The Vessels Who Can Carrying Ships

     When a need to transport a number of large vessels (which can not sail), or move the oil rig giants (like BP's Thunder Horse PDQ) or may bring home battleship damaged (USS Cole) appears, then the MV Blue Marlin was the one who got the call to perform the job.

     As quoted from versesofuniverse.blogspot.com, Blue Marlin is a semi-submersible vessel heavy lift, designed to transport semi-submersible drilling rigs are very large on the deck of the transport ship. The vessel is equipped with 38 cabins to load 60 people, exercise room, sauna and swimming facilities.

     Blue Marlin and her sister ship MV Black Marlin is Marlin class heavy lift vessel. They belong to Offshore Heavy Transport Oslo, Norway, while their construction, respectively in April 2000 and November 1999, until July 6, 2001, when they were purchased by Dockwise Shipping of the Netherlands.

HISTORY

     United States Navy hired the Blue Marlin from Offshore Heavy Transport to move the destroyer USS Cole back to the United States after the warship was damaged by a suicide bomber attack al Qaeda when docked in the port of Aden, Yemen. During late 2003, work was done on the Blue Marlin to increase capacity and add two pull propulsors to improve maneuverability.

     Ships return began operating in January 2004, after the repair, the Blue Marlin delivered the oil platform Thunder Horse PDQ, which weighs 60,000 tons, to Corpus Christi, Texas, to complete manufacture.

     In July 2005 Blue Marlin moved the gas refinery Snøhvit of the construction site in Cádiz to Hammerfest, 11-day trip. Transportation is filmed in a TV show on the Discovery Channel Extreme Engineering, and also a TV show on the History Channel Mega Movers.

     In November 2005, Blue Marlin left Corpus Christi, Texas, to move the X-band Radar large sea-based keAdak, Alaska, through the southern tip of South America and Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Arriving at Pearl Harbor on January 9, 2006, after traveling 15,000 miles. In January 2007, the Blue Marlin was employed to move two jack-up rigs, the Rowan Gorilla VI and the GlobalSantaFe Galaxy II, from Halifax Harbour to the North Sea.

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Exotic Beauty Island With Unique Shaped

     Nature created so unique, so even with millions island on Earth. Some of them have a very unique shape and make tourists feel curious to invite curiosity to go there just to take photos or simply set his foot is unique to the island. 

     The most unique islands in the world follows this tree-shaped, hearts, boomerang-shaped island until sperm are some examples of uniquely shaped island. Reported by the Environmental graffiti, reported the island have their own meaning from the unique shape.

1. Boomerang Island

     The most unique island in this world shaped Aboriginal traditional weapons, Australia, that is the boomerang. Boomerang island in the South China Sea. The island is part of the Spratly Islands.

2. Tree Island

 

     This tree-shaped island in the Isles of Scilly, off the coast of Cornwall, southern England. Seen from the sky, its shape is similar to a tree. Have sticks, twigs, leaves and even the bottom of the tree as it is the form of land.

3. Sperm Island

 

     The island is shaped like a sperm, so is a very unique island. This picture was taken from the plane in flight over the sea between Japan and Europe. From this it seems clear only an island of sand and soil. But from the sky, the island looks like a sperm cell swimming in a vast ocean blue.

4. Hearts Island 

 

     This unique island is very romantic. Off the coast of Croatia are Galesnjak island in the Adriatic Sea. But people call Love Island. This is because the heart-shaped island, a symbol of love.
     The island is privately owned, filled with plants and trees. Island near the city Turanj become the world's attention in 2009 when Google Earth satellite photo publishing this heart-shaped island.

5. Stingray Island

     In Denmark, there Aebelo island in the Kattegat sea. It is located on the north side Funen Island, the third largest island in Denmark. If viewed from the sky, shaped like a stingray. In fact, some parts of the island are sandy and formed a long line, as if it is part of the tail.

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This Is The 6 Foods And Beverages Removers Spicy Flavor

     For those of you who are fond of spicy foods if one day might not eat spicy taste bland, but the effect of eating spicy make your mouth burn. 

