How to go to blogspot.com and What website ccTLD addresses does my Blogger blogspot.com address have ?

What website addresses does my blogspot.com address have ?

Google's blogger has many different country level domains for each single blogspot domain.

How to stop blogspot from redirecting to a country domain ?

If you type /ncr just after the domain name for example- http://johndasfundas.blogspot.com/ncr , then it will not redirect to your local domain. 

Anyway, as a blog master your shouldn't let the visitors follow any boring way to prevent redirection. Because you can control the redirection by the code below! Okay let's try: 

1. Make sure you're signed in to your blogger's control panel I mean design or dashboard.
2. Now go to the template option. (Backup your template if necessary)
3. Click on Edit HTML. Now you can see the code of your template. 
4. Hit on the template box and Press Ctrl+F to enable search within the code box.
5. find the of your template and then copy the code below and place it just below the head tag. (Look at the image below)
6. Save the template. Done! 

BUT Why do this ?

The ccTLDs were made by Blogger to make country specific censorship easier.

Some countries are quick to censor content posted on blogs and since many such governments do not know much about how the internet works, they simply ask the ISPs to blobk the whole domain.

They issue the order, block blogspot.com, and POOF ! All blogspot blogs are blocked.

What happens when Blogger is banned in a country ? 

Naturally when blogger is banned by the Govt. of a country the visitors from that country will not be able to see your site. But they will be able to visit the .com version of your site by  using /ncr just after the domain. But if you use the above code in your site, visitors will automatically be able to visit your site!

I think now you understand the importance of using this code

Here is a list of blogspot domains.

79 Interesting bits of Trivia About Spain

Many different groups of people have settled in Spain throughout history, including Iberians, Phoenicians, Greeks, Romans, Visigoths, Celts, Basques, and the Moors (Muslims who came from North Africa).f The quill pen is thought to have originated in Spain about 1,400 years ago.f The most enduring contribution of Spain to the world is its language, which was imported to the Americas with the expansion of the Spanish Empire in the 16th century. Now, more than 400 million people speak Spanish in 22 countries, including 35 million who speak it in the United States.a Since the Pyrenees Mountains were such a significant barrier in the north, and Spain is just 9 miles from Morocco in the south, Spain shares much of its early history with Africa.c The official name of Spain is the Kingdom of Spain.f The Iberian Peninsula was one of several refuges during the last ice age, so it was largely from Spain that northern Europe was repopulated after the ice age ended.c Famous Spaniards include Seneca, Hadrian, Antonio Banderas, Penelope Cruz, Salvador Dalí, El Greco, Pablo Picasso, Francisco de Goya, Jose Carreras, and Plácido Domingo.a Spanish explorer Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo (1499-1543) discovered California.fIn 2006, 58 million tourists visited Spain and its islands. Foreign tourists spent $51 billion in 2006. Spain is the second most visited country in the world after France.a In 1603, Spanish sailor Gabriel de Castilla (1577-1620) became the first man ever to see Antarctica.f Spanish sailor Juan Sebastián Elcano (1476-1526) was the first man to circumnavigate the world.f Spanish explorer Vasco Núñez de Balboa (1475-1519) was the first European to see the Pacific Ocean.f The first novel, Tirant lo Blanc (1490), was written by Spanish author Joanot Martorell (1413-1468). Translated as Tirant the White, it played an important role in the development of the Western novel.f The Phoenicians who entered Spain in the 8th century B.C. called the peninsulaSpan or “the hidden land.”e The official language of Spain is Castilian Spanish (74%), though Catalan (17%) Galician (7%), and Basque (2%) are also spoken.a Tomás de Torquemada (1420-1498) was the first Grand Inquisitor in the Spanish Inquisition. His name has been associated with the Inquisition’s horror, fanaticism, and bigotry. Ironically, he was a descendent of a converso, or someone who had converted to Christianly from Judaism or Islam. In 1832, his tomb was raided and his bones were stolen and burned.f During the last ice age, most of Europe was covered in glaciers, but most of Spain was far enough south to escape the ice. Consequently, plants that were wiped out across Europe survived in Spain. Europe as a whole has 9,000 plant species; there are over 8,000 plant species in Spain alone, with 2,000 of them being unique to the country.c Spanish inventor Manuel Jalón Corominas (1925-2011) invented the mop in 1956.f Spanish sailor and engineer Isaac Peral (1851-1895) designed the first fully operative military submarine.f Spanish surgeon and scientist Miguel Servet (1511-1553) was the first European to describe pulmonary circulation.f

Lyrics for Venga Boys - "We're Going To Ibiza" . Its an Island, in the Mediterranean Sea and part of Spain.

