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For a mere $125,000, you, too, can purchase a trip to ascend some 20 miles into Earth's upper atmosphere onboard a luxury space balloon.   Space Perspective, a human space flight company in Florida, on Wednesday began selling tickets for its inaugural voyage way high into the sky at $125,000 a pop. The trip is scheduled for late 2024 aboard the Spaceship Neptune, a hot air balloon-style craft lifted by hydrogen. Anyone interested in the trip must pay a $1,000 deposit.     The company said it plans to send eight passengers on a "leisurely" ascension into space from a launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, an excursion in which they will reportedly travel up to 20 miles above the Earth's surface for a "profoundly life-changing" experience.  

Morning saliva is rich in healing and has anti-inflamatory & anti-bacterial properties and can help treat stye, pimples, acne, etc.  

D o Ghosts really exist? According to Science, Ghosts cannot exist. This is because, if they exist they will be made up of pure energy as by definition they do not have any matter. To stay forever they would need some continuous supply of energy. Even if they exist, they won't disturb you as they will be spending their own energy which will reduce their lifespan. It's all thermodynamics.  

Birds have developed an ability that let half their brain sleep while keeping the other half awake. Researchers report that ducks manage this trick to stay alert for predators while still getting some shut-eye. The findings suggest that different parts of the vertebrate brain can sleep independently of each other.    Although researchers have known about this so-called "unihemispheric" sleep for 3 decades, they could only guess why this particular kind of shut-eye evolved in birds. But when filming mallards for a different experiment, sleep researcher Niels Rattenborg of Indiana State University noticed a remarkable pattern.    The sleep pattern is as important as the amount, says Jerome Siegel, a sleep researcher at the University of California, Los Angeles. Each animal has evolved its way to balance the need for sleep with the need for safety.  

Californian company the Gateway Foundation released plans for a cruise ship-style hotel that could one day float above the Earth's atmosphere. Then called the Von Braun Station, this futuristic concept, comprised of 24 modules connected by elevator shafts that make up a rotating wheel orbiting the Earth, was scheduled to be fully operational by 2027.    Fast forward a couple of years and the hotel has a new name, Voyager Station, and it's set to be built by Orbital Assembly Corporation, a new construction company run by former pilot John Blincow, who also heads up the Gateway Foundation. In a recent interview with CNN Travel, Blincow explained there had been some Covid-related delays, but construction on the space hotel is expected to begin in 2026, and a sojourn in space could be a reality by 2027.    "We're trying to make the public realize that this golden age of space travel is just around the corner. It's coming. It's coming fast," said Blincow.  

1 kilogram of Uranium-235 can produce the same amount of energy as 3 million kilograms of coal.  

Light travels 18 million times faster than rain.  

Women live longer than men partly because their immune system age more slowly.  

Hydrogen gas is the least dense substance in the world at 0.08988g/cc Atomic weight - 1.008 Ionization energy - 13.60 eV  

The Earth's magnetic field has been steadily weakening over the past 180 years, specially around Brazil and Argentina.

According to scientist and photographer Dr. Roger Clark, the resolution of the human eye is 576 Megapixels.  

A severe coronavirus infection, involving hospitalisation and ventilator support, has a substantial impact on a recovered patient's intelligence as part of wider "Long-COVID" symptoms.