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Scientists aren't completely sure how the solar system formed, but most agree the best explanation is that a cloud of molecules collapsed inward on itself, forming our solar system about 4.6 billion years ago.
In this description, called the nebular model, our sun coalesced first, surrounded by a spinning disk of gas and dust.
Read more: Loook Into: How Was the Solar System Formed?
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Hyperspace is the premise that it's possible to travel at speeds faster than that of light when energy from other dimensions is harnessed, and is an idea much used by science fictions writers.
"If Captain Kirk were constrained to move at the speed ofour fastest rockets, it would take him a hundred thousand years just to get to the next star system," said Seth Shostak, an astronomer at the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute in Mountain View, Calif.. "So science fiction has long postulated a way to beat the speed of light barrier so the story can move a little more quickly." But in reality, the concept is "a lot of hype," Shostak said [ moderator] advertisement post editted
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An exoplanet, or extrasolar planet, is a planet located outside our solar system, orbiting around a star other than our Sun. They range from gaseous giants 60 times the mass of Jupiter that whip around their stars in frenzying orbits to rocky "super-Earths," far more massive than our planet. Read More:-http://www.loookinto.co.cc/2010/08/whats-exoplanet.html
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If you look up on a dark, clear night, away from city lights, you may see a wide band of faint light stretching above you, stiller than a cloud and glittering with densely packed stars. Translated from the Ancient Greek as "Milky Way" for resembling spilled milk on the sky, that band of light is the center of our galaxy.
Read more: Loook Into: What's at the Center of the Milky Way?
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| The Largest, Longest, Biggest, Highest, Smallest in the World | | Archipelago, largest | Indonesia | | Largest Railway Bridge | Herey P. Long Bridge, Louisiana, U.S.A. (7 km.) | | Bird, largest | Ostrich | | Bird, smallest | Humming bird | | Building, tallest | Taipei-101, in Taipei (Taiwan) 508 metre high | | Longest Irrigational Canal | Thekalakumsky Canal (1200 km) | | Canal, longest (Joining two oceans) | Suez Canal (168 km) | | City, largest population | Tokyo (Japan) | | City, biggest in area | Mount Isa (40,978 sq. km.) (Queens Land-Australia) | | City, highest | Van Chuan (China), (5,100 metres high)
| | City, most expensive | Tokyo | | Capital, highest | La Paz (Bolivia) (3,632 metres high) | | Highest, Aerodrome | La Paz (Bolivia) (4,080 m) |
Read more: Loook Into: The Largest, Longest, Biggest, Highest, Smallest in the World
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Substitute for human skin developed – Israeli surgeons have now developed a successful, safe and effective substitute for the human skin which in expected to find used market soon. The artificial skin called the ‘Omiderm’ in thin plastic transparent sheet.
Artificial corneas developed – For the first time in the history of medical science lab grown corneas, which could restore the sight of blind people have been developed by scientists in the United States.
Scientists Discover Fern that Suck up Arsenic – As per reports dated February 1, 2001, U.S. Scientists have found a fern that sucks up arsenic holding out the prospect of a fast, cheap and safe way of cleaning up contaminated mines and industrial sites.
World’s First Rain-making Machine – Professor Stephan Salter at Scotland’s Edinburgh University has been awarded a government grant to develop the world’s first rain-making machine. Prof. Salter will create 200 feet high turbine to suck water out of sea and turn it into water vapors through nozzles, spraying it up into the atmosphere. The rain maker, described as looking like ‘giant egg-heater’, would be based on Catamarans’ and placed off the coast of desert land.
