50 Super Awesome Quotes

The following are 50 awesome quotes that will hopefully inspire and motivate you to take action and make a positive change in your life. Let’s do this!

The Story of the Butterfly

A man found a cocoon of a butterfly. One day a small opening appeared.He sat and watched the butterfly for several hours as it struggled to squeeze its body through the tiny hole. Then it stopped, as if it couldn’t go further. So the man decided to help the butterfly. He took a pair of scissors and snipped off the remaining bits of cocoon. The butterfly emerged easily but it had a swollen body and shriveled wings. The man continued to watch it, expecting that any minute the wings would enlarge and expand enough to support the body, Neither happened! In fact the butterfly spent the rest of its life crawling around. It was never able to fly. What the man in his kindness and haste did not understand: The restricting cocoon and the struggle required by the butterfly to get through the opening was a way of forcing the fluid from the body into the wings so that it would be ready for flight once that was achieved. Sometimes struggles are exactly what we need in our lives. Going through life with no obstacles would cripple us. We will not be as strong as we could have been and we would never fly.

8 Negara Dengan Durasi Puasa Dari Yang Terpanjang Hingga Terpendek Di DUNIA !!

Bumi Berotasi dan Berevolusi membuat beberapa daerah di beberapa bagian bumi mengalami perbedaan waktu, Sumbu Bumi ketika berputar juga tidak selalu tetap arahnya, tetapi memiliki kemiringan yang berubah-ubah dari tegak (kemiringan nol), sampai kemiringan 23,45o. Perubahan kemiringan sumbu putar Bumi inilah yang menyebabkan adanya perubahan musim di permu­kaan Bumi. Berikut Negara Dengan Durasi Puasa Terpanjang Hingga Terpendek di DUNIA !!

15 Lessons Penguins Taught Me About Love

 

Our flightless friends have love all figured out. Several weeks ago, we returned from the expedition of our lifetime together — all 47 years of it. We spent ten days on the continent of Antarctica. While we learned much from the couples we interviewed that live and work in Antarctica, the most important lessons we learned about love and relationships came from the penguins of Antarctica — particularly the gentoo, the adelie, the emperor, and the chinstrap. And, as it turns out, penguins and humans have a whole lot in common. With that in mind, here are the top 15 lessons about love and life we learned from the penguins of Antarctica:

1. Look out for each other. 

Like humans, penguins live in towns and villages called rookeries because it's easier to protect each other from predators and from the cold weather in groups. And what's really nice is most have a short commute to work finding food!

2. Have fun and play a lot. 

Penguins, like humans, love to gather with friends and family to have fun and play. Hanging around with their family gives them particular joy.

3. Communicate effectively. 

Penguins talk and chatter a lot to each other, just like humans! Communication is at the heart of their relationships with each other, just as it is with us.
4. Be a responsible adult.  
As they grow older, penguins learn to spread their wings, and even though they will never fly, they grow up for the most part to be responsible and productive adults. Almost all become parents at some point in their life. Sounds like a familiar human story to us.

5. Build your support network. 

 Sometimes penguins take trips together with their extended family. Like us, penguins know that friends and family are an integral part of their support network.
6. Smile often.  
Penguins are certainly a happy lot! They rarely get discouraged and almost never give up on their goals. We humans are like that as well.

7. Show love to your children.

Like us, penguins kiss their babies a lot! Their love and affection for their young is always in evidence.

8. Watch out for danger. 

They almost always look left and right before crossing the path! They know the world is full of danger, but you can always count on them to be prudent and careful for their safety and for the safety of their family and friends. We humans teach our children to look left and right before they cross the street, and we do so at a very early age.

9. Shout your love to the heavens!  

Penguins shout their love for each other by screaming it out loud. They are not shy about expressing their love for their mate. Saying "I love you" is just a normal part of their day, and they are willing to express their sentiments often. We humans could learn to do a better job of this by observing the penguins!

10. Keep your body clean. 

Penguins love to bathe a lot, especially with each other. They will race to get to the water first. Sometimes a refreshing swim makes them jump for joy!

11. Be faithful to the one you love. 

Penguins are monogamous, often having one mate for a lifetime. Death of their life's partner is about the only circumstance that causes them to search for a new mate. Maybe younger humans should pay attention to the penguin's model!

