| STRIPED ICEBERGS Icebergs in the Antarctic area sometimes have stripes, formed by layers of snow that react to different conditions. Blue stripes are often created when a crevice in the ice sheet fills up with melt water and freezes so quickly that no bubbles form. When an iceberg falls into the sea, a layer of salty seawater can freeze to the underside. If this is rich in algae, it can form a green stripe. Brown, black and yellow lines are caused by sediment, picked up when the ice sheet grinds downhill towards the sea.These pictures are available because 2010 has been the coldest winter ... Is this amazing?? Antarctica Frozen Wave Pixs - Nature is amazing! The water froze the instant the wave broke through the ice. That's what it is like in Antarctica where it is the coldest weather in decades. Water freezes the instant comes in contact with the air. The temperature of the water is already some degrees below freezing. Just look at how the wave froze in mid-air!!! Having the Internet means that we get to see something that we never imagined! Pass it on for others to enjoy! |
Finally, someone
Has managed to photograph the
Pot at the end of the rainbow!!!
Wouldn't you know it!
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| Why Italian Fathers and Grandfathers pass their handguns down through the family. An old Italian man is dying. He calls his grandson to his bedside, Guido, I wan' you lissina me. I wan' you to take-a my chrome plated .38 revolver so you will always remember me." "But grandpa, I really don't like guns.. How about you leave me your Rolex watch instead?" "You lissina me, boy. Somma day you gonna be runna da business, you gonna have a beautiful wife, lotsa money, a big-a home and maybe a couple-a bambinos. " "Somma day you gonna come-a home and maybe finda you wife inna bed with anudder man. "Whatta you gonna do then? Pointa to you watch and say, 'time's up' "? |
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Two German Brothers Have
Put This TRAIN SET Together.
BE SURE to click on the link at the end and view this in motion.
This is the world's biggest train set. Covers 1,150 square meters / 12,380 square feet . Features almost six miles
of track and is still not complete.
Twin brothers Frederick and Gerrit Braun, 41, began work on the
'Miniature Wunderland' in 2000.
The set covers six regions including America, Switzerland , Scandinavia,
Germany, and the Austrian Alps.
The American section features giant models of the Rocky Mountains,
Everglades, Grand-Canyon, etc.
...and Mount Rushmore . 
The Swiss section has a mini-Matterhorn. 
The Scandinavian part has a 4ft long passenger ship floating in a 'fjord'.
It is expected to be finished in 2014, when the train set would cover more
than 1,800 square meters or 19,376 sq ft
and feature almost 13 miles of track,
by which time detailed models of parts
of France , Italy and the UK would have
been added.
It comprises 700 trains with more than 10,000 carriages and wagons.
The longest train is 46 ft long. 
The scenery includes 900 signals, 2,800 buildings, 4,000 cars - many with
illuminated headlights ....
....and 160,000 individually designed figures.
Thousands of kilograms of steel and wood was used to construct the scenery.
The 250,000 lights are rigged up to a system that mimics night and day by
automatically turning them on and off.
The whole system is controlled from a massive high-tech nerve centre.
In total the set has taken 500,000 hours and more than 8 million euro to put
together, the vast majority of which
has come from ticket sales.
Gerrit said: "Our idea was to build a world that men, women, and children
can be equally astonished and amazed
in."
Frederik added: "Whether gambling in Las Vegas , hiking in the Alps or
paddling in Norwegian fjords - in
Wunderland everything is possible.
"This 4-minute video is worth
watching for this amazing stuff.
Now....click below to see it all in action! Use sound ........
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