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Saturday, March 24, 2018

March 24, 2018

10 Interesting Facts About Mars (The Red Giant!!!)



Mars has remained in the human imagination, and not even the rise of science and technology has interrupted our wary fascination with this neighboring world. Telescopes in the 1880s revealed strange markings on Mars which convinced masses of people that Mars had canals built by an alien race. But today in this video we will discover the 10 interesting facts about mars.

Gravity on Mars is about 62% less Than Gravity on Earth that is 3.711m/s2. That means if person on our Earth weighs 100kg, it weighs 60kg on Mars. If we jump on mars we will reach 3 times more than taking jump on earth.

Mars has Largest and Long Lasting Sandstorms with enormous power, they can last several months. “Every year there are some moderately big dust storms that pop up on Mars and they cover continent-sized areas and last for weeks at a time,” said Michael Smith, a planetary scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

When you think of a day, you normally think of one cycle of daytime to nighttime. That is called a solar day. On Earth, a solar day is around 24 hours. However, Earth’s orbit is elliptical, meaning it’s not a perfect circle. That means some solar days on Earth are a few minutes longer than 24 hours and some are a few minutes shorter. But On Mars, a solar day lasts 24 hours, 39 minutes, and 35 seconds. Rounding that out, we say that a day here on Earth works out to an even 24 hours while on Mars, a day lasts 24 hours and 40 minutes. That means if One Year on Earth was 365 days than on Mars One Year Will be have 687 days.

The largest canyon in the Solar System cuts a wide swath across the face of Mars. Named Valles Marineris, the grand valley extends over 3,000 kilometers long, spans as much as 600 kilometers across, and delves as much as 8 kilometers deep. This Indicates that Mars used to have Long Rivers.

Mars is a harsh, cold world because it is about 227.9 million km away from the sun almost twice of distance between earth and sun. Mars's atmosphere is about 100 times thinner than Earth's. Without a "thermal blanket," Mars can't retain any heat energy. On average, the temperature on Mars is about minus 60 degrees Celsius. NASA's Mars Curiosity rover measured air temperatures as high as 6 degrees Celsius in the afternoon, with temperatures climbing above freezing for a significant number of days.

Mars has two moon one is Phobos and other is Deimos. The moons of Mars are so small that no detail can be seen with an Earth based telescope. It was not until 1971 that the US Mariner 9 spacecraft obtained the first images to show surface detail. Both moons are irregular in shape, and have surfaces that are pockmarked by many craters. Phobos is the larger of the two moons and is roughly an ellipsoid 19.2 by 21.4 by 27.0 km across its 3 axes. Deimos is about 11 by 12 by 15 km.

The Size of Mars is approximately 4220 Million Miles that is almost twice smaller than our Earth which has about 7926 million Miles. This can also be illustrates as, about Six Mars would take up to fill the volume of Earth.

Scientist suggest that Mars was once like the earth but its gravity captures several satellites that later crushed into mars causing to cool down the core and thus Mars Stop spinning.

Right Now there are about seven robots that are roaming on the surface on Mars, such as: Viking 1 with Viking 2, Pathfinder, Curiosity Rover, Opportunity, Phoenix and Spirit, sent by different countries including USA, USSR and China.

Mars has Largest Mountains of Solar system. Olympus Mons is the largest volcano in the solar system. The massive Martian mountain towers high above the surrounding plains of the red planet, and may be biding its time until the next eruption. Olympus Mons rises three times higher than Earth's highest mountain, Mount Everest, whose peak is 5.5 miles above sea level.

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Saturday, March 10, 2018

March 10, 2018

Interesting Facts about Mohen-jo-Daro | Ancient Indus Valley Civilization | Fireup Facts


Mohen-jo-daro is a site of ancient ruins in Sindh, Pakistan built approximately 8,000 years ago, as the discovery, published in the prestigious Nature journal on May 25, 2016, by Scientists from IIT-Kharagpur and Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), makes it not just older than the Egyptian and Mesopotamian civilizations but also the oldest in the world.

