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Violence escalated and the country descended into civil war as rebel brigades were formed to battle government forces for control of cities, towns and the countryside. Fighting reached the capital Damascus and second city of Aleppo in 2012.

By June 2013, the UN said 90,000 people had been killed in the conflict.

By August 2015, that figure had climbed to 250,000, according to activists and the UN.

Pro-democracy protests erupted in March 2011 in the southern city of Deraa after the arrest and torture of some teenagers who painted revolutionary slogans on a school wall.

Some were killed in detention, and this led to public protests which spread around the country fuelled by the failure of the government to punish the perpetrators.

After security forces opened fire on demonstrators, killing several, more took to the streets.

The unrest triggered nationwide protests demanding President Assad's resignation.

The government's use of force to crush the dissent merely hardened the protesters' resolve.

By July 2011, hundreds of thousands were taking to the streets across the country.

Opposition supporters eventually began to take up arms, first to defend themselves and later to expel security forces from their local areas.

The Syrian Civil war is a conflict between its long-serving government and those seeking to boot it out of office.

The Assad family has held power in Syria since 1971. First it was Hafez al-Assad, then Bashar al-Assad.

More than 250,000 Syrians have lost their lives in four-and-a-half years of armed conflict, which began with anti-goverment protests before escalating into a full-scale civil war.

More than 11 million others have been forced from their homes as forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad and those opposed to his rule battle each other as well as jihadist militants from so-called Islamic State.

This is the story of the civil war so far.



Source/Credits: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-26116868

http://www.news.com.au/world/simple-points-to-help-you-understand-the-syria-conflict/story-fndir2ev-1226705155146

Smart Tables.


Visiting a restaurant having tables to surf the internet, play games, or see movies.

Teleportation.

Human teleportation Is possible and your great grand children will do it, claims scientist.

Professor Michio Kaku of City University, New York, maintains the technology to teleport a living person to another part of the Earth or even space could be available within decades or at least by the next century.




http://www.express.co.uk/news/science/602529/Human-teleportation-is-possible-and-your-great-GRANDCHILDREN-will-do-it-claims-scientist

Personal Fabricator/Food Printing.


The idea behind personal fabricators is for people to produce and print their own products, items such as foods, snacks, handguns, vaccines, and robots from their own home.

Genetic Modification.


People will soon be able to pick their kid’s hair, eye, skin color from a drop down menu.

Thieves killing a thief, see that animal hitting the boy with stone. Human existence is a disaster to this planet.

The wind can blow over 200 mph.


The temperature on the mountain can be as low as -60c.


282 people (169 westerners and 113 Sherpas) have died on Everest from 1924 to August 2015.


Of the deaths, 102 died attempting to summit without using supplemental oxygen.


There is 66% less oxygen in each breath on the summit of Everest than at sea level.


The top cause of death was from a fall, avalanche, exposure and altitude sickness.


From 1923 to 1999: 170 people died on Everest with 1,169 summits or 14.5%. But the deaths drastically declined from 2000 to 2015 with 5,832 summits and 112 deaths or 1.9%.


The reduction in deaths is primarily due to better gears/equipments, and weather forecasting.


Climbers can suffer acute altitude sickness as well as frost bite and hypothermia.


Climbers burn over 10,000 calories each day, double that on the summit climb.


Climbers will lose 10 to 20 lbs during the expedition.


Sherpa is the name of a people. They mostly live in western Nepal. They migrated from Tibet over the last several hundred years.


Sherpas help climbers by carrying tents and cooking foods on the High Camps.


Sherpas climb Everest as a job to support their families.

HenryDion:
If WW3 is to take place, that means the end of the world becomes inevitable. Billions of lives will be lost, 98% of world properties will be destroyed and the chances of survivors to remain survivors will be 0.50% because the earth won't be able to retain or exhibit life again for a long period of time. Perhaps, the detonators themselves will also die by their own making and the world, lying as an empty space. If perhaps, few humans were lucky enough to survive such war, then Albert Einstein quotes comes to play: WW4 will be fought with stones and stick cause mankind will start all over in their quest for civilization.
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That's just my assumption..