Read more: Loook Into: Latest Inventions & Discoveries in Science
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1. A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
2. A crocodile cannot stick out its tongue.
3. A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
4. A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
5. A snail can sleep for three years.
6. A duck's quake can't echo.
7. Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
8. All the State names are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.
9. Almonds are a member of the peach family.
10. An average American, in his whole life, will spend an average of 6 months waiting at red lights.
11. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
Read more: Loook Into: General Knowledge Facts
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| Space Related General Knowledge Questions | Answers | | The first cosmonaut to spend about 17½ days in space endurance flight | Adrin Nikolayev and Vitaly Sevastyanosov in soyuz-9 (June 1, 1970) | | The first person in the world to land on the moon | Neil A. Armstrong and Edwin E. Adrin Jr. of U.S.A. Armstrong was the first to set foot on the moon followed by Aldrin. July 21, 1969. | | The first man to enter space | Major Yuri Gagarin (Russian) | | The first woman cosmonaut of the world | Velentina Tereshkova | | The first American astronaut to float in space | Edward White | | The first unmanned spaceship to have soft landed and lifted off from the moon to return to the earth | Luna-16 (U.S.S.R.) September 21, 1970 | | The first manned space vehicle to land on the moon | Lunar Exploration Module (LEM) nick-named ‘Eagle’ | | The first spaceship which carried three American astronauts to land two of them on the moon | Apollo-11 |
Read more: Loook Into: First in Space - Space General Knowledge Quiz Questions
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1. It takes about 20 seconds for a red blood cell to circle the whole body.
2. Human hair and fingernails continue to grow after death. This is due to the facts that when your heart stops beating, cells in hair follicles and nail beds stop recieving nurients after a period of time they die and cease to function.
3. The sound you hear when you crack your knuckles is actually the sound of nitrogen gas bubbles bursting.
4. Every time you sneeze some of your brain cells die.
5. The ‘v’ in the name of a court case does not stand for ‘versus’, but for ‘and’ (in civil proceedings) or ‘against’ (in criminal proceedings).
6. Dalmatians are born without spots.
7. Your tongue is germ free only if it is pink. If it is white there is a thin film of bacteria on it.
8. The Titanic was the first ship to use the SOS signal.
9. The average person who stops smoking requires one hour less sleep a night.
Read more: Loook Into
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The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings but shorter tempers, wider Freeways , but narrower viewpoints.
We spend more, but have less, we buy more, but enjoy less.
We have bigger houses and smaller families, more conveniences, but less time.
We have more degrees but less sense, more knowledge, but less judgment, more experts, yet more problems, more medicine, but less wellness.
We drink too much, smoke too much, spend too recklessly, laugh too little, drive too fast, get too angry, stay up too late, get up too tired, read too little, watch TV too much, and pray too seldom.
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Managing Your Study Time
There are only so many hours in a day, a week, and a term. You cannot change the number of hours, but you can decide how to best use them. To be successful in school, you must carefully manage your study time. Here is a strategy for doing this.
Prepare a Term Calendar
At the beginning of a term, prepare a Term Calendar. Update it as the term goes on. Here is what to do to prepare a Term Calendar.
- Record your school assignments with their due dates and your scheduled tests.
- Record your planned school activities.
- Record your known out-of-school activities.
- Each Sunday before a school week, prepare a Weekly Schedule. Update it as the week goes on. Here is what to do to prepare a Weekly Schedule.
- Read More:-http://www.loookinto.co.cc/2010/07/managing-your-study-time.html
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For most student, the most difficult part of any exam is the actual studying. Typically, there is so much material to studyy that students begin to procrastinate, putting offstudying until the night before. After a late-night cram session, students arrive at theexam tired and feeling dazed by the sheer amount of information they've tried to absorb. The easiest way to study for an exam, and avoid the cram sessions, is to make a study plan.
Group or solo? - The first step to making a study plan is to decide whether you want to study alone or in a group. When planning study times and organizing study sessions for a group, the needs and schedules of the group are a factor. As a result, you must decide whether you will be studying with a group before continuing with making a study plan.
Read more:-http://www.loookinto.co.cc/2010/07/how-to-make-study-plan.html
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"What we truly and earnestly aspire to be,that in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of the mind, for the moment realizes itself." - Anonymous
As more and more engineers are churned out every year from the scores ofcolleges in the country, the one name that commands
immediate attentionand respect is that of the IITs, which represent the dreamsandambitions of thousands of young students, who hope to be one of theselect few to pass out with the tag of an ?IITian?.
