The seven wonders of the natural world may have been named to quickly Wonders like the Grand Canyon and Victoria Falls are certainly big and anyone who sees them will surely be impressed But sheer size isn't enough to truly leave a person in awe. There are other places in this world though that are far stranger places that seem almost alien as if they could only exist on a planet that evolved separately from our own these are places that Scientists have had to struggle just to understand how they ever could have been formed places that will truly make you wonder not just because they're beautiful but because they seem to follow Scientific laws that don't exist anywhere else on earth
never-ending lightning storm - Western Venezuela
In Western Venezuela over the Catatumbo River there is a storm that never ceases Starting at 7:00 p.m. Every night lightning crashes over the water for 10 hours every night 260 nights each year Nobody knows for sure why it happens up until recently the leading theory was that it had something to do with uranium in the bedrock Although scientists are starting to doubt it today the leading theory is a complicated one It posits that the shape of the mountains caused warm trade winds to collide with cold air from the Andes That collision is then fueled by the rapidly evaporating water below and methane from a nearby oil field Nobody actually knows for sure though why it happens Everything about it is mysterious Including one moment in 2010 when it inexplicably stopped one day the storm just died down without Explanation and seemed for a while to be over then after six weeks of silence It sparked up again and has been raging ever since
number 2 the boiling River
Deep in the Amazon lies a river four miles long and unlike any other on earth The shehnai Tim fishka is so hot that any animal that steps into it gets boiled alive When a hapless creature wanders in the eyes cook first melting in its skull Soon the animal is in too much pain to keep swimming to safety water fills its mouth and lungs and it is cooked from the inside out the River gets as hot as 91 degrees Celsius 196 degrees Fahrenheit and Scientists aren't completely sure. Why? Normally water that gets this hot is fed by a volcano But this one is 700 kilometers removed from the nearest one. There is a theory though scientists believe that boiling hot water from under the earth cracks through fault lines and heats up the river making the water a geothermal system unlike any other on earth
The city of cahuachi Kazakhstan is not Disney's creation. It is as real as it gets citizens of kolache face a very peculiar epidemic People just collapse into naps randomly even while walking on the road They also report memory loss fatigue and hallucinations The epidemic affects people from all genders and ages Kazakhstan has even recommended evacuations But they are no closer to solving the problem one theory suggests that the residents are facing some kind of radiation poisoning Since the area is near a uranium mine However, there are flaws in that theory all the blood tests and other monitoring has turned up zero evidence Secondly, there is a town which is closer to the mind than kolache and they have reported no such epidemic
circles of Namibia
There is
an ecological mystery sitting throughout Namibian deserts There are fields of
grass with circles carved in them at regular intervals The circles are almost
perfectly created and can range from 10 to 65 feet in diameter And by the way,
if you are thinking of the movie the signs you are not alone Forget explaining
the circles Scientists are not even sure of the more basic questions such as why
are there circles? Why not any random shape? Nothing grows in these circle
patches scientists have come up with various theories and all have been
debunked almost immediately in 2013 Norbert Jergens an environmental scientist
said that termites were the cause of the circles, but in 2015 biologist Walter
Schinkel tested the hypothesis and disproved it
the hum of Taos
A Barely
audible buzzing sound that you cannot pinpoint can infuriate you we have all
been there when a distant lawnmower or our TV starts making a buzz and Unless
and until we don't find where it's coming from. It feels like our brain is
eating itself from the nside Now imagine
the pain and frustration of residents of Taos in New Mexico since the early
1990s Large numbers of residents of Taos have complained about a constant
humming sound It can be heard all around the town and has driven people nuts For
twenty years various investigators have tried to locate the hum But to no
success some scientists have hypothesized that the town's residents are super
hearers who can detect sound that ordinary humans can't But doesn't that raise
more questions than it answers
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