Showing posts with label Hurricane. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hurricane. Show all posts

Saturday, May 17, 2008

Micro versus Macro



The Universe and everything in it is governed by maths. Geometric shapes are seen both at a molecular level, and at a level measured in light-years. Yet they are the same shapes.

Ah, Maths! :D

Monday, January 14, 2008

Hurricane Ivan

from Space.

Boy, he's a big bastard! ;)



Ninety percent of the houses on Grenada were damaged by the destructive force of Hurricane Ivan. At its peak, Ivan was a Category 5 hurricane, the highest power category on the Saffir-Simpson Scale, and created sustained winds in excess of 200 kilometers per hour. Ivan was the largest hurricane to strike the US in 2004, and, so far, the 10th most powerful in recorded history. As it swirled in the Atlantic Ocean, the tremendous eye of Hurricane Ivan was photographed from above by the orbiting International Space Station. The name Ivan has now been retired from Atlantic Ocean use by the World Meteorological Organization.