And the war will end in days or even hours.

Vince77:
Nice photos

Thanks bro.

15. Longer Life/Anti-Ageing.


In the last 50 years alone, the average life expectancy has gone up from 65 to75 with dramatic rises as you look back further to the beginning of basic medicine.

With nanotechnology, little robots swimming through your bloodstream fixing problems before they arise, that average could easily exceed 110, 50 years from today.

Parents could choose their children’s traits before they’re even born, eliminate biological defects, but with longer life come social implications if your life expectancy has doubled, what does it mean for a career, retirement, marriage bearing children?

Will people even WANT to stay in a single relationship for a hundred years anymore?

Kyllahmc:
thought Dubai engineers have already developed something like that... The artificial palm tree shaped like island.

Palm Island is not floating, was sand filled.

Sleekyshuga:
You that ate my food, and licked the plate


This life? NA WA !!

Lols....Ala ko ba, o fe ko ba mi abi?

oseiwe:
I thought an underwater tunnel is already in use in Norway or Sweden

Under construction. Except this thats connecting Sweden & Denmark.

Sleekyshuga:
Massive ..


I can't wait for the robot that will be cooking for me

I know, so lazy...

14. Interplanetary Internet.


Two decades from now, someone from our planet is supposedly going to Mars to set up an Internet connection.

This project will pave the way for information sharing between the inhabitants of the two planets.

13. Artificially Intelligent Personal Assistants.


At the rate technology is going pretty soon we won’t have to do anything except breathe and blink and even that might be a stretch.

Robots will run errands, cook, serve drinks, wash, and clean the home.

Bionic Insects.


Scientists are developing bionic enhancements for insects that allow them to be controlled and navigated to places hard to reach to find victims of earthquakes and other disaster.

The cockroaches’ antennas are wired to small radio receivers strapped to their backs. The insects use antennas like a blind person would use walking stick feeling what’s in front of them before going ahead.

So, the researchers control the movements of the insect by sending small pulses of electricity to the antennas, thus directing them.

11. 3D printing organs for transplant surgeries.


Scientists are working on finding the right way to 3D print viable organs that can be used as donor organs during surgeries.
3D Printing Organs.

The organ 3D printing technology has already seen major developments. It uses cartridges filled with a suspension of living cells and a smart gel that provides structure.

The living cell suspension and the gel are used alternatively to create a biological tissue. When the printing is done the gel is cooled and washed off leaving just the cells.

The researchers are working on solving the complexities involved in creating an organ that can successfully mimic the actions of a normally grown organ within the human body.

Once that impediment is overcome, we might not have to worry about waiting for donors.

10. Floating Cities.


This city can accommodate 50,000 people and runs on renewable energy. The floating structure has a capacity to shelter 50,000 individuals.

It consists of marinas and mountains, which are meant for entertainment purposes, surrounding a centrally located artificial lagoon that performs the task of collecting and purifying water.

It runs on renewable energy sources (wind, sunlight, tidal forces, and other alternative energy sources), and even collects rainwater.

9. Vertical Farming.


With over 80 percent of people projected to live in urban centers by 2050, the problem of food production has had many countries scrambling for a solution.

Vertical farming (Tower farming) is providing many countries like the island nation of Singapore with the answer they’ve been looking for.

By vertically growing food, space can be managed much more efficiently, which is important as space becomes scarce and more expensive.

Also, recycled water can use gravity to water many crops in one go, saving both energy and freshwater. That’s a clean, energy-efficient way to get fresh produce.

8. Self Driven Cars.


By the year 2020 there will be an estimated 10 million self-driving cars bringing down the number of deaths by 2,500 between the years 2014 and 2030.

Many car manufacturers have already started or are going to start adding some level of self-driving features to the cars they are manufacturing.

There are also many tech companies that are looking to develop their own technologies for self-driving cars, like Google, which has recently announced a driverless prototype car.

There are both completely autonomous and semi-autonomous vehicle types, and the fully-autonomous ones are set to debut by the year 2019.

