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In October last year, the seven billionth Earthling was born. And in 2100 there will be 10.1 billion, predicts the UN.
Humanity is growing through the roof. New figures show that around 2050 we will have 9.3 billion people in the world. That is more than in previous estimates showed.

Particularly in Africa, the population is rapidly growing. Expected, Nigeria – currently with 162 million inhabitants, all densely populated country in Africa – in 2100 no less than 730 million inhabitants. Malawi from 15 to 129 million. In Asia and Latin America, the population increases significantly.

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It goes without saying that serious problems will appear. Especially on continents where there is already a shortage of food and water. But we’re such a huge population pressure all feel so stressed expert John Bogart. “Every one billion additional people will make life difficult for everyone, as simple as that.”

The figures are clear, but may still turn out very differently, so the researchers emphasize. A small decrease in the number of children per woman may already result in nearly four billion fewer people in 2100. A small increase could keep us in that year with 9.3, but with 15.8 people.
With better medical care in poorer countries continue not only more and more children alive. The elderly are increasingly longer. Thus, the life expectancy is increasing. In 2100, people on average 81 years old. Treatments against malaria and HIV are the main causes of the high average age.

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Yuri Gagarin Aleksejevitsj was Russian astronaut born on March 9th 1934. On the April 12th 1961. Yuri Gagarin became the first man who went into space with the spacecraft Vostok 1.

Gagarin was a pilot in the Russian Air Force and was in 1960 along with 19 colleagues selected into the first group that went training and education to become astronaut. Initially Germantown Titov selected for the first manned spaceflight. But the Russian authorities found that his name (Germantown) sounded too German, Gagarin was selected for the launch in the Vostok 1 on the April 12th 1961. Because of this illustrious flight Gagarin became the first man in space. From 1962. he served as representative in the Supreme Soviet.

Gagarin was trained as a backup crew for the Soyuz 1. The flight was on the April 24th 1967. and it  ended with the disastrous death of the only crew member, Vladimir Komarov. Gagarin was selected in training for a mission to the moon. Eventually, that mission was canceld.
There are persistent conspiracy theories saying that before Gagarin two other Russians have been in space, including Vladimir Ilyushin. However, evidence for this conspiracy appear to be faked.
Gagarin got killed on the March 27th 1968. in an accident of a MiG-15 fighter jet during a routine training flight near Moscow.

Gagarin was married and had two children. He is buried in the wall of the Kremlin. Every year on April 12, the day of the astronauts, a wreath laid. The Astronaut training center Yuri Gagarin in Star City near Moscow is named after him. Also, the city Gzjatsk, near his hometown, was renamed into Gagarin.

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A mysterious flash of light from somewhere near or far in the universe is still keeping astronomers in the dark long after it was first detected by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope in 2006. It might represent an entirely new class of stellar phenomena that has previously gone undetected in the universe, say researchers.

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January 5, 2009: This composite color infrared image of the center of our Milky Way galaxy reveals a new population of massive stars and new details in complex structures in the hot ionized gas swirling around the central 300 light-years. This sweeping panorama is the sharpest infrared picture ever made of the Galactic core. It offers a nearby laboratory for how massive stars form and influence their environment in the often violent nuclear regions of other galaxies. This view combines the sharp imaging of the Hubble Space Telescope’s Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS) with color imagery from a previous Spitzer Space Telescope survey done with its Infrared Astronomy Camera (IRAC). (more…)