The World is Amazing

The Amazing Inventor… Or Fraud? Thomas Edison

Siegetank55 — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 02:59:44 +0000

Thomas Edison is known to be a gallant gentleman who is known best for creating a lot (I mean A LOT) of inventions. But some strongly disagree. I am one of them. Thomas Edison might not be such a “amazing inventor” as you think. Sir Humphry Davy and Sir Joseph William Swan are both two great inventors that also contributed to making the light bulb, but they were not credited to the light bulb. Instead of being a inventor, Edison was more of a business man. He hired people such as Tesla and took advantage of them, and later lied to them after using their ideas.

Later in life when Tesla was working for Edison, and asked for his pay of $50,000, he simply told Tesla, “When you become a full-fledged American you will appreciate an American joke.” Tesla immediately resigned, and later on, before his death, Edison said that his biggest mistake was not appreciating Tesla’s work. Yet, I don’t think Tesla ever forgave him, as he was the only man to have a negative comment on Thomas Edison in a Times Magazine article.

“Edison had a needle to find in a haystack, he would proceed at once with the diligence of the bee to examine straw after straw until he found the object of his search… I was a sorry witness of such doings, knowing that a little theory and calculation would have saved him ninety per cent of his labor.” Nikola Tesla

But no matter, what he was – inventor, fraud, or businessman, Thomas Edison will be remembered with respect.

My opinion sure might be way different from yours or might be the same, but in conclusion, I don’t really care! Its okay if you think Edison is amazing!

Links – The Scientists, Wikipedia

Amazing Moods: Depression

Siegetank55 — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 01:55:29 +0000

Okay, I’m pretty sure that everyone reading this probably has or had a friend that was really down some time in their life. Well, Depression in simple words is a person having really low self-esteem, causing a low mood and a loss of interest in most of the things. No, it does not mean you cut yourself. Scientifically, Depression is a disorder of the mind call the mood disorder. In the USA, about 3% of Depressed people commit suicide and about 60% of people that killed themselves were because of depression.

Amazing Fire in the Sky: The Fire Rainbow

Siegetank55 — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 01:16:35 +0000

This is just purely amazing. The fire rainbow, or the circumhorizontal arc, is caused the the refraction of the sun going through cirrus clouds containing ice crystals. It is hardly shown in the sky since there needs to be a lot of standards in order for it to bee seen from the earth.

Wikipedia: “In order to be observed, the sun must be very high in the sky, at an elevation of 57.8° (90 -32.2°) or more, and can only occur in the presence of cirrus clouds. As a result it cannot be observed at locations north of 55°N or south of 55°S, although occasionally at higher latitudes from mountains. In areas of Northern Europe it can only be observed around the time of the Summer solstice. If cloud conditions are right it is seen along the horizon on the same side of the sky as the sun. It reaches its maximum intensity at a sun elevation of 67.9° .”

This is a real picture of a fire rainbow shown in June 2006. It was taken place in Idaho, near the border of the state Washignton.

Amazing Rainbows huh?

Amazing Road: Lombard Street

Siegetank55 — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 00:38:29 +0000

Ever wanted to have fun on the road? Here is a place to drive… Or to avoid if you’re short-tempered. I can imagine you barely moving with a car with bad handling. Well, there is a street in San Francisco… that… is crooked. I don’t mean little crooked, I mean big time crooked! It is the worlds’ most crooked street going down, this road has eight sharp turns. Some bizarre races happen here, if you know what I mean.

Now do you know what I mean?

One of those crazy races happens every Easter in Lombard Street, where adults and kids meet at the top of the street and race down on bigwheels. When I mean bigwheels, I mean tricycles and other childish karts. Check it out for yourself.

Amazing Atoms: Bose-Einstein Condensate (Condensation)

Siegetank55 — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 20:55:05 +0000

Well, I just went random and chose this article. A Bose-Einstein Condensate is a state of matter of bosons. It is very hard to explain, so please look it up to learn more. The bosons are confined to a temperature close to zero, making some atoms collapse into the lowest quantum state. This “theory” was made by Satyendra N. Bose and Albert Einstein. This first happened when Bose sent a paper to Einstein who was impressed and used the material to make two other papers.

Then Wikipedia says

Seventy years later, the first gaseous condensate was produced by Eric Cornell and Carl Wieman in 1995 at the University of Colorado at Boulder NIST-JILA lab, using a gas of rubidium atoms cooled to 170 nanokelvin (nK).[2] (1.7×10−7 K) Cornell, Wieman, and Wolfgang Ketterle at MIT were awarded the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physics in Stockholm, Sweden for their achievements.

