Crop Circles: What They Are and Who Makes Them

Crops and Their Close Companions

Now, I'm sure you've all heard of crop circles. These round phenomenons occurring in fields of wheat have been around for years. Some have been proven to have been made by humans. Some people just do it on a whim, some for pranks, and some to even make money. Others, however, are believed to have been made by some extraterrestrial force.

The idea of crop circles aroused in the 1500's where a comic showing a monster making a crop circle was released. The first crop circles appeared around the 1800's. They started out as just normal circles, and there weren't that many. Then they started getting more complicated and grew in numbers in the 1980's.

 Farmers grew agitated over the loss of crops. Crop circles were also becoming known as tourist attractions for believers in the paranormal. 

Out of the thousands that have popped up, only a few crop circles have been verified to be made by humans. The world will just have to wait and see what the outcome of this strange phenomenon is.

Stay tuned for another post at THE SCIENTIFIC WAFFLE

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Diamond Rain

It's Rainin' Diamonds, Hallelujah, It's Rainin' Diamonds,

 

Hello WAFFLES AND PANCAKES and welcome to the  SCIENTIFIC WAFFLE

YA I SAID IT OOHHH

So basically diamonds are probably raining on Neptune and Uranus.

Now it's time to LEARN WHY!

See, Neptune and Uranus are filled with METHANE THE MAGICAL GAS

 

Methane is like coal

If you compress it

And heat it

DIAMONDS! =D

 

You get it?

No?

Well then let me explain it to you! =D

Basically, if you put methane under 1000 (Not over 9000) times atmospheric pressure, it gets super compressed. Then if you heat it to 5000 (Still not over 9000) degrees, it will turn into diamond dust.

So if Neptune and Uranus are made of methane...

And the gravity there is much, much, extremely much stronger than it is here...

What do you think will happen?

Do you really not know?

Really?

I am severely dissapointed in you, reader.

You thought it was just going to rain diamonds.

Well, you're wrong.

Well, what's really going to happen is...

TONS OF DIAMONDS WILL RAIN DOWN AND FALL TO THE MIDDLE OF THE PLANET AND YEAH

See? It's not going to rain diamonds, it's going to rain TONS of diamond.

=)

But this is only a theory. Im sorry. =(
By the way, sorry if the first few lines are wierd at the top. Blogger no like me. =)

Seriously though, I think this is my favorite thing yet. Diamonds raining on other planets? Sweet

But I hope you liked this post! Check back in a week at the...

SCIENTIFIC WAFFLE

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Why Do Leaves Change Their Color?

Why Do Leaves Change Their Color?

        Many people do not think about why leaves change color, they just think about as something that leaves do when the temperature starts going down. But there is a reason. OMG there is???!!!

Woahhhh they're changing cooool

Yeah there is! =D Now lets talk 'bout dat reason. So basically, the chlorophyll in the leaves reflect green light, which makes the leaves green. When the sun starts setting earlier and earlier, the chlorophyll, that green pigment in the chloroplasts, the plant starts to stop producing chlorophyll. When it does that, it reveals the other colors like yellow, orange, and brown, which were ALWAYS THERE. YEAH THAT'S RIGHT I JUST BLEW UR MIND BRO. So, after that then the leaves fall and then they regrow in the winter. But it ain't dat simple.

First of all, lets talk about why the leaves change their color. See, there are two pigments that cause the leaves to be colored. The pigments that make leaves yellow, orange, or brown are called carotenoids, and the pigments that make leaves red or purple are anthocyanins. Some examples of foods that have carotenoids are pumpkins and carrots (carrot = carotenoids). Examples of foods that have anthocyanins are blueberries and strawberries.

Now for why leaves fall off the tree. See, there's a little piece of cork that grows in the base of the leaf between the leaf and the branch. Every fall, the cork grows to its limit and completely blocks off the leaf from the rest of the tree. The leaf then is blown off by the wind or simply gets so feeble it falls.

A factor of how dull or bright a leaf is in the fall depends on how the weather is. Warm weather makes the colors brighter, while cold and dry weather makes the colors more dull.

Some trees do not lose their leaves in the winter. This is because the trees have an anti-frost on the leaves, so they are protected from the cold. They also do not require as much sunlight to make food.

Well, that's all for today. Scientific Waffle out.

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All About Leaves
Color Changing Leaves