6th Aug 2011 The Transparent Plane

Airbus has just presented the new plane that will plough through the sky in 2050. It's a colossal machine whose principal peculiarity is that it's cabins will all be transparent, so that the passengers can see the sky all around them. According to the aforementioned European company, this machine is inspired by the bone structure of birds.

To fly like birds will soon become reality many of us right here will experience. Although, men's passion has always been able to fly with their own 'wings', not in a plane, however advanced.

 

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Prev: 6th Aug 2011 The Coconut Crab

6th Aug 2011 The Coconut Crab

Coconut Crab (Birgus Latro) is the largest terrestrial arthropod in the world. It's known for it's ability to crack coconuts with its strong pincers in order to eat the contents. It's sometimes called the Robber Crab because they are rumoured to steal shiny items such as pots and silverware from houses and tents. The second photo of a coconut crab seeking food from a trash-can gives a good idea how large these crabs are.

It's a large edible crab related to the hermit crab, and is found in the tropical Indian and Pacific Oceans. How would you like to be on an island and come across a crab that's more than 3 feet from head to tail, and weighs up to 40 pounds, with a pair of large pincers strong enough to crack open coconuts! They can climb trees too, but they only eat coconuts that have already fallen to the ground. They are considered a local delicacy.

And to think the sight of a common household spider would send me screaming the roof off!!! But I also think that they are quite pretty to look at ... from a distance.

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Prev: 6th Aug 2011 Words From Wiseguys

6th Aug 2011 Words From Wiseguys

• Police were called to a day care where a three-year-old was resisting a rest.
• Did you hear about the guy whose whole left side was cut off? He's all right now.
• The roundest knight at King Arthur's round table was Sir Cumference.
• The butcher backed up into the meat grinder and got a little behind in his work.
• To write with a broken pencil is pointless.
• When fish are in schools they sometimes take debate.
• A thief who stole a calendar got twelve months.
• A thief fell and broke his leg in wet cement. He became a hardened criminal.
• Thieves who steal corn from a garden could be charged with stalking.
• We'll never run out of math teachers because they always multiply.
• When the smog lifts in Los Angeles, U.C.L.A.
• The math professor went crazy with the blackboard. He did a number on it.
• The professor discovered that her theory of earthquakes was on shaky ground.
• The dead batteries were given out free of charge.
• If you take a laptop computer for a run you could jog your memory.
• A dentist and a manicurist fought tooth and nail.
• In a democracy it's your vote that counts; in feudalism, it's your Count that votes.
• The short fortune teller who escaped from prison was a small medium at large.
• If you don't pay your exorcist you can get repossessed.
• With her marriage she got a new name and a dress.
• Show me a piano falling down a mine shaft and I'll show you A-flat miner.
• When a clock is hungry it goes back four seconds.
• The guy who fell onto an upholstery machine was fully recovered.
• A grenade fell onto a kitchen floor in France, resulted in Linoleum Blownapart.
• You are stuck with your debt if you can't budge it.
• Local Area Network in Australia : The LAN down under.
• He broke into song because he couldn't find the key.

 

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