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The ruins of the city remained undocumented for around 3,700 years until R. D. Banerji, an officer of the Archaeological Survey of India, visited the site in 1919–20, identifying the Buddhist stupa known to be there and finding a flint scraper which convinced him of the site's antiquity. This led to large-scale excavations of Mohenjo-Daro led by Kashinath Narayan Dikshit in 1924–25, and John Marshall in 1925–26 and has become an important archaeological find because it once housed the Indus Valley civilization. In 1980 Mohenjo-Daro became the first UNESCO world heritage site in South Asia.

Here are a few mind-boggling facts about this civilization.

The original name of the site is not Mohenjo Daro, in fact nobody knows the real name, but the words Mohenjo Daro which literally can be translate to 'the mound of the dead'. Because the Indus Valley sites were found on a series of mounds over 250 acres of land, and destroyed hence such a name is given to the place.

Mohenjo-Daro was one of the Indus Valley civilization's largest settlements, or cities. The Indus Valley civilization existed in most of North India and today’s Pakistan. It spanned from Iran to Gujarat and went North till Bactria.

Mohenjo-Daro was well-designed and had a layout of streets on a well-planned grid. Mohenjo-Daro is divided into two sections including the Lower City and the Citadel. The Citadel was a mud brick 39 foot high structure that housed the public baths, assembly halls, and about 5000 people. Buildings in Mohenjo-Daro were made of fired and mortared bricks, as well as some sun-dried mud bricks and some wooden structures.

Mohenjo-Daro also had sophisticated water system, houses had baths and toilets, and waste water was channeled through the streets into covered drains. The town featured both an elaborate sewage system and fresh water and 700 well throughout the city.

Mohenjo-Daro did not have any temples, monuments, or palaces like many of the other ancient civilizations. It appears that there was no real central controlling government or royalty, but there may have been elected officials from each region in the city representing them in a larger government. It has been suggested that Mohenjo-Daro was run as a city-state.

Mohenjo-Daro did have wealth however as there are artifacts made of ivory and gold. The Statue of Dancing Girl is also found from site shows that presence of some dance form as well as skilled craftsmanship.

There are around 1,500 sites of the Indus Valley Civilization and no sign of warfare or weapons have been found. This implies that the Indus natives were peaceful in nature, which might have made it vulnerable to foreign invaders.

In 1927, a seated male soapstone figure was found in a building with unusually ornamental brickwork and a wall-niche. Though there is no evidence that priests or monarchs ruled Mohenjo-Daro, archaeologists dubbed this dignified figure a "Priest-King."

After approximately 600 years the city collapsed no one is quite sure why but the cause could potentially have been a change within the culture or in the path of the river without its crucial source of water the city's residents may have moved away leaving Mohenjo-Daro nearly abandoned in 1911 nearly 4,000 years after the city fell into ruin archeologists paid their first visit the ensuing decades of excavations have unearthed countless clues that tell the tale of Mohenjo-Daro but it still holds secrets for us to discover.

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Friday, March 9, 2018

March 09, 2018

Atlantis The Lost City | Myth Or Reality | Fireup Facts


Atlantis Myth or Reality
The world is full of unsolved mysteries. Despite of the great achievements in the field of science, we, the human beings remain
clueless about many things around us. Rather than the land we live, what seems stranger to us is the ocean, which is home to many myths, legends and mysteries. While scientists have succeeded in explaining many of these mysteries, there are quite a few still
remaining as unexplained. Lost cities, hidden treasures, mystic ships are all part of the alluring marine world. Of all these, the lost city of Atlantis tops the list.

The Lost City of Atlantis, first mentioned by the ancient Greek philosopher Plato more than 2,300 years ago, is known as one of the oldest and greatest mysteries of the world. According to Plato, the utopian island kingdom existed some 9,000 years before his time and mysteriously disappeared one day. Famed for having been the exhibit of all worldly pleasures in the world, this city is as enigmatic as it is inviting. Even after years of research, the exact truth about this city has not been found and that adds even more to all the folklores attached with it. Read on to find what’s so
fascinating about this city?

