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The top 500 super computer list, posted at top 500.org includes the super computer in Yokohama (Japan) as     one among, is designed to caution earthquakes.

The robot Zeus, produced by USA, is used for delicate operations in heart surgery.

On an average, the lead in the pencil will draw a line 55,000m long.

The top speed for a tunnel boring machine is about 100 m a day.

An ounce (28 grams) of gold can be beaten into a sheet covering 9.3 sq. mts. or drawn into 80.5 km of wire.

Mimi Virus, which contains 900 genes, discovered in 1992 in a sample from a water cooling tower in Bradford (UK), researched by National Centre for Scientific Research in Paris (France), is the largest virus in the world.   

The ozone layer or Orzonosphere contains   significant amounts of ozone, which is highly irritating and toxic to human beings even at concentrations of 0.12 parts per million. The ozone layer lies roughly 15 to 45 km above the surface of the earth, absorbs excessive solar UV radiation, shielding humans, animals and plants on the earth’s surface.

When they die, some people have their bodies frozen with liquid nitrogen in the hope that medical science will one day bring them back to life. 

Insulin inhalers, which are much like an asthma inhaler, deliver the drug in the form of a powder spray, straight into the lungs from where it is quickly absorbed into the blood stream. This inhaler could hit the Indian market very soon. Then insulin injections will be required only once a day after dinner, instead of three injections a day.

Samsung, South Korea, produced the largest      plasma screen, (uses charged gas between two layers of glass, operates under the same principle of fluorescent lamps and neon tubes) which measures 63 inches (160 cm) diagonally. It gives a perfectly flat, uniformly focussed high quality image on a slimscreen and can be hung on a wall.


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