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Jul 30, 2020

Ambitious Dream turns to Reality | Tow an Iceberg from Antarctica to UAE

The Managing Director of National Advisor Bureau Limited, Abdulla Alshehi once in an interview with Inspire Middle East said, he planned to tow an iceberg from the Heard Island of Antarctica to Fugairah coast UAE.

In that interview he clearly exposes his plan of "Harvesting the iceberg" to provide a fresh drinking water all over the world.

Over six years of his ambition, the inventor and the enterprenaur decided to do this huge project.

ICEBERG HARVESTING

Animated video of iceberg from Antarctica to Arabian gulf

Alshehi said that the journey of taking an iceberg to the UAE will takes around ten months. The idea of harvesting iceberg comes from the Saudi Arabia. At first Saudia Arabia made an attempt to tow an iceberg, but later they can't continue the project due to some technical difficulties.

Alshehi planned to tow an iceberg from the Heard Island, Antarctica. The Iceberg for this project was selected by the satellite. It is around 2 kilometres with 500 metres wide and nearly 300 metres in depth. This iceberg is located 1.2 miles 550 yards from the Fugairah Coast.

The patent-bending panel belt will be used to prevent the iceberg from melting during the transportaion. The chances of getting an whole iceberg is quite difficult, bt its sure that 70% of iceberg will remains stable rather than melting.

The project of harvesting iceberg will be expecting to implement within five years. Before initiating this process, Alshehi plans to do preliminary harvesting nearer to the island. It is expected to take a trial in Cape town of South Africa or Perth of Australia.

The cost of preliminary test is around $60-$80 million. The whole transportation from Antarctica to Fugairah Coast UAE, will cost between $100-$150 million.

Purpose of Iceberg Harvesting

▶ UAE doesn't has much water resources, they consumes 15% desalinated water from the world.By doing this project, floating an iceberg off 3km from the land and harvesting a gallons of water from the iceberg will provides enough amount of water to UAE also throughout the world.

▶ They also planned to make an iceberg in the sea into the tourist spot. The view will attract the people to see. They will introduce a concept of "Glacial tourism", to the visitors.

▶ According to Alshehi, this project will provides more desert rain because of the iceberg which makes the environment chill.

▶ He made a statement that the arrival of iceberg will not influence any species living in the water.

Source: Euro news

Jul 29, 2020

Fairy Tale of Disney's Castle🏰

Walt Disney's Sleeping beauty Castle is the world's amazing fantasy land with colourful icons.This magical kingdom is located in Paris. It is one of the Best tourist spot among all. The construction of this castle took 18 months to complete and became adorable one in 1970's.

disney's Sleeping Beauty Castle

The idea of this castle is comes from the fairy tale of Neuschwanstein Castle. This is the most visited castle located in Europe. This castle is built by King Ludwig ll.

Tale behind the Disney's Castle

King Ludwig II, in 1869 wanted to build Neuschwanstein castle at the top of the hill to avoid contact with the people of the country. The passion towards arts and architectures made this man to build the castle.

Neuschwanstein Castle

Ludwig had great attention to detail, which accounts for the interesting features throughout the castle. The fascinating things about the castle is, its interior designs were made inspired by Richard Wagner(one who admires Ludwig).The castle even had its own fountain and rainbow machine. In addition to the fascinating architecture, Ludwig also had the interior painted with beautiful murals.

Another beautiful mural was painted in the Singers Hall and it is one of his favorite rooms.The forest scene behind the stage makes us feel like walking into a Disney movie.

King Ludwig used his personal finances for the construction of the castle, bt it is not enough to build the castle. Then he started getting loan around 1.5 billion marks from the Europe royalty.

Later his nervous ministers decided to put to end.They began to gather testimonies from his staff detailing erratic behavior, including excessive shyness, expensive impulses, childish table manners,... These testimonies were used by a panel of psychologists who made him not fit to rule the castle.

After the death of Ludwig it remains mysterious to the world whether his death is a suicide or murder. Seven weeks after his death in 1886, the Neuschwanstein Castle opened to the public. Today this Castle receives milions of visitors to see the beautiful view at the top of the mountain.

Once Walt Disney and his wife visited the Neuschwanstein Castle in Europe, he admired by the fairy tale behind the castles and the landscapes around it. He finally decided to brought back the beauty of incomplete Ludwig's castle. He started build Sleeping beauty castle by implementing latest techniques and made a magical kingdom.

