The largest mural made of useless writing instrument material
On November 6, 2020, the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria mounted the largest mural in the world made of useless writing instrument material. Along the wall of the parking lot of the School of Engineering in Telecommunications and Electronics, on the University Campus of Tafira, this mural extends 39.55 meters long by 1.83 meters high in which colorful fish can be distinguished, crabs and seahorses on a navy blue background. The mural is the result of the work of university students, it has 12,480 pieces that, like a puzzle, make up a pixelated image that plays with the visual acuity of the observer, who must be located about 20 meters away to be able to distinguish each one of them. the figures on the mural. In addition, it carries an intrinsic message, in order to have a seabed like the one in the image, you have to minimize…
The world’s largest commercial aircraft
The world’s largest commercial aircraft, 73 meters long, with a capacity of 853 passengers and weighing around 575 tons. The Airbus A380 is a four-jet aircraft manufactured by the European company Airbus, a subsidiary of the Airbus Group. This is the first reaction aircraft with two decks along its entire fuselage, unlike the Boeing 747 in which, although it also has two, the upper deck covers only the front of the fuselage. It has a maximum capacity of 853 passengers – in a hypothetical high-density tourist-class configuration.
World’s largest collection of Kansas City Chiefs-related memorabilia
Despite being located over 120 miles from Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, Missouri via I-70, Manhattan, Kansas, USA, is home to the world’s largest collection of Kansas City Chiefs Related Memorabilia. Curt Herrman, Chiefs super-fan and owner of the record setting collection, began building his “Chiefseum,” as he puts it, when he was just eight-years old. Over 50 years and 642 pieces of Kansas City Chiefs Related Memorabilia later, Herrman, who is also a Manhattan-Ogden school-board member, is potentially on the verge of holding his own spot in the Official World Records. “I think getting the world record would make it kind of make me feel like it’s been worthwhile,” Herrman said. The collection covers just about every wall and fills just about every shelf in the basement of Herrman’s home and is enough to take just about anyone’s breath away, Chiefs fan or not. “A lot of times I’ll…
The largest number of apartments sold in a time of 20 hours
WORLD RECORD CHALLENGE On June 12th and 13th, 2017, in Santa Cruz, Bolívia, Jürgen Klaric, considered the bestseller of the world, held a sales conference for a period of 20 hours(June 12 from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., and June 13 from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.), which resulted in an incredible sale of77 apartments, with a total value of $ 4,347,575 and 3,098 total square meters sold.With a median of 40.23 square meters and of 56.462,01 USD per apartment.Aquí las fotos de los apartamentos vendidos en construcción:EN: Here the photos of the apartments sold under construction: JÜRGEN KLARIC On June 12th and 13th, 2017, in Santa Cruz, Bolívia, Jürgen Klaric, considered the bestseller of the world, held a sales conference for a period of 20 hours(June 12 from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., and June 13 from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.), which resulted in an incredible sale of77…
First solar plane that has completed a round the world trip
The first solar plane that has completed the round the world (by stages) has been the Impulse II. This prototype created in Switzerland, began on March 9, 2015, its air adventure that took 504 days in 17 stages to complete, after 41,952 Km and various visicitudes. This project began in 2005 by its two pilots, Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg. After great work and numerous technical and economic problems in April 2010, the first flights were started as a test. They broke the record as the solar plane who made the longest flight (26 hours 9 minutes) and a record height (8,564 meters). The Impulse II has 4 electric motors of 7.5 Kw (10hp) and a wing area of 204 m2 with 17,248 solar cells, its weight is 2,300 Kg. It has traveled at an average speed in its 17 stages of 75.2 km / h and has reached a…
The largest and most powerful chip ever made
The startup Cerebras has manufactured the largest and most powerful chip ever made. It is 56 x larger than any other chip, it delivers more compute, more memory, and more communication Bandwidth than any other created so far. Cerebras is a computer systems company dedicated to accelerating deep learning. ) It has a size of 46,225 mm, which would be roughly equivalent to the size of an Ipad. It contains 1.2 trillion transistors inside it, 400,000 programmable processor cores and 18 GB of memory. To perform this magnificent work of microengineering it has been necessary a complete silicon wafer, an investment of 112 million dollars and the work of 173 engineers. This chip will undoubtedly contribute to the many advances planned in the field of deep learning and neural fields in the immediate future Press releases or links related to this Official World Record PRESS RELEASE
The largest wave energy production plant