"We're Going To Ibiza"

Hello Party People!

This Is Captain Kim Speaking 

Welcome Aboard Venga Airways 

After Take Off Will Pump Up The Soundsystem 

Cause We're Going To Ibiza!

I Don't Wanna Be A Busdriver 

All My Life 

I'm Gonna Pack My Bags And Leave This Town 

Grab A Flight 

Fly Away On Venga Airways 

Fly Me High 

Ibiza Sky 

I Look Up At The Sky 

And I See The Clouds 

I Looked Down At The Ground 

And I See The Rainbow Down The Drain 

Fly Away On Venga Airways 

Fly Me High 

Ibiza Sky 

Whoah! We're Going To Ibiza 

Whoah! Back To The Island 

Whoah! We're Going To Ibiza 

Whoah! We're Gonna Have A Party 

Whoah! In The Mediterranean Sea 

Ioh Ioh, Oh We Oh

Ioh Ioh, Oh We Oh 

Ioh Ioh, Oh We Oh 

Ioh Ioh, Oh We Oh 

Far Away From This Big Town 

And The Rain 

It's Really Very Nice To Be 

Home Again 

Fly Away On Venga Airways 

Fly Me High, Ibiza Sky 

Whoah! We're Going To Ibiza 

Whoah! Back To The Island 

Whoah! We're Going To Ibiza 

Whoah! We're Gonna Have A Party 

Whoah! In The Mediterranean Sea 

Ioh Ioh, Oh We Oh 

Ioh Ioh, Oh We Oh 

Ioh Ioh, Oh We Oh 

Ioh Ioh, Oh We Oh 

Thank You For Flying Venga Airways 

We Are Now Approaching Ibiza Airport 

As You Can See The Sky Is Blue 

And The Beach Is Waiting For You 

Whoah! We're Going to Ibiza 

Whoah! Back To The Island 

Whoah! We're Going To Ibiza 

Whoah! We're Gonna Have A Party 

Whoah! In The Mediterranean Sea 

Whoah! We're Going To Ibiza 

Whoah! Back To The Island 

Whoah! We're Going To Ibiza 

Whoah! We're Gonna Have A Party 

Whoah! In The Mediterranean Sea

Dangerous animals of australia - part two. Crocodiles with freaking lasers

Previously, I had listed some dangerous animals of Australia and reiterated that Australia is full of exotic and dangerous animals.

Here is a BBC documentary remixed by Youtuber(Blackhawk) and redditor (PapercutUnderNail) to show some more dangerous Australian animals.

Though there are no sharks with head mounted lasers in real life yet, in Australia, you get very close to that.

5 Amazing bike trails in New Zealand

New Zealand is a beautiful, mostly undiscovered country. Most people go to Australia for a vacation but forget about New Zealand. Well, New Zealand is the place where The Lord of the Rings was shot and there are tours arranged to the movie set locations.

Another thing you can do is go on a biking or cycling trip in New Zealand. Here are five amazing cycling trails in New Zealand.

SEE TE ARA AHI

Brilliant sightseeing tour on a two wheeler, Te Ara Ahi is a 50-kilometre trail winding between the geothermal fields that bubble and boil around the pungent Rotorua.

Beginning in town, the ride incorporates four of the area's major geothermal fields: Whakarewarewa, Waimangu Volcanic Valley, Wai-O-Tapu Thermal Wonderland and Waikite Valley Thermal Pools.

