Thursday 19 April 2007

Some funny arsenal stories...





Left : Thierry Henry in his old days
Right : Van persie was caught do part-time job for DrumStick
last : Ronaldinho sister

Comment on game against West Ham

Cesc came close at least but Rosicky’s finishing is appalling, Hleb never even bothers to shoot, these days Freddie is more likely to score in a nightclub than on the pitch, Gilberto missed an open goal with a header and the one he hit the post with late on was a great chance too. Baptista came on and blundered around and Jeremie Aliadiere came on and showed why in his entire Arsenal career he’s only ever scored one league goal. And that was in 2002 against West Brom

Wednesday 4 April 2007

Top Ten Ways To Destroy Earth


Although this is explain scientifically but i do find a sense of humor in it

Method #5

You will need: a black hole, extremely powerful rocket engines, and, optionally, a large rocky planetary body. The nearest black hole to our planet is 1600 light years from Earth in the direction of Sagittarius, orbiting V4641.

Method: after locating your black hole, you need get it and the Earth together. This is likely to be the most time-consuming part of this plan. There are two methods, moving Earth or moving the black hole, though for best results you'd most likely move both at once.

Very difficult, but definitely possible.

Earth's final resting place: part of the mass of the black hole.

Earliest feasible completion date: I do not expect the necessary technology to be available until AD 3000, and add at least 800 years for travel time. (That's in an external observer's frame of reference and assuming you move both the Earth and the black hole at the same time.)

http://www.livescience.com/technology/destroy_earth_mp.html

Blackhole

Scientists could generate a black hole as often as every second when the world's most powerful particle accelerator comes online in 2007.

This potential "black hole factory" has raised fears that a stray black hole could devour our planet whole. The Lifeboat Foundation, a nonprofit organization devoted to safeguarding humanity from what it considers threats to our existence, has stated that artificial black holes could "threaten all life on Earth" and so it proposes to set up "self-sustaining colonies elsewhere."

But the chance of planetary annihilation by this means "is totally miniscule," experimental physicist Greg Landsberg at Brown University in Providence, R.I., told LiveScience.

Black holes possible

The accelerator, known as the Large Hadron Collider, is under construction in an underground circular tunnel nearly 17 miles long at the world's largest physics laboratory, CERN, near Geneva.

Black holes are among a handful of threats to the planet. But Earth is more resilient than you might think. >>>

At its maximum, each particle beam the collider fires will pack as much energy as a 400-ton train traveling at 120 mph. By smashing particles together and investigating the debris, scientists hope to help solve mysteries such as the origin of mass and why there is more matter than antimatter in the universe.

If theories about the universe containing extra dimensions other than those of space and time are correct, the accelerator might also generate black holes, Landsberg and his colleague Savas Dimopoulos at Stanford University in California calculated in 2001. Physicists Steve Giddings at the University of California, Santa Barbara and Scott Thomas at Stanford University in California reached similar conclusions.

Black holes possess gravitational fields so strong that nothing can escape them, not even light. They normally form when the remains of a dead star collapse under their own gravity, squeezing their mass together. Although black holes can't be seen, astronomers infer their existence by the gravitational effects they have on gas and stars around them.

Making black holes

A number of models of the universe suggest extra dimensions of reality exist that are each folded up into sizes ranging from as tiny as a proton, or roughly a millionth of a billionth of a meter, to as big as a fraction of a millimeter. At distances comparable to the size of these extra dimensions, gravity becomes far stronger, these models suggest. If this is true, the collider will cram enough energy together to initiate gravitational collapses that produce black holes.

If any of the models are right, the accelerator should create a black hole anywhere from every second to every day, each roughly possessing 5,000 times the mass of a proton and each a thousandth of a proton in size or smaller, Landsberg said.

Still, any fears that such black holes will consume the Earth are groundless, Landsberg said.

For one thing, theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking calculated all black holes should emit radiation, and that tiny black holes should lose more mass than they absorb, evaporating within a billionth of a trillionth of a trillionth of a second, "before they could gobble up any significant amount of matter," Landsberg said.

Not destroyed yet


CERN spokesman and former research physicist James Gillies also pointed out that Earth is bathed with cosmic rays powerful enough to create black holes all the time, and the planet hasn't been destroyed yet.

"Still, let's assume that even if Hawking is a genius, he's wrong, and that such black holes are more stable," Landsberg said. Nearly all of the black holes will be traveling fast enough from the accelerator to escape Earth's gravity. "Even if you produced 10 million black holes a year, only 10 would basically get trapped, orbiting around its center," Landsberg said.

However, such trapped black holes are so tiny, they could pass through a block of iron the distance from the Earth to the Moon and not hit anything. They would each take about 100 hours to gobble up one proton.

At that rate, even if one did not take into account the fact that each black hole would slow down every time it gobbled up a proton, and thus suck down matter at an even slower rate, "about 100 protons would be destroyed every year by such a black hole, so it would take much more than the age of universe to destroy even one milligram of Earth material," Landsberg concluded. "It's quite hard to destroy the Earth."

