Tuesday, April 19, 2011

World's Largest Holes!!!

Mirny Diamond Mine, Siberia

Mir Mine also called Mirny Mine is an open pit diamond mine located in Mirny, Eastern Siberia, Russia. The mine is 525 meters (1,722 ft) deep (4th in the world) and has a diameter of 1,200 m (3,900 ft), and is the second largest excavated hole in the world, after Bingham Canyon Mine. The airspace above the mine is closed for helicopters because of a few incidents in which they were sucked in by the downward air flow.





In the 1960s the mine was producing 10,000,000 carats (2,000 kg) of diamond per year, of which a relatively high fraction (20%) were of gem quality. The upper layers of the mine (down to 340 meters) had very high diamond content of 4 carats (0.80 g) per tonne of ore, with the relatively high ratio of gems to industrial stones. The yield decreased to about 2 carats (0.40 g) per tonne and the production rate slowed to 2,000,000 carats (400 kg) per year near the pit bottom. The largest diamond of the mine was found on 23 December 1980; it weighed 342.5 carats (68 g) and was named "26th Congress CPSU". The mine operation was interrupted in 1990s at a depth of 340 m after the pit bottom became flooded but resumed later.
The red arrow on the right is pointing a huge truck.

Saturday, April 2, 2011

7 Beautiful Places In The World!

Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe
The Zambezi basin above the falls experiences a rainy season from late November to early April, and a dry season the rest of the year. The river's annual flood season is February to May with a peak in April, The spray from the falls typically rises to a height of over 400 metres (1,300 ft), and sometimes even twice as high, and is visible from up to 50 km (30 miles) away. 
Rainbow inVictoria Falls
At full moon, a "moonbow" (also called white rainbow) can be seen in the spray instead of the usual daylight rainbow. 
Moonbow in Victoria Falls


Great Barrier Reef, Australia
The Great Barrier Reef is the world's largest reef system composed of over 2,900 individual reefs and 900 islands stretching for over 2,600 kilometres (1,600 mi) over an area of approximately 344,400 square kilometres (133,000 sq mi). The reef is located in the Coral Sea, off the coast of Queensland in north-east Australia.



Grand Canyon, America
The Grand Canyon is a steep-sided canyon carved by the Colorado River in the United States in the state of Arizona. The Grand Canyon is 277 miles (446 km) long, up to 18 miles (29 km) wide and attains a depth of over a mile (1.83 km) (6000 feet). 


Sunday, March 27, 2011

What's Wrong With This Baby???

Micah: The Lauging Baby
Most of us take rejection rather seriously. However, not ten-month old baby Micah thought that the act of ripping his dad, Marcus Macarthur's job rejection letter and, was hilarious and could not stop chuckling.
And to keep it going, his dad rips some credit card statements, which Micah thought was even more hilarious. The little toddler's infectious laughter has brought joy to about nine million people, since it was posted on YouTube.