SYDNEY (AFP) – Australian authorities Friday issued a shipping alert over a gigantic iceberg that is gradually approaching the country's southwest coast.
The Bureau of Meteorology said the once-in-a-century cliff of ice, which dislodged from Antarctica about a decade ago before drifting north, was being monitored using satellites.
"Mariners are advised that at 1200 GMT on December 9, an iceberg approximately 1,700 kilometres (1,054 miles) south-southwest of the West Australian coast was observed," it said, giving the iceberg's coordinates.
"The iceberg is 140 square kilometres in area -- 19 kilometres long by eight kilometres wide."
Experts believe the iceberg -- known as B17B -- is likely to break up as it enters warmer waters nearer Australia, creating hundreds of smaller icebergs in a hazard to passing ships.
"It's still 1,700 kilometres away, so it's quite a long way away, it's not really on our doorstep yet but it's been heading steadily towards us," glaciologist Neal Young said Thursday.
Young earlier told AFP that an iceberg of that size had probably not been seen in the area since the days when 19th century clipper sailing ships plied the trade route between Britain and Australia.
The iceberg has been floating around Antarctica since shearing off the icey continent but had lately begun heading north because of ocean currents and weather conditions.
Its discovery comes after two other large icebergs were spotted further east, off Australia's Macquarie Island, followed by more than 100 smaller chunks heading towards New Zealand.
Young described the icebergs as uncommon, but said they could become more frequent if sea temperatures rise through global warming.
Friday, December 11, 2009
TOO MUCH OR TOO LITTLE SLEEP FATTENS THE BODY
Be carefull not oversleep or deny yourself sleep .There were reports in the new york times newspapere that if you slerp too much ,You greww fatter and when you didn't sleep at all ,the situation worsened .It really is very hard escaping this one trap that involves sleep .
Soon we will be time our selves on clocks or mobile phones or our computers and laptops inside home so that we don't over sleep or under sleep ,the wise and the foolish ,all alike .Theres is no way out or if not so, you will have to bear with the situation.
Soon we will be time our selves on clocks or mobile phones or our computers and laptops inside home so that we don't over sleep or under sleep ,the wise and the foolish ,all alike .Theres is no way out or if not so, you will have to bear with the situation.
Thursday, December 10, 2009
STRETCHING TIPSFOR CYCLING SUCCESS
Bicycle riding requires a lot of physical and mental fitness .A person who gets carried away by thought frequently and for a long time is not fit to drive or ride a bicycle on the road .such people do cause accidents and so they shouldn't be allowed to use the road with other road users.
http://www.helium.com/items/668533-stretching-tips-for-cycling-success
http://www.helium.com/items/668533-stretching-tips-for-cycling-success
IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF THE CHINESE PRODUCTS THAT ARE EXPORTED TO KENYA
There has been alot of reports in the Kenyan press about the weakness of the chines toys the are imported in to the country.Sincerely speaking ,this things ,especially the plastic products ,don't look like the people who made them were seriousl about there durability.The things are tooo weak and do not last long in the hand . If you mention even the gas lighters ,they are the weakest .They are so weak that when you can only use them once and they break.And the batteries ,some of them don't beyond three days in a spotlight .
Some has to do some thing about this ,otherwise we are having a raw deal !!
Some has to do some thing about this ,otherwise we are having a raw deal !!
RUNNING AWAY FROM YOUR WIFE AT HOME
The other time we were chatting with my friends about which is the best way to behave inside home when you a professor for a wife.The solution That we reached was really horrible .We were in africa ,ofcourse ,and every way knows what you would expect from an African family .The thing is that Well educated women and those of them who have access to enough money are known to be very stiff when it comes to asking for thnei rights inside home.THey answer you boldly and they stare at you direct in the face without blinking even .They are the bread winners of the home and there is nothing that you can do about it .That is why we were asking each other what the right way to behave in the home would be for the sake of the well being of the family ,psychologically and physicaly.
The gentlemen decided on two things ,that in order for one of us to rule in the home ,that is if tradition doesn't provide a solution any more ,is to go for a browl and then the winner rules the home .The other solution was ,to stay away from her and go home only for your meals and sleep in the evenings .None of us touched divorce as a choice .This was supposed to involve very mature men and women with families of up eight children with some at least twenty and above years old .
Now i was wondering what the hell was happening in this world .Soon we could be meeting our wives in the home only when we want to mate ,but the rest of the times ,everyone could be doing their own things elsewhere in this world .Or what could you say about this ?
The gentlemen decided on two things ,that in order for one of us to rule in the home ,that is if tradition doesn't provide a solution any more ,is to go for a browl and then the winner rules the home .The other solution was ,to stay away from her and go home only for your meals and sleep in the evenings .None of us touched divorce as a choice .This was supposed to involve very mature men and women with families of up eight children with some at least twenty and above years old .
Now i was wondering what the hell was happening in this world .Soon we could be meeting our wives in the home only when we want to mate ,but the rest of the times ,everyone could be doing their own things elsewhere in this world .Or what could you say about this ?
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
SAVE THE GENUINE INTERNET USERS FROM THE MILLIONS OF SCAMS
Many people from my town are asking whether this thing we call internet is real .We are really having a hard time convincincing the locals that the internet is not only for the white man or only for the Americans because of all the things that they do that is within their life circles ,nothing comes real except for the webpages that they read every day .Now,t what do we do in oreder to convince these peopel that what is going on in this world is reall.
This people have come to lack trust in anything that is happening on the internet ,the e-bay,the Google ad sense and everything on the i'net.Could someone in this world please save the i'net users by making them to believe that whatever is going on is true .Please save us from the millions of scams and none-sense on the i'net.
This people have come to lack trust in anything that is happening on the internet ,the e-bay,the Google ad sense and everything on the i'net.Could someone in this world please save the i'net users by making them to believe that whatever is going on is true .Please save us from the millions of scams and none-sense on the i'net.
Monday, December 7, 2009
THE THINGS THAT I FEAR MOST IN MY LIFE
We know you want a bolder paper person
If i was asked what the three things that i feared most in my life were,The answer is obvious .The HIV /AIDS disease ,and then those gentlemen and ladies who don't show any responsibility in the matter and go about misusing the little resources that we have around for fighting the disease .They go about placing the ARTS carelessly and so on .And then the nuclear bombs and other threats would come a second to that .
If i was asked what the three things that i feared most in my life were,The answer is obvious .The HIV /AIDS disease ,and then those gentlemen and ladies who don't show any responsibility in the matter and go about misusing the little resources that we have around for fighting the disease .They go about placing the ARTS carelessly and so on .And then the nuclear bombs and other threats would come a second to that .
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