The cycling is quite gentle (if rather sulphuric), but it's only part of the experience on this pedalling glimpse into the Earth's power. Check out the steaming, orange-rimmed Champagne Pool at Wai-O-Tapu; watch the geysers blow at Whakarewarewa; and stop for a soak in the thermally heated waters of Kerosene Creek.

Shuttle buses run from the trail's end back to Rotorua, or you might prefer to cycle back.

More information at nzcycletrail.com/te-ara-ahi

ALPS to OCEAN

This 312-kilometre ride is a very alluring prospect. Beginning near the foot of New Zealand's highest mountain and heading to the coast at beautiful Oamaru, Alps 2 Ocean descends almost 800 metres across its journey. But there's far more to this rural ride than blessed descents.

From Mount Cook Village it follows a chain of glacial lakes and hydro canals across the foot of the Southern Alps before turning towards the coast. Along the way there are Lord of the Rings film locations, Maori rock-art sites and the surreal karst landscape at Elephant Rocks. Factor around six days of pedalling.


More info at  alps2ocean.com

HAURAKI RAIL TRAIL

As flat as a New Zealand vowel, and yet cutting through one of the country's most spectacular gorges, this 60-kilometre ride offers a couple of easy days in the saddle. This trail begins in the town of Thames, 90 minutes' drive out of Auckland, and heads south along the Hauraki Plain.

At Paeroa, home to the uniquely Kiwi Lemon and Paeroa soft drink, the trail swerves into the Karangahake Gorge through New Zealand's longest cycling tunnel.

The gorge walls close around the trail and there are gold-mining relics, walking tracks and a waterfall to entice you to slow the pace. For variety, you can finish the ride on a heritage train between Waikino and Waihi.

Visit haurakirailtrail.co.nz

OTAGO CENTRAL RAIL TRAIL

The trail that spawned New Zealand's cycling revolution is a 150-kilometre ride that horseshoes gently through the once gold-rich valleys between Clyde and Middlemarch. The trail journeys past character-rich towns and pubs, and brings the disused railway to life as you pedal across former rail bridges and through darkened tunnels.

The gradient never exceeds 2 per cent, making this a great introductory ride, especially if ridden over three or four days.

At the Clyde end, the trail skirts the vineyards of the Central Otago wine region. Sam Neill's Two Paddocks winery is just a few kilometres off the route and there's the chance near Ranfurly to detour for a game at the southern hemisphere's only indoor curling rink.

Website is otagocentralrailtrail.co.nz.

The Great Taste Trail

This 175-kilometre ride is a taste of many things: wine, cafes, coast, mountains, an island, a national park. Looping out from Nelson, a town billed as the sunniest place in New Zealand, the Great Taste Trail heads out across boardwalks along the edge of the birdlife-rich Waimea Estuary and onto Rabbit Island.

Returning to the mainland by boat, the trail ventures to the edge of Tasman National Park before cutting back inland to Nelson. There are vineyards around Motueka and Wakefield and good views of the spectacular Western Ranges ... without the effort of having to climb into them.

Taste nzcycletrail.com/tasmans-great-taste-trail

Swedish dronographer Kalle Ljung to videograph New Zealand after Antarctica

Click here to read this website in Swedish
Klicka här för att läsa denna webbplats på svenska

Kalle Ljung

Using a drone and a commercial drone, Swedish filmmaker Kalle Ljung had made a beautiful 8 minute video of Antarctica this month. He now plans to make a video of the lavish, beautiful fjords and mountains and valleys of New Zealand, the land of Middle Earth.

The Aerial video of Antarctica was filmed on a boating trip with his father from a 14 meter sailing boat. They toured Antarctica for around 16 days and recorded around 250 minutes of awesome video.

New Zealand is a beautiful country to visit. Don't miss this amazing place. The video will be amazing too,

Kuchinoerabu island in Japan evacuated after Mount Shindake volcano erupts

Click HERE to read this article in Japanese
日本でこの記事を読むには、ここをクリック

Today, on Friday, 29th March, 2015, Mount Shindake on Kuchinoerabu island suddenly erupted.
TV footage captured the moment Mount Shindake exploded, sending columns of thick, black smoke high into the air. Mount Shindake, located about 650 metres above sea level, erupted in August 2014 for the first time since 1980.

