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The Big Bang is a theory of how all the planets and the universe itself got started, It basically states that the universe as we know it started with a small singularity, then inflated over the next 13.8 billion years to the cosmos that we know today
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The first land plants appeared around 470 million years ago, during the Ordovician period when life was diversifying rapidly. They were non-vascular plants, like mosses and liverworts, that didn't have deep roots
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Genetic data suggest that multicellular animals evolved around 1000 million years ago; this is supported by fossil embryos from rocks in China that date back 600 million years. ... Previously scientists believed that animals did not begin to colonize the land until the Silurian (440 - 410 million years ago).
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New evidence from the Monte Verde archaeological site in southern Chile confirms its status as the earliest known human settlement in the Americas and provides additional support for the theory that one early migration route followed the Pacific Coast more than 14,000 years ago
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The Stone Age began about 2.6 million years ago when researchers found the earliest evidence of humans using stone tools and lasted until about 3,300 B.C. when the Bronze Age began. These were basically stone cores with flakes removed from them to create a sharpened edge that could be used for cutting, chopping, or scraping.
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In the Mesopotamian states of Sumer, Akkad and Assyria, the initial use of iron reaches far back, to perhaps 3000 BC. One of the earliest smelted iron artifacts known was a dagger with an iron blade found in a Hattic tomb in Anatolia, dating from 2500 BC
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A bunch of guys just wondering what life is and what the meaning of life is; deep questions, deep answers
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Science in the Middle Ages mostly focused on Alchemy, for example, the most famous alchemist was Paracelsus. There was also a man named Johansen Gutenberg who invented the printing press. Every metal had a planet, this is where mercury got its name. They had crazy theories like Palingenesis, the theory you could bring something back to life by burning them and freezing their ashes, they also had something called the philospher's stone, a stone that could turn any metal into gold,
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Aristotle had a profound influence on the sciences. This impact includes his deduction and induction ideas, and he also heavily emphasized the ideas of empirical research or observation. ... Often, his views were wrong, but that often had to do with the fact he lacked the means to observe events.
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It's 321 BC in India, Chandragupta Maurya rules over India. He has astronomers and mathematicians by his side. They come up with complex ideas such as Aryabhata theorized that the earth spun on an axis while others theorized that the sky spun around the earth. They built calendars and studied leap years. Another astronomer named Brahmagupta calculated the circumference of the earth with astonishing precision. Ashoka opens up public hospitals and for the time they lived in were considered best
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Newton invented the telescope that we still use today from backyard astronomers to NASA scientists. He also invented the theory of gravity. According to a popular legend, a young Newton was sitting beneath a tree on his family’s farm when the falling of an apple inspired one of his most famous theories. It’s impossible to know if this is true (and Newton himself only began telling the story as an older man), but is a helpful story to explain the science behind gravity
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Saint Hildegard of Bingen was born in 1098 Bermersheim ,Germany. She had her first vision around 3 years old and kept it a secret until her parents sent her away to the church. There she meets Jeddah and Volmar, two people who guide her on her path. Jeddah dies in 1139 and Hildegard is her successor. Hildegard publishes 3 bodies of work Scivias, Liber Vitae Meritorum, and Liber Divinorum Operum. She became a doctor of the church in May of 2012.
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Paracelsus was the first to connect goiter with minerals, especially lead, in drinking water. He prepared and used new chemical remedies, including those containing mercury, sulfur, iron, and copper sulfate
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Apart of the Apollo 11 spaceflight, Neil Armstrong was the first man to walk on the moon. Apollo 11 carried the first geologic samples from the Moon back to Earth. In all, astronauts collected 22 kilograms of material, including 50 rocks, samples of the fine-grained lunar "soil," and two core tubes that included material from up to 13 centimeters below the Moon's surface
