Chris Lopez

El Salvador, The First Country To Adopt Bitcoin As A Legal Tender, Now Partners With Tether For An Initiative Offering Foreign Investors A Salvadoran Passport For $1 M In Bitcoin. The Initiative Targets High-Net-Worth Investors, Raising Concerns About Socio-Economic Disparities And Displacements In Crypto-Attracting Areas Like El Zonte.

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China Launched The Shenzhou-16 Mission On 5/30/23, Carrying Its First Civilian Astronaut, Dr. Gui Haichao, To The Tiangong Space Station. The Crew Will Replace Shenzhou-15 For The Next 5 Months. Dr. Haichao Drew Attention For Wearing Eyeglasses. China Seeks To Make Tiangong A Significant Research Station And Aims For A Manned Lunar Landing By 2030.

An Indian Government Survey, Between 2019 And 2021, Shows That, For The First Time In History, India Now Has More Women Than Men, With 1,020 Women For Every 1,000 Men. The Survey Of 650,000 Households Also Shows A Decline In India’s Reproductive Rate, Implying That India’s Current Population Of 1.4 Billion May Be Near Its Peak.

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Researchers, Based On China’s Chang’e 5 Spacecraft Lunar Samples, Have Determined That The Moon Was Last Volcanically Active With Lava Flow As Recent As 2 Byrs Ago. This Find, Which Has Many Implications, Contradicts Earlier Opinion That The Moon Died Early Due To Its Small Size. And It Also Raises Question As To The Cause Of The Lava.

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China Passed The One Child Birth Limit In 1979 And Enforced It Since 1980 To Curtail Population Growth. The Country Then Increased, In 2015, The Limit To 2 Children Per Family As A Result Of Economic Issues Due To The Aging Population. Now, China Wants To Allow Couples To Have 3 Children Due To Dwindling Number Of Working-Age People.

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Funing County, China, Has Banned Parties For, E.G, Birthdays, Or Job Promotions. In-Line With The Central Government Call For Citizens To Curb Wastefulness And Extravagance. The County Also Set New Rules, Applicable To Gov Members, Village Leaders, And Civil Servants, For Weddings And Funerals, Including Cash Gift Ban Of >200 Yuan (US$31).

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With Ether Surging Past $3,200, The Creator Of Ethereum, Vitalik Buterin, Age 27, Is Now The World’s Youngest Crypto Billionaire. Buterin’s Crypto Wallet Holds ~333,500 Ether Worth $1.029 B. Ethereum Is The Most Actively Used Blockchain. And Ether Is The Second Largest Cryptocurrency, After Bitcoin, With A Market Cap Of $364 B.

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China, On April 28, 2021, Launched A Core Module For Its New Space Station. The Module, Tianhe, Would Initiate 18 Months Of Construction, ~230 Miles Above Earth, For China’s Third Station Attempt. China Will Fly 11 Missions To Complete The Station In Late 2022. These Stations Come After China Was Barred From ISS Activities, Since 2011.

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China Is Now The First Major Economy To Create A Digital Currency By Converting Its Yuan Into A Strings Of Digits. The Cyber Yuan, Unlike The Bitcoin, Can Track User Spending In Real-Time–Monitoring China’s Economy And People, E.G., On Tax Evasion. Moreover, The Cyber Yaun Isn’t Linked To The Dollar-Dominated Global Financial System.

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50 Years After The US First Planted Its Flag On The Moon, During the Manned Apollo 11 Mission In 1969, China Is Now The 2nd Country To Plant Its Flag During The Chang’e-5 Probe Mission. However, This Is Not China’s First Lunar Mission As They Previously Had 2. The Unique Chinese Flag Is 2m Wide And 90cm Tall And Weighs ~1Kg.

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The Mysterious Jelly Substance, Discovered By China’s Chang’e 4 Rover, In A Crater, Has Gotten Everyone Baffled. Well, It’s To Be Expected Given That It’s The First Time A Thing Of This Nature Has Been Found On The Moon. Anyway, Some Scientists Think It’s Melt Glass Formed By Meteorite Impact On The Surface Of The Moon

Canada, According To Scientists, Is On The Average Warming Twice As Fast As The Rest Of The World. And This Is Worst In The Canadian Arctic Where Warming Is Taking Place At More Than Twice The Pace. Canada’s Temperature Has Increased By 1.7C (3F) Since 1948, Mainly Thanks To Human Activities.

Canada warming twice as fast as the r…

The Chinese Are At It Again With Their Trail Blazing Ambitions For Space. This Time, They Want To Build The First Power Station In Space By The Year 2030. Anyways, Given Their Hefty $8 Billion Annual Budget For Space, Why Not! Their Budget Is Second To The USA’ s, NASA, 2018 Budget Of $20.7 Billion.

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Scientists, Using Vegetation As A Proxy, Are Indicating That Landscapes Now Exposed On The 5th Largest Island In The World, The Baffin Island, Have Been Unseen For The Past 40,000 Years. And This Is All Thanks To Climate Change. And In Addition, The Canadian Arctic May Be Experiencing The Warmest Century In The Past 115,000 Years.

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Finally, The Chang’e-4 Robot Has Now Sent The First Panoramic View Or Bird\’s Eye View Photo of A Small Part Of The Side Of The Moon That Is Always Facing Away From The Earth. The Photo Was Taken From The Surface Of The Moon. And The Pictures Do Look Stunning. See Video Below.

USA Sent Man To The Moon. But China Is Now The First To Land A Probe, Chang’e-4, On The Side Of The Moon That Is Always Facing Away From Earth (The Dark Side Of The Moon). The Probe Is Expected To Take Pictures From The Surface Of That Side Of The Moon. Cool!

China Becomes First Country To Land A Spacecraft On The Far Side Of The…

Global Warming Has Become So Threatening That People Are Proposing Radical Solutions To Solve The Problem. A Silicon Valley Firm, Y Combinator, Is Proposing That Deserts Be Flooded To grow Algae That Would Help Reduce CO2 Gas. Pretty Ambitious Idea With A Lot Of Ramifications Including Project Cost And Environmental Impact.

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After The Artificial Moon Story, China, This Time, Has Created What They Are Calling “An Artificial Sun.” Anyway, This Is Just A Reactor That Can Mimic The Process By Which Our Natural Sun Generates Energy. And One Of The Cool Parts, According to Scientists, Is That The Artificial Sun Is 6 Times Hotter Than The Real Sun.

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France Is Currently The Most Visited Country In The World, But It Is Projected That By 2030, China Will Be The Most Visited Country In The World. And This Is In Thanks To China’s Economic Growth, The Ease Of Traveling To The Country, And Improved Tourism And Tourism Friendly Initiatives.

By 2030, This Will Be The Most Visited C…

An Artificial Moon, Indeed! Just Say A Satellite With Mirrors That Can Reflect The Sun’s Light. Yep, The Chinese Hope To Succeed Where The Russians Failed By launching Such A Satellite In Orbit By the Year 2020 To Light Up Cities At Night. Yep, Lets Impact The Natural Order Of Things On Earth.

China to launch artificial 'moon' i…