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Thursday, January 27, 2005

Did you know ?

The driest inhabited place in the world is Aswan, Egypt where the annual average rainfall is 0.2 CM.

The deepest part in any ocean in the world is the Mariana trench in the Pacific with a depth of 10,740 Meters deep.

The largest desert in the world is the Sahara desert, spanning from Egypt in the east to Morocco in the west, it is 7,000,000 square KM.

If every star in the Milky Way galaxy is a grain of salt, they would fill an Olympic sized swimming pool.

Our current most powerful rockets would take 70,000 years to reach the nearest stars.

At the heart of the Sun, 600 million tones of hydrogen are converted into helium every second, the lost mass when each 2 hydrogen nuclei's fuse together to create a lighter helium nuclei is converted to energy by Einstein equation E=MC^2 .. just like a hydrogen bomb .. the most powerful hydrogen bomb ( the Russian Doomsday - a 50 Megaton device ) converted only 300 GRAMS of hydrogen to helium !!

The Moon is 400 times closer to the Earth than the Sun ... and exactly 400 times smaller.

The most dangerous form of transport is the bicycle.

The safest form of transport is the lift.

Since the first fatal car crash 100 years ago, 25 million people have died in car accidents.

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