When an aircraft breaks the sound barrier an incredible ‘vapor cone’ surrounds the aircraft. This effect is called Prandtl–Glauert singularity (sometimes referred to as a “vapor cone”), which is the point at which a sudden drop in air pressure occurs, and is generally accepted as the cause of the visible condensation cloud that often surrounds an aircraft traveling at transonic speeds.

Today we have gathered a collection of 16 fighter jets breaking the sound barrier and creating vapor cones around them. Enjoy these stunning photos of these flying machines.

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Off the coast of Pusan, South Korea: An F/A-18 Hornet assigned to Strike Fighter Squadron One Five One (VFA-151) breaks the sound barrier in the skies over the Pacific Ocean. VFA-151 is deployed aboard USS Constellation (CVN 64).

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Pat Maloney, an engineering planner, photographed an F-4 Phantom II at the mment it broke the sound barrier at the Annual Point Magu Naval Air Station Air Show.

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August 8, 2005—A U.S. Navy photographer with lightning-fast reflexes captured this image of a fighter plane blasting through a “sonic boom cloud” as the jet broke the sound barrier.

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F-15i breaking the sound barrier.

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U.S. Navy Capt. Norbert Smurf Szarleta breaks the sound barrier in an F/A-18F Super Hornet strike fighter during an air power demonstration aboard the aircraft carrier USS George Washington in the Atlantic Ocean, April 17, 2008.

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A F/A-18F Super Hornet fighter jet is pictured with a ring of water vapour around it as it comes within 200mph of breaking the sound barrier.

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This photo released by the US Navy shows an F-14D Tomcat making a near supersonic fly-by above the flight deck of USS Theodore Roosevelt in a July 28, 2006.

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Steve Roy captured this amazing shot in an air show with his  Canon EOS 5D with 100-400L zoom.

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A US Marine Corps (USMC) F/A-18C, Strike Fighter Squadron 195 (VFA-195), Naval Air Station Atsugi, Japan, breaks the sound barrier during the Freedom through Friendship Air Show at Osan Air Base, Republic of Korea.

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The shockwave from breaking the sound barrier follows an F/A-18 Superhornet during an airshow for the crew during the USS Ronald Reagan’s maiden deployment.

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Chuck Yeager, flying the Bell X-1, became the first man to travel faster than the speed of sound, he was flying at about 700 mph at an altitude of 43,000 feet — or Mach 1.06.

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An F/A-18F Super Hornet aircraft assigned to Carrier Air Wing Five breaks the sound barrier during an air-power demonstration practice aboard USS Kitty Hawk (CV 63) Sept. 11, 2006, which is under way in the East China Sea.

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An F/A-18C Hornet attached to the “Raging Bulls” of Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 37 punches through a cloud of water vapor while breaking the sound barrier during an air power demonstration on board the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS.

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An F/A-18F Super Hornet assigned to the “Diamondbacks” of Strike Fighter Squadron One Zero Two (VFA-102) completes a super-sonic flyby as part of an air power demonstration for visitors aboard USS Kitty Hawk (CV 63), which is off the coast of Southern Japan.

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According to the locals, during renovation of a house. Laborers were digging a room when they found a small 4 inch creature resembling humans. The creature was moving and jumping. Children present at the spot stoned the creature after which it got unconscious. Children closed the creature in a empty jar and this news spread like fire in a forest. People from far away and outskirts of the city came to see it. 

Later, when the locals emptied the jar and got the creature out it’s skin got burned due to pouring out on hot bricks. 

A man present at the occasion said: “The creature was moving like a fish.” When the scene got populated with people, locals buried the creature in a small hole in ground.

City officials not gave any statement about the issue and the news died of the media later on. It should be mentioned here that in April there was a rumor  of UFO sighting in Lahore as well. Which was also not taken up by authorities to comment and the rumor died later on. Some people are quoting that this creature might have fallen down from that UFO.

Following is the video covered by local news channel about the Alien incident:

The creature shown in the video looks fake because after the incident no one even bothered to do any post mortem or check ups on it. It might be a plastic toy which can be found in the markets. Check out these two pictures, it looks clear that it was actually a toy. And a hoax played by the public which made everyone fool.

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But over all the whole incident looks too fake to believe. We might not be sure whether it was real or fake but according to available facts it looks quite fake. Let’s wait and see what future brings to us.

Whats your verdict? Do you guys think it was a hoax or not?

Damien Walters is an amazing gymnast who got immense skills. He is a professional and has won recognition around the world. Following is a video of Damien Walters Showreel 2009 in which he features some amazing moves which he will be performing in year 2009.

