A little Bit Of Space-Mercury

Okay, it has been a week and I am going to continue about the universe. Today I am going to talk about our solar system's very own Mercury!

Because Mercury orbits the Sun within Earth's orbit (as does Venus), it can appear in Earth's sky in the morning or the evening, but not in the middle of the night.Although Mercury can appear as a bright object when viewed from Earth, its proximity to the Sun makes it more difficult to see than Venus. Two spacecraft have visited Mercury : Mariner 10 flew by in the 1970's and as the MESSENGER that was launched in 2004, orbited Mercury over 4000 times in four years before exhausting its fuel and crashing into the planet's surface on April 30, 2015.


(Mariner 10 spacecraft and The MESSENGER spacecraft)

Because Mercury orbits the Sun within Earth's orbit (as does Venus), it can appear in Earth's sky in the morning or the evening, but not in the middle of the night.Although Mercury can appear as a bright object when viewed from Earth, its proximity to the Sun makes it more difficult to see than Venus. Two spacecraft have visited Mercury : Mariner 10 flew by in the 1970's and as the MESSENGER that was launched in 2004, orbited Mercury over 4000 times in four years before exhausting its fuel and crashing into the planet's surface on April 30, 2015.


(Picture from the MESSENGER spacecraft)

Mercury is the closest to the sun yet not the hottest of the nine planets because it has no atmosphere to retain heat, its day side scorched by the sun and can reach 801 degrees Fahrenheit or 427 Celsius but at night, its temperature can drop to -279 degrees Fahrenheit or -173 Celsius. Mercury is named after The Messenger of the Roman Gods and was discovered in 265 BC by Timocharis. Mercury is almost the same as the moon because it has been inactive for billions of years.



Mercury is a very funny planet as a day in Mercury is 2 year on it so that means a year in Mercury is only half a day on it. What a surprise right!




Surrounding Mercury's core (Contains more iron than any other planet in the solar system) is a 500 to 700 km mantle consisting of silicates. Based on the data from the Mariner 10 mission and Earth-based observation, Mercury 's crust is believed to be 100-300 km thick. One distinctive feature of Mercury's surface is the presence of numerous narrow ridges, extending up to several hundred kilometers in length. It is believed that these were formed as Mercury's core and mantle cooled and contracted at a time when the crust had already solidified. There are a few gases and elements on Mercury like oxygen, sodium, hydrogen, helium, potassium, argon, nitrogen, carbon dioxide, water vapour, xenon, krypton and neon. 



That is the only time we have for today folks, tune in next week for the explanation for Venus. Thank You and here is a quote and video for you before you go!

"STARS CAN'T SHINE WITHOUT DARKNESS"

Punny Sunday #2

1. When someone staples his or her tongue and then takes out the bullet, he or she will experience freedom of speech.

2. Make a piano fall on Brian then i'll give you a B-flat major.

3. I think you have mustard the strength to ketchup with me.

4. Police were called to a daycare because a 3 year old was resisting a rest.

5. I glad I know sign-language because it is quite handy

6. A bicycle cannot stand alone because it is two-tired.

7. Claustrophobic people are more likely to think outside the box.

8. When a boys mom called to hospital to check up on her son who swallowed a few coins, the nurse said that he had "no changes"

9. The fattest knight in the medieval times was called Sir Cumference.

10. I accidentally ate a bit of food colouring and my doctor said I was alright, but I felt like I dyed a little inside.

See you next Sunday for more puns!

Hallo everybodeh, Pakalu here and from now onwards i'm going to post A TOP 5 SERIES of random legitimate facts. Here we go THIS WEEK TOP 5 >>>WEIRDEST TRADITION<<<

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5)Baby Tossing, This tradition involves throwing baby at 30 feet above the ground. It is believed that it can bring fortune and good luck to the participant.It has been practiced since 700 years Ago by their ancestors.

 4. The Penis festival

     Yep you guessed it, Worshiping penis. This festival allow prostitutes and other people to wish for protection from Sexually transmitted disease. It is said that this festival would bring prosperity and married-couple harmony.

3. The Bullet Ant Ritual

    This might be the most painful one out of everything stated here.

It is said that the Mawe people who lives in the amazon made this tradition known to the world. Young boys who want to become a warrior will need to overgo this procedure. The boys who want to become a warrior have to put his hand inside a glove full of Bullet Ants and it is said that Bullet Ant is the worst pain ever known to humans. 

 4. Funeral Ritual of Toraja
In Toraja Funerals is one of the most expensive event. This event made the people of Toraja to take care of the corpse before they were sent to their final resting place. The people there will bathe the corpse and Redress them before they were sent to their graveyard. 

 5. Carrying the Bride over coal 
     I guess some of you might have seen this in the movie named Johny English. This tradition involves the groom carrying their brides over Fiery-hot Coal.According to a Chinese custom, a husband should carry his bride over a pan of burning coals when entering his home for the first time to ensure she will pass through labor successfully. 

Pakalu's Quote : I have 99 problems but I couldn't remember any of them, that makes it 100.

Does colours matters?

Hi, Banapal here, today I am about to tell you does colour matters that much in our lifes? What if I say that the video games, 

sports or etc. Had already been determine which team would win before the match even starts?
 The truth behind it all are colours.

In 2008, there was a study journal published named Cyberpsychology and behavior. Yes, it might soundweird but they analyze and use the data of 1347 matches of classic red vs blue video games. Unreal tournament 2004.

