A spillway is known in the UK as overflow
channels, are structures that offer controlled release of flows from a dam or
levee into an area downstream. Spillways release floods so that water does not
overtop and destroy the dam; water does not regularly flow over a spillway
unless there is a flood. Typically spillways are round; this particular star-shaped
one is located at the Kechut Reservoir near Jermuk in Armenia. We have already
done a standalone feature on the round shaped bell-mouth spillways, but I have
never seen a star-shaped spillway until now.
Monday, 19 November 2012
Sunday, 18 November 2012
The Incredible Honeybee’s Final Sting
The Incredible Honeybee’s Final Sting
If you have ever wondered why honeybees tend to die after stinging someone, this picture says it all. In an unbelievable capture by Kathy Keatley Garvey, a UC Davis Communications Specialist in the Department of Enomology, we are well see a bee stinging a person’s arm and then attempting to fly away as the stinger remains lodged in the victim. That trail of goo you see? It’s in reality the bee’s abdominal tissue. The incredible capture netted Garvey the first-place gold feature photo award in an Association for Communication Excellence competition. On the fortunate timing, Kathy Keatley Garvey said she was walking with a friend and a bee came close to him and started buzzing in a high-pitch. She said that’s normally a telltale sign that a bee’s about to sting, so she immediately readied her camera and snapped this image.
Saturday, 17 November 2012
The Longest Truck in the World!
You can call this
amazing vehicle "Road Train" A road train or road-train is a trucking
concept used in remote areas of Argentina, Mexico United States, Canada and Australia,
to move logistics freight efficiently. The word "road train" is most often
used in Australia. In United States and Canada the terms "triples,"
"turnpike doubles" and "Rocky Mountain doubles" are frequently
used for longer combination vehicles (LCVs). A “road train” consists of a
relatively conventional tractor unit, but instead of pulling one trailer or
semi-trailer, a road train pulls two or more of them. On February 18, 2006, an
Australian built Mack truck with 112 semi-trailers, 1,300 t (1,279 long tons;
1,433 short tons) and 1,474.3 meters (4,836 ft 11 in) long, this road train pulled
the load 100 metres (328 feet) to recapture the record for the longest road train
(multiple loaded trailers) ever pulled with a single prime mover. It was on the
main road of Clifton, Queensland, that 70-year-old John Atkinson claimed a new
record, pulled by a tri-drive Mack Titan.
Friday, 16 November 2012
Amazing Five Headed Snake
We know what you may believe, it’s a photo-shop fake, and at a first glance anyone might be tempted to believe the same way, but take a 2nd, or even a 3rd look, heck take as many looks as you want, cause this is most likely the weirdest thing you have seen lately, a five headed snake has been seen in an Indian temple at Karnataka.
Even tho polycephalic snakes sound like something we have only heard in mythology, it is not as rare as you would believe to observe a two headed snake. But a five headed snake is just too amazing and weird. I am sure you would take a look at the pictures and see for yourself. Those animals with more than one head have a congenital condition called polycephaly, in lay man terms, they have various heads.
From what has been documented, animals with more than one head are separated into two categories: three headed animals and two headed animals. Up until now, the only books or imaginations that mentioned five headed animals are story books. But take a look at this incredible picture of a five headed cobra found in India. Coincidently or not, Hindu epic books tell the story of such unbelievable reptiles, but once again, nothing was ever proven. Now shed your eyes below and see for yourself the wondrous and astonishing five headed snake.
World’s Longest Car: The Limousine
The Limousine has 26 wheels and can be driven rigidly or adjusted to bend in the middle around corners. This incredible car is currently in the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest car in the world and even has two driver’s compartments one at each end to help with reversing. The longest car in the world is better equipped than many Hollywood mansions, including luxuries like a large Jacuzzi tub, a sun deck, a helipad, a swimming pool (with a diving board of course), a king sized bed and a satellite dish, just to name a few. While the limo isn’t actually street legal, it is mainly hired out for exhibitions and to be used in movies.
Unusual Multicolor Apple with Different Taste
Sometimes unusual facts happened, and you
would be surprised off course and your initial thinking will be some graphic
works; but it’s thought to be a random genetic mutation. The Apple was bringing
into being in the orchard of a man named Ken Morrish, where he's grown apples
for 45 years. Ken Morris was picking apples in his garden for a family member
when he surprised to see the unusual apple, which caught his attention immediately.
The red side of the apple is said to taste sweeter than the green side does.
The reason for this is thought to be that the red side has seen more sunshine
during its growth. The apple discovery is extremely uncommon and intriguing. I believe
you would be also curious to see this rare apple.
Monday, 29 October 2012
Chudnite Mostove a rock phenomenon situated near the Zabardo village West Rhodope mountain,Bulgaria.
Chudnite Mostove (The magnificent
Bridges) a rock phenomenon situated near the Zabardo village West Rhodope
mountain,Bulgaria. The "bridges" were shaped by the destructive
activity of the once high-water river. It transformed the marble clefts into a
deep water cave, the ceiling of which whittled up through time and collapsed,
allegedly during an earthquake. Geologists presume that the water carried the
debris away. As a result, the two left over bridge-shaped boulders remained. The
adjacent area is timbered by century-old conifers, largely spruces. In the past
the bridges had been one entire cave, formed under the erosive activity of the
river waters. Parts of it were collapsing with time, forming majestic marble
bridges. The huge bridge is about fifteen meters wide in its wider parts and
almost hundred meters long. It consists of three arches, as the largest one is
45 meters high and 40 meters wide. The small bridge is at a distance of 200
meters from the large one along the river current. It is blocked, 60 meters
long, with total height of 50 meters, and the height of the arch is 30 meters.
There is also a really small third bridge after it, which is a ponor cave, in
which the waters of Erkyupriya River disappear, to become visible again on the
surface 3 kilometers farther.
Saturday, 13 October 2012
Huge Mysterious Eyeball Found on Florida Beach
Wednesday, 10 October 2012
THE ASIDUS "MOON MELON" IS A FRUIT WE ALL WANT
"That is a Moonmelon, scientifically called as
asidus. This lovely fruit grows in some parts of Japan, and it’s recognized for
its strange blue color what you most likely don’t know about this fruit, is
that it can switch flavors after you eat it, everything sour will taste sweet,
and the whole thing salty will taste bitter and it gives water a strong orange-like
taste, this fruit is very expensive and easily called lavish fruit, and it
coasts about ¥16000
JPY (which is about 200 dollars)"
Ant Snapped in a tiny sphere of water
Trapped in a small just right
sphere of water, this inauspicious ant is unable to escape. A sudden downpour
gave it no time to take cover, and photographer Adam Gormley was there to depict
the image. Adam, from Noosaville, Queensland, Australia, had been photographing
spiders in his neighbor’s garden when the rain came down. He had no thought
there was an ant in one of the three millimeter droplets until he watched the
images later. Adam said: I was thinking it some dirt inside the drop, and it
was not my main focal point, I really liked the way the drop was sitting on the
aloe-vera leaf, with the tiny hairs. When I uploaded the image to my PC with
large view, and I think I shouted out loud in pleasure when I realized what I'd
captured by accident!
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