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Stardust Dreams
Once upon a time, in a small town nestled in the heartland of America, a young dreamer named Emma gazed up at the starry night sky. She had always believed in the magic of Hollywood, and those glittering stars seemed to whisper to her, promising a future filled with stardom and success.
By Hamim Hassan2 years ago in History
Why We Say OK
There's a two-letter word that penetrates our day to day discussions, from easygoing gab to our communications with innovation. OK. Okay. It's a word so pervasive that it may very well be the most generally perceived term on earth. OK! OK! We use it to avow, to recognize, and to convey understanding. Yet, have you at any point halted to consider the beginnings of this unpretentious yet fundamental word? Where did it come from, and what does it really mean?
By Chaudhary Haroon Ali2 years ago in History
Eternal Odyssey: The Dramatic Tale of the Universe
In the beginning, there was nothing but an infinite void, a cosmic canvas devoid of light and life. Time, as we know it, did not exist, and the universe was but a mere notion in the grand scheme of things. Then, in a burst of unimaginable energy, the universe was born.
By Hamim Hassan2 years ago in History
The Triumph of Innovation: The Renaissance and the Birth of Human Creativity
"Where do we go from here?" I pondered aloud to my fellow scholar, the uncertainty reflecting in our eyes. With a presence as commanding as Captain Varmount's, Leonardo da Vinci stood before his canvas, a paragon of creativity and intellect. Despite the passage of years, his artistic fervor remained undiminished.
By Shreya Poudel2 years ago in History
Egypt's Lost Wonders (Full Episode) | Drain the Oceans
NARRATOR: The enigmas of ancient Egypt, and its concealed enigmas. MATTHEW: These burial chambers symbolize the technology of rebirth. STEVEN: They erected monuments that astound the mind. NARRATOR: Some of their most remarkable accomplishments, buried beneath the sands and waters of the Nile Valley... until today. Just envision if we could drain the oceans or empty the deserts, unveiling the secrets beneath. Now, we can. Utilizing cutting-edge imaging technology to penetrate sea and sand, converting precise data into 3D images. Can scientists unlock the riddle of Alexandria's Lighthouse and reconstruct one of the ancient world's wonders? Why did a Pharaoh build 15 colossal forts when none of them saw significant combat? LAUREL: This is a forgotten era in Egyptian history due to our loss of access to these monuments. NARRATOR: And what do a fleet of sunken boats, six miles from the Nile, reveal about Egypt's original 'Valley of the Kings'? NARRATOR: Ancient Egypt... One of the world's greatest civilizations, spanning 3,000 years. Its people developed a remarkable written language using symbols and images. They worshiped peculiar deities. And they constructed two of the seven wonders of the ancient world. The first, the magnificent pyramids of Giza. -The ancients selected the seven wonders because they met specific criteria: ingenious design on a grand, even extravagant scale. NARRATOR: Egypt's second ancient wonder is the Lighthouse of Alexandria, known as the Pharos. Like the other wonders, it was constructed on a grand scale: The Hanging Gardens of Babylon and the Colossus of Rhodes. Of the seven wonders, only the pyramids endure today. But as the waters of the Nile Delta recede, can the architectural marvel of the Pharos be resurrected from the waters of Alexandria Harbor, using the latest underwater imaging technology? Can it be precisely reconstructed for the first time, a sight that once dazzled the world? -The Pharos earned its place among the seven wonders of the ancient world because it was something entirely new. Some say the beacon could be seen from 30 miles out to sea. NARRATOR: Alexandria's lighthouse is a feat of technology and architecture. Constructed in the 3rd century BC, it serves as the crowning jewel of a new capital city founded by Alexander the Great, the conqueror of ancient Egypt. -Alexandria was everything. Think of the Champs Elysees in Paris or Times Square in New York. Alexandria was all that and more. It was the most beautiful city the world had ever seen. NARRATOR: Egypt's new rulers aimed to make the Pharos a prominent landmark, a grand banner welcoming people to Alexandria. -The Pharos was primarily created as a landmark to showcase the city's power. They needed a sign, a huge banner saying "Welcome to Alexandria." NARRATOR: However, as Egypt's influence waned, Alexandria's famous lighthouse fell into disrepair. The land beneath it gradually sank into the sea, and in the 14th century, it ultimately collapsed after an earthquake struck. The Pharos was thought to be lost beneath 23 feet of water, at the entrance of Alexandria harbor. Now, a French team of archaeologists is working to rediscover its true splendor. Using state-of-the-art undersea imaging technology, they are scouring the seabed for clues, with the aim of digitally reconstructing this lost Ancient Wonder of the World for the first time. Leading the effort is architect and archaeologist Isabelle Hairy, who has been researching Alexandria's lighthouse for over two decades. ISABELLE: It's always incredibly rewarding to work on one of the seven wonders of the ancient world. I'd be lying if I said otherwise. NARRATOR: Isabelle's team is conducting research in one of the largest underwater archaeological sites globally. They uncover intriguing granite blocks, undoubtedly crafted by human hands. Could these be remnants of the missing ancient wonder? Isabelle's task is to decipher the true size and design of the Pharos. However, the challenge is compounded by the varying descriptions of its appearance