Fantastic Natural Phenomena
Saturday, May 2, 2009 at 10:24 AM
I may not be posting regularly but i'm still around. It's May already
people, and i'm 3months to freedom. Cheers!
The classical natural wonders are huge and hard to miss - vast canyons, giant mountains and the like. Many of the most fantastic natural phenomena, however, are also least easy to spot. Some are incredibly rare while others are located in hard-to-reach parts of the planet. From moving rocks to mammatus clouds and red tides to fire rainbows, here are seven of the most spectacular phenomenal wonders of the natural world.
1) Sailing Stones.

The mysterious moving stones of the packed-mud desert of Death Valley have been a center of scientific controversy for decades. Rocks weighing up to hundreds of pounds have been known to move up to hundreds of yards at a time. Some scientists have proposed that a combination of strong winds and surface ice account for these movements. However, this theory does not explain evidence of different rocks starting side by side and moving at different rates and in disparate directions. Moreover, the physics calculations do not fully support this theory as wind speeds of hundreds of miles per hour would be needed to move some of the stones.
2) Columnar Basalt

When a thick lava flow cools it contracts vertically but cracks perpendicular to its directional flow with remarkable geometric regularity - in most cases forming a regular grid of remarkable hexagonal extrusions that almost appear to be made by man. One of the most famous such examples is the Giant's Causeway on the coast of Ireland (shown above) though the largest and most widely recognized would be Devil's Tower in Wyoming . Basalt also forms different but equally fascinating ways when eruptions are exposed to air or water.
3) Blue Holes

Blue holes are giant and sudden drops in underwater elevation that get their name from the dark and foreboding blue tone they exhibit when viewed from above in relationship to surrounding waters. They can be hundreds of feet deep and while divers are able to explore some of them they are largely devoid of oxygen that would support sea life due to poor water circulation - leaving them eerily empty. Some blue holes, however, contain ancient fossil remains that have been discovered, preserved in their depths.
4) Red Tides

Red tides are also known as algal blooms - sudden influxes of massive amounts of colored single-cell algae that can convert entire areas of an ocean or beach into a blood red color. While some of these can be relatively harmless, others can be harbingers of deadly toxins that cause the deaths of fish, birds and marine mammals. In some cases, even humans have been harmed by red tides though no human exposure are known to have been fatal. While they can be fatal, the constituent phytoplankton in ride tides are not harmful in small numbers.
5) Ice Circles

While many see these apparently perfect ice circles as worthy of conspiracy theorizing, scientists generally accept that they are formed by eddies in the water that spin a sizable piece of ice in a circular motion. As a result of this rotation, other pieces of ice and flotsam wear relatively evenly at the edges of the ice until it slowly forms into an essentially ideal circle. Ice circles have been seen with diameters of over 500 feet and can also at times be found in clusters and groups at different sizes as shown above.
6) Mammatus Clouds

True to their ominous appearance, mammatus clouds are often harbingers of a coming storm or other extreme weather system. Typically composed primarily of ice, they can extend for hundreds of miles in each direction and individual formations can remain visibly static for ten to fifteen minutes at a time. While they may appear foreboding they are merely the messengers - appearing around, before or even after severe weather.
7) Fire Rainbows
你能分清楚爱和喜欢吗?
Friday, May 1, 2009 at 10:42 AM
喜歡和
愛咫尺千里。
當你
喜歡一個人時,你想和他在一起,因為他會帶給你快樂;
離開後,你會想念,想著想著就會笑,然後繼續你平靜的生活,並期待著與他再一次重逢。
當你
愛一個人時,你想和他在一起,那是一種牽腸掛肚的捨不得,怕他受委屈,怕他不能好好照顧自己;
離開後,你也會想念,想著想著歎一口氣,'不知他現在過的怎樣?
然後你繼續你平靜的生活,希望他早日回到你身邊。
你
喜歡的人在你眼中是天使,無所不能,他總會滿足你的任性的要求。
你
愛的人在你眼中是孩子,傻傻的,你不期望他做出什麼'好事'來,只一味縱容他那些讓人哭笑不得的舉動。
你會希望你
喜歡的人陪著你,然而你心中想的可能是你愛的人;
你會希望陪在你
愛的人身邊,看他在你面前睡得如此安逸甜美毫不設防的樣子,你會微笑,會覺得好幸福。
你
喜歡的人傷害了你,你會生氣,並且一定要讓他哄著騙著逗你笑你才原諒他;
你
愛的人傷害了你,你只會獨自傷心,因為你怕對他大吼大叫會嚇著他,你憂傷地微笑著,看著他的眼睛,
一旦發現他的眼裡流露出歉意和悔恨,你會立即心疼地摟他在懷裡,那一刻,你也是幸福的。
你可以同時
喜歡很多人,你會希望和很多人在一起,
但也許很多年後你才發現,原來你
愛的就只有那麼一個,
就那麼一個,怎麼都不會變,你以為把他忘記了,其實只是忙的沒空想起而已,
對於你
喜歡的人,你關注的是他的優點;
對於你
愛的人,你關注的是他的缺點,並且,那些缺點如果無關原則的話,它們在你眼裡是可愛的,獨一無二的。
喜歡和
愛其實只有一紙之隔,任何愛都從喜歡開始,當有天你突然發現,你喜歡的那個人在你眼中不再完美,
而他的瑕疵正如月中的桂影一般讓你更加依依不捨,你會覺得與他光彩照人的一面相比,
你更願意看他在你面前無助的表情,不知道是不是應該祝賀你,總之,你的感情昇華了
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仰慕不是
愛,甚至不是
喜歡,當你對一個人只有仰慕之情時,你們在一起便失去了和諧。
有人說愛一個人很累,的確是,因為你想為他承擔,可是
愛與
喜歡相比最大的魅力就在於,
當你和
愛的人在一起時,你的感覺就像回家了!
你能分清楚爱和喜欢吗?