But what is it that makes the IITs so special? And why is there, this frenzied rush to get into IIT?
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So, the biggest exam of your life is just a month away! Don't panic and don't pretend that it will go away - it won't ! If you're planned and focussed, you won't find IIT-JEE to be the nightmare you fear. It's been long since you started preparing, so now it's time to give attention to the nittygritties.
Don't forget that a smart set of paper-setters have their methods, even under the strict format of objective questions, to distinguish between a 'thinking and analytical' student and a 'memory oriented accepting' student. IIT-JEE is not a 'last minute preparation exam' . Do not expect miracles. IIT-JEE is not a memory based exam. Last-minute 'cramming' will not be useful.
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First of all, the day one started when you thought of preparing for the I.I.T. , and been a even a little serious about cracking the IIT JEE
Then he/she always knew that this time was going to come. So, nothing much unexpected!
O.K. So, let's try to analyze our situation. We have 4 months in hand that is some 120 odd days to ourselves.
Let the aspirants be assured that this is more than the time required.
It is the beginning of December; therefore the student would have covered at least 75 percentage of the prescribed course for the J.E.E. at least once by now, be it through self study or through some coaching. So, by now, the aspirant has covered most part of the syllabus. It's the brush-up time.
Now, we have two tasks.
Task One: To brush up and keep brushing up whatever has been learnt so far.
Task Two: To add the extra 25 percent of the course that is left.
Let us decide that we need to cover up the entire syllabus' revision in 75 days. The aspirant would have been taking tests and revising different topics at different times now and then. But, this time, let us assume this is your LAST time.
Therefore this time, the student should go through all the reading material/notes that he/she has been following all year long, THOROUGHLY not missing absolutely anything.
First of all, divide your vast syllabus into everyday task. Cover at least one heavy topic each day. When we talk about covering, we mean EVERYTHIING you need to know about that topic in order to be able to solve the problems, including notes, examples, some problems that you came across while studying it for the first time.
If possible, add a small topic to some days when one topic is not very big. The idea is not to let yourself excessively loose, nor should your time-table be very squeezed. This division of each day syllabus is the crucial-most step of the bigger plan. Keep it such, so that the pressure is JUST RIGHT.
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Munna Prasad is one of the four children of a poor weaver of Patwatoli in the benighted Gaya district of Bihar. His father, Krishna, works back-breaking 16-hour-a-day routine on his looms to bring in a paltry Rs 2,500 home every month. These odds didn't deter Munna from completing high school four years ago and setting his sights on the tough IIT-JEE (Indian Institute of Technology-Joint Entrance Examination), the passport to a promising career in engineering and science. Unable to buy books and sign on expensive courses in preparation, Munna took tuitions by day, earning around Rs 750 a month, and prepared for the examination at night. The effort worked wonders: he cracked the IIT-JEE and got admission in Roorkee College of Engineering last year. His first preference is mechanical engineering at the Institute of Technology, Benares Hindu University (IT-BHU). "Here people say Munna will go to America after qualifying in the examinations and earn a lot of money," says father Krishna.And, its true, so far at least 10 of this cohort have made it to USA.
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IIT JEE is known to be one of the toughest exams to crack. Youngsters come to the institute with stars in their eyes and within no time their dreams begin to turn into reality.
Name an MNC and you know its target has to be an IITian. And what is the package they offer? Whatever one can fancy of. So what is the reason behind the mounting number of suicides and deaths in the IIT campus in the recent past?
To say that three suicides in just three weeks is a mere twist of fate is nothing short of a blunt denial.
Apart from a couple of incidents of suicides that happened at Roorkee, Kanpur and Mumbai, figures reveal that IIT Kharagpur averages a suicide or an attempt, every two years and IIT Mumbai is related with stories of suicide attempts at regular intervals.
"Oh! Everybody is not so lucky to get the plum job at his/her doorstep. The offer varies from person to person, thus creating a gap,” says Rohit a first year student at IIT Delhi.
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Vriti Edustore
