# Fun Facts
# Fast Food
Fast food is 1/2 trillion business
- Pizzahut became firs fast food chain to delivery to space
- commercialization of space
- America is the worlds biggest producer of beef, cows indirectly contribute to geenhouse gases
- Livestock industry
# Space Race
- More than 563 people have made it off planet
- 30 lives have been lost in space flights or space trainings
- ~15 International space agencies with independent launch capabilities
- Russians beat americans by launching Sputnik 1
- Space is cold, but your body liquids will boil, no presssure to hold it
- American first 7 military pilots called mercury 7
- First man in space 108 minutes Yuri Gagarin
- killed in a plane crash
- Project Apollo - put a man on moon
- Russia - first woman in space Valentina Tereshkova
- colossal saturn 5
- Photo of earth taken from moons orbit - Earthrise
- Only colorful things in space, lets do our best to take care of little blue marble that we have
- The heavens have become the part of man's world - man landed on moon
- Most expensive thing ever built - ISS
- Visible from naked eye
- Humanity against the clock
# Rise of China
- Major exporter of electronics and ACs
- China + USA against Japan
- china throws itself into mass production at epic scale
- After WW2, civil war between US lead part and community party - Supre leader MAO
- Peoples Republic of china is born
- stock exchanges and ties to west were cut off
- self reliant
- Post MAO, open SEZs (soecial economic zones) in china to open exports
- China is constructing neighbourhoods, the size of rome in every 2 weeks
- Largest toy industry
- People started demanding more Tiananmen Square
- 1990 opened stock markets
- counterfeited goods
- 85% of world counterfeited goods
- 3% from Turkey
- Smartphone, luxary handbags, footwear, sports clothes, cosmetics
- China enters World Trade Organization WTO 1990
- 2008 worlds worst economic cryisi, its global after 1929
- Chines government authorizes $586 billion bailout
- chinese business pivot, and rise again
- Belt and Road initiative ~ $1T in infrastructure
- 12,000 Kms raiways from eastern china to london
- Highway from china to pakistan port
- 2025 chinas economy may surpass that of america
# Plastics
- Every piece of plastic ever made, still exists today
- We cant live without them? Can we live with them?
- Types
- Thermoplastics
- Thermosets
- Tortoise shell and Rhinohorn are plastics too
- Soybean based plastics
- Condoms - for birth control
- Even off planet, Flag which Neil Armstrong plansts on moon is nylon plasti
- Nature doesnt know how to break it down, there is nothing like it - Biggest environmental threat
- Roughly a garbage truck worth of plastic is dumped into see every minute
- Giant floating grabage dumps
- There will be more plastic in see than fish
- Globally only 19% of thrown away plastic is recycled
- Body armour made from toughest plastic - kevlar
- Predicted that naturally it might take upto 400 years to degrade, but who knows really!
# Middle East
Has 48% of thw worlds known oil reserves
- Gulf war - punished Saddam Husaiin for invasion of iraq
- Most intense air bombardments ever
- 5 countries in middle east are among the 25 wealthiest in the world
- Msot profitable company on planet - Saudi Aramco
- 2018 - $111 Billion
- 5 major wars and 5 uprisings
- 36% of global oil production
- Age of oils - George Bernard Reynolds discovers oil in persia - moern day Iran
- Ever before WW1 ended, britain and france decides to carve up middle east for oils, arabs are not consulted
- HOw did middle east ended up in so much oil?
- Geography of earth
- During WW2, oil reserves are found in Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Quatar, UAE, yemen, oman
- USA + saudi Arabia - 1951, arms for oils, House of saud on profits
- Iran - Shah
- Iraq Revolution - army seizes power overthrowing king
- USA dicovered Hydraulic Freacking
- The Insane Engineering of the A-10 Warthog with GAU 8/A gatling gun
# Robots
- 9 Million Robots
- 3 million robots work in factories
- Issac Asimov Laws of robots
- Nokia first manufactures robotic arm in sacndenevia
- then Kawasakhi, BMW, mercedes, Japan really embraces them in assembly line
- AI - s/w that can write itself - think for itself
- Deep blue - computer outthoughts a Human
- Robtos can think for themselves
- Self driving robot 1997 Sojourner goes to mars
- 550 photos in 3 months
- Drones delivering bloods in africa
- Predator drones
- Automated companions - in japan
- Driverless cars race
- Google Waymo -self driving taxi service
- Traditional trders and truck drivers are no match for AI
- Killer robots - US navy submarine seeker and destroyer
# Femenism
- USA 1970
- Women have same legal rights in only 8 countries, canada and european mostly
- New Zealand first country to allow women to vote
- In USA 1960
- If any female employee gets pregnent, its legally allright to fire her.
