4 Of The Rarest/Awesome-st Weather Phenomenas

Don't you hate it when you go out to dinner with your friends, and you end up talking about the weather? If so, get ready for more weather-related discussion! But after finishing this post, you'll blow your friends' mind away with amazingly rare weather phenomenons. As Eddard once said, you'll be the bee's knees.

4. The Green Flash

The green flash? I'm not talking about the fictional DC comic character with super-speed. I'm talking about the rare optical phenomena that occurs after sunset or before sunrise. In a brief moment of seconds or less, a green flash can be seen above the sun.

It's coming.

The explanation for this green light isn't due to a mystical ghost-pirate ship floating the seas far off. As with all the other optical phenomenas, it's due to light refraction. As we all know, the farther away from the earth you go, the less air you'll find. The light that hits the earth finds itself bending due to the thinner air in the higher atmosphere and the denser air molecules in the lower atmosphere. Since the higher frequency blue/green light bends easier than lower frequency light, you get to actually see the light for a brief moment. In order for the green flash to occur to our naked eye, the atmosphere must be especially dense in order to magnify the green light long enough for our silly/weak eyes to see it.

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5 Of The Best-Selling Video Game Franchises Ever

The game industry is one of the largest industry, in the industry. That's a lot of industries. But which franchises have the best games, or at least are marketed very well. Lets find out together, eh?

5. FIFA

Don't we all love a good game of football (Soccer)? Why go outside, and enjoy the benefits and rewards of real soccer, when you can have all the enjoyment without actual friends and/or benefits? Electronic Arts releases a yearly game based of the actual FIFA competition, featuring certain teams and features. The game series also can boast the actual official license from FIFA, and licenses from football teams around the world. Take that every other football based game.

Basically the same thing.

The newest game, FIFA 11 is known to be the fastest selling sports game of all time. FIFA 11 caught $150 million before the first week of release ended; along with that, 2.6 million games were sold. The entire series has been known to have sold over 100 million games around the world for both consoles and computers.

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4 Of The Richest Companies (By Revenue) In The World

Richest companies in the world? Cha ching! I guess I'll be using this list to determine which company I'm going to become the CEO at! In the following list, you'll find five of the riches companies in the world, excluding some less-interesting ones along the way. I mean, who wants to read about four oil companies in a row right?

4. Samsung Electronics

Samsung is one of the riches companies in the entire world. Samsung pretty much topples the competition in information technology. They have over 187,800 employee's as of 2009, and since those employees don't get paid by good-will and happy wishes, they'll have to make a pretty dime.

"Instead of Christmas bonuses, here's a bunch of delicious cupcakes!" 

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