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  2. Human presence in space - Wikipedia

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    The increasing and extensive human presence in orbital space around Earth, beside its benefits, has also produced a threat to it by carrying with it space debris, potentially cascading into the so-called Kessler syndrome. [5] This has raised the need for regulation and mitigation of such to secure a sustainable access to outer space.

  3. List of dates predicted for apocalyptic events - Wikipedia

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    Earth and the Moon will be most likely be destroyed by falling into the Sun, just before the Sun reaches the largest of its red giant phase when it will be 256 times larger than it is now. Before the final collision, the Moon possibly spirals below Earth's Roche limit, breaking into a ring of debris, most of which falls to Earth's surface. [215 ...

  4. List of oldest living people - Wikipedia

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    Name Sex Birth date Age as of ... 11 Andrée Bertoletto [2 ... 114 years, 15 days France 12 Yolanda Beltrão de Azevedo [2] F. 13 January 1911 114 years, 3 days

  5. Apollo 11 - Wikipedia

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    President Dwight D. Eisenhower responded to the Sputnik challenge by creating the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and initiating Project Mercury, [20] which aimed to launch a man into Earth orbit. [21] But on April 12, 1961, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first person in space, and the first to orbit the Earth. [22]

  6. Names for the human species - Wikipedia

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    Man as on his way towards finding God, Gabriel Marcel, 1945 [citation needed] Homo pictor "depicting man", "man the artist" Human sense of aesthetics, Hans Jonas, 1961 Homo poetica "man the poet", "man the meaning maker" Ernest Becker, in The Structure of Evil: An Essay on the Unification of the Science of Man (1968). Homo religiosus "religious ...

  7. List of the verified oldest people - Wikipedia

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    Name Birth date Death date Age Place of death or residence 1 Jeanne Calment [9] 21 February 1875 4 August 1997 122 years, 164 days [b] France 2 Kane Tanaka [7] 2 January 1903 19 April 2022 [10] 119 years, 107 days Japan 3 Sarah Knauss [11] 24 September 1880 30 December 1999 119 years, 97 days United States 4 Lucile Randon [12] 11 February 1904

  8. Manu (Hinduism) - Wikipedia

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    Manu (Sanskrit: मनु) is a term found with various meanings in Hinduism.In early texts, it refers to the archetypal man, or the first man (progenitor of humanity).The Sanskrit term for 'human', मनुष्य (IAST: manuṣya) or मानव (IAST: mānava) means 'of Manu' or 'children of Manu'. [1]

  9. Human taxonomy - Wikipedia

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    Especially, the LD 350-1 jawbone fossil discovered in 2013, dated to 2.8 Mya, has been argued as being transitional between the two. [11] It is also disputed whether H. habilis was the first hominin to use stone tools, as Australopithecus garhi, dated to c. 2.5 Mya, has been found along with stone tool implements. [12]