This blog was created as a ‘forum’ for bloggers around the world to share different life experiences, cultures, with words and photos. It is a place where we can discover first hand and from the source how our world-wide family goes about their daily life. Bloggers of course are free to share on any subject and I thought I might start with the entire planet.
I’ve been wanting to do a post like this for more than a year now. We live on such a wonderful, beautiful and diverse planet that I thought I could showcase some of the best, I mean est of it. I hope you enjoy this post. Quite a lot of time and research was used to bring this information to the masses. Some of the est are man made and some God given.
Highest Drop For Waterfall Is Angel Falls, Venezuela
Largest:
Planet In Our Solar System – Jupiter is large enough to be a small star. Three hundred and eighteen Earth’s can fit inside Jupiter.
Land Animal – The largest living land animals by mass are male African Bush Elephants.
Ocean Dweller – The blue whale is the largest single ocean dweller and it also has the distinction of being perhaps the largest animal to ever exist on Earth. To put things into perspective, a blue whale’s head is so wide that about 50 people can stand on its tongue. The Great Barrier Reef, however is the largest super-organism.
Fastest:
Animal – Rulers of speed records in the sky would be the White Throated Needletail has been recorded at speeds of 105 mph. In the ocean, the fast would be the Sailfish which can manage 70 mph. On land the Cheetah still holds the record, but only for short periods of time. Cheetahs, barring any unforeseen obstacles can keep in time with the sailfish at 70 mph.
Sports Car – Based on the 2011-2012 market, the fastest car is the Bugatti Veyron Super Sport. It has a top speed of 267 mph and can go from 0-60 in 2.4 secs. Base price is $2,400,000 in case you are in the market.
Orbit Of A Planet – The planet Mercury is the closest planet to the Sun so its orbit is naturally faster however, the planet that spins the fastest is Jupiter. It makes the list again with a lightening fast day of only 9.92 hours. What would a work day be like?
Highest:
Waterfall – Venezuela’s Angel Falls is the worlds highest waterfall, The water drops 3,212 feet.
Volcano In Our Solar System – Olympus Mons on Mars is more than fifteen miles high (twice as tall as Mount Everest) and is over three hundred miles wide.
Mountain – Is not Mt. Everest as everyone thinks. The highest mountain is Mauna Kea because it rises from the sea floor. Mauna Kea is over 32,808 feet tall compared to Mount Everest’s 29,035 feet.
Biggest:
Expenditure – 2011′s Black Friday. Over 27 billion dollars was spent by consumers in the United States just on Friday alone.
Glacier – The Lambert Glacier in Antarctica is two hundred fifty miles long and sixty miles wide and more than one and a half miles deep.
Fresh Water Lake – Lake Baikal is the world’s largest freshwater lake in terms of volume. All five of the Great Lakes combined still don’t hold enough water to equal Lake Baikal. The lake holds 20% of the fresh water on the surface of our planet. Grab a straw!
Tallest:
Building – Khalifa Tower also known as Burj Dubai prior to its completion, is the tallest skyscraper. Located in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, climbs to a staggering height of 2,723 ft. One country is always trying to outdo another country and plans are underway to build a skyscraper big enought to house one million people. Tentatively called X-Seed 4000, the tower being considered by Japanese architects would be two miles high.
Hottest:
Place On Earth – Why facts need to be debated is beyond me. Some say the hottest place is Death Valley in California, USA and others claim Al Azizyah in Libya with a recorded temperature of 136 °F, but thermometers don’t lie. The hottest recorded temperature was in the Lut Desert in Iran. The temperature was 159 °F.
Solar System – The surface of our Sun is 5,800 Kelvin but the core of the Sun is 15 million Kelvin.
Coldest place in the Universe, Boomerang Nebula
Wettest:
Place On Earth – Tutunendo, Colombia, is considered the wettest with an average rainfall of 463.4 inches. Some scientists also say it is Cherrapunji, India. Cherrapunji receives both the Southwest and Northeast monsoonal rains. It holds two Guinness world records for receiving the maximum amount of rainfall in a single year (more than seventy five feet) of rainfall between August 1860 and July 1861 and for receiving the maximum amount of rainfall in a single month, over thirty feet in July 1861.
Deepest:
Place On Earth – The Mariana Trench or Marianas Trench is the deepest part of the world’s oceans. It is located in the western Pacific Ocean, to the east of the Mariana Islands. Marianas Trench is 1,580 miles long and 43 miles wide. At its maximum-known depth, Challenger Deep, it is 6.78 miles. It is believed to be deeper than that in places but so little is known about the sea floor. To give you some idea of its depth, if Mount Everest were thrown into the trench there would still be 6,760 ft. of water above the summit. For a mind freak check out this graphic.
Coldest:
Recorded Temperature – Was in Antarctica in 1977 at Vostok Station. The temperature dipped to a bone chilling -128.6 °F in July of 1986.
Place In The Universe -NASA believes they have found the coldest place. It is the Boomerang Nebula and at a distance of 5000 light years, it registers a temperature just one degree above absolute zero ((−272.15 °C; −457.87 °F).
Deadliest:
Man Made Poison - Dioxin has the distinction of being the most dangerous man-made poison. Dioxin is sixty thousand times more toxic than cyanide. Radioactive waste is the only thing known to be more toxic.
Natural Poison – Botulinum is the most toxic poison known to man. One teaspoon can kill 1.2 billion people. It kills by completely shutting down you central nervous system.
Natural Disaster – The Black Death was one of the most devastating pandemics in history. Estimates claim that over 100,000,000 million people died but the most devastating was Smallpox. The death toll reached 300,000,000 worldwide until it was declared defeated in 1980. Governments still have viable smallpox available such as at the Center For Disease Control in Atlanta, GA.
War -World War II, from 1939 to 1945 claimed the lives of an estimated 72,000,000 lives. The total cost in lives of known wars? It made me sick to my stomach to even begin to total.
Catch – a reality show on Discovery Network. Just thrown in for comic relief.
Loudest:
Natural Occurring Sound Ever Heard – The eruption of Krakatoa was the loudest in recorded history. The massive explosion caused a sound wave that traveled around the globe seven times.
Bestest:
Galaxy In The Universe – Ours of course, The Milky Way. Without it we wouldn’t be here.
The Beauty That Is The Milky Way
