Tag Archives: Earth

November 2, 2000

Posted on November 4, 2020 by Joel Byers

On November 2, 2000 was the last time all humans were on the planet together. Since then at least one person has remained on the international space station at all times. And yes, being on an airplane while it’s flying in the… Continue reading →

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April 10, 2404 BCE

Posted on April 10, 2020 by Joel Byers

On April 10, 2404 BCE, while Jehovah was playing the world-building video game, “Earth”, he made a critical error in judgement. He realized this game didn’t have the ability to save and restart at a prior point in time. This wouldn’t be a problem, but he hadn’t killed off all the dinosaurs yet. He also … Continue reading →

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December 24, 1968

Posted on December 24, 2019 by Joel Byers

On December 24, 1968, three days after launching, Apollo 8 reached the moon. It was crewed by astronauts James Lovell, William Anders and Frank Borman. They orbited the moon ten times before successfully returning to Earth. They proved the moon was 238,000 miles from the Earth and had a diameter of 2,160 miles. Once again, … Continue reading →

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November 8, 2011

Posted on November 8, 2019 by Joel Byers

On November 8, 2011, asteroid 2005 YU55 passed within 0.85 lunar distances of the Earth. This was approximately 201,700 miles. It passed between the Moon and the Earth. If it had taken a left turn at Albuquerque, the Mayan prediction for the world ending in 2012 could have happened a year early. Except it didn’t … Continue reading →

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July 9, 2018

Posted on July 9, 2019 by Joel Byers

On July 9, 2018, researcher, Dr. Nur Gueneli, discovered that bright pink might be the world’s oldest biological pigment. The ancient pink pigments were discovered in 1.1-billion-year-old marine shale rocks found deep beneath the Sahara Desert in the Taoudeni Basin of Mauritania, West Africa. The pigment was produced by cyanobacteria that was fossilized in the … Continue reading →

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March 7, 1979

Posted on March 7, 2016 by Joel Byers

On This Date in TWISTED-HISTORY.com! in 1979, while examining photographs taken by the Voyager 1 spacecraft, it was discovered just like Saturn, Jupiter had a ring around it. When scientists were asked what this meant, they replied that this had to mean that Jupiter was the man as its ring was small and barely viewable … Continue reading →

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November 3, 1957

Posted on November 3, 2014 by Joel Byers

On This Date in TWISTED-HISTORY.com! in 1957 the Soviet Union launched a dog into space on board Sputnik 2 and it became the first living animal to enter the Earth’s orbit. When the Russian Federal Space Agency was asked why they sent a dog, they replied that the cat was too ‘blin’ smart to get … Continue reading →

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