Japan’s meteorological agency raised the alert level to five – the highest on its scale – and ordered the island’s 140 residents to evacuate.

The agency said no injuries or damage had been reported following the eruption, which occurred eight months after 57 people died after Mount Ontake in central Japan erupted without warning.

Pyroclastic flows, dense currents of rock fragments and hot gases from the volcano had reached the island’s north-west shore.

Shindake Volcano eruption

In Tokyo, the prime minister, Shinzo Abe, set up an emergency response team and dispatched a self-defence forces to the island. Abe said he had instructed local authorities to do “everything possible” to ensure the islanders’ safety.

Yoshihide Suga, the government’s chief spokesman, said a coast guard vessel had also been sent to help residents evacuate.

Photo taken from the neighboring island of Yakushima by Itaru Takaku

Kuchinoerabu island is located about 80km (50 miles) south-west of the main island of Kyushu, and can be reached only by a once-a-day ferry from Yakushima island, 19km (12 miles) to the east.

Funny Customer complaints received by ThomasCook

I'm not sure how true these are, but they are a good read.

THESE ARE ACTUAL COMPLAINTS RECEIVED BY "THOMAS COOK VACATIONS" FROM DISSATISFIED CUSTOMERS:

1. "They should not allow topless sunbathing on the beach. It was very distracting for my husband who just wanted to relax."

2. "On my holiday to Goa in India, I was disgusted to find that almost every restaurant served curry. I don't like spicy food."

3. "We went on holiday to Spain and had a problem with the taxi drivers as they were all Spanish."

4. "We booked an excursion to a water park but no-one told us we had to bring our own swimsuits and towels. We assumed it would be included in the price."

5. "The beach was too sandy. We had to clean everything when we returned to our room."

6. "We found the sand was not like the sand in the brochure. Your brochure shows the sand as white but it was more yellow."

7. "It's lazy of the local shopkeepers in Puerto Vallartato close in the afternoons. I often needed to buy things during 'siesta' time -- this should be banned."

8. "No-one told us there would be fish in the water. The children were scared."

9. "Although the brochure said that there was a fully equipped kitchen, there was no egg-slicer in the drawers."

10. "I think it should be explained in the brochure that the local convenience store does not sell proper biscuits like custard creams or ginger nuts."

11. "The roads were uneven and bumpy, so we could not read the local guide book during the bus ride to the resort. Because of this, we were unaware of many things that would have made our holiday more fun."

12. "It took us nine hours to fly home from Jamaica to England. It took the Americans only three hours to get home. This seems unfair."

13. "I compared the size of our one-bedroom suite to our friends' three-bedroom and ours was significantly smaller."

14. "The brochure stated: 'No hairdressers at the resort.' We're trainee hairdressers and we think they knew and made us wait longer for service."

15. "When we were in Spain, there were too many Spanish people there. The receptionist spoke Spanish, the food was Spanish. No one told us that there would be so many foreigners."

16. "We had to line up outside to catch the boat and there was no air-conditioning."

17. "It is your duty as a tour operator to advise us of noisy or unruly guests before we travel."

18. "I was bitten by a mosquito. The brochure did not mention mosquitoes."

19. "My fiancée and I requested twin-beds when we booked, but instead we were placed in a room with a king bed. We now hold you responsible and want to be re-reimbursed for the fact that I became pregnant. This would not have happened if you had put us in the room that we booked."

Thomas Cook (22 November 1808 – 18 July 1892) of Melbourne, Derbyshire, England founded the travel agency Thomas Cook & Son (popularly nicknamed Cook's Tours) that became Thomas Cook AG before eventually becoming Thomas Cook Group in 2007.