Basically “condensate” are fluids that are in frigid temperatures and make bizarre results that are yet to be understood. The effect is the consequence of quantum mechanics, showing that systems can get energy most of the times. If a system such as this has a low temperature and power, it is basically impossible for it to lower, even by friction. So without friction, it would cover the whole mass, a whole glass bottle for example. Since this is so strange and has no rules, it is still being studied.

Amazing Compouds: Calcium Oxalate

Siegetank55 — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 00:46:42 +0000

As we all know plants are poisonous. Well, most don’t know that this harmless looking plant called the Diffenbachia, is can actually cause erythema. Well, this plant contains Calcium Oxalate which is what were going to talk about today. Calcium Oxalate is a chemical compound which makes needle shaped crystals. These crystals together can make raphides which are poisonous. The formula for this compound is CaC₂O_4.

Words to know: Erythema: redness of the skin caused by capillary congestion Wikipedia Dictionary
Diffenbachia: A genus of tropical plants in the Family Araceae noted for their patterned leaves. Members of this genus are popular as houseplants because of their tolerance to shade. The name commemorates Ernst Dieffenbach, a German physician. Wikipedia Dictionary

Calcium Oxalate

Again, Calcium oxalate, which is found in a few plants, can be highly poisonous when a lot is consumed. When eaten a lot, it will cause convulsions, comas, or even death. So if you ingest something like a Elephant Ear (Colocasia esculenta) or Jack in the Pulpit (Arisaema) make sure to seek advice from a doctor!

Amazing Space Face: Barnard’s Loop

Siegetank55 — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 01:35:06 +0000

Well we were talking about nebulae last time so I decided to look up more of these amazing images. One of them looks like a red face, which is pretty creepy if you look at it for a while. This is Bernard’s Loop, an emission nebula which means that it was formed by ionization. Located in the constallation of Orion, this is a cloud that also contains the Horseheadnebula. The loop extends up to 600 arcminutes from the Earth, and can be seen in very dark nights.

See the face? Well, the nebula is not really the face, but with the picture, It looks like a face

Words to know: Arcminutes: A minute of arc, arcminute, or MOA is a unit of angular measurement, equal to one sixtieth (1/60) of one degree. Since one degree is defined as one three hundred sixtieth (1/360) of a circle, 1 minute of arc is 1/21600 of the amount of arc in a closed circle. It is used in those fields which require a unit for the expression of small angles, such as astronomy or marksmanship. Wikipedia Dictionary

The world is amazing map of orion! Bernard’s Loop and Mintaka

By now, you probably want to know why the nebula is called “Bernard’s” Loop. If you don’t, next time you come to this site, be more curious. Edward Emerson Barnard was actually one of my favorite American astronomers (I love his mustache). He discovered this star in 1916 so they named it to his name. Mr. Barnard did many other discoveries before he sadly passed out in 1923. He discovered Jupiter’s fifth moon Amalthea, and fourteen comets.

Edward Emerson Barnard

(1857-1923)

Amazing Nebula

Siegetank55 — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 00:50:46 +0000

What always fascinates me from the whole entire world is nebulae and supernovas. They’re so beautiful and colorful… Don’t you just wish to be in one of them? (I mean like if they weren’t so far away) Stars are better recognized when they die because of these dazzling billows. Nebulae are made from the leftovers of an explosion that happens after the star is shredded apart during the time where the star is the biggest, or the red giant stage. Well, at least most of them are. These are called planetary nebulae. This will also happen to our sun, after it has burned all the helium and hydrogen in the core stopping all nuclear reactions. This causes the star to expand and then to explode.

(Corrections are welcomed. Please comment if any of this information is wrong.)

NGC7293 Helix Nebula captured by the Hubble Space Telescope

Not all nebulae are caused by dead stars. Some are caused by Supernovas and their remnants. A famous Supernova remnant is the Crab Nebula, made when nuclear reaction stops at one side of the core in a star causing the star to collapse inwardly or implode. This again causes a wonderful ”cloud” of gases. I hope you get to see more nebulae when discovered later on.

Hello world!

Siegetank55 — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 03:14:53 +0000

This website will show how amazing the world is.

People don’t seem to notice the beautiful things in the world, the dazzling colors of the moon,

the amazing plants lying deepest in the rain forests yet to be discovered and the extraordinary animals using everything to survive. I hope

this site shows how beautiful the world is.

Click on rules to see the rules or scroll down to see the news!