Look out world, here comes 2013!

Hello once again. Sorry about the delay in the posting. So...I gonna have to get used to start writing 2013 instead of 2012. Speaking of years, let's talk about leap years.

We live in a world where there is 365 days in a year, a number that refuses to be divided evenly. And why is it that every 4 years or so, February gains an extra day? What kind of crazy universe do we live in? It all started when we found out that if we made our calendars 365 days per year, the seasons would slowly drift out of sync with the calendar, and eventually, winter will be in June! Then, we found out that if we chose 366 days per year, the seasons will still drift out of sync, just in the opposite way.

Then we found out that a year is actually 365.25 days. But we can't add a ".25" of a day in a calendar. So we chose to add an extra day every 4 years. But this is still a bit too often. So every century is not a leap year anymore. So the years 2000, 1900, 1800 and the other centuries are not leap years anymore even though they're divisible by 4.

But this still leaves the calendar ever so slightly off, by about 1 day off per 400 years. So a new rule was added. If a skipped century is divisible by 400, then that century will be a leap year. This leaves the calendar still so slightly off, by a rate of about 1 day off per 8500 years. But the calendar makers said "....well....close enough." Thank god for that.

But some mathematicians say that in the near future, we will create a calendar that will be perfectly aligned. Tough luck says the universe. The moon is actually making a "day-slowing" effect that is making the days longer in duration. So...no epic perfect calendar after all...

Interesting fact of the day: The entire internet (only the electrons that run it, not the chips and boards, hardware and all that stuff) weighs around 50 grams, or about the weight of a strawberry.

Wait...who's Santa Clause?

Hi everyone. Merry Christmas! Oh yes, it's that time of year when Santa Clause gives presents to children. But, who is Santa Clause?

The story is that every 24th of December, children around the world put out milk and cookies in hope that a magic fat man will bring presents to the children. How did such a odd tradition start?

You can pretty much say Northern Europe. Back in the day where in the wintertime there were little to no sunlight, they started making imaginary characters to enlighten the mood by bringing them presents. These characters ranged from elves to animals to gods, but two really stood out.

The first was St. Nick in the Netherlands. St. Nick is thin, sometimes a bit stern, but still brings presents to children. He dresses like a pope in red and white, wields a staff, and sometimes rides a horse. St. Nick is called "Sinterklaas" in Dutch (notice the resemblance between the pronunciation of Sinterklaas and Santa Clause).

The second was Father Christmas from England. He was big, jolly, and dressed in green. Traditionally, he is less concerned of children than he is with food, wine, and celebrations. When European colonies sailed to America, all of those characters mixed up became Santa Clause. Santa Clause is the "Americanization" of Sinterklaas. However, there are still people that call him St. Nick, Father Christmas, and Kris Kringle (what German people call it). In the old world, all of these names came from individuals, but now, they mixed it all together (which is why Santa Clause has many other names).

But remember, some people in the Netherlands still have St. Nick as Santa Clause. Plus some countries don't celebrate Christmas. Oh, and by the way,

Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah and Merry Kwanzaa too!

Intresting fact of the day: Did you know that E=mc² is not complete?

Speed of light!

Hello everyone. So you heard of people (in vehicles, except some daredevils) breaking the sound barrier. What about breaking the light barrier?

First of all, what is the speed of light?

The speed of light is 670,616,629 miles per hour (1,079,252,848, kilometers per hour) or 299,792,458 meters per second. Which is pretty fast if you think about it.

Only a few subatomic particles can move at the the speed of light. The most well known is the photon, or a particle of light. The others are tachyons, neutrinos, etc.

There were many times in experiments where they say that something moved faster than the speed of light. The most recent one was the OPERA experiment. They said that the neutrinos they released to travel across a distance went faster than the speed of light. However, it was later comfirmed that this was due to a clock error, making the clock tick faster than normal time.

Besides, breaking the speed of light would be universally impossible because to speed up a(n) object which has mass to the speed of light would take more energy than the entire universe has. Only massless particles can go at the speed of light.

So it's possible to break the sound barrier, but literally impossible to break the sound barrier. Even the Road Runner (beet, beet!) can't break the light barrier.

