3 Pokok Tertua Di Dunia

Spruce Ione Norway 9550 tahun

Tingginya hanya 4 meter, namun sebatang pokok jenis cemara, yang masih hidup di Sweden , diketahui berusia 9.550 tahun. Hidup sejak akhir zaman ais, pokok tersebut tercatat sebagai yang tertua di dunia pada masa ini.

Spesies pohon spruce Ione Norway ini ditemui pada tahun 2004. Para pengkaji menemuinya di sekitar semak-semak pergunungan pada ketinggian 910 meter di Provinsi Dalarna , Sweden . Pokok ini adalah biasa kerana penduduk sering digunakan sebagai pokok Natal .

“Usianya yang sangat panjang kemungkinan besar dicatat pada kemampuannya mengklon diri sendiri,” ujar Leif Kullman, profesor eologi dan persekitaran hidup di Universiti Umea , Sweden . Batang dan rantingnya memang diketahui dapat bertahan hidup hingga 600 tahun. Kullman menjelaskan, semasa batangnya mati, batang baru akan dibentuk dari akarnya sehingga umurnya menjadi sangat panjang.
Pokok ini lebih tua dari pinus Bristlecone di White Mountain California yang hanya berusia 5000 tahun. Pinus Bristlecone tertua hanya bertahan hidup hingga 7.500 tahun namun membesar hingga 150 meter.

Jika umur pinus Bristlecone diukur dari garis pohon di rantingnya yang dipantau setiap tahun, umur cemara di Sweden pula diukur dari jejak radiokarbon di akarnya.


Jomon Sugi 2000-7000 tahun

Menurut wikipedia, Jomon sugi adalah pokok cemara tertua di Jepun dan ditemui pada tahun 1968, dengan tinggi 25,3 meter dengan volume 300 m kubik dianggarkan usianya antara 2000 – 7200 tahun terletak di Pulau Yakushima bahagian paling utara Jepun 40 minit dengan pesawat dari Bandar Udara Kagoshima.


Bristlecone Pine 4200 tahun

Pokok cemara atau pine (pinus ) merupakan pohon dari keluarga Pinaceae yang boleh kita temui di mana sahaja asalkan daerah itu tanahnya berpasir berkapur , banyak air ataupun yang mempunyai kadar keasaman cukup tinggi.
Kita boleh menemui pokok ini mulai dari Siberia, Scotland, Norway, kepulauan Canary, Filipina, pergunungan Himalaya sehingga ke New Zealand, Brazil dan Chili.

Pokok ini memang tenar kerana selain dapat hidup dimana-mana juga mempunyai pasaran yang sangat tinggi dalam industri perkayuan. Semua bahagian pokok cemara boleh dimanfaatkan mulai dari kayu,getah , ranting,biji hingga daunnya mempunyai kegunaan yang bernilai ekonomi.
Pokok cemara adalah salah satu pokok yang berumur panjang kerana boleh mencecah umur kira-kira 100-1000 tahun dan malah mencatat rekod menjadi pokok tertua di dunia iaitu pokok cemara dari spesies Great Basin Bristlecone Pine ( Pinus longaeva ) yang pada tahun 2008 berumur 4840 tahun.
Pokok ini tingginya antara 3-80 meter tetapi kebanyakan tingginya 15-45 meter. Pokok tertinggi dari spesies Sugar Pine manakal yang terpendek adalah cemara Potosi Pinyon dan Siberian Dwarf Pine

Percintaan Pasangan Tukar Jantina‏

Prague - Sepasang kekasih di Republik Czech layak digelar pasangan paling pelik di dunia kerana mereka jatuh cinta selepas kedua-dua nya menjalani pembedahan menukar jantina.

Dominik sejda 45 atau nama asalnya llona Tomeckova dilahirkan sebagai seorg wanita pernah menjalani pembedahan menukar jantina untuk menjadi lelaki dan dia kini hidup bersama dengan seorang lelaki yang telah menukar jantina menjadi perempuan, Andrea Kajzarova 32 atau nama wanita nya Radim.

Mereka yg bekerja sebagai pembantu ambulans di dua hospital disini berkenalan dalan satu laman web pondan. Lebih aneh, Sejda pernah melahirkan Seorg anak lelaki 25 tahun dahulu....

The world's most beautiful Currencies

A one lempira note from Honduras. The lempira was introduced in 1931, and is named after a 16th century ruler. A Surinamese ten dollar note. The dollar replaced the Surinamese guilder in January 2004

A 500 baht note from Thailand. This is roughly equivalent to £10 of British money.

A colourful, floral 1000 note from French Polynesia, where the currency is the CPF franc.

A 20 rand note from South Africa. Each in this series of banknotes features a different animal from the "big five".

A five ringgit note from Malaysia showing the Kuala Lumpur International Airport, the Petronas Twin Towers, and the Multimedia Super Corridor.

A five rupee note from Pakistan. The port depicted is Gwadar port, which opened in 2008.

A 100 dirham note from the UAE, showing the World Trade Centre. A falcon watermark is placed on all UAE banknotes to help prevent fraud.

A note for one Egyptian pound. All Egyptian banknotes are bilingual.

A colourful five dollar Australian note. In 1965, Australia adopted the name "royal" for its currency, but it was later dropped in favour of the dollar.

A Canadian banknote for five dollars, depicting children playing ice hockey. The verse is from a Roch Carrier short story, and reads: "The winters of my childhood were long, long seasons. We lived in three places - the school, the church and the skating rink - but our real life was on the skating rink."

