A man in China built his own Dialysis machine to keep himself alive for 13 years
Read more : The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/9817855/Chinese-man-kept-alive-by-self-built-dialysis-machine.html
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Zaman Rom ada kolam air panas (Tepidarium) dan bilik panas (Laconicum), pekerja-pekerja bertarung nyawa mambakar kayu di bilik bawah tanah
In Roman era, there were warm water in the pool (Tepidarium) and hot rooms (Laconicum), workers fought for their lives burning wood in the basement.
Tepidarium = warm water in the pool
Laconicum = hot room
Source : BBC Earth
Nissan mencipta kerusi yang secara otomatik akan menyusun diri mereka sendiri selepas mesyuarat
Nissan has developed robotic office chairs that tidy themselves away when people clap their hands
Asal usul perkataan ‘Hello” ketika menjawab telefon. Dikatakan semasa Alexander Graham Bell mencipta telefon, dia akan cuba menghubungi tunangnya yang bernama Margaret Hello untuk menguji suaranya sampai atau tidak dengan memanggil nama tunangnya “Hello”. Sebenarnya fakta ini tidak tepat kerana isterinya bernama Mabel Gardiner Hubbard
Origin of the word ‘Hello’ when answering the phone. It is said that when Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone, he would try to contact his fiancee named Margaret Hello to test whether his voice would reach or not by calling her fiancee’s name ” Hello”. Actually, this fact is not correct because his wife’s name was Mabel Gardiner Hubbard.
TESLA, kereta elektrik dihasilkan oleh 2 jurutera, Martin Eberhard & Marc Tarpenning. Mereka berjumpa Elon Musk selepas mendengar ucapan beliau di Standford University mencari dana untuk projek kereta elektrik
In 2001, Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning met Elon Musk after hearing him speak at a Mars Society talk at Stanford University. Eberhard and Tarpenning is inventor for electrict car
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Pada kedalaman 50m (164 kaki) ada kubur di dasar Tasik Pedu. Kubur ini yang akan timbul 4-5 tahun sekali. Pembinaan Empangan Pedu mengorbankan 15 buah kampung untuk membina tasik buatan pada tahun 1969
- Dalam daerah Padang Terap, Kedah
- Tasik buatan terbesar di Kedah
- Luas : 52km persedi
- Kemuncak air kering – Julai tahun tertentu
- Tujuan pembekalan air kepada petani Kedah, Perlis dan Pulau Pinang
At a depth of 50m (164 feet) there is a grave at the bottom of Lake Pedu. This grave will appear every 4-5 years. The construction of the Pedu Dam sacrificed 15 villages to build an artificial lake in 1969
Source : Majalah 3, TV3, Sept 2024
Enjin McLarent F1 disalut lapisan emas (gold foil) untuk mengurangkan kepanasan enjin
The McLarent F1 engine is coated with a layer of gold foil to reduce engine heat
Tidak ada apple yang jatuh atas kepala Sir Isaac Newton, contoh dibuat supaya pelajar mudah faham, dia cuma mengkaji kenapa buah apple jatuh lurus tidak condong ke kiri atau ke kanan, tidak pula terapung atau naik ke atas, kemudian membuat kesimpulan tentang graviti. Pokok tersebut masih ada hingga sekarang setelah 357 tahun
There’s no evidence to suggest the fruit actually landed on his head, but Newton’s observation caused him to ponder why apples always fall straight to the ground (rather than sideways or upward) and helped inspired him to eventually develop his law of universal gravitation.