Interesting fact of the day: Did you know that caffeine can increase metabolic rates, increased attention, and can lower the risk of cardiovascular and diabetic dieseases! Just don't drink a lot. Just drink a couple of cups per week.

Universe's fate...

Hey everyone. Now that the hypothetical end of the world phenomenon has almost passed, let's talk about the real fate of the Earth, the Milky Way, and the entire universe.

Fate of the Earth. Let's see. Here's the most likely way that the Earth is really gonna end; the sun will swell into a red giant, frazzle Mercury, Venus, and Earth, and eat them. Not very good at all.

Fate of the Milky way. Well...this one is actually certain; the closest galaxy to us-the Andromeda galaxy- is on a collision course to the Milky way.  They will either combine into a bigger galaxy, or they will literally rip each other apart.

Fate of the entire universe, eh? Well...there are three possible ways that the universe will go.

• The big freeze. The universe will keep expanding as time gets slower, until time and the universe itself stops altogether in a cold death.

• The big crunch. Basically the reverse of the big bang. The universe will start collapsing in on itself, back into a very small, very hot point.

• The big rip. The universe will expand at such a fast rate, the universe violently rip apart.

So yeah. By the way, if you can, comment on which fate who would like the most. I know all of them are bad, but which fate would you rather have?

Interesting fact of the day: Did you know that there's a parasite that can control brains?

MMMMMinecraft!!!

Hey, everyone!

Now that it's a new week, let's talk about gaming. Starting off with one of the bestselling PC game, Minecraft.

Minecraft was released for PC at November 2011. Then for the Android at October 2011. Then for the iOS November 2011. Then, finally for the Xbox 360 at May 2012.

Minecraft is basically a "sandbox" game, or in other words, a virtual world created by Swedish programmer Markus "Notch" Persson and later published by Mojang.

Minecraft has two main modes. One of them is called "survival". In survival mode, you have to gather resources, cannot fly, and have health and hunger. The other is "creative" mode. In creative mode, you have unlimited resources in your inventory, you have the ability to fly, and you have no health or hunger. A third mode was added and is known as "hardcore" mode. In hardcore mode, the game is like survival, but differs in difficulty. When you die in hardcore mode, you cannot respawn, forcing the player to delete their world.

Minecraft is on sale at for the PC for USD $26.95.

Minecraft Pocket Edition for Android and iOS for USD $6.99.

Interesting fact of the day: Did you know that the creators/founders of Adidas and Puma are from the same family? (they're brothers)

End of the world?!

Hello everyone. So now that you know me, let's talk about something else...like the end of the world.

I bet some people now think "Oh great. Now HE'S talking about this too. He must be another crazy believer." Well, no. I, for one, am one of the many people that don't think world is going to end.

I mean seriously, what happened?

It all started with the Mesoamerican long count calendar/the Mayan calendar.

The calendar showed that the calendar stopped after December 21st, 2012. So what? It's not like they're minecraftians with unlimited stone.

Anyways, there were so many people complaining to NASA that they had to postpone everything they were doing at the time, and go to their website and write a more-than-one-page-long answer.

Now I don't want to go to nasa.org to look at the answer, but here's the revised version: NO.

To find out more about the "End of the world" phenomena, then go to CGP Grey's channel on YouTube. He released a video explaining the phenomena. Here it is.



Intresting fact of the day: Did you know that the entire internet (just the electrons that run it) weigh about 50 grams, or the weight of a strawberry?

Introducing...me!

Hello everyone. So you know that I have a blog. Obviously. Anyways, other than my blog, I also have a FaceBook account that I don't go to anymore.

I also have a YouTube account; TheAsianGuys9000. Yeah, that's my name. And for those of you that have a YouTube name similar to mines, sorry. I promise I didn't tried to copy you guys.

However, I don't have a Twitter or InstaGram account, and I'm not thinking of making one, sorry.

Interesting fact of the day: Did you know that Mario was originally named "Jumpman"? Plus, did you know that Mario has a hat because Shigeru Miyamoto, the guy that created Mario didn't like drawing hair, so he decided "Screw hair, I'm putting a hat on this dude."