The largest wave energy production plant is located in the Guipuzcoan population of Mutriku, Basque Country, Spain. This generating plant, for commercial purposes, is an example of the great virtues of the so-called renewable energies. Not being the best known, it is one of the most efficient and sustainable. The Mutriku generating plant was inaugurated on July 8, 2011. It has 16 turbines that generate 296 kW and that at the end of the year produce 970MW / h. It is owned by the Basque Energy Agency that invested 6.7 million euros in its construction. The construction was carried out by the Scottish company Wavegen, a pioneer and benchmark in this technology, based on a system called OWC (Oscilating Water Column). This is one of the 3 main systems of exploitation of the waves. The OWC takes advantage of the change in level generated by the waves within watertight enclosures…
155,080 kilometers in 12 hours on a treadmill
Iván Penalba López is an ultra-long distance runner born in Alfafar (Valencia) specialized in long-distance road and track races, specifically in the 12 and 24-hour distances, where he has repeatedly managed to break the records of Spain in different locations ( South Africa, Germany, Spain and Taiwan). Although his mastery of the specialty is overwhelming, he has never been an interior runner, hardly using the treadmill for stress tests or very specific situations according to his condition as a top athlete. He had never entered his plans to run an ultra distance on cover. In fact, just the day before the decree of the state of alarm by the covid-19, Iván was due in the 100 kilometers of Belgrade with the best personal mark included with a time of 6:58:17. However, his spirit of self-improvement and the impossibility of doing any type of training outside his home forced him to…
Longest distance completed on a Pump Track bycicle without pedalling or stopping
The New Zealand cyclist Jason Connor, specialist in the thriving specialty of Pump Track, obtained a spectacular Official World Record on October 11, 2020. The Record consisted in circling a circuit (Velosolutions) for almost an hour without pedaling or stopping at any time. The circuit was 222 meters long and 1.3 wide. Jason Connor with the support of Red Bull managed to reach a distance of 25.01 kilometers in a time of 57 minutes and 34 seconds. The event also aimed to obtain this Official World Record to raise funds for the Keep a Breast organization in its fight against cancer. The beautiful event that was the focus of the attention of the entire community was supervised by Philip Coles member of the Waipa Council who gave him the Certificate of Record and the trophy.
The fastest solo cycle ride from London to Paris
WORLD RECORD CHALLENGE On Sunday 28th August 2016 – a World Record was broken. Jonathan Parker,a Barrister from Herne Bay, Kent, cycled from London to Paris in the fastest time ever recorded: 12 hours and 31 minutes. As the weeks pass by since world record was broken, he is still astounded that the donations keep coming. The page has currently raised over £12,000.00 for the charity Cyclists Fighting Cancer. Here is his journey. WHO IS JONATHAN PARKER? Having lost his father this year and his mother and uncles previously to that awful disease every single one of us knows too well, Jonathan decided he wanted to raise some money in memory of his family members. JP had ridden London to Paris before over a number of days with the Bloodwise charity and had loved every minute, heard every heart breaking story and felt every inch of euphoria as they all…
The biggest truck in the world
It is the BelAZ 75710, it is a mining truck 20 meters long, 10 wide and 8 high, with a weight of 360 tons and capacity to transport up to 450 tons, thanks to which it is the most immense truck on the planet. This truck was manufactured by the Belarusian company BelAZ, with the aim that, in addition to being the largest in the world, it was also equipped with the best technology. The BelAZ 75710 is designed to work in large mining complexes, since its large dimensions prevent it from driving on conventional roads. It is trained to do the work of five trucks in less time, making it also perfect for other engineering or construction tasks that require the transport of materials. Although it seems incredible given its characteristics, the operation of this truck is possible thanks to four electrical mechanics from Siemens with 1.2000 kW of…
The longest and busiest passenger bus
The bus of the Volvo brand model Gran Artic 300 is the longest and with the greatest capacity for passage, fully approved for the use of public passenger transport, with the high safety standards that this entails. The Gran Artic 300 looks like a large snake 30 meters long crawling on the asphalt of large cities thanks to its bi-articulated chassis. It has a capacity for 300 passengers who travel safely and properly spaced. This large bus is part of a network transport called BRT (Bus Rapid Transit) which is made up of more than 4,000 high-capacity public transport vehicles from the populated cities of South America. This bus made its spectacular appearance as a prototype at the transport fair “Fetrans Rio exhibition” in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro in 2016, capturing all eyes, both from professionals in the sector and from the general public, thanks to its…
Shockingly lifelike dinosaur fossil
