Good evening to all, how are you? Me, still the same, lol. This article's a sequel of the Awesome Facts i've had written few days ago, lol, hope you will also like this one, entitled " Scientifically Speaking " lol.
Had came out of this idea after the Awesome Facts i've had wrote before and hope like the previous one or the Awesome Facts i've written, you will also happen to like this one, so without futher ado or delay, here it is, lol, please bare with me again for leaving my own personal thoughts or ideas 'bout it, lol, can't help it and also while writing this one, my imagination or wonderings goes on with it and thinking what would happen if some of it happens in reality, how would we react, what will be our reaction if it does happen? Are we going to be in shock, fascinated, clueless, wondering or freeze? What do you think, lol. @OfficialGamboaLikeUs , hope you will also like and enjoy reading this one din po, lol.
Scientifically Speaking
1. The speed of light is generally rounded down to 186,000 miles per second, in exact terms, it's 299,792,458 m/s (meters or metres per second- that's equal to 186,287.49 miles per second).
All i can say is awesome and amazing, lol, that explains why flash's so fast, lol.
2. It takes 8 minutes 17 seconds for light to travel from the Sun's surface to the Earth.
A little faster than i thought, eh, lol.
3. October 12, 1999 was declared "The day of Six Billion" based on United Nations projections.
Hmmm...... I wonder why, is it got to do with the population growth or something else, lol, what do you think?
4. 10% of all Human Beings ever born are alive at this very moment.
Hmmm...... It's true, i agree, lol.
5. The Earth spins at 1,000 mph but it travels through space at an incredible 67,000 mph.
Really incredible, i must say, lol.
6. Every year, over one million Earthquakes shake the Earth.
Really? Lol, maybe some's unnoticeable or not that strong but still was recorded, i guess.
7. When Krakatoa erupted in 1883, its force was so great, it could be heard 4,800 kilometers away in Australia.
Wow, so strong, i wonder how far is the damaged it created that time.
8. The largest ever Hailstone weighed over 1 Kg. and fell in Bangladesh in 1986.
A little heavy eh, lol.
9. Every second, around 100 lightning bolts strike the Earth.
Wow, it's too many, lol, it means, it's 6,000 strikes for a minute then eh.
10. Every year, lightning kills 1000 People.
Please be careful with the lightning, when there's one, especially when it's raining.
11. In October 1999, an Iceberg, the size of London broke free from the Antarctic Ice Shelf.
Maybe 'coz the ice are slowly melting down that's why it broke free.
12. If you could drive your car straight up, you would arrive in space in just over an hour.
Lol, problem is, i don't have a car and i don't know how to drive, maybe, i'll just rent a taxi or a cab to drive for me so i can be in space that very said time, lol.
13. Human Tapeworms can grow up to 22.9 meter.
If i'm guessing it right, Human Tapeworms are Bulate in Tagalog, right, lol, am i correct?
14. The Earth is 4.56 billion years old.... The same age as the Moon and the Sun.
Wonder if we can also last that long, but no, we can't last that long, lol, this one's really amazing, one of God's perfect and amazing creations, indeed.
15. The Dinosaurs became extinct before the Rockies or the Alps were formed.
Hmmm......
16. Female Black Widow Spiders eat their Males after mating.
Hmmm...... Somehow related to Praying Mantis eh, lol, maybe it got hungry after doing it so it ate the male.
17. When a Flea jumps, the rate of accelaration's 20 times that of the Space Shuttle during launch.
Hmmm......
18. If Our Sun were just inch in diameter, the nearest Star would be 445 miles away.
Hmmm...... A little closer, eh, lol, it would be so bright and the Sky would be a little beautiful and awesome or amzing at the same time, eh, lol.
19. The Australian Billygoat Plum contains 100 times more Vitamin C than an Orange.
Lol, i never heard of that fruit, just now.
20. Astronauts cannot belch- there's no gravity to separate liquid from gas in their stomachs.
Lol, i don't understand, what belch is, lol.
21. The air at the summit of Mount Everest, 29,029 feet is only a third as thick as the air at sea level.
22. One million, million, million, million, millionth of a second after the Big Bang, the Universe was the size of a Pea.