- Women cannot have credit cards without her husbands signature
- Women were paid 60 cents for same 1$ work by men
- traditionally women married around 20
- Things changed after birth control pill
- Marriaga and motherhood are not the only things for women
- USA civil rights movement 1964, feminist lobbied to get sex added to to civil rights Act of 1964 and at last moment they sucesdded
- NOW is born
- UK equal pay act
- Equal rights amanedments to USA constitution
- USA lagging behind Isreal, India in electing women to highest political positions and top jobs
- Sri Lanka - ceylon first nation to elect a female leader 1960
- Indira Gandhi 1966 - India
- Golda Meir 1969 - taskes charge of Isreal
- 1979 Margret Thatcher PM of UK
- Russia Pussy riot
- Europe femin
- Main körper gehört mir
- 18 countries where husbands can prevent women from working
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_pay_gap_in_India
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_pay_gap_in_the_United_States
# Nuclear Power
- GE brought nuclear power
- 10% of worlds ebergy from nuclear power
- France - biggest user 70%
- Nuclear waste, that remains toxic for 1000s of years
- Nuclear Meltdown, why are we still playing with nuclear fire?
- Manhattan_Project
- All industrial, scientific and financial might
- War time debut - victim Japan
- swift and catacalismic((of a natural event) large-scale and violent.) end to WW2
- Harnessing the power of universe
- Nuclear core meltdown in british nucler power plant, which they downplayed, nothing to see here
- 1970-1985 more than half of the nuclear plants started in this period - 750 M$, decades to build
- Americas 1st nuclear meltdown
- Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant
- Radioactive materials fuse into atmosphere reaching as far as UK
- toxicity as 400X hiroshima bombs
- Japan 30% energy from nuclear power plants
- Japan Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_and_radiation_accidents_and_incidents
- Nuclear Fusion - Stellarator
- Natural gas are cheapest power plant to construct - 2 years
# AIDS
40 million infected people worldwide, about the popullation of canada
- 1981 first case
- Africa has suffered the most, 25% of people do no teven know they have it
- 1980s, In europe called as gay plague
- HIV virus causes AIDS, its deadly
- Attacks and kills white blood cells, when enough are killed, body looses its ability to fight external threats
- Dicrimination and Homophobia starts spreading
- HIV originates in chip in Africa -> Haiti -> worldwide
- NAMES_Project_AIDS_Memorial_Quilt
- Leading cause of death in USA
- Activism starts
- Staying quiet can be deadly
Deaths
Nearly 1,50,000 people die each day
- Korea has highest number of suicides
- Followed by Russia, USA, Canada, Germany, Spain, South Africa
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_suicide_rate
~OECD
# Genetics
DNA - the code of life
- Remains of Richard_III_of_England were found
- DNA is the blueprint of life
- WE still dont know whats in 98% of DNA
- Chimps share 96% of same DNA as us
- 64% of same DNA as Bananas
- Ability to read DNA?
- body -> cell -> nucleus -> Gnome 23 pairs chromosomes -> each chromosome contains DNA
- these genes generates certain proteins
- the molecules responsible for every fucntion in your body
- these genes generates certain proteins
- Found in every form of life
- Isolating the disease on gnome itself
- DNA Fingerprinting / profiling
- Forensics
- First person caugh based on DNA evidence - colin Pitchfork
- Serial rapist and murderer
- Combined_DNA_Index_System
- Map of human Gnome project
- Artifically engineering the genetic traits
- New crops, GMOs
- Top producers of GMOs
- USA, Brazil, Argentina, Canada, Indai
- Corn, soyabean are >90% engineered
- Never been tested for safety
- Interfering with nature, messing with forces that they do not understand
- DNA cloning - dolly the sheep
- Human cloning is banned in major countries except USA
- 2015, FDA approved company 23AndMe sell genetic testing directly to consumers, DNA homekits
- Search long lost relatives
- Your DNA holds all your secrets about your past and your future
# Corona Virus
- Zonotic Virus
- when a virus jumps from a animal to human
- Before closing borders, many leaders downplayed the situation
- 2002 SARS
- 2012 MERS
- Virus are one of the frist living things on planet, but they are not alive
- SARS-COV-2 - virus name, COVID-19 is the name of disease
- Exponential increase in infection - epidemic
- Men are at a higher risk
- Virus is teaming with bats as it does not harm them
- SARS also emerged in wet market in china
- infected arounf 8000 people out of which 774 died
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Influenza_A_virus_subtype_H1N1
- Pigs and humans, pigs and birds
- Ebola
- Best way to counter is IMMMUNITY
- Small pox eradicated from world
- Mother nature is the ultimate bio terrorist
- China - Italy - USA
- We need to get faster at containment