If the Large Hadron Collider does create black holes, not only will it prove that extra dimensions of the universe exist, but the radiation that decaying black holes emit could yield clues that help finally unite all the current ideas about the forces of nature under a "theory of everything."

Dan Brown's Angel & Demon

GENEVA (AP)—A 43-foot-long magnet for the world's largest particle collider broke "with a loud bang and a cloud of dust'' during a high-pressure test, and officials said Tuesday they are working to find a replacement part.

The part that failed March 27 was in a super-cooled magnet designed to focus streams of protons so that they collide and allow scientists to study the results of the collision, giving them a better understanding of the makeup of matter, according to Fermilab, based in suburban Chicago, which has an accelerator of its own and is helping build one deep beneath the Swiss and French countryside outside Geneva.

Fermilab, which built the magnet for the 17-mile circular collider, said its teams, working with colleagues from the European Organization for Nuclear Research, have determined what caused the "serious failure'' and are working on a solution.

"It's impossible really to say whether that (schedule) can be maintained at this stage,'' said James Gillies, spokesman for the European group, known by the French initials CERN. But, he added, "everything else is going as if we're still heading for the schedule of this year.''

In a statement posted on its Web site, Fermilab said the failure that broke a glass cloth-epoxy laminate support resulted from a test of "asymmetric'' or irregular force. Subsequent testing showed that the support was inadequate to withstand the longitudinal forces, which had been overlooked in the design process.

Fermilab said it hoped that the redesign and repair can be completed without delaying the startup of the Large Hadron Collider, which has been under construction for years and is being eagerly awaited by scientists around the world.

"We took a pratfall on the world stage,'' said Pier Oddone, director of the lab, which has its own, smaller collider at Batavia, Ill. "We are dumbfounded that we missed some very simple balance of forces.''

The aim of the CERN experiment is to make subatomic particles—in this case protons—travel at nearly the speed of light until they collide, emitting a shower of even smaller particles that will reveal mysteries about the makeup of matter.

There will also be hundreds of other, smaller magnets in the circular tunnel, which is big enough for a subway train and 160-500 feet under the Swiss-French border, CERN said.

The $1.8 billion collider is replacing a less-powerful model that was removed from the tunnel in 2000.

The magnets will be cooled to a temperature of 456 degrees below zero so they can convey extremely high currents without any loss of energy, enabling them to control the path of the protons, which are 2,000 times heavier than the much more easily directed electrons that were used in the earlier accelerator.

HoroScope for April 07

It's time to expand your mind and try new things. Once Mars enters Pisces for a two-month tour on April 6, you'll be ready for at least one new adventure. Travel could be one way you take advantage of this coming seven-week trend, and if so, getting a change of scene would be good for you. If you do decide to leave town, think big. Will you walk down charming streets of Kyoto, go big game watching on the African plains, or survey the view on top of Sugarloaf?

It's actually more likely that you'll travel for your work, but even so, you'll likely find doing so invigorating. You may leave to interview for a job or to nail an important deal, and either way, you'll be very productive.

Even if you have no plans to travel, with Mars moving close to Uranus, you may find that you need to hop a plane anyway on or near April 29.

If your birthday falls on July 5 or July 20, you may be traveling this month as a result of the eclipses last month that fell on March 3 and 18. Mars will move over the exact degree of the first eclipse on April 23, a date to watch, plus or minus five days.

Mars will continue to tear through deep space and travel over the degree of the second eclipse of March 18 on May 12. Again, keep your eye on that date, too.

You won't necessarily have to leave home to partake of this vibrant planetary energy. You might apply for a grant, apply to a post-graduate degree program for the coming semester, or submit a book proposal for a book. The world will be your oyster now. Opportunities in publishing, broadcasting, or academia could be very evident all along now.

On top of all this, a home-related situation - in the form of a new apartment, a change in roommates, or other positive home-related shifts - will culminate at the full moon, April 2, plus or minus four days. Although your window of opportunity will be a narrow one, if you need to find a domestic solution, seize the day!

Inside every Cancer is a yen to run his or her own business, because you were born with rebellious, self-starter Aries at the very top of your solar chart. Note the day of the new moon, April 17 and the two weeks that follow - certain professional opportunities will begin to come up. One offer may be too good to pass up, and you'll want to investigate it fully. Your past experience and hard work will put you head and shoulders above the other candidates.

A new moon in Aries has to be one of the very best places for entrepreneurial enterprises and for pioneering assertively into new realms. You may decide to take the plunge and start your own business. This particular new moon is special in that it sets up a "grand trine" (the word "trine" referring to a triangle of harmony linking three or more planets). In your case, you have MORE than three planets in loving position: the mighty Sun and moon in your house of fame and honors in perfect angle to Saturn in your house of earned income. Saturn will link to Jupiter and Pluto, both now in your house of daily work assignments. As you see, the work you do, the salary you make, and your status in your industry is about to rise all at once.