Thomas Cook Group plc is a British global travel company listed on the London Stock Exchange. It was formed on 19 June 2007 by the merger of Thomas Cook AG, itself the successor to Thomas Cook & Son, and MyTravel Group plc

Interesting facts about The Kingdom of Norway - Norge (Bokmål) or Noreg (Nynorsk)

To see this page in Norwegian(Bokmal) click here

For å lese denne siden på bokmål klikk her 

1. “Norway” means “path to the North”.
2. Norway has over 20,000 km of coastline.
3. Norway's Top Level Web Domain is .NO ( e.g. www.google.no )
4. The Laerdal road tunnel is the world’s longest road tunnel at 24.5 km (15 miles)
5. Norway along with Sweden and Denmark make up Scandinavia.
6. The Jostedalsbreen, in Norway, is the largest glacier in Northern Europe.
7. Petroleum prices are among the highest in the world, even though Norway is one of the biggest exporters of oil in the world.
8. Norway also has the world’s deepest underwater tunnel at 287 meters deep.
9. Norway is one of the wealthiest countries in the world.
10. It is also the most peaceful country, according to the Global Peace Index.
11. The official Christmas tree in Trafalgar Square in London has come from Oslo for over the last fifty years.
12. The cheese slicer was invented in Norway.
13. Norway is the 6th largest country in Europe, but only ranks 28th as far as population.
14. Ever wondered why Noble peace prize are awarded in Oslo, Norway every year? It has been since 1901 because of their outstanding efforts in keeping peace. The Norwegian King Harald V is also present at the award ceremony in Oslo.
15. Gulf Stream and warm air currents caused by the Coriolis Effect leads to much milder weather than expected. Temperature along the coast of Norway is 5-8°C higher than at comparable latitudes elsewhere.
16. It is the sixth largest country in Europe, but ranks only 28th as far as population is concerned.
17. It is one of the wealthiest countries in the world and according to the global Peace Index, the most peaceful too. Inspite of being one of the biggest exporters of oil in the world, gas prices are amongst the highest in Norway. Also, food prices are so high that many people choose to travel to Sweden to buy their groceries in bulk.
18. When in Norway, don’t even think about drinking and driving. Strict laws and their enforcements have been successfully kept crime at bay. For example, if caught driving under the influence, there is an automatic 30 days in jail, lose your license for a year, and pay fines up to 10% of your annual income. Binge drinking on the weekends is a well-established tradition. Just don’t drive home!
19. Norway is a beautiful place to be. It is a host to a whopping 450,000 lakes. 200 or so are about 4 square miles or more in size.
20. Remember this fact if ever you wish to visit Norway! Grandiosa pizza should be on the top of your ‘must eat’ list. It is the unofficial national food of the country. Nearly 25 million Grandiosa pizzas are eaten by small population of 5 million people.
21. The Viking festival: The festival offers activities and entertainment for all ages. Visitors are invited to participate in craft activities, join a historical sports competition or row a Viking ship. There will also be opportunities to watch a magician, learn how Viking warriors prepared for combat, listen to lectures and learn about life during the Viking Age.
22. Norway has the world’s deepest underwater tunnel at 287 meters deep.It is also the birthpace of cheese slicer and modern day skiing. The word ‘ski’ in Norwegian means for ‘piece of wood’.
23. There are a few rules which might puzzle you, for example- If you own a TV in Norway, you have to pay an annual fee of $300 USD.Food stores cannot be open on Sundays. If you need groceries then, you have to get them at the local gas station, which are allowed to sell food on Sundays.Prisons in Norway are amongst the most glamorous in the entire world. In fact, most Norwagein prisons are higher class than most hotel rooms found in the United States. Having no death penalty and no life sentences one would think that the country would have high crime rate. However, they have one of the lowest in the world. Around 72 inmates per 100,000 people!
24. Known as the Land of the Midnight Sun
25. Head of State: His Majesty, King Harald V of Norway
26. Head of Government: Prime Minister, Erna Solberg (since 2013)
27. System of Government: Constitutional monarchy, Parliamentary democracy
28. Won independence from Sweden in 1905
29. Area: 148,747 square miles (similar in sq. miles to the size of Montana)
30. Population (2014): 5,109,059
31. Capital city: Oslo [Population: 624,000 (statistics 2013)]
32. Languages: 2 official Norwegian languages: Bokmål and Nynorsk), in some districts, Sámi is also an official language Sámi (spoken by the Sámi people), 100% literacy
