Moon Tree Growing on The Earth

Moon trees: Growing on the Earth

•              Moon trees are trees grown from seeds taken into orbit around the Moon, initially by Apollo 14 in 1971, and later by Artemis 1 in 2022.

•              The idea was first proposed by Edward P. Cliff, then the Chief of the United States Forest Service, who convinced Stuart Roosa, the Command Module Pilot on the Apollo 14 mission, to bring a small canister containing about 500 seeds aboard the module in 1971. Seeds for the experiment were chosen from five species of tree: loblolly pine, sycamore, sweetgum, redwood, and Douglas fir.

•              In 2022, NASA announced it would be reviving the Moon tree program by carrying 1,000 seeds aboard Artemis 1.

 

Fact or Fiction?: Glass Is a (Supercooled) Liquid

Glass, however, is actually neither a liquid—super cooled or otherwise—nor a solid. It is an amorphous solid—a state somewhere between those two states of matter. And yet glass's liquid like properties are not enough to explain the thicker-bottomed windows, because glass atoms move too slowly for changes to be visible

 

Lipsticks are non veg

 

·        One non-vegetable ingredient in lipstick is fish scales.

·        Guanine, a substance, is added to the lipstick to give the texture a glossy or pearly look.

·        And fish scales are the source of this guanine!

 

Dolphins enjoy drugs

Dolphins Seem to Use Toxic Puffer-fish to Get High

• The dolphins, deliberate handle the terrorized puffer fish.
• Puffer fishes are known to contain tetrodotoxin which in small amounts can kill a human within minutes.
• However, for the dolphins, this toxin, according to experts, is known to create a narcotic effect when consumed in smaller amounts.
• It seems like dolphins have figured out how they can control the amount of toxin that’s released.
• Tetrodotoxin is an extremely potent poison (toxin) found mainly in the liver and sex organs (gonads) of some fish, such as puffer fish, globe fish, and toad fish (order Tetraodontiformes) and in some amphibian, octopus, and shellfish species.

 

First Vegetable Grown in Space

Potato: First Vegetable grown in Space

In October 1995, the potato became the first vegetable to be grown in space. NASA and the University of Wisconsin, Madison, created the technology with the goal of feeding astronauts on long space voyages, and eventually, feeding future space colonies.

 

Time in Sanskrit

1 निमेषः	= 0.16 seconds
1 काष्ठः	= 0.26 seconds
1 त्रुटिः	= 0.32 seconds
1 विपलम्	= 0.4   seconds
1 लवः	= 0.64 seconds
1 कला	= 8       seconds
1 पलम्	= 24    seconds
1 क्षणः	= 4       minutes
1 घटिका/दण्डः	= 24    minutes
1 मुहूर्त्तः	= 48    minutes
60 दण्डाः	= 24    Hours