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Michio Kaku suggests that "one in twenty stars has a habitable, Earth-like planet." This estimate, based on observations and models of exoplanetary systems, indicates a significant number of stars may host planets capable of supporting life as we know it. The implication is profound for astrobiology and the search for extraterrestrial life, suggesting that our galaxy could be teeming with potentially habitable worlds. This statistic fuels optimism in the quest to find alien life and encourages further exploration and research into exoplanetary environments that could mimic Earth's conditions.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
An ancient shipwreck proves the Greek historian Herodotus was correct about the observations he made about Egyptian vessels nearly twenty-five centuries ago, archaeologists said recently.

The shipwreck, discovered in the Nile River near the ancient, and now sunken, city of Thonis-Heracleion was of a ship called a “baris.” This exact type of vessel was described in great detail by Herodotus in his text “Histories” (Greek: ἹΣΤΟΡΙΑΙ) after a visit he made to the port city of Thonis-Heracleion in Egypt...
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...For centuries, scholars and archaeologists believed that the type of ship Herodotus described never actually existed because such ships had never once been discovered by anyone on Earth.

This theory was recently blown up when a group of archaeologists found a well-preserved shipwreck off the coast of Egypt in the Canopic mouth of the Nile near the Mediterranean Sea.

What the archaeologists saw when they dove into the waters was exactly the kind of vessel Herodotus had perfectly described in his book nearly 2,500 years ago....
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Egyptian Shipwreck Proves Ancient Greek Historian Herodotus Right
 
11.29 FunFact - What is considered to be the first commercially successful video game in history arrived on this day in 1972. "Pong" was a tennis simulator in which players used "paddles" to knock a ball across the screen. Originally created for games company Atari by designer Allan Alcorn as part of a training exercise, it proved so enjoyable that a prototype was installed in a California bar. And when Atari co-founder Nolan Bushnell returned to the bar to find the coin compartment overflowing, he decided to put the game into full production.


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