Antlers

The Irish Elk or Giant Deer was a species of Megaloceros and one of the largest deer that ever lived. Its range extended across Eurasia, from Ireland to east of Lake Baikal, during the Late Pleistocene. The latest known remains of the species have been carbon dated to about 7,700 years ago.

Although large numbers of skeletons have been found in Irish bogs, its common name, Irish Elk, is misleading as the animal was not exclusively Irish, and neither was it closely related to either of the living species currently called elk; for this reason, the name "Giant Deer" is preferred in more recent publications. Megaloceros giganteus first appeared about 400,000 years ago.

The Irish Elk stood about 2.1 metres (6.9 ft) tall at the shoulders, and it had the largest antlers of any known cervid (a maximum of 3.65 m (12.0 ft) from tip to tip and weighing up to 40 kilograms (88 lb)). In body size, the Irish Elk matched the extant moose subspecies of Alaska (Alces alces gigas) as the largest known deer. A significant collection of M. giganteus skeletons can be found at the Natural History Museum in Dublin.

Maps

One of the earliest known maps of the world in the Babylonian map of the world.

The Babylonian Map of the World is a clay tablet map of the world, with Babylon at its center. The map is from ca. 600 BC and was discovered at Sippar, southern Iraq, a city that was 60 miles (97 km) north of Babylon on the east bank of the Euphrates River.

Antlers

Different kinds of antlers

Moose

Reindeer/Caribou

Elk

Fallow Deer

Red Deer

White-Tailed Deer

Maps

Maps have allways fascinated me. I like to know where i am and also where other people are too. I think its important to know your own home, country and planet and maps are a brilliant invention to help humans to learn and navigate around the globe.

I also find it an amazing feet how early explorers drew the first maps. I find it hard to imagine the skill in drawing a shoreline on a boat sailing along the coastline.

This is the Nova totius Terrarum Orbis geographica ac hydrographica tabula, a map of the world created by Hendrik Hondius in 1630, and published the following year in the atlas Atlantis Maioris Appendix.

Among its claims to notability is the fact that it was the first dated map published in an atlas, and therefore the first widely available map, to show any part of Australia, the only previous map to do so being Hessel Gerritsz' 1627 Caert van't Landt van d'Eendracht ("Chart of the Land of Eendracht"), which was not widely distributed.

Time Travel

More the possibility of Time Travel. Time travel has been an impossible dream of mankind for a long long time. Lots of books, tv, films and music have been made about this obsession of time.

Here are some famous time traveling devices that have appeared in films.

The altered Delorean that appeared in the Back to the Future Trilogy.

12 Monkeys
The Time Machine (1960 film)

Brilliant 80's classic Bill and Ted's excellent adventure in which a normal telephone box is the time machine

The famous Tardis which appears in Doctor Who is a time machine/spaceship.

Antlers

Cardboard deer head

Jupiter

Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest planet within the Solar System. It is a gas giant with a mass slightly less than one-thousandth of the Sun but is two and a half times the mass of all the other planets in our Solar System combined. Jupiter is classified as a gas giant.

Here are some amazing pictures of our solar systems giant...

Antlers

Antlers are good because they are marvelous appendages and have many interesting characteristics

Every year antlers are shed and new bigger and stonger antlers are grown

An antler has neither muscles nor joints for movement

When antlers are growing they are covered in a soft texture called growing velvet

The growing velvet has a complex internal vein and artery structure with the dense marrow of the developing bone, a network of nerves that extends all the way to the tips of the tines, and covering of skin with true hair and oil glands.

Antlers are the fastest growing appendages in the animal kingdom. In large-antlered dear (Elk, Moose and Caribou) the velvet antler can grow as rapidly as 2 centimeters per day.

Early antlers caused by a surge of testosterone are called pedicles

Some of the testosterone used to grow the velvet antlers is converted to estrogen, which causes the death of the velvet and the mineralization of the antler to hard bone. After the deer rubs off the dried and sometimes bloody velvet, its antlers are revealed to be bones growing out of its head.

Anterlogenic tissue is what antlers grow from. If a piece of embryonic antler stem-cell material was embedded in another part of the deers body a small antler would grow. It has also been tried on mice too and was successful. Therefore it is enterally possible that this could work for humans

Deer are the only warm blooded animal that can regenerate a complete oragan.

Antlers

Jupiter

Jupiter is SO big that all the other planets in our solar system could fit inside of Jupiter.

Jupiter is the fastest rotating planet. For one full rotation ( one day ) it only takes 9 hours 55 mins. Considering its size that is very very fast!

What is Good ?

Things i like are everywhere but at the moment i think these things are good.

Giant Tortoises

Maps

Antlers

Time Travel

Jupiter