Origin of Atlantis Story
Atlantis is first time discussed in two of Plato's dialogues, Timaeus and Critias. Timaeus provides a description of the island continent and how Atlanteans conquered all the known world except for the Athenians and, Critias says he heard the story of Atlantis from his grandfather, who had heard it from the Athenian statesman Solon (300 years before Plato’s time), who had learned it from an Egyptian priest, who said it had happened 9,000 years before that.

The historicity of Plato’s tale was controversial in ancient
times—his follower Crantor is said to have believed it, while Strabo (writing a few centuries later) records Aristotle’s joke about Plato’s ability to conjure nations out of thin air and then destroy them.

Atlantis Emergence
In the first centuries of the Christian era, Aristotle was taken at his word and Atlantis was little discussed. In 1627, the English philosopher and scientist Francis Bacon published a utopian novel titled “The New Atlantis,” depicting, like Plato before him, a politically and scientifically advanced society on a previously unknown oceanic island.

In 1882, former U.S. Congressman Ignatious L. Donnelly published “Atlantis: The Antediluvian World,” which touched off a frenzy of works attempting to locate and learn from a historical Atlantis. Donnelly hypothesized an advanced civilization whose immigrants had populated much of ancient Europe, Africa and the Americas, and whose heroes had inspired Greek, Hindu and Scandinavian mythology. From time to time, archaeologists and historians locate evidence—a swampy, prehistoric city in coastal Spain; a suspicious undersea rock formation in the Bahamas—that might be a source of the Atlantis story. Of these, the site with the widest acceptance is the Greek island of Santorini (ancient Thera), a half-submerged caldera created by the massive second-millennium-B.C. volcanic eruption whose tsunami may have hastened the collapse of the Minoan civilization on Crete.

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Myths and Stories
The Tale of God’s Love
Legend says that the Atlantis city was built by Poseidon-the God of Sea, of storms and earthquakes- when he fell in love with a mortal woman Cleito. He made this city on top of a hill, in an isolated island in the sea, to protect her and named it Atlantis.

 According to the story, Poseidon walked through the world in an effort to find the biggest island until he reached the biggest of them all- Atlantis and found it to be inhabited by people who were more beautiful and intelligent than rest of the world. It was then he fell in love with Cleito when he finds her in the island.

City Named After
Atlas, the Poseidon’s Son
The city of Atlantis, in the innermost circle, had palaces and temples where wise and powerful rulers lived. The ruling coalition descended from Poseidon, the Greek god of the sea. Poseidon and Cleito had five sets of twin sons, according to Greek mythology, each of which was given a region of Atlantis. Atlas, the firstborn son, was given the largest province, which became the city of Atlantis, a name that derives from Atlas. The finest structure on the island, the Temple of Poseidon, honored the god and served as the home of the primary ruler.

Disappearing of Atlantis
According to most accounts, Atlantis was suddenly destroyed by a cataclysm of earthquakes and floods and swallowed up by the sea. No definitive remnants have ever been found, and the exact location of the "lost continent" remains debatable. The idea of Atlantis was first expressed in the works of Plato (c. 428–348 or 347 B.C.E), the Greek philosopher, who stressed that a perfect world exists in Ideas.

In Plato's account, the people of Atlantis eventually became corrupt and greedy, putting selfish pursuits above the greater good. They began invading other lands with the idea of world domination. Angered by these developments, Poseidon set about destroying the civilization, battering the continent with earthquakes and floods until Atlantis was swallowed up by the ocean.

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Tuesday, March 6, 2018

March 06, 2018

Interesting Facts and Question About Easter Island (Rapa Nui) | Solved | Fireup Facts



Easter Island is a Chilean island in the southeastern Pacific Ocean, at the south-easternmost point of the Polynesian Triangle in Oceania.
Easter Island is famous for its 887 extant monumental statues, called moai, created by the early Rapa Nuii people.

Easter Island covers roughly 64 square miles in the South Pacific Ocean, and is located some 2,300 miles from Chile’s west coast and 2,500 miles east of Tahiti.
It was annexed by Chile in the late 19th century and now maintains an economy based largely on tourism.

Interesting Facts about Easter Island:

How it get the name as “Easter Island”?
Do you ever think how the island get the name as Easter Island even it has no connection with the Easter egg or bunnies or any festival.