Source: Wikipedia

Jul 27, 2020

Amazing ideas behind the logos

The symbolic representation of a company and its product brands are generally known as logos. Logos are created for the purpose of quick recognition and easily understand a name of the product. Each logo created by the company for several reasons. Few logos clearly shows the reason behind it, but some logos having interesting stories in its creation. Now we discuss about several logos under this category.

GOOGLE

The Google logo contains red, blue, green and yellow color in the form of letter "G". We all know the simple thing, the primary colours of light(red, blue and green). From this combination of four colours, Google represents the message that they doesn't have any set of rules. Simply it is playful and fun thing. They can provide data beyond anything.

HYUNDAI

The symbol of hyundai logo contains the letter "H" in a slanted position which represents the handshake between the owner of the company and the customer. Here they proves the satisfaction of their customers after buying their products.

WALT DISNEY

Walt Disney is the well known company establishing mainly for kids. The reason for the sytle of the logo is nothing but the signature of Mr.Disney. It Clearly shows the vision of Disney in a Magical way and always he done a wonderful jobs of capturing.

DOVE

It is clear that the shape of the symbol resembles the bird associates with the company's brand. The dark-blue colour signifes the reliability and excellence and the yellowish-gold colour of the bird evokes the joy and prosperity.

WIKIPEDIA

In short it is called as "Dictionary", it provides everything we need to know. The logo represents the small thing that wikipedia doesn't have all the info, it still in the process of searching something for us.

DELL

The CEO of DELL Technologies, Michael Dell wishes to turn the world on its ear. That represents the "E" in the DELL in turned position.

UNILEVER

The big logo "U" stands for the word Unilever. seeing close to the logo, it contains 25 icons. Each of which represents the products available in unilever.

TOYOTA

The symbol of Toyoto is created on the basis of its origin. At the beginning the company manufactures looms and textiles. The vertical oval shape resembles the thread and the horizontal shape resembles the needle's hole.

APPLE

While working in their garage in 1977, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak asked Rob Janoff, who had studied design, to create a logo for their first Apple products. When Janoff bite an apple and placed in the surface, thats when he got an idea for the logo. The word "Bite" sounds like "Byte", used for representing the numbers or characters in the computer.

Jul 26, 2020

Is your mobile really safe❔

Smartphones are the friendly gadgets which helps us to communicate through worldwide by touching. Besides making calls, they can provides directions through GPS, take pictures, play music,etc....It is something we cannot live without it in this modern world.

Mystery Behind the homescreen

Hacking, The act of identifying and exploiting the network in order to unauthorised access to the system softwares. White hat hackers are works in cybersecurity or in software companies for fixing vulnerabilities, but the main threat caused by Black hat hackers. They can intrude into your smartphones/computers and spams your contacts and also access your passcodes.

Major Mistakes that Everyone doing right now

▶ Letting anyone see what you are doing by provides your activity status in online.

▶ Staying signed in your accounts all over the time. This convinience of act become advantageous for hackers.

Signs of Hacking

▶ Your mobile suddenly slows down due to malicious software that introduce harm viruses in the screen background.

▶ Sudden spikes in your data usage than the previous day/month.

▶ Time taking process to load a page is too long.

▶ Programs and apps starts crashing which leads to freezing of phone screen.

▶ Notifications of Pop-up ads.

▶ Mobile getting restarts while in use.

▶ Unauthorised online activities when opening a new page.

▶ Your account password didn't works.

▶ Unidentified software installations without our knowledge.

Tips to avoid getting Hacked

▶ Update your phone regularly.

▶ Dont re-use the passwords. 59% of users using same passwords for several accounts(Twitter,Facebook,Instagram,email).

▶ Downloads should be from trusted sites.

▶ Turn-off when you are done.

▶ Encrypt your data.

▶ Only login in your own gadgets.

▶ Often check your social media security settings.

▶ Use well-known and reputable Wi-fi hotspots.

▶ Use Virtual Private Netwotk(VPN), for protecting yourself and your data.

Source:

⏩ Usa today

⏩ Mcafee

Jul 25, 2020

Blue Angel of Bermuda ⏩ Glaucus Atlanticus

glaucus atlanticus(Blue ocean slug)

George Forster in 1777, spending his life in the ocean to study about the oceanic species. He discovered Glaucus Atlanticus, the blue ocean slug having numerous unique features in Bermuda.

The name "Glaucus" is comes from the name of Greek goddess of the sea, Glaucus, who was forced to go under the sea.

