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The 1990s saw two thresholds crossed, with True Lies costing $100 million in 1994 and Titanic costing $200 million in 1997, both directed by James Cameron. Since then it has become normal for a tent-pole feature from a major film studio to cost over $100 million and an increasing number of films are costing $200 million or more.
Since the mid-2000s, Leighton attempted to increase interest in using sound to explore other planets by predicting the soundscapes of other worlds [100] [36] [101] [102] [103] and how these could best be exploited using acoustic devices, led to devices for planetaria to use when teaching about other worlds, [36] [101] [37] [34] and showed how ...
Twinkies, an American snack cake generally considered to be "junk food", have a shelf life of around 25 days, despite the common claim (usually facetious) that they remain edible for decades. [25] The official shelf life is 45 days. Twinkies normally remain on a store shelf for 7 to 10 days. [26]
Oleg Kononenko of Roscosmos holds the record for the longest time spent in space and at the ISS, accumulating nearly 1,111 days in space over the course of five long-duration missions on the ISS (Expedition 17, 30/31, 44/45, 57/58/59 and 69/70/71). He also served as commander three times (Expedition 31, 58/59 and 70/71). [246]
The mushroom cloud of Tsar Bomba seen from a distance of 161 km (100 mi). The crown of the cloud is 65 km (40 mi) high at the time of the picture. (source: Rosatom State Corporation Communications Department 20–08–2020) The flare was visible at a distance of more than 1,000 km (620 mi). [50]
Paris (French pronunciation: ⓘ) is the capital and largest city of France.With an estimated population of 2,048,472 residents in January 2025 [3] in an area of more than 105 km 2 (41 sq mi), [4] Paris is the fourth-most populous city in the European Union, the ninth-most populous city in Europe and the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2022. [5]
The European Space Agency's Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle, an experimental reentry vehicle often referred to as the "European space plane," makes its first flight, a 100-minute suborbital mission in which it launches from the Guiana Space Centre in Kourou, French Guiana, and lands in the Pacific Ocean around 3,000 km west of the Galápagos ...