Clouds often visit the earth; they sit around the tall buildings and make a conversation. The conversation couldn’t b heard but one can obviously see how close they are. You can close your eyes and feel them, sometimes they come close enough that they touch the buildings and often curl around them, one cannot miss these beautiful scenes.

Empire state building

102 story empire state building stands among the tallest buildings in the world. This beautifully designed building lies at the intersection of 34th street and 5th avenue. Because of its great height the building often hides its head in to the clouds.

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Chicago downtown

In the recent years Chicago received the largest boom of buildings and because of their great height, clouds often swim around them. You can see the Sears tower, the Aon tower and the Hancock tower from left to right in the image below.

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Golden Gate Bridge

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5 million tourists visit Tenerife each year making it one of the biggest resorting spots of the world. This Spanish island is located in the Atlantic Ocean, about 200 km off the coast of Africa. The island with an area of 2034 square kilometers and a population of about 1 million is the only Spanish island that has two airports to handle sheer number of tourists, check flights to tenerife.

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This famous island is also known as ‘Island of Eternal Spring’, offering a pleasant temperature, between 22 and 28 degree Celsius, throughout the year. Almost half of its area is protected and preserved. The island has two rural parks (Anaga and Teno), four integral natural reserves, six special natural reserves, a total of fourteen natural monuments, nine protected landscapes and up to six sites of scientific interest.

2. Seychelles

The Republic of Seychelles is an island country comprising 11 islands in Indian Ocean. These tropical islands offer ideal climate throughout the year but summer is the best time if you’re planning to get the maximum out of these islands like bird-watching, sailing, surfing, hiking and diving. These islands are located about 1,500 kilometers east of mainland Africa, northeast of the island of Madagascar. If you’re planning to go there, make sure you go through their official website first.

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3. Maldives

Maldives, a chain of 1000 islands, offers great adventure and resort for summer. Out of these many islands, only 200 are populated because many of the islands are not suitable for living as they are barely above sea level.  The rest of little coral islands are surrounded by excellent diving and snorkeling, white sand beaches, and filled with friendly locals. Vacations at Maldives can be pricey, however Bangkok Airways offers cheap flights to and from Thailand.

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4. Fiji

Fiji islands lies some 2000 km northeast of New Zealand. Out of 332 islands, more than hundred are inhabited, however, 87% of population is located in two major islands; Viti Levu and Vanua Levu. These peaceful and calm islands are far away from the rest of the world and there are still islands in Fiji, where no man has ever set foot. Recently many resorts were opened in remote islands of Fiji, making your trip more exciting and worth remembering. Fiji has two airports, one in Nadi and other one near Suva city.

5. Big island of Hawaii

Out of hundreds of islands of Hawaii state, the big island (also known as Hawaii Island) offers the best adventure, tourism and surfing. The site is famous for is vast natural beauty among biologist, tourist and volcanologists alike. The best thing to explore at Hawaii are the Volcanos and Volcano National Park and numerous waterfall. The island has two commercial airports; Hilo International Airport and Kona International Airport.

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Lyrics:

there’s an awful lot of hoopla
around the iphone 4 antenna
when you grip it with the death grip
and you’re call slips away
the media loves a failure
in a string of success
the facts won’t ever matter
if they can make bigger messes
sure i can make it happen
but in terms of daily usage
i’ve yet to drop a call
so this whole damn thing is stupid
and you can call me a fanboy
i’ve been called worse things
but gizmodo just ridiculous
pulling their anti-apple strings
you bought a stolen prototype
get over it and move on
or hey even better
let’s all sing this song

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Video of iPhone 4 Antenna song:

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1. Sunset From the International Space Station

2. Sunset on Mars

3. Sunset along with Moon at the North Pole

4. Sunset During an Eclipse

5. Sunset in Manhattan Along the Center-line of Every Street

6. Sunset with Clouds, Trees and Water in Indonesia

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This 19 inch long creature may be tunicate or a sea-squirt, say scientists. This mysterious animal was found floating 7218 feet below water surface in the Ross Sea off southern Antarctica.

This is, what scientist say, a 9.8 inch long sea spider found in Ross Sea shelf in southern Antarctica. Cold temperatures, few predators, and high levels of oxygen in seawater could explain their gargantuan size, Don Robertson of New Zealand’s National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research told the Associated Press.

They call it the Antarctic Octopus and it was marked as the 18th octopus species ever found. This octopus was found at the depth of 3280 feet.

A unique type of starfish, that looks like a sack, measuring 24 inch in length was discovered by New Zealand’s National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research on February 15, 2008.

This is a totally new species. It measures 2.5 inch across the heard and up to 39 inch in length.

The call it stareater, also discovered in 2008. This fish has very soft skin that was damaged by the net (see pic below). The fish generates red light and lures its prey towards it. Once the prey is in striking distance, the sharp, needle-like and curved teeth give no second chance to it. The fish belongs to Stomiidae family and grows up to a size of 8.3 inch.

This is a new type of daggertooth, and according to scientist the southernmost daggertooth ever found. The fish has sapphire blue eyes along with a long mouth containing curved teeth to immobilize prey, clamping down and pulling back to tear through and paralyze the victim’s spine.

This species is called amphipod and was first discovered in year 2004 by Antarctic research ship Tangaroa. This crustacean looks like a shrimp and was collected from a depth of 985 feet from the same location in year 2008.

It is a new specie of sea pig; declared as a genus of sea cucumber (holothurians). Sea cucumbers are part of a group of marine animals that inhabit the seafloor, including sea squirts, sea stars (starfish), sea slugs, corals, clams, sponges, and urchins.

High-powered cameras photographed this sea star or a starfish of the genus Labediaster (lower left) surrounded by brittle stars on a seamount 492 feet (150 meters) below the surface of Antarctica’s Ross Sea.

Source: National Geographic