Hmmm...... Too small that time, eh, but evolution came so now, the Universe's unreachable and undiscovered.
23. DNA was first discovered in 1869 by Swiss Friedrich Mieschler.
24. The molecular structure of DNA was first determined by Watson and Crick in 1953.
Hmmm...... That's the year when My Mother's born and after 12 years after My Deceased Father was born, i wonder if he knew it that time, lol, that explains where Watsons got its name eh, lol.
25. The first Synthetic Human Chromosome was constructed by US Scientists in 1997.
26. The Thermometer was invented in 1607 by Galileo.
Galileo was one of the famous/popular/known person in history 'coz of their invention, lol, when i was a kid/child, i wanted to become an inventor but now, i'm just a tambay and a pal at the same time, lol.
27. Englishman Roger Bacon, invented the Magnifying Glass in 1250.
28. Alfred Novel invented Dynamite in 1866.
29. Wilhelm Rontgen won the first nobel prize for Physics for discovering X-Rays in 1895.
30. The tallest tree ever was an Australian Eucalyptus- in 1872, it was measured at 435 feet tall.
Hmmm...... So tall, indeed tall, lol.
31. Christian Barnard performed the first heart transplant in 1967- the Patient lived for 18 days.
Hmmm...... Guess, it was a trial, but at least the patient lasted for 18 days after the operation.
32. The wingspan of a Boeing 747 is longer than the Wright Brother's first flight.
33. An Electric Eel can produce a shock of up to 650 volts.
Hmmm...... Lol, guess if we don't have lights or electricity here, might go and catch an electric eel here so we can have lights or electric power here, lol.
34. Wireless Communications took a giant leap forward in 1962 with the launch of Telstar, the first satellite capable of relaying Telephone and Satellite TV Signals.
35. The earliest wine makers lived in Egypt, around 2300 BC.
36. The Ebola Virus kills 4 out of every 5 Humans it infects.
37. In 5 Billion Years, the Sun will run of fuel and turn into a Red Giant.
38. Giraffes often sleep for only 20 minutes in any 24 hours, they may sleep up to 2 hours (in spurts- not all at once), but this is rare, they never lie down.
39. A Pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.
40. Without its lining of Mucus, your Stomach would digest itself.
Lol, it would be painful and not good, eh.
41. Humans have 46 Chromosomes, Peas have 14 and Crayfish have 200.
42. There are 60,000 miles of blood vessels in the Human Body.
43. An Individual blood cell takes about 60 seconds to make a complete circuit of the body.
44. Utopia's a large smooth lying area of Mars.
45. On the day that Alexander Graham Bell was buried, the entire US Telephone System was shut down for 1 minute in tribute.
46. The low frequency call of the Humpback Whale's the loudest noise made by a living creature.
47. The call of the Humpback Whale's louder than Concorde and can be heard from 500 miles away.
Too noisy and too loud, eh, lol.
48. A quarter of the World's Plants threatened with extinction by the Year 2010.
49. Each Person sheds 40 Lbs or Pounds of skin in his or her lifetime.
50. At 15 inches, the eyes of Giant Squids are the largest on the Planet.
51. The largest Galaxies contain a million, million stars.
52. The Universe contains over 100 billion Galaxies.
Wow, so many, lol, it will be really hard to explore, discover it then.
53. Wound infested with Maggots heal quickly and without spread of Gangrene or other infection.
54. More Germs are transferred by shaking hands than kissing.
Lol, then just kiss and don't shake hands, eh, lol.
55. The longest Glacier in Antarctica, the Almbert Glacier, is 250 miles long and 40 miles wide.
56. The fastest speed a falling Raindrops can hit you is 18 mph.
57. A healthy Person has 6,000 million, million, million haemoglobin molecules.
58. A Salmon-Rich Low Cholesterol Diet means that inuits rarely suffer from heart disease.
59. Inbreeding causes 3 out of every 10 Dalmatian Dogs to suffer from hearing disability.
60. The World's smallest winged insect, Thetanzanian Parasitic Wasp's smaller than the eye of a Housefly.
61. If the Sun were the size of a beach ball then Jupiter would be the size of a golf ball and the Earth would be as small as a pea.