Check out this amazing athlete in action:

Since the release of Google Map Maker,  a service that allows you to create a map by adding or editing features such as roads, businesses, parks, schools and more. Pakistanis have contributed a lot in populating its maps in Pakistan. Now, google maps even give driving directions in Pakistan, as reported by ProPakistani.

Recently reported by a news agency ANI, citing Banglore-based ‘Lalit Katragadda’, the founder of “Map Maker” says:

“Pakistan netizens are posting more localized information and data to the Google’s ‘map maker’ than the web users of any of the 160 countries which are using the leading internet search engine’s experiment.” 

Below is the full press release by ANI:

Silicon Valley (California), May 23 (ANI): Pakistan netizens are posting more localized information and data to the Google’s ‘map maker’ than the web users of any of the 160 countries which are using the leading internet search engine’s experiment.

Lalit Katragadda, the founder of Map Maker software informed that a particular Pakistani based in London has posted most frequent edits to the Google’s Map Maker,  a user-operated software.
Katragadda, who is based in Bangalore, told The Nation via teleconference that the software updates information instantly after a user sitting anywhere in theworld within 160 countries posts an edit to the live Map Maker.

When questions were put forth regarding the authenticity of the data provided by any of the net users, Katragadda said, it can always be verified by the software.

“We can always verify from authentic as well as independent sources within an hour’s time,” he added.
Any such experiment, related to a country’s geographical territory can always be a sensitive issue, and could have some implications, but the Google’s Map Maker had not come across any political issues till now.

“We have not faced any political issues so far,” Katragadda said. (ANI)

 

Today, we have a collection of 25 Outstanding Examples Of Black And White Photography. We hope you all will enjoy it and will get some inspiration. Don’t forget to drop your comments.

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26 Outstanding Photos Of Earth From Space

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Thanks to modern day space equipment we can capture any natural disaster or natural wonder, man made structures to landmarks. In just seconds satellites can capture every important event in earth’s history and archive it.

You can find many amazing photos of earth from space. But today we are presenting the best compilation of 26 amazing and outstanding photos of earth from space. This compilation contains photos of disasters, natural wonders, cities and landscapes.

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The crew of the International Space Station took this photograph of Hurricane Catarina, which struck the coast of Brazil in 2004. Very few hurricanes have ever developed this far south, just a few tropical storms.

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This is a pic of New York City after the World Trade Center attack on September 11, 2001. The image was captured by NASA’s Landsat 7 satellite on September 12th at 11:30am. At this point, the twin towers had fallen, and smoke was still pouring out of the region.

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NASA’s Aqua satellite captured this image of fires ravaging Greece in the summer of 2007. More than 60 people were killed, and hundreds of homes were burned. Thousands had to evacuate the affected region.

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When the 146,000-ton tanker, Hebei Spirit, ran aground off the coast of South Korea, it leaked a tremendous amount of oil into the surrounding ocean. This is an image captured by ESA’s Envisat Earth Observation satellite showing the size of the oil spill.

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This is a photograph of Tokyo, Japan – the biggest city in the world – imaged by International Space Station astronaut Dan Tani on February 5, 2008. The brightest part of the city is the center, with ribbons of light stretching out of the city center following roads and public transit routes.

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Here’s a photograph of Chicago, one of the largest cities in the United States, located on the shores of Lake Michigan. This space pic was taken by NASA’s Landsat 7 satellite. This photograph was taken on October 19, 2000.

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This next image from space is of New York City, New York. Brooklyn is off to the right-hand side of the image, and Manhattan Island is almost perfectly in the center of the image. The photograph was taken during the space shuttle mission STS-039.

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Here’s a high-resolution image of London taken from the International Space Station in 2005. You can see many London landmarks, including Regent’s Park, Hyde Park and St. James’s Park east of Buckingham Palace.

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And finally now, houses and streets in bustling Las Vegas, Nevada are seen in this image from the commercial IKONOS satellite taken in September of 2004.

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This is one of the most famous photographs ever taken. It was captured by NASA astronaut Bill Anders as Apollo 8 was orbiting the Moon. This was the first time that humans had ever gone into orbit around another object in the Solar System. Seeing the entire Earth as a tiny ball hanging in space was nothing short of life changing.

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This photo is of the Big Island of Hawaii. This photograph shows off the entire island, including the three volcanoes that helped to create it: Mauna Loa, Mauna Kea, and Kilauea.

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It’s a view along Greenland’s western coast. You can see a small field of glaciers that surrounds Baffin Bay. The bright blue spots are lakes that appear in the warmer southern months across the Greenland ice sheet. This photograph was captured by NASA’s Landsat 7 spacecraft.

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This is a satellite picture of the Palm Island Jumeirah structure off the coast of Dubai.