https://www.history.com/news/did-an-apple-really-fall-on-isaac-newtons-head
Source : Wikipedia Doctor Zirkel follows Newton's famous steps under the fabled Title Doctor Zirkel follows Newton's famous steps under the fabled Description Doctor Zirkel follows Newton's famous steps under the fabled apple tree. Coloured wood engraving. Iconographic Collections Keywords: Isaac Newton References Library reference: ICV No 12208 Photo number: V0011942 Full Bibliographic Record: http://catalogue.wellcomelibrary.org/record=b1175740 Source/Photographer https://wellcomeimages.org/indexplus/obf_images/29/64/a7f8add652e00a26a045c65860e0.jpg Gallery: https://wellcomeimages.org/indexplus/image/V0011942.html Wellcome Collection gallery (2018-03-29): https://wellcomecollection.org/works/h23ngyzc CC-BY-4.0
Supertanker, Pierre Guillaumat dinamakan Ulsan Master selepas dibeli oleh (Hyundai Corporation)
330 tan minyak sehari
berat 555,051 tan max
berat kapal 274,838 gross register tonnage
minyak 42 hari
UAE bercadang membina sistem keretapi bawah laut dari Dubai ke Mumbai, India sepanjang hampir 2,000 km yang dijangka siap pada penghujung 2030
UAE has proposed a futuristic project to build a subsea rail connection to India (Mumbai) with plans for completion by the end of 2030
Selepas 7 bulan perang Hamas-Israel, Pegawai PBB melaporkan kemusahan Gaza memerlukan 14 tahun untuk membersihkan 37 juta tan serpihan runtuhan bangunan jika 100 lori digunakan sehari. 70 Ribu bangunan musnah, 290 ribu rosak termasuk sekolah hospital, Gereja, Masjid dan tempat bersejarah. Rm188 billion kos baik pulih diperlukan (7 Okt 2023 – 3 Mei 2024)
After 7 months of the Hamas-Israeli war, UN officials reported that the Gaza conflict would take 14 years to clear 37 million tons of building debris if 100 trucks were used a day. 70 thousand buildings were destroyed, 290 thousand were damaged including schools, hospitals, churches, mosques and historical places. Rm188 billion in repair costs are required (7 Ocktober 2023 – 3 May 2024)
Samsung ertinya 3 bintang dalam bahasa Korea.
Samsung means three stars in Korean.
Allah jadikan kucing lengkap dengan ‘self-righting mechanism-a reflex action / righting reflex’. Bila dia jatuh pada tinggi yang sesuai, terbalik macam mana pun masa dia jatuh, sebelum landing, badan dia akan dibetulkan, kepala di atas dan 4 kaki dia akan tegak ready untuk menahan di tanah.
Allah almighty made cats complete with ‘self-righting mechanism-a reflex action / righting reflex’. When it falls at the appropriate height, upside down or no matter how, at the time it falls, before landing, his body will be fixed, head up and his 4 legs will be upright ready to hold on the ground
2011, Bencana nuklear Fukushima, lebih 500 warga emas Jepun termasuk wanita, berumur lebih 60 tahun menjadi sukarelawan, membantu membersihkan kesan radioaktif. Kata mereka “Generasi kami yang membina loji ini, kami harus bertanggungjawab agar generasi akan datang selamat”. Warga emas bekorban untuk generasi muda.
During the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster, over 500 Japanese seniors, all of them over age of 60, come to help clean up the radioactive zone.
They are all retirees, and they have all volunteered for a single, dangerous mission: to replace younger workers at the badly damaged Fukushima nuclear plant.
The Skilled Veterans Corps for Fukushima consists of more than 500 seniors who have signed up for a job that has been called courageous — and suicidal.
Kazuko Sasaki, a 72-year-old grandmother, is one of those ready to serve.
“My generation built these nuclear plants. So we have to take responsibility for them. We can’t dump this on the next generation,” she says.
Gempa bumi dasar laut bermagnitud 9.0 serta tsunami yang menyusulinya membawa kemusnahan besar sehingga 16,000 orang terbunuh dan ramai yang dilaporkan hilang.
https://www.hmetro.com.my/mutakhir/2016/03/122268/pilu-masih-terasa
Badai tsunami dahsyat itu yang mencapai ketinggian 15.5 meter menyebabkan kemusnahan besar pada Loji Janakuasa Nuklear Fukushima Daiichi 4,700MW yang terletak di pantai wilayah Fukushima dan menyebabkan sisa radioaktif merebak ke persekitaran.
Hari ini tempat yang terjejas kerana gempa bumi dan tsunami hampir pulih sepenuhnya. Sehinggakan kawasan yang terjejas kerana kesan radioaktif, di luar lingkungan 12 kilometer (km) dari reaktor Fukushima, kehidupan beransur pulih.
