Infinitely CRAZY: August 2007

Wednesday, August 29, 2007

WW - Humanistic Bananas - II

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Thursday, August 23, 2007

Thirteen Saturn Facts

1. Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun
2. It is the second largest planet
3. Orbit: 1,429,400,000 km (9.54 AU) from Sun
4. Diameter: 120,536 km (equatorial)
5. Mass: 568000000000000000000000000 kg
6. In Roman mythology, Saturn is the god of agriculture.
7. The associated Greek god, Cronus, was the son of Uranus and Gaia and the father of Zeus (Jupiter).
8. Saturn is the root of the English word "Saturday".
9. Saturn is the least dense of the planets; its specific gravity (0.7) is less than that of water.
10. Saturn is about 75% hydrogen and 25% helium with traces of water, methane, ammonia and "rock", similar to the composition of the primordial Solar Nebula from which the solar system was formed.
11. Saturn has 34 named satellites.
12. Saturn's rings are extraordinarily thin: though they're 250,000 km or more in diameter they're less than one kilometer thick.
13. Saturn's interior is hot (12000 K at the core) and Saturn radiates more energy into space than it receives from the Sun.

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Wednesday, August 22, 2007

WW - Humanistic Bananas - I

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Thursday, August 16, 2007

TT - 13 Italians who've made it big in the world...

Rudolph Valentino (USA) : Hollywood's first sex symbol and the first "Latin Lover"
Frank Sinatra (USA) : singer and actor
Al Pacino (USA) : Hollywood actor
Robert De Niro (USA) : Hollywood actor
Leonardo DiCaprio (USA) : Hollywood actor
Madonna (USA) : singer & actress

Amadeo P. Giannini (USA) : founder in 1904 of Bank of Italy which later became Bank of America, the largest bank in the United States.
Bob Guccione (USA) : founder and former publisher of Penthouse Magazine
Leonard Riggio (USA) : owner of Barnes & Noble, the largest book retailer in the world
The Jacuzzi family. (USA) : inventors of the whirlpool bath of the same name.
Dennis Tito (USA) : the world's first space tourist
Ayrton Senna (Brazil) : formula one champion
Rubens Barrichello (Brazil) : formula 1 pilot

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Wednesday, August 15, 2007

Whaddaya see???

Tell me, what does this even vaguely resemble? (Actually, it is not that vague!) I love this sort of thing - I've got 2-3 more, I'll post them up at intervals. And just to make it nicer (and more so because it is the Crazy King of Clowns' WHIM), I'm going to call it the Whaddaya See Series! So now officially, this is Whaddaya See #1

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Wednesday, August 8, 2007

Wordless Wednesday - Hilarious Road Signs

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Thursday, August 2, 2007

Thursday Thirteen - All About Mars

1. Mars is the fourth closest planet to the Sun and the seventh largest overall.
2. Mars is sometimes referred to as the "Red Planet" because of its reddish appearance.
3. Mars' orbit is very elliptical, causing a temperature variation at the subsolar point of about 30 degrees C.
4. Mars is the planet that is considered the best candidate (besides Earth) to harbor life.
5. Mars, is also well-known for "The Face," a hill, in the nothern plains of Mars, with the appearance of an extraterrestrial face.
6. The first spacecraft to visit Mars was Mariner 4 in 1965
7. Mars (Greek: Ares) is the god of War.
8. The planet probably got this name due to its red color; Mars is sometimes referred to as the Red Planet.
9. The name of the month March derives from Mars.
10. Though Mars is much smaller than Earth, its surface area is about the same as the land surface area of Earth.
11. Mars is also filled with volcanoes. It is believed that the volcanoes located on Mars' Tharsis region may be the largest in the entire solar system. The Olympus Mons is over 375 miles (600km) across and over 16 miles (26km) high.

12. Mars, like Venus, is bright and can be spotted in the night sky with the naked eye.

13. Mars is the seventh largest planet in our solar system.

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