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Fictional starships size comparison
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Kazakhstan adopts Borat catchphrase 'Very nice!' as official tourism slogan
There was a time when the government of Kazakhstan banned the movie Borat and threatened to sue its star Sacha Baron Cohen for his depictions of the country in the outrageous mockumentary. Those days are over. Following the release of Borat Subsequent Moviefilm, the sequel to Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, the Kazakh tourism board had officially adopted the character's "very nice!" catchphrase as its slogan.
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Amazed astronaut In SpaceX Capsule Shoots Video Of Our Planet
NASA astronaut Victor Glover blasted into Earth's orbit aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon craft last week. Soon after, Glover and three other astronauts safely docked to the International Space Station. Glover, the first Black astronaut expected to have an extended, six-month stay on the space station, recently tweeted his inaugural video from the craft that ferried him into orbit, some 250 miles above Earth.
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A Dolphin Saved Hundreds of Lives in the Early 1900s
It isn’t groundbreaking news that dolphins are smart. ‘How smart’ has always the question. After all, it’s not like we can give them a written test. Their cognitive abilities are part of ongoing research. For example, a recent study by Georgetown University revealed that dolphins have the longest lasting memory of any non-human species, including elephants.
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Couple's incredible $800k find during romantic beach stroll
A couple’s romantic stroll along a beach in Thailand has become life-changing after they stumbled upon a precious substance that could be worth around $792,345. Veera Juengboon, 31 and his wife Monruedee, 26, travelled to Phuket, to see a friend when they noticed a yellowish lump on the beach.
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Watch a black hole tear a star to bits in epic new animation
The awesome spectacle of a black hole ripping a star to shreds can be seen in this striking new visualization from the Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), a particle accelerator lab in Hamburg, Germany. Such events are known as stellar tidal disruptors, and they are fairly rare, occurring just once every 10,000 years in a typical galaxy, according to NASA. Stars are typically flung toward a ravenous black hole after interacting gravitationally with another star or massive object...
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‘Floating food’: Here is what a pizza party at International Space Station looks like
Enjoying a slice of pizza with friends on the weekends maybe a common ritual on earth but when astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) decided to have a ‘floating pizza party’, the video undoubtedly left netizens fascinated.
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Man, 89, achieves lifelong dream of earning Ph.d in physics
An 89-year-old Rhode Island man has achieved a goal he spent two decades working toward and nearly a lifetime thinking about — earning his Ph.D. and becoming a physicist. Manfred Steiner recently defended his dissertation successfully at Brown University in Providence. Steiner cherishes this degree because it’s what he always wanted — and because he overcame health problems that could have derailed his studies.
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Astronaut Wang Yaping snaps Earth photos and more from Chinese space station
The first woman aboard China’s new space station has snapped some glorious shots of our homeworld during a six-month mission to space. Wang Yaping flew to the Tianhe core module in October aboard the Shenzhou 13 spacecraft along with her colleagues Zhai Zhigang and Ye Guangfu.
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Weird 'hot Jupiter' exoplanet is shaped like a football
A distant exoplanet looks more like a football than the usual sphere, researchers report in a groundbreaking new study. The strange shape of ultrahot WASP-103b, which is more than 1,000 light-years from Earth, is due to the planet being stretched by the gravitational forces of its parent star, according to the new research.
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New Film Studio Will Be Built in Space by 2024
Space Entertainment Enterprise (S.E.E), the company co-producing Tom Cruise’s upcoming space movie, plan to launch a sports arena and production studio in zero gravity. S.E.E. has unveiled plans to build a space station module that contains a sports and entertainment arena as well as a content studio by December 2024. (An artist’s rendering is pictured above.)
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Zoo Staff Refuses To Save Drowning Chimp, Suddenly Man Jumps Into Enclosure
One day, like any other day, the Detroit Zoo chimpanzee exhibit was surrounded with spectators on all sides, when suddenly, a playful chase between two chimps took an accidental turn, and one of the chimps slipped into the muddy moat surrounding the exhibit.
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14yo Tasmanian boy cracks national intelligence agency code in 'just over an hour'
A 14-year-old Tasmanian boy cracks four levels of code imprinted on a commemorative 50-cent coin in "just over an hour" after it was released by the nation's foreign intelligence cybersecurity agency — and the spy boss says she wants to meet him so she can "recruit him".
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