Bright Side

The RMS Titanic was considered to be "unsinkable". But we know the end of the story. Many of the survivors of the tragedy remember that there was absolutely no panic on board the ship till the very end. Was it because people didn't believe such a huge ship could go down? Or because the passengers didn't expect there could be any lack of lifeboats? Let's find out why the passengers of the legendary ship managed to stay calm.

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You’re trudging up a steep sand dune, one foot in front of the other. Out of breath. Exhausted. You’ve lost too much water and your body is beginning to shut down. You know you can’t go on for much longer.

Finally, you reach the top of the dune. And there before you is what you didn’t want to see. It’s so horrible that it takes seconds to sink in. Stretching to the horizon, is a literal sea. Of endless sand dunes. You’re stranded. Alone. Lost. Far from salvation, on the Planet Arrakis..

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Scientist have been long promising us they could stop aging altogether. But what if someone you know could live for 1,000 years? Here's why humans keep evolving and what seemed impossible just yesterday could be our life already...

Thanx to technological inventions, better nutrition, more available clean water, and a huge progress in medicine, people are already living much longer today than they used to 150 years ago.

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66 million years ago dinosaurs had the ultimate bad day. A giant asteroid crashed into the Earth and wiped out all of those species. Mass extinction spread all across the planet. But why did the birds survive? Birds evolved from feathery dinosaurs, so how did they manage to make it through the impact? Let's examine those events step by step.

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What are the drawbacks of never shutting down your computer? Modern computers can work non-stop for a very long time. But does shutting it down make a difference? Remember that all of the parts that make up your computer have a limited lifetime... Which of them experiences the most stress from never shutting down? Here're the things that harm your computer the most.

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Mount Everest is the highest mountain in the world. It reaches over 29 thousand feet at its summit. Everest is tall and mighty so if you come with a tiny needle to its foot, it'll simply get lost there. But what if a needle hits this mountain at the speed of light? This would make a great change...

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Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and the one with the biggest rings in our Solar System. But Saturn isn't the only planet to have them - Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune have rings too. Can Earth have rings just like Saturn does?

Scientists claim our planet might be on the way to have rings around it. However, very specific ones - human-made rings out of damaged satellites, rockets and other space junk... What else is awaiting us in the future?

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Whenever I see a rainbow I get super excited and believe it brings good luck! But I can never tell how far away it is from me: rainbows have no distance or size. So I've decided to find out if it's possible to reach the end of a rainbow... Maybe, if you run fast enough, you can see the edge of it?

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What if you turned into a Titan? Powerful, strong and giant - who wouldn't wanna feel like that, at least once? Imagine opening your eyes one morning, looking at your feet and hands and seeing that they're enormous in size. Besides, you acquired some special superpowers. What can you do with it all? And are there any other creatures more powerful than you? 

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Imagine that you wake up in the morning, open your laptop and... there's no Internet! Yup, the whole Internet stopped working and you have to print it out on paper in order to save it. Just imagine how many pages it will be... We'd get back to printed press but containing all of our favorite websites and accounts. Sounds really nervous and chaotic - let's sort it out!

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