7. Hyperloop.

Hyperloop Transportation Technologies (HTT) has been working at bringing a similar idea to life.

First proposed in 2013, the Hyperloop would shoot passengers between cities via the use of vacuum tubes.

Passengers could reach projected speeds of up to nearly 1,300 kilometers per hour (800 mph).

That’s faster than the speed of sound.Digital screens and advertising inside the tubes promise to make your short commutes pleasant and entertaining as well.

HTT claims that the Hyperloop would be much more efficient and cost-effective than any lightweight transit system currently available.

6. Clothes - Spray Technology.


A Spanish fashion designer invented the world’s first clothes-spray. You can spray it on the body however you want and you can also remove it, wash it and wear it again.
Clothes-Spray

The spray is made of special fibers that are mixed with polymers to give the fabric elasticity and durability. It was developed by designer Manel Torres and particle engineer Paul Luckham.

The technique will allow designers to create unique garments with unique designs and fitness.

5. Bionic Eye Lens to give you Superhuman Vision.


A doctor in Canada is about to begin clinical testing of “Bionic Lenses” that can correct vision to 3 times 20/20 vision with an 8 minute, pain-free surgery.

The new lens which, according to Dr Garth Webb, will be available by 2017 strengthen the eye’s natural lens, which are prone to decay and damage with time and disease.

During the surgery, a syringe is used to flush the saline solution with the lens into the eye and after 10 seconds the folded lens opens up and moves over the natural lens correcting the sight completely.

4. Rollable TVs.


LG has developed a prototype for a TV that can be rolled up like a sheet of paper.

The TVs use OLED (organic light emitting diode) technology to decrease the thickness of the screen.

The OLEDs have organic electroluminescent compounds that light up when electricity is passed through them.

Apart from LG, almost all other major TV or electronic display manufacturers such as Samsung, Sony and Mitsubishi are working on making the screens more flexible and portable.

3. Underwater Traffic Tunnels.


Norway is planning to build world’s first “submerged floating bridges” using large tubes, wide enough for two lanes, suspended 100 feet underwater.

Owing to the difficult terrain that made conventional bridges unsuitable, Norway decided to work on making an underwater bridge.

With $25 billion already spent on the project, it is expected to reach completion by 2035.

There are still other factors that need to be accounted for, such as how the bridge would be affected by wind, waves, and strong water currents.

2. Ultra-fast 5G internet from solar-powered drones.


Google is working on solar powered drones enabled ultra-fast internet project called Project Skybender.

The drones are estimated to deliver mobile internet services 40 times faster than 4G LTE letting you transfer data at gigabytes per second.

The project makes use of millimeter wave to provide the service because the existing spectrums for mobile phone transmissions are too crowded.

However, the waves are short ranged and have one-tenth of the range of 4G phone signal.

To counter this, Google is working on focused transmissions of the wave to get the wave to function from a high flying drone.

If Google manages to solve all the technical problems associated with the project we might not be far behind to step into a world of unbelievably fast mobile internet

1. Bio Refrigerators.


A Russian designer has proposed a concept Refrigerator called “Bio Robot Refrigerator” that cools your food with biopolymer gel.

There are no shelves, compartments or doors, You just insert your food into the gel.

The refrigerator concept designed as an entry for Electrolux Design Lab competition by Yuriy Dmitriev utilizes only 8% of a household’s energy for the control pad and none for the actual refrigeration.

The biopolymer gel in it uses light generated at cold temperatures to preserve the food and does not require a motor to do it.

The gel has neither odor nor is sticky to touch. The refrigerator can be mounted on a wall, can be oriented in whichever direction and can also be fixed on the ceiling.

The world is advancing every day, inventing and discovering things that change how we live and perceive the world around us. Without those advances, we couldn’t have come this far and won’t be able to go further into the future.

Scientists, researchers, explorers, developers and designers all over the world strive to bring life to new things that can make life easier and interesting for us.

We have selected some such fabulous futuristic technologies that are absolutely mind-blowing and are set to take the world to a whole new level.


Source: http://www.unbelievable-facts.com/2016/08/futuristic-technologies.html
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