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the website that calculates the billions of kilometers you have traveled through the universe without leaving the couch

May 24, 2026 by usatoday24

At the time of writing this I am 37 years, 28 days, 23 hours, 13 minutes and 18 seconds old. I have traveled around 34,845,000,000 kilometers around the Sun. I have traveled 257,425,000,000 kilometers through the Milky Way. The next time my watch tells me I haven’t taken enough steps, I plan to give it these numbers. Although the truth is that I have not had to take any steps to travel through them, since the credit belongs to the Earth, I have just let myself go. Whatever the case, it’s always good to know. If you also want to know these figures and many curious facts more for your own date of birth, keep an eye on online calculator created by web developer nemo7299. Very easy to use. With this calculator, called Cosmic Odometer, its creator seeks to make us a little more aware of our location in the Universe and everything we have moved through it since the day we were born. To use it, you just have to enter your date and time of birth and the latitude where you are. With that you have enough to read many curious facts. Distances traveled. To begin with, we can see the distance that the Earth has traveled rotating on itself, orbiting around the Sun or accompanying the Sun through the Milky Way. We can also see what has been moved the Milky Way itself through the Universe. You can even see the combined distance of all those movements. Since the day we were born, we have been fellow travelers of the Earth. Therefore, if we calculate the kilometers that the Earth has traveled around the Sun, we will also know how many kilometers we have traveled with it. Age by planets. You can also find out what your age is at different planets of the Solar System. For example, on Mercury I am a centenarian of 153.81 years old, on Mars little more than a teenager who has not yet turned 20 and on Venus I am already close to earning retirement, at 60.29 years old. On the other hand, in Neptune I am a baby of just over 2 months. Logically, if I could travel there I would be the same and I would look the same. However, a year on those planets does not last the same as it does here on Earth. A little physiology. The website also tells us how many times our heart has beaten or we have breathed since we were born. It even calculates how many cells have been renewed in our body in that period of time. Important distances. By viewing this website we can know how far we are from natural or artificial objects as important as probes. Solar Parker, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2the telescope James Webb or Haley’s Comet. If the aliens are looking for us. Another curious fact is that we can calculate how far away an alien would have to be to see our birth if they pointed a telescope at Earth. can be compared. You can also compare your details with a friend’s by entering their date of birth. This way, you will know how far the Sun traveled between your births or how many kilometers you have traveled together since you both existed, for example. It occurs to me that important dates that are not necessarily birthdays could be introduced. For example, the current date and the date you met your partner. What would it be like to tell him that since you met you have traveled a combined 31,679,105 km across the universe together? If it doesn’t look pretty, that’s not it. Your feet are younger than your head. According to the general relativity theory According to Einstein, time moves more slowly in stronger gravitational fields. That is, the closer you are to the massive object that creates that gravitational attraction, the slower time will pass. Our feet are closer to the earth’s surface than our head. Therefore, it can be said that our feet are younger. Time passes more slowly for them. In my case, for example, my feet are 216 nanoseconds younger. A lot more. All this is just a small sample of the many data that can be checked in this calculator. Logically, some are estimates, since more data would be needed to have a more accurate calculation. In any case, with such large distances, these estimates already go pretty well. It’s perfect to hang out and have a laugh. Image | Magnific/Nemo7299 In Xataka | The Earth as it was during its last ice age, illustrated in a wonderful map

Actigraph, the Brazilian bracelet that traveled to the Moon to monitor the sleep of NASA astronauts and that you can also use