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This is Matangi Island, part of the Fiji group of islands. It’s surrounded by warm ocean water and vibrant coral reefs. This photograph was captured by the Ikonos spacecraft, which can see 10 meters through water, to reveal the coral reef.

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This spectacular “blue marble” image is the most detailed true-color image of the entire Earth to date. Using a collection of satellite-based observations, scientists and visualizers stitched together months of observations of the land surface, oceans, sea ice, and clouds into a seamless, true-color mosaic of every square kilometer (.386 square mile) of our planet. 

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The Bear Glacier on the Kenai Peninsula along the Gulf of Alaska seen by the IKONOS satellite took this on August 8, 2005. This image shows the ablation zone where the glacier is primarily losing ice. Upslope from the lake, the foot of the glacier is riddled with crevasses – cracks in the ice caused by the glacier’s movement over a rough surface.

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Harrat Khaybar in Saudi Arabia contains a wide range of volcanic rock types and spectacular landforms, several of which are represented in this photograph taken by an astronaut abourd the International Space Station on March 31, 2008. Jabal (”mountain” in Arabic) al Qidr is built from several generations of dark, fluid basalt lava flows. Jabal Abyad, in the center of the image, was formed from a more viscous, silica-rich lava classified as a rhyolite.

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This highly detailed image from the Taiwanese Formosat-2 satellite shows the different sizes, shapes, and textures of ice fragments from an ice shelf on the Antarctic Peninsula on March 8, 2008. Several large icebergs float amid a mosaic of smaller pieces of ice. The level of detail in the image is so great that it can seem as though you are standing over a scale model made out of paper-made and foam blocks. The detail can make the bergs seem deceptively small. In reality, some of the large bergs are several hundred meters (yards) long.

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The Arabian Peninsula’s Empty Quarter, known as Rub’ al Khali, is the world’s largest sand sea, holding about half as much sand as the Sahara Desert. The Empty Quarter covers 583,000 square kilometers (225,000 square miles), and stretches over parts of Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Oman, and the United Arab Emirates. The Enhanced Thematic Mapper on NASA’s Landsat 7 satellite captured this image of the Empty Quarter on August 26, 2001.

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South of Khartoum, Sudan, where the White and Blue Nile Rivers join, a dizzying arrangement of irrigated fields stretches out across the state of El Gezira. The several bare-looking patches are small villages. This image was captured by the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) on NASA’s Terra satellite on December 25, 2006.

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Namib-Naukluft National Park is an ecological preserve in Namibia’s vast Namib Desert. Coastal winds create the tallest sand dunes in the world here, with some dunes reaching 980 feet (300 meters) in height.

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One of the most spectacular examples of anticlinal fold structures lie on the north shore of the Strait of Homuz in the Persian Gulf. Located near the important city of Bandar Abbas, these folds form the foothills of the Zagros Mountains, which run north-northwesterly through Iran. The folds were formed when the Arabian shield collided with the western Asian continental mass about 4 to 10 million years ago. Subduction still continues slightly further east, beneath Baluchistan, but is inactive in the Gulf itself.

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The Andes mountains form one of the longest continuous mountain ranges on Earth, extending from the shores of the Caribbean as far south as the Magellan Straits. Perhaps the most surprising aspect of this range is how narrow it is over much of its length – the high part of the range is typically less than 150 kilometers (93 miles) broad. Illustrated is the section of the Andes near Coquimbo, Chile, where the highest peaks are 6,300 meters (20,670 feet).

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The diapirs, or salt plugs, in this image are a few of over 200 similar features scattered about this part of the Zagros Mountains in southern Iran. This region of folded rocks is the result of the collision between the Asian landmass and the Arabian platform. The deeper underlying deposits of salt have been reformed into ascending fluid-like, plastic plumes of salt. In some places these plumes have pushed through the overlying rock units, like toothpaste extruding from a tube, and are now visible as darkish irregular patches.

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Colonies of coral appear vibrant blue green in this Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) image of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef. Stretching over 2000 kilometers along the northeast coast of Australia, the Great Barrier Reef is the largest coral system that has ever existed. It is made up of about 2,900 reefs with at least 350 different species of coral, though only about six percent are coral reefs.

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The Tibet plateau is the largest and highest elevated region in the world. The plateau is 1,200 kilometers (746 miles) from east to west and 900 kilometers (560 miles) north to south, with a mean elevation of about 4900 meters (16,000 feet). The lowlands and valleys range in elevation from 3700 meters to 4600 meters (12,000 feet to 15,000 feet). Because the plateau rises above so much of the atmosphere, photographs are typically brilliantly crisp and clear.