The island was originally known as Rapa Nuii to its earliest inhabitants, the island was christened Paaseiland, or Easter Island, by Dutch explorers in honor of the day of their arrival in 1722.

Who created the Hugh stone heads?
The moai or Easter Island heads or Easter Island statues, represent the most important pieces of Rapa Nuii art and they have become its trademark.

However, in spite of their abundance, there are around 600 moai distributed throughout the whole island and 397 are in the Rano Raraku quarry, there are still plenty of unanswered questions regarding these stone giants.

Even though oral tradition states that it was Hotu Matu’a, or the seven explorers that reached the island before him, who brought the first Moai to the island, the most accepted theory is that it was the first Polynesian villagers who started sculpting stone once they were settled.

These stone giants were created by the Rapa Nuii to represent their ancestors or past rulers, who after dying had the ability to extend their mana (spiritual power) over the tribe to protect it.

How the Stone Heads Move?
Of all the interesting Easter Island facts, the transportation of the island’s statues “moai” is considered remarkable given that they were moved n across the island without the use of wheels, cranes or large animals.

Scientists have tested several theories most commonly concluding that islanders used a combination of log rollers, ropes and wooden sledges.

In 2011, however, Terry Hunt of the University of Hawaii and Carl Lipo of California State University Long Beach worked with National Geographic to prove that a mere 18 people could move a 3m (10ft) moai replica weighing 5 tonnes a few hundred metres with just three strong ropes and some practice.

Who is Tukuturi?
Tukuturi is an unusual moai. Its beard and kneeling posture distinguish it from standard moai. The peculiar posture of this statue is well known on Easter Island and is called tuku turi or simply tuku. It was the posture used by the men and women who formed the chorus in the festivals called riu, where the posture was known as tuku riu.

Typical also of the singers was the slightly backward inclination of the trunk, the raised head, and the goatee, all also seen in the statue.

Tukuturi is made of red scoria from Puna Pau, but sits at Rano Raraku, the tuff quarry.
It is possibly related to the Tangata manu cult, in which case it would be one of the last moai ever made.

It seems likely that this statue represents a riu singer and was made after the production of classic statues had ceased.

Rongo Rongo
Rongorongo scripture, or kohau rongo rongo as the natives call it, is a scripture system consisting of glyphs carved on wood or tablets, which to this day have yet to be deciphered.

The most common translation of the term kohau is “wood used for making the hull of the canoe” and rongo rongo means “the great message” or “great study”, for which the kohau rongo rongo has been translated to “recitation wood’ or “narrator staffs”.
According to oral tradition, the first king to arrive on Easter Island, ariki Hotu Matu’a, had 67 tablets that corresponded with the 67 Maori wisdoms, such as knowing how to sail and knowing astronomy; however, no other writing of this kind has been found anywhere in Polynesia.

Other researchers think that the Rongorongo scripture was invented after the arrival of the Spaniards in 1770, since they asked the ariki to sign the island assignment contract.
This being the first contact the Rapa Nuii had with Eastern scripture.

Tapati Rapa Nuii
The Tapati Rapa Nuii festival, which literally means “Rapa Nuii week”, is the most important cultural festival in Easter Island, and it is celebrated every year during the first two weeks of February.

This festival was born in 1968 with the goal of promoting the RapaNuii culture among the islanders and instilling a sense of belonging within the youth.

During the Tapati celebration, the town is divided in two, each part constituting an “alliance” or clan representing the ancient races of the island. Each clan chooses a queen to represent and “lead” them during the competitions and the winner will have the right to the title of “Queen of the Island” for that year.


It’s not a beauty contest, but rather a peaceful confrontation between the two clans that will compete through the days and night; where each participant will be able to express their physical and artistic skills to earn points for each candidate.
The queen of the clan with the most points will win the crown.

Hugh Stone Heads are Not Just Heads
Archaeologists have known since the earliest excavations in 1914 that the Easter Island statues have bodies.

The public, however, widely referred to them as ‘Easter Island heads’ because the most commonly photographed moai were those buried up to their shoulders.
In 2012, photos of an excavation led by the Easter Island Statue Project coupled with a photo taken in the 1950s began to circulate, illustrating just how big the statues actually are. The sight was so striking that several national publications ran a story about it.