from past travelers and artists. Over time, these depictions grew increasingly fantastical. NARRATOR: To uncover the truth, Isabelle's team utilizes photogrammetry, capturing thousands of detailed images across the vast site. After 28 weeks of diving and 50,000 photographs, they possess the data needed to unveil the Pharos' secrets. Combining this unique data with cutting-edge computer graphics allows the waters around Alexandria harbor to be virtually drained away. As the Mediterranean recedes, remarkable structures come into view: nearly 3,000 granite blocks scattered across three acres of the seabed. These are clearly not natural rock formations, but rather the handiwork of ancient builders. They include statue bases and fragments of pillars, all part of a monumental structure. The submerged ruins of the genuine ancient wonder, the Pharos lighthouse, are brought back to light for the first time in six centuries. Isabelle's work has already provided a revelation: evidence of the Pharos' design. -Draining the site has allowed us to see the lighthouse. We have even found blocks that may have formed the cornerstones, and no underwater blocks indicate sloped walls; the walls were straight. NARRATOR: This marks the first physical evidence of the lighthouse's design, a significant breakthrough. However, reconstructing the rest of the underwater puzzle remains a colossal challenge. -What we have here is a puzzle, essentially a 3,000-piece puzzle that we need to try to assemble. Will the pieces fit together or not? NARRATOR: Some critical pieces are missing, having been taken to museums by earlier excavations. Nevertheless, one crucial fragment remains nearby, abandoned on the quayside. -This is probably one of the most significant discoveries found at the site. NARRATOR: What is it? -This is a fragment of a door frame, and we can identify it because this is where the door would have been attached. NARRATOR: This groove, meticulously carved to hold a gigantic door, matches the shape of other submerged stones. They must all be components of the same doorway. -By connecting this enormous fragment, nearly 12 meters long,
By Rana Junaid2 years ago in History
SPACE
Our sun looks nothing like this it looks more like this if you've always thought our son was a bright yellow ball of fire you were wrong for starters it's not yellow it's green sort of scientists determine the temperature of a star by the color spectrum it emits each color has its own wavelength and astronomers measure those wavelengths to tell how hot a star is cooler stars appear red the hottest of the stars look blue our sun emits most of its energy at a wavelength that's close to Green but because it also emits other wavelengths all these colors mixed together and your eyes see this vibrant mixture as white that is if you look at the Sun from the International Space Station from here on Earth the Sun looks yellow because our atmosphere is really good at scattering blue light and with all that blue wavelength gone all the other colors combine into yellow if our star was actually yellow it would be about 800 degrees Celsius cooler our Solar System's habitable zone would shrink and Earth would become a frozen lifeless Rock but that's not the only thing you were wrong about the Sun is hot but it's not on fire burning is a chemical reaction of oxygen fuel like most stars out there our sun is a ball of gas mostly made up of hydrogen and helium it doesn't have much oxygen in it instead it works more like a gigantic nuclear reactor constantly fusing hydrogen atoms to create helium inside its core this process releases enormous amounts of energy and that's why the sun is so scorching hot speaking of setting things on fire let me tell you about explosions in space yeah these aren't real a spaceship can't go down in a violent blast because there's no air out there in space no air means no oxygen and no oxygen well as you already know means no fire sorry Star Wars fans it may seem that there are too many stars in the night sky for you to count but actually you can although scientists at Harvard have already done it for you according to the Yale bright star catalog there are 9110 stars that you can see from Earth with the naked eye try to count them all for yourself movies make it look like you need to be an extremely skilled pilot to navigate the asteroid belt but that's not true the asteroid belt isn't some thick obstacle course of death it does have trillions of space rocks that range in size from space dust to a quarter the size of the Moon about 100 000 of these asteroids are over one kilometer wide but they're very spread out the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter is 225 million kilometers across that's one and a half times the distance between Earth and the Sun and this spreads the space rocks millions of kilometers apart it's almost impossible for a spacecraft to collide with one if you were thrown out of the airlock into the vastness of space you wouldn't turn into a popsicle right away that's because to freeze there has to be a heat transfer from space to your body but heat or cold doesn't travel very fast in the vacuum of space your body would freeze but it would take hours to happen and by then you'd be long dead from something else and no you wouldn't explode in space either you would inflate though that's because nitrogen in your bloodstream would gather into bubbles and puff you up to double your size but that's not what's going to kill you it's the lack of oxygen after 15 seconds in space your brain wouldn't get enough oxygen through your blood and you'd lose consciousness after two minutes in space your other organs would start to shut down one by one game over [Music] space seems incredibly cold but it's not in reality space doesn't