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  • #589681
    feivel
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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!

    #643107
    just me
    Participant

    Interesting. I enjoy science. Where did you read this?

    #643108
    aussieboy
    Participant

    thats really cool

    #643110
    Jax
    Member

    feivel: very interesting & welcome back! we need more threads to fill the category!

    #643112
    Anonymous
    Inactive

    I think we should name this hill, Will.

    #643113
    Anonymous
    Inactive

    How about Beans!

    #643114
    Jax
    Member

    holy moly! the hills are all back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    #643115
    kapusta
    Participant

    Will this Hill be called Beans?

    *kapusta*

    #643117
    aussieboy
    Participant

    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?

    #643121
    feivel
    Participant

    aussie

    At several hilly locations, known as “gravity hills,” objects such as cars left on neutral supposedly roll uphill, driven by unknown forces and against the force of gravity. Physicists say — and GPS measurements confirm — that the effects are illusions caused by the landscape. The position of trees and slopes of nearby scenery, or a curvy horizon line, can blend to trick the eye so that what looks uphill is actually downhill.

    #643122
    mepal
    Member

    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.

    #643123
    aussieboy
    Participant

    feivel: Thats really cool.

    #643124
    squeak
    Participant

    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.

    #643125
    mepal
    Member

    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!

    #643126
    oomis
    Participant

    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!!!!!

    #643127
    mepal
    Member

    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.

    #643128
    Jothar
    Member

    Mepal’s post has been debunked on the mythbusting sites. Sorry Mepal, but the truth is the truth.

    #643129
    feivel
    Participant

    the first four are totally false

    the fifth one is true

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