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Posted in Science & Nature

Man Versus Ant

Posted on by Jinavie

Human:
A mammal that ranges in size from about 1 to 2 metres.
Weighs between 30kg and 100kg. Females are pregnant for 9 months. 
Omnivorous diet. Population estimated around 7 billion.

Ant:
An insect that ranges in size from about 0.01 to 3 centimetres.
Weighs between 0.001mg and 1g. Can produce eggs endlessly given there is an ample sperm reservoir.
Omnivorous diet. Population estimated around 1 quintillion (1 billion times 1 billion).

(from The Encyclopaedia of Relative and Absolute Knowledge by Bernard Werber)

Posted in Science & Nature

Egg

Posted on by Jinavie

To know whether an egg is raw or boiled, simply spin the egg on its side, put a finger on top of it gently to stop it, then let the finger go.

A raw egg continues to spin because of the inertia of the liquid yolk still spinning within the shell.

Posted in Philosophy

In The Beginning…

Posted on by Jinavie

There was nothing.

In the beginning, nothing existed.
No light scattered the darkness,
No sound broke the silence.

Everywhere is filled with air.
It was a time when the first force, the force of neutrality, ruled.
But the air dreamt to be something more.

At that moment, a white egg appeared in the middle of the infinite universe.
It was a universe egg full of everything possible and all hope.
The egg began to crack.

The universe egg exploded.
It happened at 00:00:00, 00/00/00.
By the second force, the force of disassembling,
The shell that enclosed the egg of origin broke into 288 pieces.

Light and heat exploded out from the egg,
A giant dust storm spread into the darkness as glittery powder.

A universe was born.
Time began to flow, and as the molecules travelled farther,
They danced to the symphony of time.

(from God by Bernard Werber)