Called “the perfect place to die,” the Aokigahra forest has the unfortunate distinction as the worlds second most popular place to take ones life (the first is the Golden Gate Bridge).
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I spend last week in Aberdeen Shire (Scotland) for a survival course. It was cold and wet but I had a great time. Under the waking eye from Ex RAF survival expert Conrad Allen we learned the basic skills to survive in the wilderness. Things like the will to survive, immobilizing fear, the need for warmth & water, fire making with with fire steel, building a shelter, using smoke signal and navigation. It definitely was not a week easy camping, and I learned a lot. Anyway; next year I will go trough the advanced course; here you learn to survive one week with only food and water you find on location. So this means, wet cold and hungry, I am looking forward to this.
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Well, this is the country where they produce the computer that I am writing on, my Ipod, IPhone, and all the other crap that I don’t really need. Maybe it’s time to overthink my consume patterns and stop buying things I dont need. Its a drop in the polluted ocean.
Impressive: http://www.chinahush.com/2009/10/21/amazing-pictures-pollution-in-china/
More here: http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/print/200911/fallows-health-china
Interesting, are all American Presidents now getting a Nobel Peace Prize when they don’t start a war ? At least that douchebag Bono is not getting honored A it’s a brave new World, but please don’t stop asking questions.
Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize @ Google News.
Must read if you used Usenet: Google’s Abandoned Library of 700 Million Titles
A new cloud form called Undulatus asperatus appears.
From Wikipedia: The clouds are most closely related to undulatus clouds. Although they appear dark and storm-like, they tend to dissipate without a storm forming. The ominous-looking clouds have been particularly common in the Plains states of the United States, often during the morning or midday hours following convective thunderstorm activity. As of June, 2009 the Royal Meteorological Society is gathering evidence of the type of weather patterns in which undulus asperatus clouds appear, so as to study how they form and decide whether they are distinct from other undulatus clouds.
@wikipedia: undulus asperatus
A study done sometime back also shed some light on this particular V formation. This study discovered that birds flying in a V format had lower heart rates than bird flying alone. Why? The aerodynamic V shape formation reduces the air drag (air resistance) that each bird experiences when in flight in comparison to a bird flying solo. This allows them to cover longer distance (thousands of miles) with much less effort.
There are other benefits of flying in this V position. Every bird in the group fly in the field of vision all other members. This helps in keeping track of each other in the group. This also makes it conducive to the members in the group to communicate with each other while in flight. For example, if one bird should become sick or has been injured by some means such as being shot, then, that bird will fall out of formation. This will then result in two other geese falling out with the wounded goose to help and offer protection and will remain until that bird recovers or dies before rejoining the others.<
Great article! Did You Know?: Why do geese fly in a V formation?.