A Costa Rican banknote for five colones. It shows Rafael Yglesia Castro, president of Costa Rica from 1894 to 1902 and a Guaria Morada orchid, Costa Rica's national flower. The current series of banknotes is being replaced throughout 2010.

Ten Most Unique Churches

Temppeliaukio Kirkko The Rock Church.











St. Joseph Church Known for its
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saint basil's cathedral the
red square's colorful Church.










Ružica Church Where Chandeliers are
made of Bullet Shells






Las Lajas Cathedral A Gothic Church
Worthy of a Fairy Tale







herajuu japanese futuristic church











Hallgrímskirkja Iceland's Most Amazing Church








Borgund Church Best Preserved
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Borgund Church Best Preserved Stave Church

IKAN ganjil ini mempunyai kepala yang lut sinar

Sekumpulan saintis cuba menyelesaikan misteri yang berusia 50 tahun terhadap seekor ikan ganjil yang mempunyai dua mata di hadapan kepalanya, lapor sebuah akhbar semalam.

Ikan itu turut mempunyai bahagian kepala yang lut sinar dan hidup di dasar laut dalam.

Ahli-ahli biologi di Institut Akuarium Teluk Monterey, California di Amerika Syarikat (AS) menggunakan video untuk mengkaji pergerakan mata ikan ganjil itu.

Pada kebiasaannya ikan mempunyai mata di sisi badan sekali gus mampu melihat apa yang berlaku di sekeliling kawasan haiwan itu.

Ikan ganjil itu mempunyai mata di depan kepala sama seperti manusia.

Namun, saintis-saintis itu mendapati mata ikan tersebut boleh bergerak ke dalam bahagian lut sinar di kepalanya bagi membantunya mengesan pencari mangsa dan makanan.

The Glass Balconies

The Glass Balconies of the Sears Tower in Chicago

The owners of the Sears Tower, the tallest skyscraper in the United States (Chicago), inaugurated last week four glass box viewing platforms. These balconies are suspended 1,353 feet (412 meters) in the air on the 103rd floor. They are 10ft high and 10ft wide and can hold 5 tons with their 1.5 inch thick glasses.
Really impressive and definitively something to try...

DUBAI Lilypad Floating City

Architectural Concept: Lilypad Floating City

Water City By now, most of us have heard about the Island Cities being built in Dubai, but Inhabit at has just done a feature on a new concept by artist Vincent Callebaut for a self-sufficient floating city that will never have to face a problem about finding land to build on. The "Lilypad" would take advantage of all of today's green technologies, including generating power from the sun, wind and water, and would produce zero emissions from its residents. Don't expect to see construction on one of these anytime soon, but don't be surprised if, like the Island Cities in Dubai, real estate starts branching out into the oceans in the next decade.

World’s largest swimming pool, AMAZING!

If you like doing laps in the swimming pool, you might want to stock up on the energy drinks before diving in to this one. It is more than 1,000 yards long, covers 20 acres, had a 115ft deep end and holds 66 million gallons of water. Yesterday the Guinness Book of Records named the vast pool beside the sea in Chile as the biggest in the world. But if you fancy splashing out on one of your own - and you have the space to accommodate it - then beware: This one took five years to build, cost nearly 1billion and the annual maintenance bill will be 2million.

The man-made saltwater lagoon has been attra cting huge crowds to the San Alfonso del Mar resort at Algarroba, on Chile’s southern coast, since it opened last month. Its turquoise waters are so crystal clear that you can see the bottom even in the deep end.
It dwarfs the world's second biggest pool, the Orthlieb - nicknamed the Big Splash - in Morocco, which is a mere 150 yards long and 100 yards wide. An Olympic size pool measures some 50 yards by 25 yards. Chile's monster pool uses a computer- controlled suction and filtration system to keep fresh seawater in permanent circulation, drawing it in from the ocean at one end and pumping it out at the other. The sun warms the water to 26c, nine degrees warmer than the adjoining sea.

Chilean biochemist Fernando Fischmann, whose Crystal Lagoons Corporation designed the pool, said advanced engineering meant his company could build 'an impressive artificial paradise' even in inhospit able areas. 'As long as we have access to unlimited seawater, we can make it work, and it causes no damage to the ocean.'

Water Bridge....over a river!

Even after you see it, it is still hard to believe ! Water Bridge in Germany .... What a feat! Six years, 500 million euros, 918 meters long.......now this is engineering! This is a channel-bridge over the River Elbe and joins the former East and West Germany, as part of the unification project. It is located in the city of Magdeburg , near Berlin . The photo was taken on the day of inauguration. To those who appreciate engineering projects, here's a puzzle for you armchair engineers and physicists.

Did that bridge have to be designed to withstand the additional weight of ship and barge traffic, or just the weight of the water?

Answer:

It only needs to be designed to withstand the weight of the water! Why? A ship always displaces an amount of water that weighs the same as the ship, regardless of how heavily a ship may be loaded.

Remember your high school physics, and the fly in an enclosed bottle project? Similarly, the super sensitive scale proved that it didn't make any difference whether the fly was sitting on the bottom, walking up the side, or flying around. The bottle, air, and fly were a single unit of mass and always weighed the same.

The most beautiful libraries in the world

The most beautiful libraries in the world....amazing!
Suzzallo Library, University of Washington , Seattle.

Method to slow down the car

Believe it or not this is how they do to make car slow down.

“Always remember to slow down in life; live, breathe, and learn; take a look around you whenever you have time and never forget everything and every person that has the least place within your heart.”