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Did you know that no Americans have legally died of old age since
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the 1950’s, and that in the entire history of humanity, nobody has biologically died from old age either? When someone is deemed to have died from old age that’s not strictly true; on the death certificate you’ll most likely see heart disease, organ failure or sepsis listed instead. Can you imagine what would happen if you woke tomorrow to the news that Wi-Fi signals cause cancer – would we be as blasé as smokers were when they found out? If you were hanging out in space, chilling with your space pals in your expensive space suit sipping on space margaritas, what would happen if you tried to do the space splits and you tore a hole in your space pants? This entry has a huge disclaimer at the end, so can you please stop licking that raw chicken breast until we’ve finished. Earlier this year a British Government campaign aimed to raise awareness of the dangers of burnt food, so if you’ve just charred a nice chicken breast into cinders after reading out last entry, I’d throw it in the trash.

Science fiction is a real tease ain’t she? She tempts us with all..
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these fancy gizmos and gadgets in the movies, along with tales of interstellar travel and relations with hot extra-terrestrials, only for the experts to say we’ll never see such things in our lifetime. What a bummer.The oldest verified human being was Frenchwoman Jeanne Calvert, who died aged 122 in 1997. However, there have been as-yet unverified claims that an Indonesian man may have recently passed away at the age of 146.The Kardashev Scale is a way of measuring a civilization’s technological abilities based on the amount of energy they can harness. Modern humans are at 0.73 on this scale, and experts have predicted that Type 1 status will be achieved within 150 to 200 years.In 1996 Google was a garage-based research project conducted by founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, and today it facilitates over 1.2 trillion search queries per year; but by the year 2300 they hope to go even further. Plastic bags have been used for about sixty years, but unless we find a way to break them down, this garbage will continue to pollute the Earth for at least five hundred years more. The world’s leading linguists believe that within 1,000 years every language currently spoken on Earth will be vastly different.

Antarctica is a pretty bizarre place; it is home to the coldest region on Earth but it’s also our largest desert.

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Until 2012 Antarctica’s Lake Vostok was quarantined from the world for 15million years, thanks to a four kilometre layer of surface ice. If you’re on Google Earth you’re probably using it either to find your own house or track down a bizarre object no-one else has discovered. Another famous Antarctic mystery is the frozen Pyramid, which some people believe to have been constructed by a race of ancient Antarcticans. Was Antarctica once a habitable place where a hidden race of humans existed in previously undiscovered cities? Antarctica was the last large region on Earth to be discovered and settled by human beings, with its first recorded sighting attributed to a Russian expedition in 1820, and the first confirmed landing in 1895.

When you wake up after a long night’s sleep you may recall a few
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dreams, but mostly there’s just a big black gap of nothingness between the time you hit the hay and the moment you woke up with drool on your chin. So is this what death feels like?When we sleep our brains don’t switch off for the night like a laptop; a more apt comparison is that we’re kept on stand-by mode, with all those annoying Adobe updates and scheduled system scans saved for this period of inactivity.Picture the scene; a person has been seriously injured when a speedboat crashed awesomely into a helicopter. The boat’s driver dove out at the last minute, cracking his spine on the side of a hot tub located on the deck of a passing luxury yacht. To find out if death truly is like being in a deep sleep we have two choices; kill ourselves, which is messy and requires a lot of paperwork, or ask someone who has endured a near death experience.In our previous entry we described Sasha Eliasson as being clinically dead for two whole minutes on two separate occasions, but that is not technically true.

Ever since we first begun to imagine that life could exist on worlds
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other than our own, the Red Planet has been mankind’s number one suspect. And in recent years we’ve also come to believe that life may also exist somewhere on the moons of Saturn and Jupiter too. So what evidence for this have we actually discovered? In 2013 the Curiosity rover detected many of the key chemical ingredients for life in the Martian soil.In 2014 the British microbiologist Professor Milton Wainwright claimed to have discovered evidence of life in Earth’s stratosphere, and he says this organism could not have come from our planet.Take a look at this neat little guy. This is a methane ice worm discovered in Mexico back in 1997. As its name suggests, this organism lives inside methane ice which has been pushed up from the sea floor.