Moon is 386400 km away from earth. Around 10 times the circumference of the Earth. So it would take as long as driving around the world 10 times – just under six months.
It takes about 3 days for a spacecraft to reach the Moon.
Spacecraft should travel at least 240,000 miles (386,400 kilometers) which is the distance between Earth and the Moon. The specific distance depends on the specific path chosen.
If you drive a car and drove in a straight line for 60mph, it would take six months to get to the moon.
The first spacecraft to make it to the Moon was the Luna 2.
The Luna 2 was made by the Soviet Union, and it reached the Moon in 1959. The Luna 2 took a direct path to the Moon, and the journey took approximately 34 hours.
The shortest trip to the Moon was undertaken in 2006 by NASA, by the probe New Horizons. New Horizons travelled at 58,000 km/hr, and arrived at the Moon in 8 and a half hours.
The secret of the sensation of high and down feelings in your brain?
Your brain is the ultimate source of your feelings. If you imagine you have won 10 million US dollars in the lottery or you have eaten the most delicious ice cream ever or perhaps you just had sex? In each of these situations, your brain produces chemicals components called Neurotransmitters.
This Neurotransmitter chemical is responsible to give you a great feeling of excitement, energy, and happy feelings in different circumstances. Without Neurotransmitter, it impossible to feel such happiness.
On the flip side. Imagine you just being fired by your employee or perhaps in turmoil situation in your relationship, or you are about to sit for an exam. In these situations, your brain produces different chemicals. These chemicals contribute to your depression, stress, and anxiety levels.
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How does the second brain work?
The second brain can be found hidden inside the digestive system. Technically your second “brain in your gut”.
This is perhaps changing fundamental understanding of the links between digestion, mood, health, and even the way you think.
Millions of neurons that are in your gastrointestinal coordinate to generate contractions propel waste through the digestive system. This system called an enteric nervous system (ENS). Science has known this as the “second brain”.
This system empowered with mechanisms to Breaking down food, absorbing nutrients. Also, assist expelling of waste requires chemical processing, mechanical mixing, and rhythmic muscle contractions that move everything on down the line.
The second brain also can inform the state of our mind to the central nervous system. A great example is ENS system in the action “feeling of Butterflies in the stomach”. This is perhaps a great example that gut release physiological stress response.
What the Second brain does not help?
However, the second brain does not help your thought process extensively.
According to Michael Gershon, chairman of the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center
“The second brain doesn’t help with the great thought processes…religion, philosophy, and poetry are left to the brain in the head“. He authored a detailed analysis of the second brain in his book 1998 book The Second Brain (HarperCollins).
What you can learn?
The treatment of your nervous system potentially can impact your gut as both two brains’ has interconnection from the neuron level.
There is a depression treatment target at the mind that can impact the gut. This means scientists need to further analysis and figure out safe ways to treat patients who are undergoing treatment
Science also backs the famous saying about your “gut feeling” has meaning. Probably we all need to put second thought about the gut feeling in addition to the physical and mental readiness to challenge.
The writer is a Science Student at Columbia University Medical Center.
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Novel Coronavirus pandemic probably is the biggest crises US ever witnessed after the world war.
Not only in US many other counties also turning technology base options to leverage options “working-from-home”, “in-person-communication” while governments impose partial and complete lockdowns.
US being world’s riches country has been backward for lot of people the way country dealing with the situation.
Security Loopholes in US
ZOOM Technology Loopholes
The video conferencing service Zoom has been widely criticized specific to privacy and security vulnerabilities.
Eric Yuan, Zoom’s CEO, recently said “I never thought about this seriously.” According to the CEO of the Zoom, application developed focus on facilitating businesses conference with IT departments. He further explained that “ relevant IT departments should facilitate setting up the appropriate security and password settings and Zoom never expected to deal with overwhelming demand”.
US Government Technology Limitations
New York unemployment system “Connecticut” was criticized for being painfully older experience to online users and inside sources confirm that the back end code was written in 60-year-old Cobol.
One of the common points here is that the virus pandemic stressing that our existing technology infrastructure just – old and new – and not able to deal with the requirements and needs of the ongoing circumstances.
We should expect to see more challenges ahead of the next few months because failure to upgrade systems, should be a serious concern all over the world.
Pandemic made many of us stay at home. We do not visit friends and family anymore, and no one else visiting you either. This is called social isolation. You seem to hate the new normal and already burn out about the whole situation of the world around you.
