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><channel><title>The Alien World &#187; Did you know</title> <atom:link href="http://thealienworld.com/category/did-you-know/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link>http://thealienworld.com</link> <description>An effort to understand the real world!</description> <lastBuildDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 12:15:58 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en</language> <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2</generator> <xhtml:meta xmlns:xhtml="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" name="robots" content="noindex" /> <item><title>Indian Rail</title><link>http://thealienworld.com/2011/02/20/indian-rail/</link> <comments>http://thealienworld.com/2011/02/20/indian-rail/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 20 Feb 2011 11:39:27 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Nitin</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Blog Post]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Did you know]]></category> <category><![CDATA[India]]></category><guid
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Few days back there was news about the inauguration of India’s longest rail bridge in Kerala. The bridge is 4.62 KMS long. The previous record was held by Dehri-on-Sone Bridge. The bridge is on Howrah-Delhi Grand Chord Line and is 3.65 KMS in length. The interesting fact about Sone Bridge is not its length, by [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://thealienworld.com/2011/02/20/indian-rail/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Mayan revisited</title><link>http://thealienworld.com/2010/11/01/mayan-revisited/</link> <comments>http://thealienworld.com/2010/11/01/mayan-revisited/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 01 Nov 2010 18:04:26 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Nitin</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Blog Post]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Did you know]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Mysteries]]></category> <category><![CDATA[2012]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Civilizations]]></category> <category><![CDATA[God]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Mayans]]></category><guid
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The Blood thirst
Have you watched Mel Gibson’s Apocalypto? This is how IMDB describes the movie:
“As the Mayan kingdom faces its decline, the rulers insist the key to prosperity is to build more temples and offer human sacrifices. Jaguar Paw, a young man captured for sacrifice, flees to avoid his fate.”
The movie Apocalypto shows ancient Mayan [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://thealienworld.com/2010/11/01/mayan-revisited/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>The &#8216;Face&#8217; on Mars &#8211; Nartural or Artificial?</title><link>http://thealienworld.com/2010/09/26/the-face-on-mars-nartural-or-artificial/</link> <comments>http://thealienworld.com/2010/09/26/the-face-on-mars-nartural-or-artificial/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 26 Sep 2010 16:41:56 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Nitin</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Blog Post]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Did you know]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Mysteries]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Mars]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://thealienworld.com/?p=940</guid> <description><![CDATA[On 25 July, 1976, Viking-1 while acquiring images of the Cydonia region of Mars, photographed a region relatively crater-free, lowland plains to the north. Among the hills was one that resembled a human face (frame 35A72 shown above).
This discovery was made by Tobias Owen from Jet Propulsion laboratory (JPL), a subsidiary of NASA. Few hours [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://thealienworld.com/2010/09/26/the-face-on-mars-nartural-or-artificial/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Our National Anthem</title><link>http://thealienworld.com/2010/08/11/our-national-anthem/</link> <comments>http://thealienworld.com/2010/08/11/our-national-anthem/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2010 17:40:41 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Nitin</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Blog Post]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Did you know]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Random Thoughts]]></category> <category><![CDATA[India]]></category><guid
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When I was in high school, I was part of a team which participated in the national anthem competition on Independence Day. Team of 3 boys &#38; 2 girls. We practiced for many weeks, just to achieve the perfect timings of 52 seconds. Needless to say that we won the competition, primarily because we had [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://thealienworld.com/2010/08/11/our-national-anthem/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>4</slash:comments> <enclosure
url="http://india.gov.in/myindia/images/jan.mp3" length="836234" type="audio/mpeg" /> </item> <item><title>At the end of ice age&#8230;</title><link>http://thealienworld.com/2010/08/08/at-the-end-of-ice-age/</link> <comments>http://thealienworld.com/2010/08/08/at-the-end-of-ice-age/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 08 Aug 2010 17:09:36 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Nitin</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Blog Post]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Did you know]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Atlantis]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Dwarka]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ice age]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://thealienworld.com/2010/08/08/at-the-end-of-ice-age/</guid> <description><![CDATA[…part 2 &#8211; the meltdown (movie) whole area is flooded with water after a very large ice dam breaks. This is precisely what must have happened from 15000 BC to 7000 BC, only at a much larger scale. So what precisely is a ice dam?
20000 years ago large parts of North America and northern Europe [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://thealienworld.com/2010/08/08/at-the-end-of-ice-age/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Males don&#8217;t have Bloodline &amp; Lineage?</title><link>http://thealienworld.com/2010/05/27/males-dont-have-bloodline-lineage/</link> <comments>http://thealienworld.com/2010/05/27/males-dont-have-bloodline-lineage/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2010 12:13:37 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Nitin</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Blog Post]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Did you know]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Science & Fictions]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Society]]></category> <category><![CDATA[DNA]]></category> <category><![CDATA[origin of life]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://thealienworld.com/?p=842</guid> <description><![CDATA[Recently my wife was reading Kathy Reichs novel where she has described about mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA). Kathy Reichs is also producer &#38; writer of the popular TV series Bones. Before hearing about mtDNA, I had very little idea about any types of DNAs, except  Y &#38; X chromosomes. My DNA knowledge is/was limited to doing paternity [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://thealienworld.com/2010/05/27/males-dont-have-bloodline-lineage/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> </channel> </rss>
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