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But the true addiction of twitter and it’s fan following can now be judged. Ivy Bean is a 104 years old woman and lives in a care home in Bradford, has 4,800 friends on Facebook, reports The Sun. She has become the oldest twitter user of UK but I think it also makes her the oldest twitter user in the world. As there are no other reporting of any old person using twitter.

But we might see other old people using twitter in future. Let’s see who beats this tough record. This brings one more interesting question, who is the world’s youngest twitterer?

You can follow Ivy on Twitter at here.

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But after knowing twitter she is preferring twitter over facebook. 

She recently posted her first updates, take a look at her twitter stream.

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Everyone is getting inspired by Ivy at Hillside Manor care home in Bradford. Ivy is an Ex-Mill worker and she called in The Geek Squad to help her understand twitter.

Boss Martin Dix said: “It’s brilliant to help someone as inspirational as Ivy to get started and teach her about Twitter. “She shows others that you shouldn’t be frightened of technology.”

Manager Pat Wright said: “All the residents are taking a leaf out of her book.

“Four signed up for computer college.

“Others have joined Facebook or surf the net and enjoy themselves with ten-pin bowling on the games console.” 

Twitter is becoming a house hold name these days due to celebrities like President Barack Obama, Singer Britney Spears and Actor Asthon Kuthcer have joined twitter and instantly stay in touch with their fans.

Youngsters are more appealed to twitter but recent stat figures show that people aged 45-50 are it’s leading users.

The Geek Squad has dubbed today Silver Surfers’ Day.

It aims to use it to encourage more elderly people to get online and start connecting with friends and family around the globe.

Photo: PA

Our first attempt is below. We typed Men Rule and after that Women Rule and the results are quite clear I think. According to google women rule most of the things even the world. So women with a large margin.

A round of applause for all the women of the world.

P.S. I know how it feels as I’m also a guy, but there is nothing we can do. I guess women are really kicking our ass on the web. Buckle up guys!

So, enjoy the screenshots below: 

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All the facts are collected from eBizarre. For many more interesting facts just go to their website.

Following are the 20 Bizarre And Humorous Medical Facts:

1. One in 5.5 million men in the United States have two penises. (You wish you were that lucky)

2. A passionate kiss uses up 6.4 calories per minute. (See, you burning your energy there)

3. One out of every four orthopedic surgeons has cut or will operate on the wrong limb at some point in his or her career. (Well, after so many years of studies it’s very sure to happen)

4. Blonde beards grow faster than darker beards. (Damn! Now i wonder why my beard does not grow)

5. During a kiss as many as 278 bacteria colonies are exchanged. (Proved, kissing is gross. But it’s sure so much fun)

6. Former U.S. president Jimmy Carter had an operation for hemorrhoids while he was in office. (Anything is possible When you are the president)

7. From the age of thirty, humans gradually begin to shrink in size. (No shit!)

8. Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete. (Then why engineers use concrete. Oh right! because thigh bones are scarce)

9. If you lock your knees while standing long enough, you will pass out. (I ain’t trying that)

10. If you squeezed out all of the bacteria from your intestines, you could almost fill up a coffee mug. (Now that’s a shocker)

11. Queen Victoria eased the discomfort of her menstrual cramps by having her doctor supply her with marijuana. (Marijuana FTW)

12. Soldiers disease is a term for morphine addiction. The Civil War produced over 400,000 morphine addicts. (War sucks, poor troops)

13. The attachment of the human skin to muscles is what causes dimples. (Who would have thought)

14. The human brain stops growing at the age of 18. (See that’s why many people go crazy after the age of 18)

15. The storage capacity of human brain exceeds 4 Terabytes. (And I was going to buy a new Hard Disk Drive!)

16. There have been cases of people dying from paper cuts. The paper cut gets infected, and without proper treatment you can die from the infection. (I’m also a survivor of paper cut, still creeps me out)

17. Undertakers report that human bodies do not deteriorate as quickly as they used to. The reason, they believe, is that the modern diet contains so many preservatives that these chemicals tend to prevent the body from decomposition too rapidly after death. (Preservatives rock)

18. Urine was once used as a detergent for washing. (Why they stopped using it?)

19. You blink every 2-10 seconds. As you focus on each word in this sentence, your eyes swing back and forth 100 times a second, and every second; the retina performs 10 billion computer-like calculations. (Brain made the PC)

20. Your thumb is the same length as your nose. (Stop it, don’t try right now)

Today’s inspiration comes from an Italian artist Guido Daniele who has specialized in body artwork. His hand painting which he dubs as ‘Handimals‘ is appreciated around the world. 

Today, we have a collection of Guido’s hand painting art, check out his amazing creations which look like real animals.

All credit goes to Guido Daniele, images taken from his website.

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