33. Education dates back as far as the 12th century
34. In 1827 Norway introduced public education (Folkeskole)
35. In the 1970s and 80s the Folkeskole was abolished and the Grunnskole was introduced.
36. Education is free, even higher education.
37. Ministry of Education, Research & Church Affairs prepares the national curriculum for grunnskole (primary & lower secondary education) and videregående skole (upper secondary school)
38. Compulsory education: 10 years (Grade 1-10)
39. Upper secondary school is 3 years after 10th grade and divided into general/academic studies track or vocational and apprenticeship tracks
40. Norway has seven universities, nine specialized university institutions, 22 university colleges, two national colleges of the arts and a number of private higher education institutions. Norway’s University of Oslo ranks 89th in the 2013–14 QS University World Rankings, and the University of Bergen at 151st
41. The people of Oslo, Norway donate the Trafalgar Square Christmas tree in London every year in gratitude to the people of London for their assistance during WWII. 
42. It is illegal to spay or neuter your dog in Norway except under specific circumstances regarding health, quality of life, or utility. 
43. Norway has the World’s biggest sovereign fund, where it has been saving almost all the money it gets from the sale of oil and is worth almost a trillion dollars Source: Norway: Is world’s largest sovereign wealth fund too big?
44. To encourage more men to assume a greater share of care-giving responsibilities, Norwegian law states that 14 weeks of parental leave is reserved for fathers. Norway is the first country to introduce compulsory paternity leave Source: Father’s leave still a burning issue
45. King Harald of Norway vowed to remain unmarried for life unless he could marry his true love; the daughter of a cloth merchant. They both later married with help from the Government of Norway and she became the Queen of Norway
46. Norwegian prisons are known to be the most luxurious prisons in the world. Norwegian prisons have also won a design award. Though accommodations may be ultra luxurious, the criminals on release demonstrate the lowest rate of re-offending in Europe, if not the world.
47. A valley settlement in Norway that lives in shadow for nearly half of every year has installed giant mirrors on an adjacent mountain to redirect sunlight into the town’s square, all based on a plan that was thought up 100 years ago
48. If you own a TV in Norway, you have to pay an annual fee of $300 USD.
49. Wondering how much your co-worker, boss, neighbor, friend, or cousin makes? It’d be no secret in Norway where income and wealth are public record; a practice shared by other Scandinavian countries. Making the data public demonstrates the Scandinavian tradition of jantelag, which translates roughly as nobody is better than anyone else.
50. You can only buy alcohol from stores called Vinmonopolet. There are only one or two in each city, and none in the countryside towns.
51. If caught driving under the influence, there is an automatic 30 days in jail, lose your license for a year, and pay fines up to 10% of your annual income!
52. Binge drinking on the weekends is a well-established tradition. Just don’t drive home!Instagram
53. Food stores cannot be open on Sundays. If you need groceries then, you have to get them at the local gas station, which are allowed to sell food on Sundays.
54. Food prices are so high in Norway that many people travel to Sweden to buy their groceries.
55. The Grandiosa frozen pizza is the unofficial national food dish.22 Interesting Facts About Norway
56. Norway is the birthplace of modern skiing. The word “ski” is Norwegian for “piece of wood”.
57. There are about 450,000 lakes in Norway, 200 or so that are 4 square miles or more in size.
58. There are as many Norwegian descendants living in the US as there are Norwegians living in Norway, especially the states of North Dakota, Minnesota and Wisconsin.
59. If you own a TV in Norway, you have to pay an annual fee of $300 USD.
60. Norway is the world’s 7th largest exporter of oil and the 2nd largest exporter of gas.
61. More than 2.0 million barrels of oil per day (including NGL and condensate) per day. 
62. Seventh largest oil exporter and the fourteenth largest oil producer in the world. 
63. Norway has the world’s largest per capita hydropower production, and is the sixth largest hydropower producer in the world. In a year with normal precipitation, hydropower generation is around 120 TWh, corresponding to approximately 98 percent of Norway’s total power production.
64. 'Deadliest Catch' Star Sig Hansen is from Norway. He is apparently more famous than King Harald V of Norway.

