Emirate Airlines will offer in-flight showers for all first-class passengers starting from October 1st. The Emirates will offer this service on the flight New York-Dubai on their A380 airplanes first. If their program ends up being successful, more Emirate Airlines airplanes will have shower cabins.

The idea is to make flying as comfortable as possible, but the cost for that comes in question. You will need to pay $18,000 to have a shower in a Emirate’s A380 airplane. Because other passenger might take a shower in flight too, the airplane needs to carry 1 ton of water. That means, more fuel will be needed for the Emirate Airlines flights and the carbon cost will be around 50,000lbs per trip.

It’s not really nice to see that one shower in mid-flight will do so much damage to environment but nothing can be done about it. Emirate Airlines plans to install shower cabins in all of their high-class airplanes, and that is 50 A380s.

We still can’t see any pictures but the guys who witnessed the development of A380 say the Singapore Airlines front-end suits will be nothing compared to new Emirate airplanes. Their goal is to deliver the experience of Dubai’s “seven-star” Burj Al Arab hotel. It’s hard to imagine they can do that in airplane, but we will see, money is not an issue here.

Emirate Airlines offers showers because people who travel in first class are extremely rich. Richest 18% in Emirates take more then half the flights. The oil wealth made them ask for more and more when it comes to comfortable travel.

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A team of researchers has discovered the remains in of what may be the largest frog ever to exist. The largest living frog today, from West Africa, can attain length of 12.5 inches and weights 7.2 pounds.

The 16-inch, 10-pound ancient frog recently discovered, was named Beelzebufo, or devil frog, which lived 65 to 70 million years ago with frogs that live today in South America. What is hard to understand, how the frog that lived in South America can be found in Madagascar by researchers. There are some assumptions that Africa and South America were connected 65 million years ago and that’s when this frog made her way to the Madagascar.

The size and robustness of its bones indicates that this was probably the heaviest frog to exist on planet Earth. As you can see, that is a big pile of meat with huge mouth that can devour small animals in a second. No wonder that discoverers decided to call it “armored frog from hell.” The name derives from the Greek word for devil and the Latin word for toad, Beelzebub and bufo.

This powerful killing machine was not only huge and heavy, it had a powerful design. The skin was thick, jaws were powerful and wide mouth gave her the opportunity to ambush smaller animals ans swallow them at once. She could easily subdue lizards and it’s possible she even grabbed hatchling dinosaurs when she had the opportunity.

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