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Monday, March 5, 2018

March 05, 2018

10 Interesting Facts About Mayan Civilization (You Never Know Before!!!) | Fireup Facts


The Mayan Civilization

 The ancient Maya civilization was without a doubt, one of the most dominant ancient societies of Mesoamerica. The ancient Maya excelled at agriculture, pottery, hieroglyph writing, calendar-making, and mathematics and were one of the most impressive astronomers in the past.

 They were a unique and advanced ancient culture and according to studies, the Maya were centered in one geographical block covering all of the Yucatan Peninsula and modern-day Guatemala, Belize and Chiapas and Tabasco in modern day Mexico.

 Interesting Mariana Trench Facts:
  • According to the ancient Maya, the world was created on August 11, 3114BC, which is the date their calendar counts from.
  • The traditional view of the Maya was that they were a peaceful people, content to gaze at the stars and trade with one another for jade and pretty feathers. That was before modern researchers deciphered the glyphs left behind on the statues and temples. It turns out that the Maya were as fierce and warlike as their later neighbors to the north, the Aztecs. Scenes of wars, massacres, and human sacrifices were carved into stone and left behind on public buildings.
  • The Maya were literate and had a written language and books. To the untrained eye, Maya books look like a series of pictures and peculiar dots and scribbles. In reality, the ancient Maya used a complex language where glyphs could represent a complete word or syllable. A Maya book is referred to as a codex (plural: codices). The codices were painted onto a paper made of bark from the fig tree and folded out like an accordion. The four books are as:
  1. The Dresden Codex
  2. The Paris Codex
  3. The Madrid Codex
  4. The Grolier Codex
  • The Ancient Maya played sports. The Mesoamerican ballgame or also called Ōllamaliztli in Nahuatl was a “sport” practiced by all the major civilizations from the Olmecs to the Aztecs.  The objective of the ball game was to strike a rubber ball through the hoop using any part of the body except the hands. After the game, the outcome of which was predetermined to reflect the battle it represented, the captives were ritually sacrificed.
  • The Maya were obsessive astronomers who kept very detailed records of the movements of the stars, sun, moon, and planets. They kept accurate tables predicting eclipses, solstices, and other celestial events.
  • Each major city-state had a king, or Ahau. The Maya rulers claimed to be descended directly from the Sun, Moon or planets, which gave them divine ancestry. Because he had the blood of Gods, the Ahau was an important conduit between the realm of man and the heavens and underworld, and often had key roles in ceremonies. The Ahau was also a wartime leader, expected to fight and play in the ceremonial ball game. When the Ahau died, rulership generally passed to his son, although there were exceptions: there were even a handful of Queens of mighty Maya city-states.
  • When talking about Ancient Maya culture, experts generally lament how little is known today and how much has been lost. One remarkable document has survived, however: the Popol Vuh, a sacred book of the Maya that describes the creation of mankind and the story of Hunahpu and Xbalanque, the hero twins, and their struggles with the Gods of the underworld.
  • The Ancient Maya were incredible engineers, constructing incredible Pyramids and temples that match the ones in Egypt. The peak of La Danta—one of the world’s largest pyramids. According to researchers the Peak of La Danta is more massive than the Great Pyramid of Giza containing around 99 million cubic feet of rock and fill.
  • There was a lot of talk in certain paranoid corners of the Internet that doomsday, as predicted by the Maya calendar, would come on December 21, 2012. The date came and went and the apocalypse never materialized, but any Mayanist could have told you that you had nothing to worry about. December 21, 2012 just happened to coincide with the end of a full cycle of 5125 years in the Maya’s so-called Long Count calendar. This calendar was impressive because it used zero as a placeholder—one of the earliest uses of zero as a mathematical concept in history.
  • Now a symbol of American Thanksgiving, turkeys may have first been domesticated by the Maya. Turkeys weren’t just used for food; the Maya also used the birds’ parts like bones and feathers to create fans, tools, and musical instruments. Mexican turkey bones dating to the Preclassic Maya period were discovered at the archaeological site of El Mirador in Guatemala.
No One Knows What Happened to Them

 In 700 A.D. or so, the Maya civilization was going strong. Powerful city-states ruled weaker vassals, trade was brisk and cultural achievements such as art, architecture, and astronomy peaked. By 900 A.D., however, the Classic Maya powerhouses like Tikal, Palenque, and Calakmul had all fallen into decline and would soon be abandoned. So, what happened? No one knows for sure. Some blame warfare, others climate change and still other experts claim it was disease or famine. Possibly it was a combination of all of these factors, but the experts can’t seem to agree.

