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ADVERTISEMENT Celebrating TopTenz.net’s 1,000th list, coming up on August 3, 2012, here is our 4th list this week about the number 1,000. “What will the world will be like in 1,000 years” seems like an absurd question to even ask, especially since the degree to which the world changes in 100 years is overly ambitious [...]
Posted by Natalie Jaro on Thursday, August 2, 2012 at 12:01 am
Filed under Bizarre, Misc, Nature, Science · Tagged 1000 years, advancements in technology, alien life, altering DNA, Arthur C. Clarke, Earth's future, Fantastic Voyage: Live Long Enough to Live Forever, living today, nano-bots, nanotechnology, Natalie Jaro, National Inventors Hall of Fame, National Medal of Technology and Innovation, planet earth, ray kurzweil, science fiction writer, space exploration, technological advancements, The Singularity, Thomas Edison, world population
Eleven years into the new millennium and it’s still interesting (and fun) to look back and remember the history of the previous hundred years. Our current circumstances, both good and bad, find a foundation that was laid in the 20th century. From tragedy to triumph, the 20th century offers up a wealth of timeless memories [...]
Posted by Lee Standberry on Tuesday, June 19, 2012 at 12:01 am
Filed under History · Tagged Berlin Wall, Christa McAuliffe, East Germany, Enola Gay, Germany, Hiroshima, James Earl Ray, Japan, john f kennedy, Lee Harvey Oswald, lee standberry, Martin Luther King, Martin Luther King Jr., moon landing, Nagasaki, Neil Armstrong, New Millenium, PEARL HARBOR, San Francisco earthquake, Soviet Union, space exploration, Space Shuttle, Space Shuttle Challenger disaster, Space Shuttle program, stock market crash, United States
Before Yuri Gagarin made history by becoming the first man in space on April 12, 1961, a long succession of non-human astronauts had already been shot through the atmosphere in order to determine if life forms could survive spaceflight. Even after manned space missions became routine procedures, many different animals continued to be used for [...]
Posted by Brandt on Friday, April 9, 2010 at 1:16 am
Filed under Animals, History, Science · Tagged Animal, Animals, animals in space, Cape Canaveral, cats, doctors, Dogs, first man in space, fish, Fruit, guinea pig, guinea pigs, human astronauts, Human spaceflight, ivan ivanovich, manned space missions, monkeys, Monkeys in space, NASA, newts, Orbiting Frog Otolith, parachute recovery, pig space, plants and animals, rocket flight, skylab 3, Smithsonian, space, space experiments, space exploration, spiders, technology, Yorick, yuri gagarin