Read more : https://www.npr.org/2011/09/12/140402430/japanese-seniors-send-us-to-damaged-nuclear-plant
Hamza Bendelladj, Remaja Algeria berumur 27 tahun pada 2015, menggodam lebih dari 1.4 juta komputer, dikatakan lebih 400 juta dolar dipindah ke Afrika dan Palastin, melibatkan 217 bank dan institusi kewangan Amerika.
Hamza Bendelladj, a 27-year-old Algerian (2015), hacked more than 1.4 million computers, allegedly transferred more than 400 million dollars to Africa and Palestine, involving 217 American banks and financial institutions.
Read more : https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/9/21/hamza-bendelladj-is-the-algerian-hacker-a-hero
Kleenex, sebelum menghasilkan tisu, mereka adalah pengeluar topeng gas
Kleenex tissues were originally intended for gas masks
Kodak pernah difailkan bankrap pada 2012 kerana juruteranya Steven Sasson pada 1975 mencipta teknologi baru iaitu digital kamera yang berfungsi tanpa filem. Idea itu ditolak boss kodak atas kebimbangan jualan filem kodak akan menurun. Akhirnya teknologi menguntungkan Fujifilm dan Sony dan menjadikan Kodak bankrup
Kodak filed for bankruptcy in 2012 because its engineer Steven Sasson in 1975 created a new technology which is a digital camera that works without film. The idea was rejected by Kodak’s boss for fear that Kodak’s film sales would decrease. Ultimately the technology benefits Fujifilm and Sony
26 lorong lebuh raya paling lebar iaitu Katy Freeway di Houstan, Texas di US tetapi di China, Expressway G4 Beijing – Hong Kong – Macao, kenderaan yang berbaris untuk membayar tol menyebabkan 50 lorong terhasil
26 lanes of the widest expressway is the Katy Freeway in Houston, Texas in the US but in China, Expressway G4 Beijing – Hong Kong – Macao, vehicles lined up to pay tolls resulting in 50 lanes
Kemera digital pertama, oleh Steven Sasson pada Dec 1975, seberat 3.6 kg, 0.01 megapixels, mengambil masa 23 saat untuk memproses sekeping gambar
First camera digital by Steven Sasson in Dec 1975, it weighed 3.6 kg, 0.01 megapixels that took 23 seconds to process per image.
Jalan Raya di Sweden mempunyai 1 lorong, dimana kereta elektrik yang melaluinya akan dicaj semasa sedang dipandu
Roads in Sweden have a lane, electrified road to charge electric vehicles passing through will be charged while being driven
Rubik Kiub, asalnya alat bantu mengajar, dicipta oleh Professor Erno Rubik, selepas dicipta, dia ambil masa sebulan untuk menyelesaikannya, rekod paling pantas 3.13 saat pada 2023 oleh Max Park
Professor Erno Rubik creating the Rubik’s Cube in 1974 as a teaching aid, he spent a month struggling to unscramble it. Max Park take’s 3.13 seconds to solve it in 2023
10,000 bilik hotel, 70 Restoran, Abraj Kudai di Arab Saudi, hotel yang sedang dibina, akan menjadi hotel terbesar di dunia dengan 4 bumbung pendaratan helikopter
Under construction, the world’s largest hotel in the world, Abraj Kudai in Saudi Arabia with 10,000 rooms, 70 restaurants dan 4 rooftop helipad
Kenapa bas sekolah warna oren?
1. Warna kuning mudah dilihat pada waktu gelap berbanding merah
2. Saintis mengatakan warna kuning lebih cepat dikesan
3. Tulisan hitam ‘BAS SEKOLAH’ pada permukaan kuning lebih mudah dibaca dalam cahaya yang malap oleh pemandu lain terutama bila berhenti di tepi jalan untuk mengambil pelajar
Why school bus are Yellow?