Wow, nice comparison, lol, yet somehow true.
62. It would take over an hour for a heavy object to sink 6.7 miles down to the deepest part of the Ocean.
63. There are more living organisms on the skin of each Human than there are Humans on the surface of the Earth.
64. The Grey Whale migrates 12,500 miles from the Artic to Mexico and back every year.
65. Each rubber molecule is made of 65,000 Individual Atoms.
66. Around a million, billion neutrinos from the Sun will past through your body while you read this sentence.
Really, lol.
67. Quasars are the most distant objects in the Universe.
68. Quasars emit more energy than 100 Giant Galaxies.
69. The Saturn V Rocket which carried Man to the Moon develops power equivalent to fifty 747 Jumbo Jets.
70. Koalas sleep an average of 22 hours a day, 2 more hours more than the Sloth.
71. Light would take 13 seconds to travel around Earth.
A little too fast, eh, lol.
72. Males produce one thousand Sperm Cells each second- 86 million each day.
All i can say is wow, lol.
73. Neutron Stars are so dense that a teaspoonful would weigh more than all the People on Earth.
74. One in every 2000 Babies is born with a tooth.
75. Every hour, the Universe expands by a billion miles in all directions.
76. Somewhere in the flicker of a badly tuned TV Set is the background radiation from the Big Bang.
77. Even travelling at the speed of light, it would take 2 million years to reach the nearest large Galaxy, Andromeda.
78. The temperature in Antarctica Plummets are as low as -35 degrees celsius.
79. At over 2000 kilometers long, the Great Barrier Reef's the largest living structure on Earth.
80. A thimbleful of a Neutron Star would weigh over 100 million tons.
81. The risk of being struck by a Falling Meteorite for a Human is one occurence every 9,300 years.
82. The driest inhabited place in the World is Aswan, Egypt, where the annual average rainfall is .02 inches.
83. The deepest part of any Ocean in the World's the Mariana Trench in the Pacific with a depth of 35,797 feet.
84. The largest Meteorite Craters in the World are in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada and in Vredefort, South Africa.
85. The largest Desert in the World, the Sahara, is 3,500,000 square miles.
Wow, it's too far and wide, lol, you need to ride just to see it all.
86. The largest Dinosaur ever discovered was Seismosaurus who was over 100 feet long and weighed up to 80 tons.
Lol, too long and too heavy, eh.
87. The African Elephant gestates for 22 months.
88. The Short-Nosed Bandicoot has a gestation period of only 12 days.
89. The mortality rate if bitten by a Black Mamba Snake's over 95 % .
90. In the 14th Century, the Black Death killed 75,000,000 People, it was carried by Fleas on the Black Rat.
91. A Dog's sense of smell is 1,000 times more sensitive than a Humans.
That's why most Dogs are used by either Policemen or Soldiers to help them in finding evidence or People or something useful to help solve a crime.
92. A Typical Hurricane produces the energy equivalent to 8,000 one megaton bombs.
Wow, so strong, that's why the damages are so many and so wide if it hits the grounds.
93. 90% of those who die from Hurricanes, die from drowning.
94. To escape the Earth's gravity, a Rocket needs to travel at a 7 miles a second.
95. In every Star in the Milky Way was a grain of salt, they would fill an olympic sized swimming pool.
96. Microbial Life can survive on the cooling rods of a nuclear reactor.
97. Micro-Organisms have been brought back to life after being frozen in Perma-Frost for 3 million years.
98. Our oldest radio broadcasts of the 1930's, have already travelled past 100,000 Stars.
Good evening to all once again, lol, hope you will find this article of mine here today's a good, informative and really scientifically speaking, lol, soon, going to watch here again the anime " The Stigma of the Wind " while waiting for My KJF, lol, have a good evening and night to all 🙂😀
Science is really a fun subject. It is one of the hardest subjects, but also one of best and enjoyable. 'Yun lang naman, lol.