They're Taking the Hobbits to Queenstown not Isengard - Lego Legolas says

Ever since the first The Lord of the Rings movie was released in 2001, New Zealand has been known as the 'Home of Middle-earth'.

The movies were shot on location in New Zealand.
Air New Zealand even made a nice Advertisement for New Zealand Tourism as Middle Earth.
Watch that now.

Take a journey through Middle Earth

Trivia point : Legolas Means "green leaves" in Sindarin, from laeg "green" combined with go-lass "collection of leaves".

In the movie, Legolas (Orlando Bloom) says,

"They're Taking the Hobbits to Isengard"

Here's a video of Lego Legolas saying that :

International flag of Earth - Seed of Life by Drunvalo Melchizedek and other flags

Earth has had some flags designed for it by different people. Here are a few :

Flags of the Earth over the years

In 2015, Oskar Pernedeldt has proposed a design for the International Flag for the World to be used to represent Earth. This will be the flag which we will carry to the Universal Space Summit at Alpha Centauri to show the aliens.

Website of the flag of The Earth

International Earth Flag by Oskar Pernedeldt

Buy Collins - "My First Book of World Flags"
It is supposed to be used even earlier when we colonize Mars in the year 2025. We could probably send it up there with the Mars One volunteers.

What does it represent ?

Centered in the flag, seven rings form a flower – a symbol of the life on Earth. The rings are linked to each other, which represents how everything on our planet, directly or indirectly, are linked. The blue field represents water which is essential for life – also as the oceans cover most of our planet's surface. The flower's outer rings form a circle which could be seen as a symbol of Earth as a planet and the blue surface could represent the universe.

That is what the website of the flag says.

Blue is of course, the water. Almost two thirds of the World is covered by water.
But actually, I have seen the symbol earlier.

It looks like "The Seed of Life" or "The Flower of Life" by (probably) Bernard Perona. Bernard Perona adopted the name Drunvalo Melchizedek after studying at the “Alpha and Omega Order of Melchizedek” in Vancouver, Canada.

Seed of Life

So that is probably a better representation of what the flag means rather than what the website of the flag says.

Seed of Life jewellery

Other people had also designed flags for the Earth.
One popular design was posted on reddit by /u/thefrek 2 years ago. And quite a lot of people liked and used it.


It is a representation of our place in the solar system. Here it is :

Download the flag of the Earth here

People posing with the flag of the Earth on top of Mount Sherman

You might be interested in reading :

• Moving Optical illusions
• Dangerous Animals of Australia
• Octopi can see with their skin
• Making Kinegrams illusions

Buy Complete Flags of the World from Flipkart.com

A few dangerous animals of Australia - Danger Down Under

Australia is a continent and country isolated from the rest of the world. So much so, that it has evolved its own set of dangerous and weird animals that are not found anywhere else in the world.
Here are a few of them.

What are these weird animals ?

This one is a cute Koala

And these are really dangerous Koalas

And this is a duck billed platypus.

Kickboxing Streetfighting kangaroos ! In da streets.

Here is a list of Australian animals with their scientific names for more fun

Common Name	Scientific Name
Agile Antechinus	(Antechinus agilis)
Agile Wallaby	(Macropus agilis)
Allied Rock Wallaby	(Petrogale assimilis)
Australian Fur Seal	(Arctocephalus pusillus)
Australian Sea Lion	(Neophoca cinerea)
Bennett's Tree-kangaroo	(Dendrolagus bennettianus)
Black Flying-fox	(Pteropus alecto)
Black-footed Rock-wallaby	(Petrogale lateralis)
Black-spotted Cuscus	(Spilocuscus rufoniger)
Blue Whale	(Balaenoptera musculus)
Bottlenose Dolphin	(Tursiops truncatus)
Bridled Nailtail Wallaby	(Onychogalea fraenata)
Brown Antechinus	(Antechinus stuartii)
Brush-tailed Bettong	(Bettongia penicillata)
Brush-tailed Rock-wallaby	(Petrogale penicillata)
Bryde's Whale	(Balaenoptera edeni)
Chital