Car city in Germany

What you actually see above is the interior of a 20-storey car tower in Volkswagen's Autostadt or "car city" in Wolfburg, Germany — basically a car dealership and theme park rolled into one.

The Autostadt, which opened in 2001 sees over 1 million visitors per year. Car buyers take delivery of their purchases via a fully automated procedure whereby the automobile is plucked robotically from a cubbyhole in one of the two "twin towers," each of which holds up to 400 vehicles, and brought to its owner on a special elevator.

Nowadays, with the advancement of science and technology, anything is impossible uh? Can you imagine such tower in our country....

In Malay

Apa yang anda lihat di atas adalah 20 tingkat menara kereta di Volkswagen's Autostadt atau dikenali sebagai "bandar kereta" di Wolfburg, Germany- digunakan untuk aktiviti jual-beli kereta dan juga sebagai taman tema.

Menara itu dibuka pada tahun 2001 menarik lebih dari 1 juta pengunjung setahun. Pelanggan yang ingin membeli kereta boleh membuat pembelian secara automatik dan kereta yang dibeli akan diambil secara automatik oleh mesin dan dihantar kepada pembeli menggunakan sejenis pengangkut seperti 'elevator'. Menara ini boleh memuatkan 400 buah kereta.

Sekarang dengan kemajuan sains dan teknologi, semua nampak mustahil. Bayangkan sekiranya menara ini di bina di negara kita.......

Jet Aircraft breaking sound barrier

The images show the formation of condensation clouds around jet aircraft flying near the speed of sound.

Gambar-gambar dibawah menunjukkan pembentukan kepulan awan di bahagian belakang pesawat apabila jet pejuang tersebut dipandu menghampiri kelajuan bunyi.

Square watermelon

A round watermelon can take up a lot of room in a refrigerator and the usually round fruit often sits awkwardly on refrigerator shelves.

Smart Japanese Farmers have forced their watermelons to grow into a square shape by inserting the melons into square, tempered glass cases while the fruit is still growing on the vine. Creative.....

In Malay

Buah tembikai yang bulat biasanya menganbil ruang yang banyak dalam peti sejuk dan bergolek-golek di atas para peti sejuk.

Petani Jepun yang cerdik telah memaksa buah tembikainya tumbuh dalam bekas kaca tahan haba berbentuk segiempat. Kreatif......

Millau Viaduct - The highest bridge in the world

Wow!

What you see is the panoramic view of the Millau Viaduct (Viaduc de Millau), a cable-stayed bridge spanning the Tarn River in southern France. Standing 1,118 feet high at its loftiest point, it is indeed the tallest bridge in the world.

In Malay

Wow!

Apa yang anda lihat adalah pemandangan di Millau Viaduct (Viaduct de Millau), jambatan kabel yang merentasi Sugai Tran di selatan Perancis. Ketinggian mencapai 1,118 kaki dan merupakan jambatan tertinggi di dunia.

The "Eye of God" - is actually a Helix Nebula!

This is a picture taken by NASA with the Hubble telescope. They are referring to it as the "Eye of God".

Actually it is the Helix Nebula, also known as The Helix or NGC 7293, is a large planetary nebula (PN) located in the constellation of Aquarius. Discovered by Karl Ludwig Harding, probably before 1824, this object is one of the closest to the Earth of all the bright planetary nebulae.

Gambar di atas diambil menggunakan teleskop Hubble NASA. Mereka di negara Barat menggelarnya sebagai "Mata Tuhan".

Sebenarnya ia bukanlah "Mata Tuhan" tetapi adalah Helix Nebula, juga dikenali sebagai NGC 7293. Ia adalah sebuah nebula yang besar dan terletak dalam gugusan bintang Aquarius. Dijumpai oleh Karl Ludwig Harding kemungkinan sebelum tahun 1824. Nebula ini adalah yang paling cerah dan paling dekat dengan Bumi.

Ibn-Sina (Avicenna)

Abu Ali al-Husain ibn Abdallah ibn Sina (Avicenna) - 980 - 1037

In English

Ibn Sina or Avicenna was the most influential of all Islamic philosopher-scientists. He wrote on medicine as well as geometry, astronomy, arithmetic and music.

Born in Afshana near Bukhara in Central Asia in about 980, he is best known as a polymath, as a physician whose major work the Canon (al-Qanun fi’l-Tibb) continued to be taught as a medical textbook in Europe and in the Islamic world until the early modern period, and as a philosopher whose major summa the Cure (al-Shifa’) had a decisive impact upon European scholasticism.

In Bahasa Melayu

Ibn-Sina atau Avicenna merupakan salah seorang saintis dan ahli falsafah Islam yang paling berpengaruh pada zamannya. Beliau menulis dalam berbagai bidang termasuklah perubatan, geometri, astronomi, arithmetic dan juga muzik.

Beliau dilahirkan di Afshana berdekatan Bukhara pada 980. Beliau dikenali juga sebagai ahli matematik tetapi sumbangan terbesar beliau adalah penulisan buku Canon (atau lebih dikenali sebagai kitab al-Qanun fi'l-Tibb) yang menjadi buku rujukan perubatan di Eropah dan dunia Islam sehingga era moden ini. Sebagai ahli falsafah, buku beliau yang bertajuk summa the cure (atau al-Shifa) telah memberi kesan yang cukup mendalam kepada masyarakat Eropah.

More optical Illusion

Which one do you see?
An old woman with a crooked nose or a beautiful young girl wearing a necklace?


Siapa yang anda nampak?
Perempuan tua dengan hidung bengkok atau perempuan muda yang memakai rantai?

Optical illusion

In Form 2 Chapter 1: The world through our senses, all students have learned about optical illusion, a sight defect which occurs in human eyes.

Now look carefully at the pictures.....what do you see?
Give your comments

Sekarang lihat dengan teliti gambar dibawah, apa yang anda nampak?
Sila beri komen.....

Do you know?

Science was originated from the Latin word scientia, meaning "knowledge".


Adakah anda tahu?

Sains berasal dari perkataan Latin, scientia yang bermaksud ilmu pengetahuan.

The highest IQ in the world

The smartest man alive (Highest IQ of 210)

Kim Ung-Yong (born 1962) is a Korean former child prodigy. He scored a 210 IQ on the Stanford-Binet test according to the Guinness Book of World Records. At five months he was able to walk and speak and at seven months he was able to write and play chess.

He began to learn differential calculus at the age of three. He was able to read and write in Japanese, Korean, German, and English by his fourth birthday. At the age of four years on November 2, 1967, he solved complicated differential and integral calculus problems on Japanese television, demonstrated his proficiency in German, English, Japanese, and Korean, and composed poetry.

Kim was a guest student of physics at Hanyang University from the age of three until he was six. At the age of seven he was invited to the United States by NASA. He finished his university studies, eventually getting a Ph.D in physics at Colorado State University before he was 15. In 1974, during his university studies, he began his research work at NASA and continued this work until his return to Korea in 1978.

When he returned to Korea, his doctorate in physics and research work at NASA were considered worthless and he had to begin his studies again. He decided to switch from physics to civil engineering and eventually received a doctorate in that field. Kim was offered the chance to study at the most prestigious universities in Korea, but instead chose to attend a provincial university.

As of 2007 he also serves as adjunct faculty at Chungbuk National University.