It was 18 feet long and built like a tank. Now its mummified remains have emerged from an oil sands mine in Canada. No, it’s not the plotline of a summer blockbuster. It’s science: breathtaking, take-you-back-in-time science. Borealopelta (meaning “Northern shield”) is a genus of nodosaurid ankylosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of Alberta, Canada. Meet nodosaur, the crown jewel of a newly opened dinosaur exhibit at the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology in Alberta, Canada. What makes the nodosaur staggeringly unique isn’t its size (we get it; dinosaurs were big), but its almost unprecedented state of preservation. Considering the nodosaur is roughly 110 million years old, the sleeping giant you see when you look at it is astounding. For one thing, you don’t see bones; most of the skeleton is undetectable because it’s covered in fossilized skin and, as the museum describes it, “encased in intact body armour.” Nodosaurs were herbivores…
The country with the most bioluminescent bays in the world
During the nights, three bays of Puerto Rico shine with their own light under a tropical sky full of stars. These incredible places, located in La Parguera, Lajas; Laguna Grande in Las Croabas, Fajardo and Mosquito Bay, Vieques, are three of the extremely rare places in the world where the perfect conditions are found for the spectacle of bioluminescence to repeat itself without interruption throughout all the seasons of the year. In fact, only 5 places in the world meet the conditions to be recognized as bioluminescent bays or bio-bays. Until the mid-20th century, the bioluminescent bays of Puerto Rico were a secret known only to locals since their location in rural areas of southern and eastern Puerto Rico was not known by many. Today, thanks to the conservation efforts of residents and organizations of the Island, visitors from all over the world can enjoy the natural wonder that these…
LONGEST CONTINUOUS SWIM BY A MAN IN A COUNTER-CURRENT POOL
30h World Record – Alberto Lorente This last Sunday 28th June at 5pm Alberto Lorente completed a 30 hours swim, the longest continuous swim in a counter current pool. He set out this challenge for a donation campaign to benefit Ronald McDonald House who helps to keep families with sick children to stay together during long-term hospitalization. The challenge took place in a private house from one of his friends in Cardedeu, Catalonia, Spain, starting on the 27th June at 11am. Surrounded by his family and closest friends, full of energy, fresh and with a big smile on his face, Alberto started to swim. Two hours and a half after the start he made his first “pit stop”, drinking and eating to be able to keep swimming for the next 27,5h. Some more stops of about 5-6 minutes followed, till the night arrived. Bringing with him last year’s experience swimming…
The first Romanian manuscripts
The present paper contains unprecedented information about the history of the first Romanian manuscripts, commonly referred as Afurisania lui Doja (anathema thrown out by Gheorghe Doja over the Kingdom of Hungary). The document was drafted on the 8th of November, 7022 according to the Julian calendar (Byzantine calendar) and 1513 AD (the Gregorian calendar), and it is the oldest manuscript written in the Romanian language preserved to date. We are not aware of any publications made on this manuscript. The text on the paper contains 16 complete and 2 half lines. The manuscript was written on paper without any traces of verjeres and pontisoares . The paper size is 322 x 322 mm (height/width). The document is part of the Birta archive – years 1347-1752 (the Romanian Foundation of Medieval Manuscripts), currently evaluated and valorized, in the sense of transcribing, transliterating and translating into Romanian (from Cyrillic into Latin script).…
The largest treasure recovered from World War II
SS Gairsoppa The largest treasure recovered from an IIGM Ship …. £ 150 million. The SS Gairsoppa was a British steam merchant ship built at Jarrow in 1919. After a long civilian career, it served during World War II. It was named in honor of the city of Gerusoppa on the #banks of the Sharavati River in Karnataka, India, which for its easy access to water transport and as a center of crop distribution, including pepper, was the commercial capital. for centuries. He sailed in several convoys, before joining the Convoy SL 64 in February 1941, returning from India to Britain in 1941 with a cargo of silver ingots destined for the Royal Mint, cast iron and tea. The Gairsoppa left the convoy when it ran out of most of its fuel and was heading for Galway, Ireland, when the U-101 under the command of Ernst Mengersen fired a #torpedo…
Two consecutive Ironman distance triathlons unrested
On the day of the event his team picked him up at 6am to drive him to the River Tees in Yarm, as the entry and exit points are limited, they had to walk down the river bank 600 meters before entering the water. Due to the exit points they had to swim over the 2.4 miles in order to get out at a convenient place this added on a few hundred yards each time. On getting out the team drove him back to safe roads which started at his house in Redcar where they set off to complete the 112 miles bike ride. This all went well and they started the 1st Marathon. He felt strong up to 13 miles but then it started to catch up with he and by the 18 mile point he felt tired. The last 3 miles of the first marathon He was told…