Posts by Rean John Uehara

A strong earthquake sometimes trigger an earthquake light

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A strong earthquake sometimes trigger an earthquake light

Earthquake lights usually appear before or after a strong earthquake, just in the vicinity. Real reason as to why this happens is yet to be unveiled, but scientists theorize that it has something to do with the ionosphere heating up just before, or after, an earthquake. Others suggest that it is due to the interference in the magnetic field of the Earth.

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The oldest religion is 2000 years older than Christianity

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The oldest religion is 2000 years older than Christianity

Hinduism is the oldest living religion which traces back to 5500–2600 BCE. BCE stands for Before the Current Era or Before the Christian Era.

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What is the first domain to be registered on the Internet?

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What is the first domain to be registered on the Internet?

Symbolics.com is the first domain name to be registered on the Internet on March 15, 1985. First owned by Symbolics Inc., bought on August 27, 2009 by XF.com Investments.

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Yahoo! is actually a backronym, not acronym

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Yahoo! is actually a backronym, not acronym

Before it was named Yahoo! it was first “Jerry and David’s Guide to the World Wide Web”. Very easy to forget! The solution?

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The US Navy has a laser gun capable of igniting a boat

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The US Navy has a laser gun capable of igniting a boat

The US Navy has successfully, for the first time, fired their laser gun on one of their ships, igniting and disabling it. What comes next? Unfortunately, not “pew, pew, pew” since the Obama administration has cancelled its weaponization. Meaning, the purpose of High-Energy Laser (HEL) for now is to disable, not destroy.

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