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Albert Einstein’s Theory of Relativity had set the speed of light as the universal speed limit of sorts, and showed that time and distance are not faithfully absolute but are affected by one’s rate of motion. A clock which is in motion always appears to run slower when compared to one at rest. This is because time is always relative to the speed at which a body is moving. This means that you could actually do a bit of time travel, but of course you need to have a really fast spaceship. Consider an astronaut traveling into space for six months at a speed that is close to speed of light, and then taking another six months to return to Earth. He would land in the future! While it would be only a year that has elapsed on the astronaut’s clock, back on Earth, tens of thousands of years would have passed, depending on how close to the speed of light the austronaught was traveling.

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Tags: Space Travel, Time travel, Voayge through Space

This is about as strange as it gets. In a quaint public park in Lintz, Austria, three drain pipes have been transformed into mini hotel rooms. Christened the Das Park Hotel, each room comes with a double bed, a bed light, linens and a side table .The guests can pay what they feel a stay in the room is worth. As for amenities, guests have to use the park’s public bathrooms and dine at nearby restaurants. The hotel rooms are supposedly decorated with a few cozy amenities and items that might remind one of home. The “rooms” even come with electronic key locks which can only be opened with a key code; this ensures that all of your belongings are safe while you visit the local attractions. This is no doubt a great idea and an ingenious rethinking of the uses of something as simple and not very attractive as a drain pipe. However, people with claustrophobia are warned to consider the ramifications of sleeping in such tight quarters. The hotel is open between May and October, and anyone who fancies a quirky night in a bizarre place, really should check this one out.

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Tags: Bizzare hotels, Strange accomodations, Travel

The Museum of Modern Art is a world class museum located in Midtown Manhattan in New York, USA. It has single-handedly spurred the development of modernist art and is widely considered be one of the most influential museums of modern art since its inception in 1929. MoMA was the first ever museum to admit photography, design, architecture and film to its collection. The Museum’s library archives over 300,000 books, periodicals and individual files of more than 75,000 artists.

The museum was developed by Abby Aldrich Rockefeller along with two of her friends. This interesting group was known by a variety of names “the Ladies”, “the adamantine ladies” and “the daring ladies”. They rented out a small living space, and opened the museum to the public precisely nine after the Wall Street Crash. Abby invited Conger Goodyear, the former president of the board of trustees of the Albright Art Gallery in Buffalo, to be the president of the new museum. Rockefeller then became the treasurer. At the time it was America’s leading museum which was devoted exclusively to modern art.

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Which are the world’s tallest buildings? It depends on what you are measuring. The debate continues as to what parts of buildings are deserving of recognition when measuring a buildings height. Should flagpoles, spires, and antennas be included in the total height measurement? Technically speaking, communications towers, observation decks and towers, are thought of as structures, and not actual buildings because the can not be lived in. Contributing to its height, the Taipei 101 has a 60 foot spire that gives the building a total height of 509 meters. The building is at the moment, the tallest in the world.

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For many years mysterious orb shaped objects that are seemingly made of light, have reportedly been seen around the world by thousands of people. With the advent of digital photography, orb sightings have become more and more common. Some scientists claim that this is evidence of other-worldly beings from another dimension. Recently, in Sedona, Arizona the first conference of its kind regarding the orb phenomenon was held. At the conference, some scientists claimed that the round or circular shaped objects, or orbs, do indeed offer enough evidence to prove the existence of beings from another place. If the scientists are correct, this could have great implications for mankind and our place in the universe. Aren’t these types of images common place in digital photography? Simple moving the camera when in low light situations can easily cause a streak, or double image.

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