Features of Blue Ocean Slug

🍁 The blue ocean slug is capable of ingesting the nematocytes of its prey(jellyfish) and using them for its own defense.

🍁 This species having the capacity of engulf and also attached to the body of the prey by using its chitinious jaws.

Special Fact about Glaucus

This species are belong to the phylum mollusca. It is Hermaphrodite(having both male and female reproductive parts in its body). Due to this special feature it can lay large number of eggs and stored them in the mucus membrane of the body.

Concealing with its colour

🍁 The Blue ocean slug has the combination of dark blue and silver colour.

🍁 It has bright blue colour on the upper side of the body facing the sky which conceals against it. This is advantageous to the glaucus maintaining the same colour of the sea and became invisible to the Predators.

🍁 The lower side has silver colour which conceals against the surface of the water.

Source :

▶Cephalopod, treehugger

Jul 24, 2020

China's Monster | Three Gorges Dam⛲

Three Gorges Dam in China is the world's largest hydroelectric power station located in the area covers Sandouping, Yichang, Wuhan, Hubei across the Yangtze River.The power generated from this dam having the capacity of 22,500 MW since 2012. This dam contains 45 billion tons of water, having the capacity of slows down the earth's rotation by 0.06 microseconds.

Origin of Three Gorges Dam

Three Gorges Dam

At first the idea of this huge project was proposed by Sun-Yat-Sen, often considered as The Father of modern China at the early 1919's.

Sun-Yat-Sen introduces the project for mainly three purposes.

▫ Flood Control

▫ Hydroelectric Power Production

▫ Navigation

After the idea of the construction, it was not discussed until 1942-1946. There were multiple attempts in the construction of the dam in 1950's and 1970's yet the project was postponed by the government of China.

Completion of Three Gorges Dam Project

In 1994, the construction of the great project Three Gorges Dam was started and completed in 2006. From 2012, the generators of the dam starts generating hydroelectric power.

Impacts of Three Gorges Dam

At the earlier stage of this project, many habitants were forced to migrate from their place to find a new place. Still it is a major issue in the China for the migration of people to someother places. The reservoir built by the dam having 405 Square miles area. Therefore it helps to keep the cities safe during heavy rains and floods. The cities nearer to the yangtze are Wuhan, Shanghai, Nanjing.

Water Level Increases

(Release of excess water from the dam due to increase of water level)

The continuous rain in the Shanghai, results in increasing the level of water in the dam.The dam was constructed to hold the water of 145m height but due to the heavy rain water level goes to 162m at the end of june. Over 200 rivers in China experienced the same problem. As the results, it affects 200 million people.

Honda Motors, operating three power plants in Wuhan. The facilitates are responsible for nearly 1.3 million vehicles manufactured by China fiscal 2019. If the rain continues and severe floods arrival may hugely affects the financil status of Hero motors.

Like hondamotors many resources from china are manufactured and provides them to the entire world especially medications. Day to day the water level of three gorges dam increases. If it continues then it may lead to deformation of the whole dam and huge problems will arrives in the surrounding environment causing big damage to the entire nation of China.

Source

🔸 wikipedia, britannica

Jul 22, 2020

Aurora Borealis | Northern Dancing Lights🌌🌈✨

Aurora Borealis(Northern lights)

Aurora Borealis, the dazzling formation of bright coloured light in the northern hemisphere. The shape of the northern lights is elliptical oval. The name "aurora" is comes from the greek goddess of the dawn Aurora, travelling from east to west for announcing the arrival of sun.The aurora also appears in the southern hemisphere which is called as "Aurora Australis", bt compared to it northern hemisphere experiences often.

Colour displays in the Northern lights

The common colours of northern lights are pale yellowish-green and pink colour. Shades of blue, purple, red also occurs and orange colour occurs occasionaly. This natural phenomena can appears and disappears in a snap. Many people were dying to see this ligts by watching the sky over full night and also it easy to see the lights when the sky is clear with clouds and dark.

Formation of Northern Lights

As the temperature above the sun is too high, results in collision of charged particles in the sun. The charged particles include electrons and protons. After collision these particles blow out from the holes of magnetic filed around the sun and moves towards the earth's atmosphere. The weak magnetic field in the earth's atmosphere deflects the charged particles then the particles undergoes collision with the gas molecules in the atmosphere.