And prove that red was winning 54% of the time over the blue team. 

Which sounds extremely crazy where the game is supposed to be 50-50.

Not only in video games but in sports too. In the 2004, the summer Olympic took place

 in Greece. As you have guess it most of the players who is wearing in red uniform perform far

 better than blue especially in hand-to-hand combat like boxing, wresting or taekwondo. So do we stop using colours for matches? No, because not all games are supposedly wins on red team.

 We still have MOBA(Multiplayer Online Battle Arena). In LoL (League Of Legends)

 championship 2014, blue team had 79.3% win rate over than red team. Surprise? 

See that the blue team's kill and higher and the amounts are lower, futhermore their assist are also higher than the red team.

So you might ask “So what's the problem?”. The problem my friends, is that us,

we humans have a lingering quirk from psychology left in our evolution. 

Scientist had test the effects of various colours on a monkey.

The pairs would approach the monkey with different colours shirt with an apple on their hand.

All the colours were accepted except for red. Pairs wearing other colours such as green had no effect on the monkey and wheather the pairs were male or female.

In the end we learn red is aggresive, stronger and more dangerous than all the other colours. That's why the STOP sign works so well as we respond it...........but sadly there are still people who don't.

While blue is calm, relaxing and more friendly. There are also a lamp posts with lighting colour of blue in Japan releasing stressed, relaxing the people and to ensure less suicides

Here's a theory why red is aggressive and blue is relaxing.
And yes it is about games but there are few things about sports and shopping mall. Feel free to check it out! :)

  Credit to :GameTheory

The Mystery Continues....

Hello guys!!! Mama Papito here. I am in a good mood to post a blog because I am too glad that my favourite K-POP girl group (AOA) just won champion!!!! Anyway, Mama Papito will be posting either on Wednesdays or Fridays. ENJOY!

Photos are taken to create memories. Sometimes the photos we take leave us baffled. Here are the 10 most mysterious photos which could not be explained. The pictures below are rare, eerie, enigmatic sightings.

1. THE UNINVITED GUEST

While the Copper’s were dining in their new house, they took a really creepy picture. This picture of a person hanging upside down was seen when the photo was developed. There is no more information about this mystery despite rigorous investigation.

2. GROUP PHOTO MYSTERY

This was a group picture taken after Freddy Jackson was killed by an air-plane propeller. To the crew’s shock, Jackson appeared in the picture although it was taken after his death. It could be possible since his death was an accident, his spirit wanted to be in the group picture.

3. SEA MONSTER?!

On December 12, 1964 Le Serrec’s wife spotted a strange object on the lagoon floor. It proved to be a gigantic tadpole like creature estimated at about 30 feet long. They took several photos gradually moving closer. Eventually Le Serrec plucked up the courage to approach it under water in order to film it. It proved larger than first thought with its estimated length increasing to about 75 feet. Since that day, it has never been seen again.

4. MOON HAS PYRAMIDS?!

What exactly is lurking up there on the dark side of the moon? If you believe the moon skeptics, there’s a whole lot more than NASA ever let on, and this photo proves it. Taken by Apollo 17 during the last flight to
the moon, this photo was listed as blank in the photographic index. While it definitely is washed out by exposure and noise problems, there does seem to be a formation, not unlike a mountain or a pyramid. 

5. MARINE HAUNTING

James Courtney and Michael Meehan were cleaning a cargo tank on the S.S. Watertown on its way to New York City, in 1924. The men were overcame with gas fumes and died. As customary of the time, the two men were buried at sea. But for days following their sea burial, the reflections of the two men’s faces were seen in the water. The faces were so clear and Captain Keith Tracy snapped a photograph of the two phantoms.

6. ALIEN 

Could there possibly be a satellite that has been orbiting earth for the past 13,000 years, that was put there by aliens? The rumors of it being a satellite originated in the 1950s, when newspaper stories were published, attributing UFO researcher Donald Keyhoe, to claims that the U.S. Air Force had reported finding two satellites orbiting the Earth when none had been launched from Earth at that point.

7. ARE THEY JUST LIGHTS?

The Hessdalen Lights are a spectacular, but unexplained light show, that can be seen various times throughout the year in the skies over Norway. The lights were most active from 1981 through 1984. A scientific explanation for these lights remains unproven, leading many to hypothesize that they are caused by alien spacecraft. Other sightings including headlights, mirages, astronomical bodies and aircraft have been noted.

8. BATTLE OF LOS ANGELES

It is very rare that among the annals of Ufology there should appear a UFO case which involved military, yet is accompanied with actual photographic proof. Such is the case of an event which took place over the Los Angeles area on February 25, 1942. A giant UFO would actually hover over the city, and be witnessed by hundreds of observers.

9. SLAMMING DOORS

During the winter of 2003, security guards heard the alarm of a fire door opening in a hall for several days. As they found the doors closed on each investigation, they decided to check the CCTV footage of the area. The footage showed the heavy doors flying wide open, followed by a long-coated figure slamming the doors shut.

10. WEM APPARITION

Tony O'Rahilly, a sewage farm worker who was also an amateur photographer, was originally stopped by police from approaching the burning building. He took a picture of the blaze from across the road with a 200mm lens. The image of a girl in the doorway of the burning building was not noticed by the photographer or the onlookers; it only appeared after the photo had been developed.

THANK YOU FOR READING AND IF YOU FEEL THAT THESE ARE SPOOKY, JUST THINK OF POTATOES.