Run Run Run as Fast as You Can...

...You cant catch this guy, not a chance. His name is Erwin Valdenebito and he currently holds the record for the greatest distance run on a treadmill in 24 hours. That remarkable distance is 153.9 miles. He made the record in April of 2007 in Santiago, Chili.

I doubt that he keeps this record for too long though because this is just a common attempt that many people make. I actually found on a website a list of lots of people who have created records involving treadmill running.

Do you wanna go the distance?

Wo Baby

I find it to be slightly alarming and idiotic that senior citizen women want to give birth to babies. I feel that women who are 65, 66, and so forth should not even be thinking about having children, but every now and again I will hear a story about an older woman, going in for invitro fertilization and 9 months later giving birth to a baby.

Doesn't this seem like a death wish, I mean, how long will women who become mothers at such an old age be around for their children? Not long right? There are chances that these women won't see their children graduate from college, get married, have grandchildren. They'll miss all the 'moments'.

Also there are many health issues that older people face...I just can wrap my brain around the logic that these women have.

The woman who now holds the record for being the oldest woman to give birth is Adriana Iliescu. She is currently raising her daughter who she gave birth to at age 67. She is very happy though and was quoted saying:

I am happy! It's a very big feeling, which I didn't have many times in my life. I feel fulfilled, like I have achieved my greatest desire."

I wish her the best of luck!

Nails, Nails, Nails

I thought that this was so disgusting! In 1971 this woman, Lee Redmond, took the record for having the longest nails on a person. To date, her nails, in total, measure 24 feet and 7.8 inches. She looks like she came right out of a horror flick. My main thought when I saw her was how does she function day to day doing basic things that everyone does. Like brushing her teeth, taking showers, doing her hair, getting dressed, writing and typing.

It says online that she keeps up with her nails too, that is with manicures and such but still, what an odd record to have, and if I may say so again, disgusting!

Hula Hula Baby

When I was a kid I started out so bad at hula hooping, I mean really bad. Then at around 9 or 10 years old my grandmother bought me a big yellow hula hoop and I got better at it. One day I was in my back yard for about an hour hula hooping non stop and I can remember saying to myself that I was so good at it and that I could make a record. But I was defintely wrong, I was no where close to beating the hula hooping record. That record belongs to Kym Coberly who in 1984 hula hooped for three days. That is 72 hours of hula hooping! Now some of you might be wondering if you do this continuosly without taking any breaks but thats not the case. I found the rules to hula hooping-if you want to set a record yourself.

THE RULES!

1. The record is for continuous revolution of a hula hoop.
2. A standard size and weight hula hoop must be used.
3. The hoop must be revolved between the shoulders and hips.
4. If the hoop passes above the shoulders the attempt is ended.
5. If the hoop passes below the hips the competitor has 30 seconds in which to try to recover it without using his/her hands or arms. If the hoop is not revolving above the hips within 30 seconds the attempt is ended.
6. If the hoop passes below the knees and/or touches the ground, the attempt is ended.
7. Once the hoop has begun to spin the hands of the competitor must not touch the hoop. If the challenger touches the hoop with his/her hands, the attempt is ended.
8. Rest breaks of 5 minutes per hour are allowed. (Note: This rule has been changed; in previous years, this was a non-stop categories)
9. No person under the age of 14 may compete.
10. Persons aged between 14 and 18 must, before competition, be in possession of a document signed by their parent or legal guardian, giving them permission to compete. This document must be added to the log book and witnessed before the attempt has started.
11. A fully-qualified practising member of the medical profession must be present at all times watching the attempt.
12. The entire attempt must be filmed on audio video.

Now, I haven't really hula hooped for years because someone stole my yellow hula hoop right from the side of my old house and I have yet to find one like it but maybe I will pick up the hobby again some day.

Hubba Bubba

We all love to chew gum, and definitely bubblegum when we were young kids. We would go to the supermarket and beg mom, dad, or our older sister even for 50 cents so we could buy that pack of Bubble Yum gum. Then when you got it we would put 1 piece in our mouths or maybe 2 and begin chewing. At least I know that I did. Now, it was time to start blowing those bubbles. I can remember having contests with my brother to see who could blow the biggest bubble and now, I can't even remember who won most of the time.

Today though, people are very big on sugarless gum, even myself, and classic bubblegums like Bubble Yum and Bazooka are not as popular these days. I use to love the mini comic strips in Bazooka gum!

Anyways, I wanted to know who holds the record for blowing the biggest bubblegum bubble and found out that the record belongs to Susan Montgomery Williams. She made this record in 1994 and the bubble that she blew was 23 inches wide. Wow! I think I may start practicing again, thats one big bubble!

Tsar Bomba

Recently in my English class, I was assigned to read The Curve of Binding Energy by John McPhee. The novel was about the life and career of relatively unknown theorist physicist Theodore B. Taylor, as well as his warning to the world to avoid nuclear weapons and to keep them out of the wrong hands. He thought that they should be locked up somewhere safe. After reading it, it got my mind thinking of nuclear weapons that have been used in the past such as in Nagasaki and Hiroshima, and the destruction that they have caused. I also began to think of the most powerful bomb to ever detonate in the world out of curiosity. I did some quick research and discovered that the most powerful bomb to ever detonate was called the Tsar Bomba.

The Tsar Bomba is also known as The Big Ivan or the King of the Bombs. It was tested and detonated in 1961 by the Soviet Union. It looked like a huge rocket, weighed 27 tons and was eight meters long. It caused massive devastation; the complete destruction of Tsar Bomba extended to a radius of 40 miles surrounding the blast and severe damage went as far as 60 miles. I posted up a couple of pictures just so you all can actually see the bomb itself.

My opinion, I just think that it is so amazing (in a negative way) of how much time people spend developing nuclear weapons that ultimately will kill people. I do not understand why some researchers and scientists are so fascinated with such a morbid topic. We already have so much destruction in the world and don’t need people continuing, to this day, to make nuclear weapons that can take years to develop, and just hurt the rest of humankind in the end.

Twister

We all remember that game right? Having the parties with your friends and you whip out the Twister game and get all..well twisted and tangled. This game was so much fun when I was a kid. I mean it was always present at every birthday party and now I see the next generation playing it as well. My cousins love it too, its very popular and brings me back to the good old days.

So today I came across the largest Twister board-ever to have existed in the world! This Twister mat measures 88.9 feet by 27.6 feet and was created by the people of the Netherlands. In April of 2005 hundreds of people gathered to participate in a game of Twister, just look at the picture.

Looking at it makes me want to go somewhere and buy one!