After the collision of the charged particles with the gas molecules some varaition of colours are formed. They are pale

Yellowish-green, by collide with oxygen molecules at the hight 60 miles above the earth. Depending upon the altitudes the color will be formed. The oxygen molecules at the hight of 200 miles can forms a red colour light. Nitrogen forms blue colour and the molecules of nitrogen produces purple-red coloured light.

Best view points of Northern Lights

✨ Canada - Yellowknife

The yellowknife, Canada is one of the world's best view point of northern lights or the prime location where strongest geomagnetic activity occurs, experiencing frequent displays of colours with good viewing condition.

✨ Canada -Yukon

Yukon is the place in the Western Canada which is the top view point of northern lights

✨ Sweden - Ice hotel

The Ice hotel in the Sweden is one of the best spot for seeing northern lights. This hotel is fully made of ice from the waters of Torne river. This is the world's first ice hotel held in the Sweden.

Alaska, Norway, Siberia, Greenland, Iceland, Finland, Russia were the areas nearer to the Artic circle also experiences the northern lights. The most accuarate time of display happens in the december through march. Some northern lights may occured in early's of August.

References

🔹https://travel.usnews.com

🔹https://www.forbes.com/sites/laurabegleybloom/2020/12/30/best-places-to-see-the-northern-lights-in-2020.

🔹www.northernlightscentre.com

Jul 21, 2020

White Castle's Burger Grilling Robot | FLIPPY

White Castle is an American hamburger restaurant chain with 377 branches across 13 states, with its greatest presence in the Midwest.

This privately held restaurant chain announced a partnership with the Pasadena, California-based startup Miso Robotics to introduced an automatic kitchen assistant Flippy, the robot-on-a-rail (ROAR) system at one of its chain in chicago area restaurents.

Flippy(Automated Robot)

Earlier Version of Flippy

🔹 It uses Artificial intelligence to decide when to flip a burger, was tested at Pasadena-based CaliBurger in 2018.

🔹White Castle said that this new innovation will consumes the time period of several tasks such as grilling and frying.

According to Miso robotics, fast-food workers could prevent the spread of food-borne infectious germs by using thermal imaging to detect when meat is undercooked. It would also helps to limit human workers near the cooking area having chances of spreading illness. Thus provides additional layer of safety to food during cooking process.

Source : Tech spot, CNN

Jul 20, 2020

Dont ever use this sanitizers🚫

As we know, Hand Sanitizers plays a major role in the past 6 months. They provide safety to our hands and prevent us from getting infected from outside germs. Usually, the sanitizers were produced and it should be approved by Food and Drug Administration(FDA).

The main chemical component that the sanitizers contains is "Alcohol". The only alcohol which is disinfectious to our health is known as Ethyl alcohol.

But in the recent days, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has warned that some hand sanitizers may having some toxic alcoholic substance in them, causing many health problems, including something as severe as blindness.

On July 2, FDA commissioner Stephen M. Hahn, M.D. had said in a statement: “Consumers and health care providers should not use methanol-containing hand sanitizers. The FDA remains committed to working with manufacturers, compounders, state boards of pharmacy and the public to increase the safe supply of alcohol-based hand sanitizers.”

The FDA also gives the precaution that the sanitizer says it is “FDA-approved” should be avoided. Since no hand sanitizers are approved directly by FDA. Also, it is safer to stick to well-known and familiar brands.

According to several international health reports, people may experience nausea, vomiting, headaches, blindness, seizures, and even coma, if you are exposed to the toxic chemicals of hand sanitizers.

Jul 19, 2020

COVAXIN TRIALS 💉🔬

Bharath Biotech International Limited(BBIL) and Zydus Cadilla, a pharmaceutical based company in Hydrabed is collaborated with the Indian Council of Medical Research(ICMR) - National Institute of Virology(IVR)has developed India's first vaccine "Covaxin" for the treatment of highly infectious and deadly disease covid-19.

The indigenous, inactivated vaccine is developed and manufactured in Bharat Biotech^'s BSL-3 (Bio-Safety Level 3) high containment facility.

National Institute of Virology(NIV) isolated a strain of the novel coronavirus from an asymptomatic Covid-19 patient and transferred it to BBIL, at the beginning of May 2020.

The company also said that the inactivated vaccines generally have a proven safety record. They clearly said that "Once the vaccine is injected into a human, it has no potential to infect or replicate, since it is a killed virus. It just serves to the immune system as a dead virus and influences an antibody response towards the virus."