I cannot see everything in your chart from where I sit, so if you need to temporarily take a cut in income this month to take advantage of a new job opportunity, do it. Finances have been frustrating over the past nearly two years, but if you want the job, accept this reality and move forward. I say this because your long-range outlook for career success and more money is excellent. By mid-August or early September your income should rise, for Saturn will move out of your house of salary for the first time in two years.

That is an important point - Saturn is about to leave this part of your chart for the first time in two years, not to return again for 29 years. I cannot emphasize the importance of this aspect! You are about to see the light at the end of the tunnel, dear Cancer.

Saturn has helped you face certain realities since July 2005. He is the planet of tough love, but he is effective I will admit (if only grudgingly). I know Saturn's lessons can be painful, dear Cancer. If you learn what Saturn has hoped you would learn, you will never have to repeat these lessons again in your lifetime. If you have not learned quite enough, then he will be back in 14 years to oppose the place he has occupied now to send a few more messages as a brush up. Saturn will be back in 29 years to see how far you've come. Saturn is almost never as tough a taskmaster as he is during his initial visit, so try to get the message that you were supposed to get from this trying period, respond to it, and then move on.

One other thing: Saturn has been retrograde in the sky since December, so if you've wanted to get an increase in salary on your present job, but have been asked to be patient because budgets are low, you may get the green light to increasing your finances when Saturn moves direct. Watch for developments on April 19.

In terms of health, if you have a concern, by all means, check with a doctor on one of your best days for advice or a procedure, April 9. On this day, Jupiter will be in beautiful aspect to the Sun, giver of life and strength. There is no better aspect to get advice.

Regarding health, there is one other day to circle: April 19, when the Sun and remunerative Pluto will also be your best friend.

If the idea of the coming swimsuit season has you jittery, sign up at the gym or for lessons just after the energetic new moon in Aries, April 17. Aries is the sign of the warrior, so you'd do best with strenuous sports. Take up fencing, boxing, squash, or something else that's strenuous and perfect for fat burning. You'll surprise yourself with the natural aptitude you show in your new activities, for again, Pluto will help you succeed.

Romance blooms best this month at work rather than while socializing at parties, or being out in restaurants or other social situations. It looks like someone may have noticed you and will now make a subtle move to get to know you better. Cancer is a shy, reserved sign, so you may wonder what to do next. If interested, suggest you both meet for coffee. Later you can you decide if you want to pursue things a bit more.

Fun with friends in any type of group activity will be best in the first ten days, while Venus tours Taurus, the very sign she rules. You'll be busy with your career in the second half, and occupied with your home, real estate decision, or parental concern at the start of April, but if you can, find a few moments to spend with your pals between other obligations.

If you are dating and interested in moving to a serious commitment but have wondered why engagement or marriage hasn't happened yet, the fact that Saturn has been retrograde is probably the reason. Saturn rules your house of marriage, and has been in a backward orbit since December.

All that changes this month. Watch the date Saturn goes direct, on April 19. That day and the days surrounding it will likely bring good news that the delays and hesitations that one or both of you felt may be over. Conditions will change and improve around you, too, so you'll feel more ready to tie the knot - if you truly are ready.

Attached or single, your very best romantic evenings will be: April 4 - 5, 13 - 14, 19, 21, and 27.



Summary:

Your home life is showing developments at the full moon April 2. You may move into a new space, decide to quickly fix up a space, or change roommates. Yet the fourth house of home also rules matters related to parents, too, so you may assist a relative or get news from one, or if you are adopted, even meet your parent for the first time. Every aspect surrounding this moon is positive, so forge forward, dear Cancer.

For two years, you've had to deal with a difficult financial situation, but now you have a perfect window of opportunity to help yourself to a better job in the second half.

Get on the stick at the new moon on April 17 to investigate offers for a better job or a chance to start your own business. You will have the two weeks that follow this new moon to flesh out opportunities. Indeed, this will be one of your very best points of the year to reach a new, more visible level in your industry.

With help from Pluto, it appears an authority figure could be very helpful in either pointing you in the right direction or in giving you the reference you need to nail it. Saturn and Jupiter, along with the position of the Sun, show the potential is there to make - and save - quite a bit of cash. This may be obvious now, or eventually, but it's clear you are moving out of this difficult situation.

In this future-oriented month, if you are interested in attending a college in coming semesters, the right puffy envelopes may now arrive in your mailbox with invitations to attend the college of your choice. Chances are, you'll be happy with news from the admissions department, for Mars will be in a very positive position from April 6 to May 15.

If you like, you'll be able to travel quite a bit in coming weeks, too. You seem bored lately, so you will do really well from getting a change in scene. Try to go now, dear Cancer.

No matter what your situation, it's an exciting time, as your whole future will be blossoming before your eyes now.