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This really doesn’t quite fit in with Wonders of Creation, but anyway…
Sea level ought to be pretty level, right?
Wrong. In the Western Pacific around New Guinea, there’s a watery hill almost two hundred and fifty feet high. This isn’t a hill on the ocean floor, it’s a hill in the ocean’s surface itself. The slope is very gradual because the hill is hundreds of miles across, but it’s definitely there. What causes the ocean’s waters to behave this way?
The answer has to do with small irregularities in the Earth’s gravitational field. Most people assume that it stays the same from place to place.
There are heavy concentrations of matter within the Earth’s mantle, much like lumps in a bowl of oatmeal. These huge, underground concentrations can cause slightly more gravity on the surface above them.
You might think that more gravity would pull the ocean’s water downward, making a hole in the ocean, but this doesn’t happen. After all, if it did, what would stop the surrounding water from rushing in to fill that hole? Just like a magnet attracts iron filings, an underground mass concentration attracts extra water–and extra gravity is what holds that extra water in place, making a hill in the ocean!
Interesting. I enjoy science. Where did you read this?
thats really cool
feivel: very interesting & welcome back! we need more threads to fill the category!
I think we should name this hill, Will.
How about Beans!
holy moly! the hills are all back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Will this Hill be called Beans?
kapusta: lol 🙂
Joseph: huh?
feivel: Can you do one on that street in Israel where the gravity goes upwards instead of down I always wondered how that worked?
I was there in Israel and it actually works. When you pour water it rolls upwards. But I still think its all an optical illusion-like Feivel claims.
feivel: Thats really cool.
There are a number of ways to produce “anti-gravity” effects. Here’s an easy one. Most other ones are similar simple tricks.
1. Clean out an empty soup can or an oat meal box and fully remove both the top and the bottom. Now you have a cylinder.
2. Tape a quarter or some other small weight inside it.
3. Prop up one end of a bread board or some other flat board.
4. Place your cylinder at the low end of the board with the quarter in the two o’clock position. When you release the cylinder, it will roll up the hill.
Summary: Because its center of gravity is very near the position of the quarter. The center of gravity will go down, causing the cylinder to roll up the hill.
5 things you never knew your cellphone can do:
1. Emergency- your emergency number worldwide for Mobile is 112. If you find yourself out of the coverage area of your mobile network and there is an emergency, dial 112 and the mobile will search any existing network to establish the emergency number for you, and interestingly, this number 112 can be dialed even if the keypad is locked. Try it.
2. Have you ever locked your keys in the car?
Does your car have remote keyless entry? This may come in handy someday. Good reason to own a cell phone:
If you lock your keys in the car and the spare keys are at home, call someone at home on their cell from your cell. Hold your cell phone about a foot from you car door and have the person at home press the unlock button, holding it near the mobile phone on their end. Your car will unlock. Saves someone from having to drive your keys to you. Distance is no object. You could be hundreds of miles away, and if you can reach someone who has the other remote of your car, you can unlock the doors.
editors note: It works fine! We tried it out and it unlocked our car over a cell phone!
3. Hidden battery power:
Imagine your cell battery is very low. To activate, press the keys *3370#. Your cell phone will restart with this reserve and the instrument will show a 50% increase in battery. This reserve will get charged when you charge your charge your cell phone next time.
4. How to disable a STOLEN mobile phone:
5. Free directory service for cell phones:
Hope this helped!
Mepal, you really ARE a pal. That was an excellent post. If all these things work the way you say, you have actually posted something really beneficial here. Thank you!!!!!
You’re welcome. Wasn’t sure whether to start a new thread with this info but figured, for those with enough patients to go thru all the threads, will get the most tips.
Mepal’s post has been debunked on the mythbusting sites. Sorry Mepal, but the truth is the truth.
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