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March 05, 2018

The Strangest Disappearances and Theories of The Bermuda Triangle


The Bermuda Triangle is a mythical section of the Atlantic Ocean roughly bounded by Miami, Bermuda and Puerto Rico where dozens of ships and airplanes have disappeared.

 Unexplained circumstances surround some of these accidents, including one in which the pilots of a squadron of U.S. Navy bombers became disoriented while flying over the area; the planes were never found. Other boats and planes have seemingly vanished from the area in good weather without even radioing distress messages.

 But although myriad fanciful theories have been proposed regarding the Bermuda Triangle, none of them prove that mysterious disappearances occur more frequently there than in other well-traveled sections of the ocean.

 In fact, people navigate the area every day without incident.

 Legend of Bermuda Triangle
The area referred to as the Bermuda Triangle, or Devil’s Triangle, covers about 500,000 square miles of ocean off the southeastern tip of Florida.

 When Christopher Columbus sailed through the area on his first voyage to the New World, he reported that a great flame of fire (probably a meteor) crashed into the sea one night and that a strange light appeared in the distance a few weeks later.

 He also wrote about erratic compass readings, perhaps because at that time a sliver of the Bermuda Triangle was one of the few places on Earth where true north and magnetic north lined up.

 Disappearances:
There are some amazing stories of planes and ships that disappeared or met with ill fate while crossing the triangle area.

 Flight 19
The Avenger planes of Flight-19 took off from the U.S Naval Base of Florida for a routine training session on an afternoon of December 1945, but strangely this time they never returned.

 PBM Martin Mariner
When all hopes for the above Flight-19 planes were quickly fading, two Martin Mariner planes (flying boats) were sent by US Navy to search them out. After extensive search, one of them returned, but the other didn't and disappeared forever.

 Tudor Star Tiger
Star Tiger, a Tudor Mark-IV aircraft disappeared from the radar while flying over Bermuda Triangle and shortly before it was about to land at the Bermuda airport.

 Fight DC-3
The aircraft disappeared when it was only 50 miles south of Florida and about to land in Miami.

 Flight 441
A Super Constellation Naval Airliner disappeared in October 1954.

 C-54 Sky master
Apparently it seemed to be a sudden thunderstorm that had disintegrated the plane. But there was much more to the story of Sky master.

 Mary Celeste: The Ghost Ship
Known as one of the ghost ships of Bermuda Triangle, Mary Celeste had many misadventures even before her mystery voyage in 1872. But this time, although the ship could be salvaged, none on board could ever be traced. 

Carroll A. Deering
This is another ghost ship of Bermuda triangle which created one of the biggest maritime mysteries of all times. While returning from Rio de Janeiro of Brazil to Portland in Maine in January 1921, it was found abandoned and derelict at Diamond Shoals, off Cape Hatteras in North Carolina. But all the 11 crewmen including the captain were missing. They vanished forever and never to be found again.

 Marine Sulphur Queen
This 524-foot carrier of molten Sulphur started sail on Feb 2, 1963 from Beaumont,

 Texas with 39 Crew
It was reported lost in Florida Straits on February 4, and lost forever.

 Ellen Austin
The Ellen Austin, an American schooner, met with another ship in Bermuda Triangle. The other ship was moving in full speed but strangely had nobody on board.

 USS Cyclops
Disappearance of the carrier ship in Bermuda Triangle has been one of the greatest mysteries of the sea. The Cargo ship was scheduled to reach Baltimore on March 13, 1918, but it never did.\

 USS Scorpion
USS Scorpion (SSN-589) was a nuclear powered submarine of United States Navy that disappeared in Bermuda Triangle area in May 1968.

