Arctic swim anyone ? Die in 5 minutes or of cold shock in 47 seconds ?

Arctic Water Survival and Anticipatory Thermogenesis :

The Arctic water temperature is below zero. Survival time in water is 5 to 10 minutes, if you don't die of cold shock in 47 seconds.  Body heat is lost 25 times faster in cold water than in cold air.

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The Door to Hell : crater file burning over 40 years since they lit it -they thought gas would burn out in 2 days ...Woops !!

Nicknamed 'The Door to Hell', the fires in this crater have been burning for over 40 years. To prevent the gas from seeping out, the geologists decided to set fire to it in 1971 near the small village of Derweze in Turkmenistan . They anticipated the gas would burn off over the next few days but some 40 years later, the flames are still burning.The unceasing inferno can be seen for miles and has become a tourist attraction, but it came into being by mistake.

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Dogs are compelled to yawn if they hear their owners do the same, a study has suggested.

Revealed: why canines yawn after their 'dog tired' owners

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Chinese engineers have smashed the records for quantum teleportation ...2 photons entangled a 100 km apart !

May 15 2012 - A group of Chinese engineers have smashed the records for quantum teleportation, by creating a pair of entangled photons over a distance of almost 100 kilometers.The last quantum teleportation record was 16 km, and was set by a different set of Chinese researchers in 2010.

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Sydney scientist helps design tiny super computer

Quantum Super computer "The system we have developed has the potential to perform calculations that would require a supercomputer larger than the size of the known universe. And it does it all in a diameter of less than a millimetre," Dr Biercuk, of the University of Sydney, said.

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How would you die - if you're thrown into space without a spacesuit?

Surprisingly, you probably wouldn't explode.  Skin is almost completely gas-tight and strong enough to withstand a pressure differential of well over one atmosphere.

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Dinosaur farts 'warmed the Earth'

Giant dinosaurs could have warmed the planet with their flatulence, say researchers.

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Travel 22 billion km at light speed using your mouse across the universe - BBC link here

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