After Russia, became the first country which successfully completed the human clinical trials, india goes under human clinical trials in phase-1 and phase-2.

Indian Council for Medical Research(ICMR) alloted 12 clinical sites for conducting phase -1 and phase - 2. AIIMS in Delhi is one of the clinical site.

As per the recent reports, it is confirmed that india successfully completed phase -1 trial with 375 volunteers. Among them 100 members selected from AIIMS. Over 1,125 volunteers has been experianced in the two phases.

The volunteers involved in the clinical trails of phase-1 has the age limit in the range(18-55) and for phase-2 in the range(12-65)with good healthy records.

Disappearnace of Massive Star in a distant galaxy

Nyx Stars(a fading stars)

Astronomers have found a research on a new stream of stars in our Milky Way galaxy.

They identified a cluster of 250 stars, that has been named Nyx, for the Greek goddess of the night.

According to a new study, a massive star(Nyx)has quietly disappeared in a dwarf galaxy 75 million light-years away.

Due to the lack of visible supernova, the researchers believe that the star going to dim and was obscured from our view because of dust or else it may reach the end of its life and collapsed into a black hole.

In the Previous research, astronomers studied and observed the star between 2001 and 2011. Those observations helped to determine that the star was in the later stage of its evolution and lifetime.

Although the star is at such a distance that it's difficult to recognize the signals of individual stars, this blue star was 2.5 million times brighter than the sun.

The research team used different instruments in hopes to identify a massive star, but still can't found and also mentioned "its unusal that how could be possible to dissapear without producing any explosion".

The team also looked back the data of the star between 2001-2011, which suggested that the star may have experianced a series of outbursts that leads to lack of its stability. Furthermore, the future telescopes may study a distant stars in more detail and hope we will know about this steller mystery.

Jul 18, 2020

The Game Changer | Jio Mart

Reliance Industries Chairman, Mukesh Ambani made two very important announcements.

▶ The Reliance Retail was receiving global investor interest.

▶ JioMart would be expanded beyond grocery.

With global investors giving it the financial muscle and an aggressive focus on expanding its offline-to-online model, Reliance Retail, specifically JioMart, could threaten the kind of position that Amazon and Walmart’s Flipkart enjoy in India.

At the AGM, Ambani announced that JioMart will expand to cover electronics, fashion, pharmaceutical and healthcare in the coming days. These are sectors that Reliance already has a foothold in offline through Reliance Retail that it could ultimately leverage.

Amazon India and Walmart’s Flipkart both have a wide reach and deep pockets and have been aggressive in maintaining a hold over India’s e-commerce market.

Though nascent, the Indian e-commerce market is largely dominated by these two players. Every other competitor — Snapdeal, Paytm Mall, Shopclues — has failed to achieve the same scale that these two have.

JioMart, however, could change the game since it has what others lacked: the financial muscle, a history of aggressive market expansion and a strong offline backing.

Devangshu Dutta, founder of consulting firm Third Eyesight, points out that Reliance is not an underdog. “As a company, whenever it (Reliance) has seen a sector as strategic, it has very aggressively built its presence — whether its telecom or retail. And JioMart is seen as strategic. Ambani made a very clear statement on that — they will invest in it aggressively and build scale in it,” he adds.

YouTube Restores 1080p Video Streaming Option in India: Everything You Need to know

HD video streaming on YouTube is only available to users who have access to a WiFi connection. Mobile data users will be restricted to standard definition as of now.

The YouTube app on both Android and iOS will only let you switch to 1080p streaming quality if you are connected to a WiFi connection.

This means, that users choosing to watch YouTube through mobile data will still be restricted to standard definition quality.

Apart from 1080p, the quality settings also show options for 720p and 1440p, besides the standard definition of 144p, 240p, 360p, and 480p.

Therefore, going forward, it will be interesting to see on when YouTube finally makes the 1080p streaming quality available for mobile data users😊....

The Gray Man | New Spy Thriller Film

Besides Joe, the script has also been penned by none other than the 'Captain America' and 'Avengers' screenwriters, Stephen McFeely and Christopher Markus.'Avengers: Endgame' writer-director duo -- Russo brothers -- are all set to bring actors Ryan Gosling and Chris Evans together for their new Netflix venture, a spy thriller 'The Gray Man', following the massive success of 'Extraction' on the online streaming platform. 'The Gray Man' revolves around the story of an ex-CIA operative turned killer as he is pursued by an old colleague.

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