12. Stop and smell the roses. 

Frequently, penguins just stop and admire the view, what we humans would call, "stopping to smell the roses." They often stand together to admire the view from where they live and travel. We humans should do more of this.

13. Share the parenting responsibilities. 

Like humans, penguins share in the nurturing, feeding, and parenting of their children. It is remarkable how penguins demonstrate that birthing, protecting and raising a child is a shared responsibility of both the mother and the father. You can count on them to work together to build a comfortable nest for their children.

10 Reasons Why I Love Penguins

1. Penguins are so remarkable and wonderful birds!
2. Penguins are in my heart!
3. Penguins are VERY VERY important to me!
4. They have the capacity to love, to reason, to communicate and to reach out to human beings.
5. Penguins feel like kindred spirits and for years we've wondered, Who is that in the mirror?
6. Penguins are supremely intelligent birds. They can solve problems and figure things out quickly. They can't play with the same toy for very long.
7. I compare Penguins to cats because if they feel like doing something, they'll immediately do it! They have a mind of their own and are stubborn. They play in the same way cats do, by pawing things. They also are very loyal like dogs and they come straight to you when their names are called. They tend to be great friends with people and often stick by your side.
8. They have their own language called "Penguinese".
9. Penguins NEED our help. There are 18 species or kinds of penguins today and 14 out of the world's 18 species of penguins are on the risk of extinction. We NEED to do our share and protect nature. Including penguins. If penguins are to survive, We, the humans must work together and save them before it's too late.
10. Penguins are very friendly, cute and lovable animals and most people love them a whole heck of a lot. It's practically impossible to look at a penguin and feel angry. It's hard yet impossible even to not love penguins. I mean, one look at them and you imeditly fall in love with these fun loving sea birds. They also stand upright because their knees are bent at a 90 degrees angle.

What can I say about penguins? The Penguin is simply one beautiful bird with a kind heart!

NASA Hubble Finds a True Blue Planet

Astronomers making visible-light observations with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have deduced the actual color of a planet orbiting another star 63 light-years away.
The planet is HD 189733b, one of the closest exoplanets that can be seen crossing the face of its star.
Hubble's Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph measured changes in the color of light from the planet before, during and after a pass behind its star. There was a small drop in light and a slight change in the color of the light. "We saw the light becoming less bright in the blue but not in the green or red. Light was missing in the blue but not in the red when it was hidden," said research team member Frederic Pont of the University of Exeter in South West England. "This means that the object that disappeared was blue."

Earlier observations have reported evidence for scattering of blue light on the planet. The latest Hubble observation confirms the evidence.
If seen directly, this planet would look like a deep blue dot, reminiscent of Earth's color as seen from space. That is where the comparison ends.
On this turbulent alien world, the daytime temperature is nearly 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit, and it possibly rains glass -- sideways -- in howling, 4,500-mph winds. The cobalt blue color comes not from the reflection of a tropical ocean as it does on Earth, but rather a hazy, blow-torched atmosphere containing high clouds laced with silicate particles. Silicates condensing in the heat could form very small drops of glass that scatter blue light more than red light.
Hubble and other observatories have made intensive studies of HD 189733b and found its atmosphere to be changeable and exotic.
HD 189733b is among a bizarre class of planets called hot Jupiters, which orbit precariously close to their parent stars. The observations yield new insights into the chemical composition and cloud structure of the entire class.

Image Credit:  NASA, ESA, and A. Feild (STScI)

This plot compares the colors of planets in our solar system to exoplanet HD 189733b. The exoplanet's deep blue color is produced by silicate droplets, which scatter blue light in its atmosphere.
Clouds often play key roles in planetary atmospheres. Detecting the presence and importance of clouds in hot Jupiters is crucial to astronomers' understanding of the physics and climatology of other planets.
HD 189733b was discovered in 2005. It is only 2.9 million miles from its parent star, so close that it is gravitationally locked. One side always faces the star and the other side is always dark.
In 2007, NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope measured the infrared light, or heat, from the planet, leading to one of the first temperature maps for an exoplanet. The map shows day side and night side temperatures on HD 189733b differ by about 500 degrees Fahrenheit. This should cause fierce winds to roar from the day side to the night side.

Source : NASA :)