World's 10 Tallest Roller Coasters

No 10: Goliath - Six Flags Magic Mountain, Valencia, Calif. - 235 feet. Any roller coaster enthusiast will be quick to tell you that bigger is not necessarily better when it comes to riding the rails. Bigger is, however, definitely more terrifying. Here's a list of the world's tallest roller coasters, ranked by size. First stop: Goliath, reaches a speed of 85 mph. Despite its height, it includes a 255-foot drop, thanks to an underground tunnel.

No 9: Silver Star - Europa-Park, Rust, Germany - 240 feet. Silver Star is the tallest roller coaster in Europe, and exposes its riders to 4 Gs of force.

No 8: Titan - Six Flags Over Texas, Arlington, Texas - 245 feet. The Titan, which is almost identical to Goliath except bigger, includes a 540-degree helix twist and 2.8 million pounds of steel in its supports.

No 7: Eejanaika - Fuji-Q Highland, Fujiyoshida, Japan - 249 feet. Eejanaika's seats can rotate 360 degrees forward or backward in a controlled spin. There's some controversy over the Guinness Book of World Record's claim that it has the most inversions of any roller coaster in the world.

No 6: Fujiyama - Fuji-Q Highland, Fujiyoshida, Japan - 259 feet. The Fujiyama course is 6,709 feet long, and riders see it at 81 mph during its fastest point.

No 5: Thunder Dolphin - LaQua, Tokyo, Japan - 263 feet. Thunder Dolphin doesn't just go through the middle of a Ferris wheel, it also speeds through a hole in a building.

No 4: Millennium Force - Cedar Point, Sandusky, Ohio - 310 feet. Overlooking Lake Erie, Millennium Force utilizes an innovative cable lift system, and is regularly voted as roller-coaster enthusiasts' favorite ride.

No 3: Steel Dragon 2000 - Nagashima Spa Land, Nagashima, Japan - 318 feet. The Steel Dragon -- which opened in 2000, the Year of the Dragon, natch -- is the longest roller coaster in the world, at 8,133 feet and two inches long.

No 2: Top Thrill Dragster - Cedar Point, Sandusky, Ohio - 420 feet. Riders on this coaster are launched hydraulically, reaching a speed of 120 mph. When it opened, it had the highest drop of any coaster in the world -- 400 feet.

No 1: Kingda Ka - Six Flags Great Adventure, Jackson Township, New Jersey - 456 feet. It doesn't have "king" in its name for no reason. The Kingda Ka is the tallest and fastest roller coaster in the world, sending its riders on a 128-mph thrill ride

Seven Billionth Child !

wow, just read that on the newspaper today. The United Nation Population Division predicted that by Oct 31, this year, the seven billionth child on Earth will be born. and guess what, it is Asian. Sources told it is in Hong Kong. amazing thing about this is that human being living on this planet has doubled since 1960's. reason behind this news is that by having a safer, more comfortable and highly developing environment today has increase the factor of living in a happy, enjoyable life.

The six billionth child was born in 1999 declared by Kofi Annan, United Nation Secretary-General. She's only 11 years old now ! By 2025, the next billionth child is predicted to be born. this, strongly supported by the fast paced life and increasing number of babies are born. Can you imagine, thousands of babies are born each HOUR. wow. lol. well, funny thing is that this thing is quite interesting to know of. :)

eclipse.

the movement of Annular Eclipse 2010

in Malaysia 4.30pm, 15 Jan 2010

in Central Africa, during sunrise

it is the longest Annular eclipse for 1000 years. so it's a record which wouldn't be beaten for another millennium ! December 23, 3043 is the next one. think you can make it? lol i think no one would make it no more. how lucky are we to spectate the greatest phenomena in this world NOW. allahuakbar. but to ask, what is the hidden story/saying about eclipse ? only the great person with lots of knowledge knows them. wonder why we, muslims pray "solat sunat gerhana" everytime there's eclipse? must be something big/phenomenon thing is/will happening. else than to respect the utmost greatness/powerfulness of Allah s.w.t. doesn't it ? im still searching for an answer to this question. and yes, every eclipse are VERY tempting. how weird the thing was. how can a moon covering the huge surface of the sun.. and how beautiful the thing was during it happens. i myself, was very excited. how amazing. some say the gravitational force is very high during the peak time of eclipse. an egg can "stand" on either rough or smooth surface without support. how that can happen, i dont know. wallahualam.

attention for the next eclipses 2010;
Partial Lunar Eclipse - June 26th (visible in Americas, the Pacific and eastern Asia)
Total Solar Eclipse - Jully 11th (visible in South Pacific and southern South America)
Total Lunar Eclipse - December 21st (visible in Americas, Europe, Africa, eastern Asia)

the best for Malaysian is on June 15th EST 11pm & December 10th EST 12pm 2011 as all eclipse visible. that time maybe we could see the whole thing rather than a half or quarter of it.

