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Most spectacular view in the Solar System

Sat, 09 Dec 2006 04:48:48 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Few sights in the solar system are more strikingly beautiful than softly hued Saturn embraced by the shadows of its stately rings. The Cassini Orbiter on its mission in deep space caught this rare occasion of Saturn eclipsing the Sun.

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Most Spectacular View of Saturn

SATURN ECLIPSES THE SUN

Incredible opportunity to take possibly the most stunning photograph in the Solar System

Few sights in the solar system are more strikingly beautiful than softly hued Saturn embraced by the shadows of its stately rings. The Cassini Orbiter on its mission in deep space caught this rare occasion of Saturn eclipsing the Sun.

This marvelous panoramic view was created by combining a total of 165 images taken by the Cassini wide-angle camera over nearly three hours on Sept. 15, 2006. The mosaic images were acquired as the spacecraft drifted in the darkness of Saturn's shadow for about 12 hours, allowing a multitude of unique observations of the microscopic particles that compose Saturn's faint rings.

Earth - a pale blue orb

Cassini casts powerful eyes on our home planet, and captures Earth, a pale blue orb -- and a faint suggestion of our moon -- among the glories of the Saturn system. You can certainly marvel at how small and yet endearing our home planet looks. By the way, there is another famous image of Earth as a pale dot - view it here

Panoramic Rings

The rings are awash in subtle tones of gold and cream in this view:

Tags: space, photography

Neat tricks to teach your body

Mon, 20 Nov 2006 04:46:13 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Some little-known practical tips about your body, such as:
If your throat tickles, scratch your ear. If your hand falls asleep, rock your head from side to side - etc.

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Neat tricks to teach your body

Some little-known practical tips about your body

1. If your throat tickles, scratch your ear.

2. Your right ear is better than your left at following the rapid rhythms of speech (good tip for spies!) The left ear is better at picking up music tones.

5. Clear your stuffed nose!

Forget Sudafed. An easier way is by alternately thrusting your tongue against the roof of your mouth, then pressing between your eyebrows with one finger.

7. Cure your toothache

Just rub ice on the back of your hand, on the V-shaped webbed area between your thumb and index finger... reduces toothache pain by as much as 50 percent

15. If your hand falls asleep

rock your head from side to side. It'll painlessly banish your pins and needles in less than a minute.

Tags: health

Stars & Planets Scale Comparison

Fri, 05 Jan 2007 07:59:58 GMT

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clipper's remarks: This scale comparison shows "the true place" of Earth and our Sun among the various giants of the universe. It is simultaneously sobering and mind-boggling experience.
First series of images starts with a Death Star, to further emphasize the futility of vain pride and ambition.

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Stars & Planets Scale Comparison

A Humbling Perspective

Second series of images (from this site) shows the similar progression, now in 3-D:

The Universe is a big place populated by stars and thoroughly confused humans.

Tags: astronomy

Unreal Landscapes of the Bolivian Salt Lake

Tue, 28 Nov 2006 05:54:48 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The Bolivia's Salar de Uyuni is perhaps one of the most spectacular landscapes in the world. A magnificent area with an impressive Salt Desert (the world's largest), active volcanoes, tall cacti islands and geyser flats, it exists like an alien mirage, something completely out-of-this-world...

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Fantastic Landscapes of the Bolivian Salt Lake

Salar de Uyuni - Bolivian Salt Lake and islands

The Bolivia's Salar de Uyuni is perhaps one of the most spectacular landscapes in the world. A magnificent area with an impressive Salt Desert (the world's largest), active volcanos, tall cacti islands and geyser flats, it exists like an alien mirage, something completely out-of-this-world...

"...We finally reached the salt flats. Imagine being surrounded by endless white salt covered by a few inches of water. Without any reference points the sky meets the salt and creates an odd illusion that objects in the flats are flying. I had never seen anything like it... The truck drove through the salt flats and stopped at an island full of cacti. We had lunch on a table made of a large salt tablet and eventually stopped at a hotel made completely of salt."

