Antarctica has no official government or owner due to the 1959 Antarctic Treaty, which allows for peaceful scientific exploration by a cooperative of nations. There are no official laws, and people must follow the laws of their own countries. Antarctica holds 70% of Earth’s freshwater supply and 90% of freshwater ice. Tourists have increased to […]
The SPACE Act allows US citizens and companies to commercially exploit resources found on asteroids, overturning the idea that space is public domain. Some asteroids contain valuable resources like platinum, making asteroid mining a potentially lucrative industry. The term asteroid means “star-shaped” in Greek, and NASA challenges trainees to find errors in the movie Armageddon. […]
The SPACE Act allows US companies and citizens to use resources found on asteroids for commercial gain, overturning the idea that space is public domain. Some asteroids contain valuable resources like platinum. The word asteroid means “star-shaped” in Greek and a large asteroid may have caused the extinction of dinosaurs. Thanks to the Spurring Private […]
John Malone, known as the “Cable Cowboy,” is the largest landowner in the US with over 2.2 million acres of land. This is three times the size of Rhode Island, but Queen Elizabeth II still holds the title of the world’s largest landowner. Alaska is 425 times larger than Rhode Island, Hawaii’s Mauna Kea is […]
Queen Elizabeth II owns 6.6 billion acres of land, or one-sixth of the Earth’s surface, as the leader of 32 countries. Land ownership dates back to the Norman conquest of 1066, and among the lands owned by the Queen are Australia and Canada. Ted Turner is the American with the largest land ownership, and about […]
The US Library of Congress has the largest collection of comics with around 100,000 from the US and other countries. Comics have a history dating back to the 19th century and are often inspired by mythology. The history of comics is divided into different eras, with the modern age starting in 1987. Early comics were […]