have a temperature at all temperature is defined by the speed at which particles move and the amount of energy they have in the true vacuum of space there are no particles to move around that's why the vacuum is temperatureless of course outer space isn't a perfect vacuum it still has particles and radiation to produce heat some areas of space are actually really hot like the space around Stars but the further away you get from Stars the more spread out the particles are making those areas of space pretty chilly some dense gas clouds can get as cold as minus 263 degrees Celsius Mercury is the closest planet to the Sun but surprisingly it's not the hottest it is Extreme though during the day the surface temperature reaches 430 degrees and at night it drops to minus 180. but the most hellish planet in the solar system is Venus Mercury doesn't have an atmosphere to retain all that heat from the Sun the venusian atmosphere on the other hand is very thick and it creates a greenhouse effect it's like global warming on steroids and it makes Venus a hot hell with a surface temperature of about 475 degrees our entire solar system isn't just sitting in one spot in our galaxy it's hurtling through space at 220 kilometers per second that's seven times faster than the speed that Earth revolves around the Sun our solar system takes 230 million years to make one orbit around the Milky Way yeah the last time we were in the same location we are now Earth had one supercontinent and the dinosaurs were just starting to roam around planets do not orbit around the sun all the things in our solar system are in balance and even though the sun is the most massive object in our planetary neighborhood other planets are participating in this gravitational tug of war instead of orbiting the Sun planets and moons orbit around a central point between them and our star this point is called the Berry Center for Earth this Berry Center is so close to the sun's core that there's not much of a difference but for Jupiter this point is about 55 000 kilometers away from the center of the Sun so the gas giant and the sun are orbiting each other Earth appears round from space but it's actually an irregularly shaped ellipsoid it bulges at the equator thanks to the centrifugal force caused by our planet's spin as a result Earth is about 43 kilometers wider at the equator than it is at the poles this makes gravity at the Bulge slightly weaker making it easier to launch spaceships from the equatorial regions than from the poles in space no one can hear you scream and that's only true to a point sound needs a medium to travel through and in space molecules are very far apart so the sound Fades away before it can get very far all the cosmic catastrophes supernovas and colliding black holes go quiet before you can hear them but some places in space have a lot of particles for sound to travel through like the hot gas cloud around the black hole at the center of the Perseus Galaxy cluster it has so much gas that you can actually hear the black hole this is what it sounds like thank you you know other planets make noise too if you could hear them do you know what they would sound like well that's a story for another what if.
By Dijana sabic 2 years ago in History
Unveiling The Enigma Of Homo Naledi: An Ancestor From South Africa
In 2013, deep within the Rising Star Cave system in South Africa, an extraordinary find captivated the world of paleoanthropology. The discovery of Homo naledi, a previously unknown species of hominin, shed new light on our evolutionary history. This small-brained, enigmatic species has raised numerous questions and sparked intense scientific debate.
By Alpha the great 2 years ago in History
Rising from the ashes of Brazil museum national fire Chapter 2. 🔥
more than 18 million objects and specimens. Along with a variety of other recent fossil discoveries, the Museum also housed many of the world's best-preserved pterosaur fossils. Quantification of additional losses has started, yet in many respects, the destruction was, and is incalculable.When I learned of the fire, I was inconsolable.The loss of the collections in Rio affects everyone with an interest in the globe, its histories, and cultures, not only Brazilians or those who work in museums today.
By Nora Ariana2 years ago in History
Rising from the ashes of Brazil's Museu Nacional fire 🔥
The largest and first natural history museum in Latin America was Museu Nacional, the National Museum of Brazil in Rio de Janeiro.When an electrical fire broke out on the museum's bottom level in the evening of September 2nd, 2018, it had just finished commemorating its 200th anniversary. It turned into an inferno as the night went on, devastating the structure and nearly all of the items it housed.Within 10 hours, it became evident how extensive the damage was: an estimated 18 million things.and the samples turned into ash and smoke.30,000 artifacts from Brazilian indigenous tribes and recordings of languages with no living speakers were among the things destroyed.
By Nora Ariana2 years ago in History
The Enigma of Adolf Hitler's Demise: Unraveling the Historical Truth
Title: The Enigma of Adolf Hitler's Demise: Unraveling the Historical Truth Introduction: The history of Adolf Hitler, the infamous dictator of Nazi Germany, is one that continues to captivate the world. From his ascent to power in the early 1930s to his eventual downfall in the ruins of Berlin in 1945, Hitler's life is marked by a series of complex and often gruesome events. One of the most enduring mysteries surrounding Hitler is the fate of his body after his death. In this formal blog, we delve into the historical records and evidence to unravel the truth behind Hitler's demise.
By muhammad azam siddiqui2 years ago in History
