knew he was a troublemaker. He started to insult me; he used really bad language; he even threatened me!”

“How did you meet this fellow?” John asked, very concerned.

Jill said, “Well, we met by accident. I hit him with the car.”

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Showing his friend around his his home, Jennings pointed out all of the collectibles he and his wife had acquired over their long years of marriage.

“The day before I die, I’d like to sell every piece we’ve got just to see how much it’s all worth.”

“Well,” his friend replies, “since you couldn’t possibly know the day before you were going to die, you’ll never be able to sell!”

“And that’s where you’re wrong,” the man smiled. “If I sell it, my wife would kill me!

 

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Message For the Day…” What is the Purpose of Divine Incarnation …” ?

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People believe that Divine incarnations happen only for the punishment of the wicked and the protection of the righteous. But these represent only one aspect of the task. The granting of peace and joy, of a sense of fulfillment to seekers who have striven long —this too is His task. The Avatar, or form incarnate, is only the concretization of the yearning of the seekers. It is the solidified sweetness of the devotion of godly aspirants. The Formless assumes the form for the sake of these aspirants and seekers. They are the prime cause. The cow secretes milk for the sustenance of the calf. That is the chief beneficiary. But, as we see, others also benefit from that milk. So too, though the devotees are the prime cause and their joy and sustenance the prime purpose of an incarnation, other incidental benefits also accrue, such as fostering dharma, suppression of evil, and reforming, correcting or destroying the wicked.

Sathya Sai Baba