How about we start talking about the more interesting things in this article. Last month Nasa and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) landed the heaviest, but most intelligent and technologically developed payload, ever to touch the Martian surface. I am of course referring to the 2020 Perseverance rover. It carries seven primary payload instruments, 19 cameras, and two microphones. The rover is also carrying the mini-helicopter Ingenuity, an experimental aircraft that will attempt the first ever powered flight on another planet.
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SpaceX did it again: SpaceX's latest Starship prototype went out in a blaze of glory.
The Starship SN10 spacecraft touched down successfully after a high-altitude test flight in March 3, a major milestone for the company and its crewed Mars ambitions. But the vehicle didn't manage to hold itself together, exploding about eight minutes after landing.
The big stainless-steel SN10 launched from SpaceX's South Texas site, rose 10 kilometers into the sky and came back safely to Earth for a smooth touchdown after 6 minutes and 20 seconds from liftoff.
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Space (What is space according to many scientific sources: Space is the boundless three-dimensional extent in which objects and events have relative position and direction.) facts that probably you didn’t know:
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Space is completely silent (due to the vacuum-no air).
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99% of our solar system's mass is the sun.
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More energy from the sun hits Earth every hour than the planet uses in a year.
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One day on Venus is longer than one year on Earth and 10 days longer than 1 year on Venus.
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The universe is constantly expanding.
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A competed NASA space suit costs $12,000,000.
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There are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on earth.
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Welcome to the gaming section of this blog!
This is an introduction of what you will be reading in this section of this blog. Here you will find things about different types of games, different consoles on which you can play videogames, gaming reviews and more!
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I will start by some history of videogames. The first game that ever been created in 1958 and it was a simple tennis game called “Tennis for 2” in which players must turn a knob in order to control it. But it and others of the first videogames was very expensive to get them outside the lab that they were made so they never got sold. The first console that ever created in order to allow players to buy videogames and play them was called Odyssey and it got released in 1927. Then other videogames started getting released and they started becoming popular. The last couple of years the gaming industry had a very big evolution. Now there are a lot of different types of videogames for players to choose from and a lot of different consoles to play from. There also a lot of different jobs that are related to gaming like game developer, game tester, streamer etc.
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But why videogames are so popular? In oppose to other types of entertainment like movies or books games allow the player to interact with them, control what is happening on it and their output will be based on your decisions and that’s why it a so popular type of entertainment. Also, especially now with the quarantine games are very popular because they are allowed you to have a great time with your friends without having to meet in real life.
Also, videogames can provide some advantages to you. For example, some games can improve your problem-solving skills as it requires you to think in order to continue the game. Also, some team games can improve your cooperation skills because it requires to cooperated with other players in order to win.
But like everything videogames can have disadvantages if you overdo it. They can become addicting if you playing them a lot period of time. Also, in rare cases in can also cause violent behavior. So, you must be careful with the time that you spent playing them a don’t overdo it.