     Too much to eat chili or hot sauce make you desperate and looking for food or drink spicy bidders, but you do not know the right foods that can eliminate the spicy flavor. 

     Many people who neutralize spicy flavors with mineral water. In fact, the wrong way, even make sense heat spread throughout your mouth. Now that you are more flexible and do not eat spicy spicy this is a loss for the bidder 6 food and beverage relievers that can cope with spicy peppery flavor that burns your mouth. 

1. Milk or Milk Products Other 

     Milk, yogurt and cheese can eliminate spicy flavor. That's because the fat content in dairy products can neutralize the burning sensation in the mouth. 

2. Sugar 

     Waste of sugar on the tongue and then suction for 30 seconds. Sugar will absorb the spicy taste in your mouth. 

3. Rice 

     Eat some rice scoop when you feel very spiciness. Grain of rice can draw spicy taste in the mouth. 

4. Lime 

     Cut the lemon and suck. Lime is believed to cool the tongue burn. 

5. Peanut Butter 

     Eating peanut butter can also help neutralize the spicy flavor. Just like dairy products, peanut butter contains fat that can be 'cool' spicy taste in the mouth. 

6. Fruit Juice 

     The effects of eating spicy can also make the head feel dizzy. If it were so means you are very dehydrated. To overcome immediately drink fruit juice to neutralize spicy and relieve dizziness in your head.

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Why Objects Wavy Looks At Hot Air?

     While walking in the middle of a very hot day, buildings, roads, and the car will look bumpy. Why is that? 

     On a very hot day when it happens refraction of light from objects that we see eye to us through different media. As a result, the object is only visible wavy in our eyes. 

     How can the object light is refracted through a different medium? Though there is only air between the object and our eyes? 

     Yes, it is only hot air, but the heat also varies, depending on the heat given up by the earth to the air. This temperature difference was also affecting the refraction of light through it. 

     As a result, the object of light that passes through the air with different temperatures will be refracted at an angle that is different also, so it looks grooved by our eyes. 

So how can these objects appear wavy? 

     Do not forget that hot air tends to rise to the top. Which occurs in the air in front of us is the transfer of heat and cool air. Hot air rises and is replaced by cool air. 

     Then, there is another hot air rises cool air replaces it. And so on. The pattern of heat-cool-heat is what makes the light received by our eyes refracted with alternating angles, so it looks wavy in our eyes.

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Human Genes Injected, These Mice Are So Smart

     In science fiction movies (Sci-Fi), intelligent animals sometimes describe the experimental results by changing the composition of their genes. In the real world, progress in this direction is possible. 

     Massachusetts Institute of Technology to experiment with combining human genes - FOXP2 - and reorder the arrangement of genes on mice, rats produces learning how to find food faster than normal mice. 

  

     This kind of experiment has also been carried out in 2009 found, from the human FOXP2 develop more complex neurons, as well as forming a more efficient brain circuitry. 

     "No one knows how the brain makes the transition from conscious thought to doing it unconsciously," says Ann Graybiel, author of the report at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as reported by ABC Science. 

     From these findings, the team conducted experiments Graybiel and re-used hundreds of rats that are divided into two groups. The first group of genetically modified, and the second group of normal mice. 

     All mice were housed in a complex maze. The ultimate goal to find food, which is a piece of chocolate. In some parts of the bend in the maze, placed several signs such as "T" for the intersection, "turn to the direction of the chair". So each rat had a choice, pay attention to signs or feel the texture of the floor of the maze - smooth or rough.

     As a result, mice that had received human gene engineering can find chocolate in 7 days. While normal mice spend up to 11 days. 

     Surprisingly, when the signs of the labyrinth was removed so that the mouse can only guess from the texture of the floor, engineered mice and normal mice to find chocolate at the same time. 

     Based on these experiments, Graybiel develop a hypothesis, that the human gene does not improve cognitive abilities flexible. But the human gene makes rat brain thinks sequentially, called declarative learning. Examples such as we, humans learn to consciously remember the traffic signs automatically when repeating the same road. 

     The research contained in the journal "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences" aims to study the ability of infants to learn language automatically, by consciously imitating the words they hear.

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