Some time ago, we brought you the story of Spaceport City, the planned, floating commercial space station in Japan. But as is usual with these things, someone is already taking things a step further. Orbital Assembly Corporation, a California-based futuristic construction company, is planning the world’s first space hotel. According to the firm’s ambitious plans, …
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Our desire for exploration far outpaces our capacity. Our struggle to travel to our neighboring planets doesn’t bode well for exploring distant solar systems. But when you consider how little of our own world we’ve seen, we’re still in the infancy of understanding the capacity for survival in species. Take, for instance, the pitch-black, freezing, …
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Our planet, cozy, warm, and blessed with an abundance of carbon and water, is such an anomaly in our solar system. When we talk about “strange planets,” Earth is probably the strangest. After all, in the hundreds of billions of planets in our galaxy, we’re the only one (we know of) that can support such …
Did you read As Americans We Are One of a Kind: Part One? Besides wearing shorts, we want white teeth, to wear baseball caps, and drink coffee on the go. Here are more things that show us off as from the USA. So What About Soccer? Soccer isn’t a heavily American thing. Yes, people get …
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We’ve previously addressed the sky-high pricing for Legos these days. They’ve gone from a ubiquitous gift for kids to a serious investment for parents. When someone sets a World Record for the size of a Lego display, it’s a big announcement that this person is rich. Or, in this case, a museum. Kids museums have …
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Setting off on international travel is the start of an exciting adventure. By leaving the comfort zone of your home country, you will have a whole range of new experiences and meet a lot of fascinating people from all over the world. However, there are certain steps that you should take to ensure that your …
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Traveling is always an option, regardless the place we are, what we do, and the times we are living. Perhaps 2020 wasn’t that much of a year to tick off your bucket list destinations, but there is no reason not to do it in 2021. The end of the year is the time of lists, …
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This year, New Year’s Eve doesn’t have the same frenetic, must-find-an-epic-party energy. Just surviving 2020 feels monumental enough. While the Times Square crowd already held limited appeal, the prospect of being around thousands of other people has completely lost its luster. There have been fun ways to celebrate the new year in the past that …
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Most people’s usual holiday traditions are on hold this year to prevent cascading infection rates in the new year. The parts of the holiday that are generally awesome are super-bummers in 2020. Holiday parties have to be over Zoom. Secret Santas gift exchanges now require thorough disinfecting. We’re trading in the festive mall shopping for …
So, we aren’t supposed to be traveling right now. But that doesn’t have to stop us from drooling over future plans, now does it? These are some of the underrated cities to see as soon as we get out of this dang pandemic. Greenville, South Carolina Surprisingly enough, Greenville has become a foodie haven. More …
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