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Stephen Hawking says humans have 1,000 years to leave Earth

Famed theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking has  grim news for humanity: We have 1,000 years to get off Earth or we’re totally screwed. The 74-year-old  delivered a speech on Tuesday at the Oxford Union in which he said “I don’t think we will survive another 1,000 years without escaping beyond our fragile planet.” He believes it will become impossible for us to keep living here.

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If a person has experienced just one episode of depression in their lifetime, there’s a 50% chance they will have a second. If that happens, they become 80% more likely to endure it a third time. Source

“You’re capable of such beautiful dreams, and such horrible nightmares. You feel so lost, so cut off, so alone, only you’re not. See, in all our searching, the only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.” - Carl Sagan, Contact

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Why is christian god just God? I mean every other god have a name and a title.

Thor the god of storms and protector of mankind.

Odin the all father and death.

Shiva the god of creation, destruction and regeneration.

Ganesha the god of new beginnings and obstacle remover.

Zeus the god of sky, law and justice.

Apollo the god of music, plague and knowledge.

And all the others.

Some meteors from the Geminid Meteor shower in Banff, Alberta

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Getting Closer to the Core at Pepacton Resevoir, NY

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I wasn’t aware how introvert I’ve come with my depression. I’ve never being good at talking on the phone, but today when I should’ve made a phone call to the bank, I panicked over a word that I forgot and hang up before I even get to the line.

Everything you need to know to plan your space travels.

Source: www.theplanets.org

Galaxies NGC 799 and NGC 800 located in the constellation of Cetus

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 Why Are We Ticklish?

A new study from Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin has found how “ticklishness” is represented in the rat brain. The study has been published on 11th November 2016 in Science.

Of all physical sensations, ticklishness is perhaps the most mysterious. Why do we laugh in response to tickling? Why are certain body parts more ticklish? Why cannot we tickle ourselves? Indeed, the mystery of ticklish perception has been discussed for more than two millennia by great intellectuals including Aristotle and Charles Darwin. Despite such long-standing interest, the mechanism of ticklishness remained elusive.

The new study investigated tickling in rats. Earlier work had shown that young rats respond with 50 kHz ultrasonic “laughter-calls” to tickling by humans. In the novel study rats also reacted enthusiastically to the tickling: they emitted numerous calls. As judged by their calls, rats were most ticklish on the belly and underneath their feet. Rats often performed unsolicited joy jumps (Freudensprünge) after tickling, a behavior that can be seen in joyful subjects in various mammalian species. Rats also played with the researcher’s hand and chased it, and emitted similar calls during play.

“Neural correlates of ticklishness in the rat somatosensory cortex” by S. Ishiyama and M. Brecht in Science. Published online November 11 2016 doi:10.1126/science.aah5114