1. Yellow more easily noticed in a dark environment, better than we see Red
2. We see Yellow faster than any other colour
3. Black lettering on yellow is easiest for driver to see in the darkness of early morning especially when stopping on the side of the road to pick up students
Von Braun Station, akan dijadikan hotel di angkasa lepas pada masa depan
Von Braun Station, will be turned into a space hotel in the future
4 remaja perempuan dari Afrika mencipta generator yang boleh menghasilkan elektrik daripada air kencing yang diproses menjadi bahan bakar. 1 liter dapat menghasilkan 6 jam elektrik
Four teenage girls in Africa have invented a generator to produces electricity using urine as fuel. Six hours electricity using a single liter urine.
Craig Lewis, manusia pertama hidup tanpa degup jantung pada 2012. Dia menggunakan jantung tiruan yang tidak berdegup bertahan selama 5 minggu sebelum keluarganya meminta dimatikan jantung tersebut kerana kegagalan fungsi hati dan buah pinggang
Craig Lewis survived for another 5 weeks after used artificial heart with no beat. His family asked that his artificial heart be unplugged due to liver and kidney failure.
Rudolf Diesel hampir membunuh diri kerana putus asa bahawa ciptaan enjin Dieselnya boleh berjaya pada 1913
Rudolf Diesel committed suicide in 1913 because he didn’t think his Diesel engine invention would be successful
Wanita ini selamat ketika ditanam hidup-hidup oleh suaminya kerana menghubungi 911 melalui jam tangan Apple yang dipakainya
A woman’s Apple Watch allowed her to call 911 save her after was allegedly buried alive by her husband
She is Young Sook An
on Sunday
October 16, 2022
Location, Washington, US
12.262 km lubang paling dalam yang pernah digali, di Rusia pada 1989, dijangka 15 km dicapai pada 1993 tetapi gagal kerana suhu di situ sudah mencecah 182°C
Koba Superdeep Borehole reached 12,262 m in 1989, was expected to reach 15,000 m in 1993 but fail due to unexpected higher temperatur, 180°C in this depth location
Ahli matematik tamadun Babylon, meletakkan asas 60 berbanding 100, kesannya 60 saat = 1 minit, 60 minit = 1 jam. Jika tidak, no 1 tidak mewakili 5 minit, sebaliknya 8 minit, no 2 menjadi 17 minit, no 4 menjadi 33 minit. Semua nombor pada jam tidak boleh mewakili gandaan 5 minit
Ancient Babylonians did maths in base 60 instead of base 10. That’s why we have 60 minutes per hour
Terowong terpanjang di dunia 57 km di Switzerland, ambil masa 17 tahun untuk dibina. Terowong keretapi ini siap pada 2016. Ke 2 Jepun 53.85km dan ke 3 50.43km Perancis/UK
The longest tunnel in the world is 57km, it took 17 years to build in Switzerland, second Japan 53.85 and France/UK 50.43km
Kasut Nike model Vaporfly, dilarang penggunaan di sukan Olimpik, dikategori sebagai teknologi mekanikal doping
Nike Vaporfly shoe were banned from Olympics, considered technological mechanical doping
Huruf ‘W’ disebut ‘Vae’ dalam bahasa Jerman, sebutan yang betul bagi BMW ialah ‘Bee Em Vae’
Sterile Cockpit adalah waktu kritikal semasa mengendalikan pesawat. Menjadi kesalahan dan boleh dikenakan tindakan jika pilot berbual sesuatu yang tidak berkaitan dengan pengendalian penerbangan
Sterile Cockpit is a critical phase when operating an aircraft. It is an offense and can be prosecuted if the pilot talks about something that is not related to the operation of the flight
Source : Air Crash Investigation, National Geographic Channel
Qatar mewarnakan jalan tar dengan warna biru, bagi mengurangkan kesan panas pada permukaan jalan
Qatar uses blue roads to reduce heat radiating from the asphalt
Eiffel Tower bertambah tinggi setengah kaki kerana besi mengembang pada musim panas
The Eiffel Tower get taller 6 inches when the iron heat up due to thermal expansion
Menara KLCC boleh bergoyang 2 kaki ¹, skybridge boleh berganjak 25¹cm
The KLCC tower can sway 625mm , while the skybridge can move 25cm.
Struktur-struktur ini sebenarnya tidak bersambung antara satu sama lain
source : ¹History Channel