Tags: travel, photography

Most Dangerous Roads of the World

Sun, 12 Nov 2006 11:07:25 GMT

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clipper's remarks: crazy roads in Russia, Bolivia and Nepal - toplist with pictures

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The Most Dangerous Roads in the World

Top 5 Roads You Wish Were Less Travelled

1. Bolivia's "Road of Death"

2. Close Second - Russian Mountain Roads

4. Russian Siberian Road to Yakutsk

5. Most Dangerous Tourist Hiking Trail

Sukhumi "Mlitary" road in Soviet Georgia, in Caucasus mountains, which truckers and wine-drunk crazy "Lada" drivers navigate with the utter abandon, typical of the local mountain people... but we could not locate the photos of it. Only this old postcard... If you have any more pics, send them in.

There are also rumors of the quite normal 30 km stretch of Russian country road, which gets an unexplained amount of car accidents; the locals suspect underground gas seepage which causes motorists to fall asleep... This creepy tale is supported by the evidence of car crash statistics and the tales of survivors, who do not remember anything prior to the crash and act strangely "drugged" afterwards. Hopefully this would be properly investigated before the road claims more victims.

Tags: travel, weird, cars

Magical Tropical Rainforest

Fri, 05 Jan 2007 08:06:11 GMT

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clipper's remarks: most fascinating environment, endangered and unique (photos)

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Tropical Rainforest (photos)

Tags: nature, photography

Autumn in Japan - photo gallery

Tue, 21 Nov 2006 02:48:07 GMT

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clipper's remarks: "The Autumn Color" photography competition was organized among Japanese bloggers on Yahoo Japan (homepage of this contest here). During the months of October and November, they gathered thousands of pictures, of which these are only a few examples. Witness the supernatural beauty of Japanese landscape and the sublime quality of "Autumn in Japan." Many more are on the source page.

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Autumn in Japan

Fantastic Colors and Sublime Glory
along Japanese Autumn Trails

With winter fast approaching, we'd like to linger a bit more among the few available signs of autumn. As it happens, the trees are still "aglow" in Japan.

Tags: nature, photography

Stunning In-Flight Photography

Fri, 19 Jan 2007 09:19:02 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Commercial airline pilot takes spectacular photos of land, sky, airplanes

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Stunning In-Flight Photography

The Splendor of Flight

2. Photo series: "We also dream of flight"

Tags: photography, air travel

Colorful ( & Poisonous) Frogs

Thu, 08 Feb 2007 08:52:17 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The most poisonous animal is not a snake or a spider. It's a beautiful little frog! ....(many more images on the linked page)

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Colorful ( & Poisonous) Frogs

Bacchanalia of colors that can be lethal

The most poisonous animal is not a snake or a spider. It's a beautiful little frog!

Golden Poison Dart Frog

Some of the Latin names of frogs depicted above:

- Dendrobates pumilio

Tags: animals

Discovering Iran (photos)

Mon, 15 Jan 2007 08:01:54 GMT

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clipper's remarks: A Richly-textured world, rarely seen in the West -
Tehran and surrounding area. (more photos at the source page)

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Discovering Iran (photos)

A Richly-textured world, rarely seen in the West

Tehran and surrounding area. (click to enlarge)

Tags: travel, photography

Ships Battling Heavy Seas (photos)

Fri, 19 Jan 2007 09:23:56 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Front row seat excitement in fight against wind and huge waves

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Ships Battling Heavy Seas

1. Baltic Sea can be very rough

Tags: photography, storms

The Best of Church Humor

Mon, 15 Jan 2007 08:06:46 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Church Signs & Bulletin Bloopers

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Church Signs & Bulletin Bloopers

Church CAN be hilarious!

CHURCH BULLETIN BLOOPERS:

When parking on the north side of the church, please remember to park on an angel.

This being Easter Sunday, we will ask Mrs. Jones to come forward and lay an egg on the altar.

The church office will be closed until opening. It will remain closed after opening. It will reopen Monday.

Let us join David and Lisa in the celebration of their wedding and bring their happiness to a conclusion.