*source from NASA.

very exciting indeed :)
till next post.
thank you.

Top 7 Abandoned Architectural Wonders of Modern Asia

1) The Lawless Kowloon Walled City, Hong Kong

2) The Ryugyong Hotel in Pyongyang, North Korea

3) The Pod City of San Zhi, Taiwan

4) The Abandoned City of Agdam, Azerbaijan

5) Bokor Hill Station in Phnom Bokor, Cambodia

6) Opko Land Theme Park in Opko, South Korea

7) Chiang Shopping Complex in Chiang Mai, Thailand

World's Fastest Rolls Royce

In Joe’s Street Rod Shop is where you might find the fastest Rolls Royce in the world. This Rolls Royce belongs to the Silver Shadow model of 1970, which has now been supersized to carry a whooping 1350 horsepower. Made of full leather, inside you will find a 4-screen TV and a 9.3 liter V8 engine. Experts estimate that it will cost approximately $318,000 to assemble such a car.

Largest bridge goes to Dubai...!

We all have recently seen the amazing architecture of Dubai and their buildings. It looks like Dubai is set to take the title of World’s largest bridge with this latest concept bridge. This bridge will be a mile long and 670-feet high at its highest point. It will have a whooping 12 lanes of traffic with a metro line running down the center. It is expected to be able to carry over 4000 hours vehicles per hour and will cost a measly 817 million dollars (chump change to them at least).

World oil chart

Smallest kitten in the world ! =)

Inverted World Map

This is what the world would look like if the world’s areas of land were water and the world’s areas of water were land. The map is created by VladStudio. These guys went into a lot of detail about how things would look like. You can get this map as a wallpaper or a poster from their website.

The North Pole becomes an 'island' for the first time in history as ice melts !

The North Pole has become an island for the first time in human history.

Startling satellite pictures taken three days ago show that melting ice has opened up the fabled North-West and North-East Passages - making it possible to sail around the Arctic ice cap.

The opening of the passages has been eagerly awaited by shipping companies which hope they will be able to cut thousands of miles off their routes.

Blocked: The Arctic ice, showing as a pink mass in the 1979 picture, links up with northern Canada (on the left) and Russia (right)

But to climate change scientists it is yet another sign of the damage global warming is inflicting on the planet.

Mark Serreze, a sea ice specialist, described the images as an 'historic event' - but warned they added to fears that the Arctic icecap has entered a 'death spiral'.

The pictures, produced by Nasa, mark the first time in at least 125,000 years that the two shortcuts linking the Atlantic and Pacific oceans have been ice-free at the same time.

In 2005, the North-East Passage around Russia opened, while the western one, across the top of Canada, remained closed, and last year the position was reversed.

But the satellite data shows that the North-West passage opened last weekend and the remaining tongue of ice blocking the North-Eastern one dissolved a few days later.

Professor Serreze, of the U.S. government-funded National Snow and Ice Data Center, told a Sunday newspaper: 'The passages are open. It is an historic event.

'We are going to see this more and more as the years go by.'

Thawing ocean: The North-West Passage (circled left) and the North-East Passage (top right) are clear of ice

Shipping companies are ready to exploit the new routes. The Beluga group, based in Bremen, Germany, plans to send the first ship through the North-East passage next year, cutting 4,000 nautical miles off the voyage from Germany to Japan.

If the ice continues to melt at current rates it will soon be possible to sail right across the North Pole.

Many scientists believe that the mass of ice that forms a jagged circle around the North Pole could vanish altogether in the summer by 2030.

Others believe it could take as little as five years for the Pole, currently frozen all year round, to be ice-free between mid-July and mid-September.

Four weeks ago, tourists had to be evacuated from Baffin Island's Auyuittuq National Park in northern Canada because of flooding from thawed glaciers.

The park's name means 'land that never melts'.