 Theories explaining the Mysteries:
So what caused the ships and aircraft to disappear mysteriously? There is no single theory that can explain all the incidents of disappearances. While many theories have come up from researchers and scientists trying to explain the various incidents, here are few of the most popular ones:

 Methane Gas
The gas trapped under sea floor can erupt, and as a result can lower the water density and cause ships to sink like a rock. Even planes flying over it, can catch fire and get completely destroyed during such gas blowout... Read how methane gas could be the culprit behind so many tragedies

 Sargasso Sea
It's a strange ocean area that has no shores and bounded only by water currents on all sides. Many ships passing through it have been stranded and made motionless. Many were found derelict and without a soul... Know how Sargasso Sea became a deadly trap for boats

 Electronic Fog
A strange thick cloud appears from nowhere and engulfs a ship or a plane. Instruments begin to malfunction, and finally the ship or the aircraft vanishes without a trace.

 Hexagonal Cloud & Air Bombs
From satellite images Meteorologists have recently discovered strange hexagonal clouds that are capable of blasting winds to the ocean below at huge speeds. And such wind storms on the ocean can create waves as high as 45-feet. Planes and ships under such cloud can sink in no time.

 All Major Theories
There are many other theories that try to solve or explain the mysteries of Bermuda Triangle and try to identify factors causing such incidents.
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March 05, 2018

Some Interesting Facts About Mariana Trench (You Never Heard Before!!!)


Introduction:
Mariana Trench, also called Marianas Trench is a trench located in the western Pacific Ocean, at the deepest point in all of the oceans of the world. The trench is approximately 1580 miles in length and only approximately 43 miles wide on average. Although it's the deepest point in the world's oceans, Mariana Trench is not the part of the ocean floor closest to the earth's core, a result of the earth not being a perfect sphere. Mariana Trench was named after the Mariana Islands, which were named after Queen Mariana of Austria. Mariana Trench's depth was first measured by depth sounding in 1875 by the Challenger expedition - a scientific effort to lay oceanography's foundation. From that date Mariana Trench has been measured repeatedly as new technology has been developed.

Interesting Mariana Trench Facts:
  • Mariana Trench was formed by the shifting of the earth crusts that form the floor of the ocean.
  • At the ocean floor of Mariana Trench there are hot water vents that emit minerals such as hydrogen sulphide which feed the barophilic bacteria that feed microbes that in turn feed the ocean's fish.
  • Mariana Trench's temperature is so low, ranging from 34°F to 39°F, that it is considered to be one the world's coldest places.
  • The pressure at Mariana Trench is 1000 times that of the sea level's atmospheric pressure.
  • Mariana Trench's ocean floor has a yellowish color to it because of all the decaying plants and animals, animal skeletons, and shells that are continuously deposited there.
  • Giant amoebas were discovered in Mariana Trench in 2011 by Scripps Institution of Oceanography scientists. These giant amoebas can reach 10cm in diameter.
  • Research suggests that Mariana Trench is approximately 180 million years old and is considered to be one of the oldest seabeds in the world.
Questions?
How long does it take to get to the bottom of the Mariana Trench?
The maximum depth of the Mariana Trench is: 10.911 km (10,911m)
(10911/5.1)/60 = 35.7.
So, it takes your shotput about 36 minutes to fall to the bottom of the Mariana Trench.

What lives at the bottom of the Mariana Trench?
This list highlights five of my favorite denizens of the deep, from the plethora of otherworldly creatures that call the Mariana Trench home.
The Ghostfish. ...
The Barreleye Fish or Spookfish. ...
The Dumbo Octopus. ...
The Goblin or Vampire Shark. ...
Giant Toxic Amoebas.

What is at the bottom of the Mariana Trench?
The New Britain Trench -- which Cameron visited as a test-run for Mariana -- which at 8,200 meters deep is only 2,700 meters shallower than Challenger Deep. But life there was very different. The trench bottom was home to an array of sea cucumbers,?sea anemones, jellyfish, comb jellyfish, and giant amphipods.



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