May 18, 2026 by usatoday24

Rodrigo Trevisan Okamoto, the Brazilian engineer and founding partner of the company Condor Instruments, knew that it was very important for the Artemis scientists to monitor the sleep of their astronauts. He also knew that NASA had acquired several activity bracelets marketed by his company years ago, whose objective is precisely to analyze users’ sleep patterns in an exhaustive way. Still, the news he received on April 1 was a shock and a surprise. Shortly after the Artemis mission took off successfully towards the Moon, received an email stating that some of its astronauts were wearing one of its bracelets. A bracelet to monitor your sleep. Nowadays there are many watches and bracelets that analyze users’ sleep. However, that of Condor Instrumentscalled Actigraph, has a key difference, since it is capable of detecting different wavelengths of light and establishing patterns with sleep. Not all colors of light influence our sleep the same way.. Blue light is the one that inhibits our melatonin levels the most and therefore prevents us from sleeping. On the other hand, in the absence of ideal darkness, warm light is a better option when we go to sleep. That’s what this bracelet that the Artemis II crew worked with throughout the mission does. More information. The bracelet has 10 sensors in total to detect light at different wavelengths. As for sleep and rest patterns, they are analyzed using sensors that detect movement in the arms. Stillness is interpreted as rest and movement as wakefulness. However, we will all agree that this alone is not a good parameter. We can be very still, but awake. However, it also measures other parameters, such as body temperature, which does tend to drop when we are asleep. Everything is analyzed together. Both in heaven and on Earth. The Actigraph is useful for any type of person. You don’t have to be an astronaut to use an activity bracelet. However, this particular one is especially useful for astronauts because their light-dark cycles are not the same as here on Earth. For example, a night on the Moon lasts around two weeks. On the International Space Station, however, there are several sunrises and sunsets in a single day. For this reason, it is especially interesting to confront sleep patterns with light patterns. A history with NASA. It is well known that space is not the best place to fall asleep. Not only because of the light issue. Also because it is a very stressful situation and because, in general, there is not much room for intimacy. In addition, it appears that microgravity also affects sleep, although the exact causes have not yet been determined. For all this, in 2023 NASA decided to buy several Actigraph. The Artemis missions were just beginning and they wanted to start looking for ways to analyze astronauts’ sleep for when the first manned voyage took place. They even met with Okamoto several times. However, at no time was it confirmed that his watches were going to be used. There was a possibility, but he only received confirmation immediately after takeoff. It must have been a high almost as high as the one the astronauts experienced. Okay, maybe I’ve gone too far with the comparison, but surely news like this will feel good to anyone. Image | NASA/Condor Instruments In Xataka | The far side of the Moon hid an icy secret. We finally know why it is so different from what we see

This marriage traveled four hours to an idyllic destination they had seen on Facebook. Upon arrival they discovered that it did not exist: it was ia

July 17, 2025 by usatoday24

It has happened to us to be sailing on Instagram or Tiktok and that a video of a tourist destination that leaves us with an open mouth comes out. Tale landscapes, dream cities and incredible attractions. Is what happened to him To this marriage of Malaysia. They saw a video on Facebook where an impressive cable car in Perak came out, just four hours where they lived. Without thinking, they took the car and traveled more than 300 kilometers to destination only to discover that they had just fallen into a hoax. The video. It appeared in networks at the end of June this year and, although it has already been erased, it can continue to be seen in This link. In it, you can see a reporter interviewing tourists who are visiting the place. It is an impressive cable car that makes a tour of forests, rivers and has all kinds of attractions around it. In the video the location of the place is detailed: Kuak Hulu, in Perak, Malasia. The visit. Although the resolution is not very good, the video is quite realistic, but we already know that nothing that appears in it exists. We also know that at least two people believed it was real and traveled for four hours by car to go to know the place. The story became public when an employee of a nearby hotel told In your Threads profile that he had just hallucinated: a couple asked him about a cable car he had ever heard. “There is not much to do here, it’s very quiet,” he said. A hoax. The couple’s reaction was to insist on seeing the place, thinking that he was spending some joke. Then they went on to confusion. Upon realizing that the site did not exist, the woman wanted to “denounce the journalist who comes out in the video.” Finally they understood that nothing they had seen was real, nor the journalist, and left the place ashamed. The generational gap. We do not know the exact age of this couple, but according to the hotel employee, they were older. The lack of digital knowledge by many older people is a problem, from something as everyday as make efforts with the bank until Recognize what is AI and what is not. Some platforms like Instagram tag Made with AI, but is a small “created with AI” enough for people with less digital experience to detect it? With cases like this it seems quite clear that it is not enough. The garbage. We have spoken on several occasions about the ‘ai slop’ or the garbage that has flooded the networks; from Very unpleasant videos that want to break the algorithmsuntil fake crochet patterns that are sold as real. The garbage is flooding everything, Even ASMR videos What did you see before going to sleep are. Much of this content is clearly AI, but with the arrival of tools as I see 3 It becomes very difficult to distinguish the reality of AI. And this has done nothing but start. Image | Tiktok In Xataka | Millions of people are hooked right now to an Olympic Games where cats compete. Cats made with ia

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