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Tianmen Mountain Tianmen Mountain is a mountain located within Tianmen Mountain National Park, Zhangjiajie, in northwestern Hunan Province, China. A cablecar was constructed by the French company Poma from nearby Zhangjiajie railway station to the top of the mountain. Tianmen Mountain Cableway is claimed in tourist publications as the "longest passenger cableway of high mountains in the world", with 98 cars and a total length of 7,455 metres (24,459 ft) and ascent of 1,279 metres (4,196 ft) The highest gradient is an unusual 37 degrees. Tourists can walk on kilometres of paths built onto the cliff face at the top of the mountain, including sections with glass floors. An 11 kilometres (6.8 mi) road with 99 bends also reaches the top of the mountain and takes visitors to Tianmen cave, a natural hole in the mountain of a height of 131.5 metres (431 ft) A large temple is also located on the summit with chairlift or footpath access. The original temple here was buil...

How Clean is the Air You're Breathing? Take a look at this interactive map published by the Atlantic to find out how the quality of the air you're breathing stacks up against other countries and cities. A word of warning: the news isn't good if you're in China, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. The map overlays two sources of data on air pollution: for cities, the World Health Organization' s ambient (outdoor) air pollution in cities database 2014; for countries, ground-level exposures to fine particulate matter (PM2.5) are derived from satellite measures used in the 2014 Environmental Performance Index, a biennial global ranking produced by Yale and Columbia researchers that compares countries on high-priority environmental issues.  In March, the World Health Organization estimated that air pollution was responsible for 7 million premature deaths in 2012. That’s one out of every eight total deaths in the world. Air quality has gotten worse ...

·   Nerve impulses to and from the brain travel as fast as 170 miles per hour.   Ever wonder how you can react so fast to things around you or why that stubbed toe hurts right away? It’s due to the super-speedy movement of nerve impulses from your brain to the rest of your body and vice versa, bringing reactions at the speed of a high powered luxury sports car. ·   The brain operates on the same amount of power as 10-watt light bulb.   The cartoon image of a light bulb over your head when a great thought occurs isn’t too far off the mark. Your brain generates as much energy as a small light bulb even when you’re sleeping. ·   The human brain cell can hold 5 times as much information as the Encyclopedia Britannica.  Or any other encyclopedia for that matter. Scientists have yet to settle on a definitive amount, but the storage capacity of the brain in electronic terms is thought to be between 3 or even 1,000 terabytes. The National Archive...

MYSTERIOUS PLACES - Who built Puma Punku? Puma Punku is a complex of ruins, part of a large temple group that is part of the Tiwanaku site near Tiwanaku, Bolivia ca 4000 m above sea level. Puma Punku is now understood to be at least 12,000 - 17,000 years old, essentially, right out of the Stone Age. Puma Punku is a terraced earthen mound that is faced with megalithic blocks. It is 167.36 m wide along its north-south axis and 116.7 m long along its east-west axis. Many of the blocks weighed 200 tons, with one even weighing in at 450 tons! How were these blocks brought to a plateau 13,000 feet high? One of the construction blocks from which the pier was fashioned weighs an estimated 440 tons (equal to nearly 600 full-size cars) and several other blocks laying about are between 100 and 150 tons. The quarry for these giant blocks was on the western shore of Titicaca, some ten miles away. There is no known technology in all the ancient world that could have transported stones of such m...

ANCIENT  CIVILIZATIONS  - The Anasazi are an ancient people that lived thousands of years ago in the desert canyons in the southwest of North America. They are often suspected to have had some connection with aliens. According to believers, the Anasazi either had seen aliens, were abducted by them or were aliens themselves. There are indeed some facts that could be interpreted in such a way. The name Anasazi has a meaning in the old Navajo language. It can be translated as, "ancient strangers" or "ancient enemy". Replace “stranger” by “alien” and you could say that the Indians thought the Anasazi were aliens, or beings from another place. The Anasazi first appeared as a people around 1200 BC. There are some indications (in Indian legends) that they arrived from the West by ships. Archeologists find some similarities with ancient cultures of Central America.  Over many centuries, the Anasazi lived in the North American Four Corners (the area where New Mexico, Co...

As drivers, we often encounter unsafe road conditions at one time or another, whether it is inclement weather, t-bone collisions, or just a road that is not structurally sound.  But for the most part, many of our day-to-day driving is done in relatively safe conditions. That is not the case for many of those who live in remote areas without proper infrastructure. The following is a list of ten of the most dangerous roads in the world.  These roads have high death rates and are extremely dangerous.  The people who live around these areas depend on these roads for their daily transportation; so consider yourself lucky. Without further ado, I present to you the list of ten of the world’s most dangerous roads: 1. North Yungas Road in Bolivia Also known as “the Death Road,” the North Yungas Road is located in the Yungas region in Bolivia. It is about 40 miles long and stretches from La Paz to Corico. According to the Inter-AmericanDevelopment Bank, this is the “w...

Tropical Islands Resort is a tropical theme park located in the former Brand-Briesen Airfield in Krausnick, in the district of Dahme-Spreewald in Brandenburg, Germany It is housed in the former CargoLifter airship hangar (known as the Aerium), the biggest free-standing hall in the world. The hall belonged to the company CargoLifter until its insolvency in 2002. Tropical Islands has a maximum capacity of 6,000 visitors a day. In its first year of operation it attracted 975,000 visitors, according to figures published by the operators. The annual report of the Tanjong company states that the hall had 155,000 visitors in the business year February 2004 to February 2005, in other words mainly prior to the opening of the theme park. Approximately 500 people work at Tropical Islands. Tropical Islands is located approximately 60 kilometres south of the centre of Berlin and 50 kilometres from the southern boundary of the city. It is close to Briesen/Brand in the south of the municipality...