Sermon Blooper: "Let everything that hath breasts praise the Lord!"

For those who have children and don't know it, there is a nursery downstairs.

Ladies, don't forget the rummage sale. It is a great chance to get rid of those things not worth keeping around the house. Don't forget your husbands.

The ladies of the church have cast off clothing of every kind. They maybe seen in the basement on Friday afternoon.

Scouts are saving aluminum cans, bottles, and other items to be recycled. Proceeds will be used to cripple children.

The Pastor would appreciate it if the ladies of the congregation would lend him their electric girdles for the pancake breakfast next Sunday morning.

The concert held in Fellowship Hall was a great success. Special thanks are due to the minister's daughter, who labored the whole evening at the piano, which as usual fell upon her.

The Associate Minister unveiled the church's new tithing campaign slogan last Sunday: "I upped My Pledge----Up Yours."

Our next song is "Angels We Have Heard Get High."

The outreach committee has enlisted 25 visitors to make calls on people who are not afflicted with any church.

Bulletin of a church with a rather elderly congregation: "Mr Brookes will be in the church foyer at the end of today's service. Transport can be provided if required."

Please welcome Pastor Don, a caring individual who loves hurting people.

Church sign: The good Lord didn't create anything without a purpose, but mosquitoes come close.

Tags: humour, funny

Crazy Signage

Mon, 15 Jan 2007 08:08:37 GMT

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clipper's remarks: funny signs from all over the world - many more at the source page

Clip Source: thrillingwonder.blogspot.com

Wacky Signs, part 2

More obstacles in the way of progress

Tags: funny

Dancing Jellyfish (photos)

Mon, 15 Jan 2007 07:56:17 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Most of these shots were taken in Osaka Aquarium, Japan. Check out more pictures from the image credits

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Dancing Jellyfish

Japanese Jellyfish Are Positively Glowing

Most of these shots were taken in Osaka Aquarium, Japan.

2. It's an entirely different story outside of the Aquarium

Nomura jellyfish periodically "attack", or rather infest the warm Japanese seas. Some are 1 meter wide, with the largest reportedly being up to 4 meters in length. Wikipedia article documents the invasion. In the meantime coastal communities in Japan are doing their best to promote jellyfish as a novelty food, sold dried and salted, and some even turned into cookies.

Baby Jellyfish

Tags: marine photography

Why Bread and Water Is Bad For You

Sun, 10 Dec 2006 10:15:33 GMT

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clipper's remarks: something that I definitely did not suspect... Hard to believe, but it's true! A new evidence, statistically proven

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Why Bread and Water Is Bad For You

1. BREAD IS DANGEROUS

Research on bread indicates that

1. More than 98 percent of convicted felons are bread users.

2. Fully HALF of all children who grow up in bread-consuming households score below average on standardized tests.

4. More than 90 percent of violent crimes are committed within 24 hours of eating bread.

5. Bread is made from a substance called "dough." It has been proven that as little as one pound of dough can be used to suffocate a mouse. The average American eats more bread than that in one month!

7. Bread has been proven to be addictive. Subjects deprived of bread and given only water to eat begged for bread after as little as two days.

8. Bread is often a "gateway" food item, leading the user to "harder" items such as butter, jelly, peanut butter, and even cold cuts.

9. Bread has been proven to absorb water. Since the human body is more than 90 percent water, it follows that eating bread could lead to your body being taken over by this absorptive food product, turning you into a soggy, gooey bread-pudding person.

10. Newborn babies can choke on bread.

11. Bread is baked at temperatures as high as 400 degrees Fahrenheit! That kind of heat can kill an adult in less than one minute.

2. WATER IS DANGEROUS

A student at Eagle Rock Junior High won first prize at the Greater Idaho Falls Science Fair, April 26. He was attempting to show how conditioned we have become to alarmists practicing junk science and spreading fear of everything in our environment. In his project he urged people to sign a petition demanding strict control or total elimination of the chemical "dihydrogen monoxide."

He asked 50 people if they supported a ban of the chemical.

* and only one (1) knew that the chemical was water.

Tags: humor, food