This is probably the greatest social isolation on record. There aren’t many situations in our life that impact badly as Covid-19. It’s extremely challenging for many people. And, listing to social isolation instructions probably made you even more frustrated despite social isolation is the best-known alternative to pandemic given the inability to discover proper medication as at now.
There is a lot of news coming around the world indicating that people are struggling. And, whole ‘social isolation’ seems something unreal happening in a sci-fi movie.
What could be the real reason for many people find it challenging to live in Social Isolation?
You Brain Need to Socialize
Scientists suggest the answer is with our brain. As per new studies it was revealed that humans are an incredibly socially engaging species. This fact is arguably humans more social engagement than any other known species out there. Evolution of our brains connection to the socialization spectrum of different ways.
In general, asking people to remain socially isolated is an incredibly big ask from your brain. Ironically deep inside your brain, it does not support social isolation. This is extraordinarily difficult that your brain does not support in a deeper level to commit isolation despite knowing potential consequences.
social isolation Impacts your brain
Evolution of your brain
Humans evolved around resource-hungry brains. Your brain has an extraordinary capacity of acquiring new information through socialization. This finding is on-per with the smartness and high level of intelligence of your brain.
According to scientific theories like ecological dominance-social competition model. This model describes that our ancestors were associated with communal and corporative nature as group that ultimately drive the evolution.
This skill set was dominant in survival from ancient times. Humans have to watch out for predators and win the food competition or mates. The brain of humans born into traditional support to each other and brain hardwired for that survival skills. Losing social isolation is probably asking your brain to stop evolution from a deeper level.
Losing Social Contact is a punishment to your brain.
In the classic movie, The Shawshank Redemption revealed how the prisoners were kept in isolation as a punishment without any meaningful contact with outside parties. This is one of the most classical representations of‘ solitary confinement’ where isolation considered punishment.
Despite isolation isnt traditional punishment technique , it sound like much of a punishment. According to psychologists isolation deemed to be a punishment as brain activity that’s very similar to literal hunger.
According to the study it was revealed that your brain experiences low-level pleasure even after a mere 10 hours of no social contact. And, while most social bonding associated with friendship, grooming. One of the prolific anthropologists claims that your brain needs a bit of gossiping to evolve.
It’s very clear people hate social isolation. Your brain is the reason behind that hate and all you want is go out and talking to people or go out traveling. Social engagement is a fine way to de-stress and dealing with other people to assist your brain to feel normal and keep rolling your system smoothly.
This post will discuss a very important discovery made by a group of researchers from Tel Aviv University in Israel. They have revealed that oxygen need for animals cannot be considered as scientific fact anymore. In the past, it was believed that oxygen is a fundamental requirement for living. As a result of the recent discovery of biological science, the time has come to revisit our basic understanding of living.
According to science, metabolizing oxygen need for our respiratory system developed over 1.45 billion years ago. As a result generally considered oxygen as a primary requirement for multicellular living.
There are many types of research ongoing to re-open new knowledge related to the origin of life. As a result, a recent research study conducted by a group of scientists challenges our understanding of the origin of life. This is by far the breakthrough discovery of the 2020 biological science that claims groundbreaking fact that multicellular animals can live without oxygen.
Ongoing research is conducted by scientists from Tel Aviv University in Israel. The research led by Dayana Yahalomi, who discovered something unusual on the common salmon parasite called Henneguya salminicola.
Microscopic view of the common salmon parasite called Henneguya salminicola (c) Stephen Douglas
Scientific Overview
According to science, microorganisms are divided into seven types. These seven types include bacteria, archaea, protozoa, algae, fungi, viruses, and multicellular animal parasites. The new discovery was made around the parasites in the jellyfish-like parasite. It was believed that mitochondria is the reason for living oxygen dependency and newly discovery parasite does not contain a mitochondrion inside the DNA. This means that new discovery is completely independent of oxygen.
This is the first discovery of multicellular living not having mitochondria. This finding claims that life can completely survive without oxygen.
Furthermore, the new finding re-open eyes for a broader range of researchers. And, to search for alien life and perhaps revised our science books that multicellular life could live without oxygen.
In summary, suggesting the life of this animal is completely independent of the oxygen requirement.
ANIMAL IS COMPLETELY INDEPENDENT OF THE OXYGEN REQUIREMENT.
Breakthrough in Science
This discovery will be a breakthrough in science and biology. Some scientists argue that this is perhaps the greatest discovery of biological science for the last century as this can potentially change the fundamental understanding of living.
Again, this discovery will ignite the search for life what’s without oxygen. could also imply the search of alien lives elsewhere in the universe.
This discovery will ignite the search for alien-life outside our solar system.
