Unseen World!

The ancient Greeks called our galaxy the Milky Way because they thought it was made from drops of milk from the breasts of the Greek goddess Hera.
Yuri Gagarin survived the first manned spaceflight but was killed in a plane crash seven years later.
Astronauts become a little taller in space. There is less gravity, so their bones are less squashed together.
Astronauts’ footprints and Lunar Rover tyre tracks will stay on the moon for millions of years as there is no wind to blow them away.
About 1500 stars are visible at night with the naked eye in a clear, dark sky. There are 88 constellations altogether. The smallest star measures about 1700 km across. It is a white dwarf called LP 327-16.
The first object to orbit earth was Sputnik 1, launched by the USSR in October 1957.
The first animal in space was the Soviet dog, Laika, in November 1957. It died on the flight.
The first animals to survive in orbital spaceflight were the Soviet dogs, Strelka and Belka, launched in Sputnik 5 in August 1960.
The first person to orbit earth was Yuri Gagarin, from the USSR, in April 1961.
The first American to orbit earth was John Glenn in February 1962.
The first woman in space was Valentina Tereshkova, from the USSR, in June 1963.
The first person to walk on the moon was Neil Armstrong in July 1969. (HMM…..THIS HAS TO BE RESEARCHED)

Here comes the new conspiracy!!! Are you prepared then continue reading!!

Devoted fans of Michael Jackson have claimed the iconic singer is not dead after gaining access to an alleged video of the King of Pop jumping out of a coroner’s van after his death.

“I checked the license plate number and it looks like the King of Pop is jumping out of the same van, his dead body has been in,” the LiveLeak post reads.

The poster claims the video was received from a “trustworthy” source, although there is no timestamp or a clear shot of the man believed to be MJ.

The US ranks 28th in the world in average Internet connection speed according to the nationwide study of real-time Internet connection speeds released by Communications Workers of America

WASHINGTON, USA: No doubt, the United States is a much developed nation and the IT industry world over depends on that country a lot in business. But when it comes to the average Internet speed, big brother US lags behind many developed nations, said a recent report released by Communications Workers of America (CWA).

The average download speed in South Korea is 20.4 megabits per second (mbps) – four times faster than the US average of 5.1 mbps. The US ranks 28th in the world in average Internet connection speed according to the nationwide study of real-time Internet connection speeds.

At this rate, it will take the US 15 years to catch up with current Internet speeds in South Korea, the country with the fastest average Internet connections, said the report.

The CWA report added that the fastest download speeds in the US are in the northeastern parts of the country whereas the slowest are in states such as Alaska, Idaho, Montana and Wyoming.

Between 2007 and 2009, the average download Internet speed in the US has increased by only 1.6 megabits per second (mbps), from 3.5 mbps in 2007 to 5.1 mbps in 2009.

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Pulls down the advertisement from the Polish site following controversy

LOS ANGELES, USA: Software giant Microsoft Corp apologized on Tuesday for altering the image of a black man into that of a white man by morphing it in a promotional ad.
The advertisement in the US website featured three employees – one black man, one Asian and a white woman – sitting around a desk. However, when it was used in Poland, the Black man’s face was replaced by that of a white man, which caused a controversy about racism.
Interestingly, the color of the hands of this morphed white man remained unchanged, which was soon detected by the bloggers, who circulated the image online, forcing Microsoft to apologize.

"We are looking into the details of this situation," said Microsoft spokesperson Lou Gellos.

"We apologize and are in the process of pulling down the image."

Microsoft also posted an apology on its official Twitter account, which read," Marketing site photo mistake – sincere apologies – we’re in the process of taking down the image."

Microsoft also pulled down the image from the Polish site following the controversy and replaced it with the original one appeared on the US site. But still the question persists among the online community. "Are there no black folks in Poland that you want to advertise to?" asks one blogger.

©CyberMedia News

The attack last week on the sole blogger took Twitter offline for several hours!!

TBILISI, GEORGIA: The Georgian blogger targeted by a cyber attack last week that affected millions of Internet users across the world said on Wednesday that Russian hackers were to blame, but that he would not be silenced.

The attack last week on the sole blogger took Twitter offline for several hours and caused problems for Facebook and online diary site LiveJournal.

The target of the attack was identified as a Georgian blogger going by the name Cyxymu – Cyrillic spelling of the town Sukhumi, the rebel capital of Georgia’s breakaway Black Sea region of Abkhazia.

Georgy Jakhaia, the 34-year-old economics professor behind the blog, is a refugee from Sukhumi living in the Georgian capital Tbilisi.

Jakhaia has become a fierce critic of Russia and last year’s five-day war with Georgia, when Russia crushed a Georgian assault on breakaway South Ossetia.

The attack on his blog came on the eve of the first anniversary of the war. Jakhaia said he had been receiving threatening letters from Russia.

"It was like a special operation, an organised cyber attack on my site," he told Reuters.

Jakhaia has called on the Kremlin and Russian security services to investigate.

"No one else but Russia was interested in destroying my site," he said by telephone.

But Georgy is acutely aware of the media attention surrounding him, and says he hopes to make the most of it.

He said he would not be silenced, and plans to create an English-language blog to reach a wider audience.

"It’s really cool to be at the centre of world media interest, " he said. "After all, I have another chance to make some positive PR for Georgia, without even thinking about it."

Thursday’s denial-of-service attack on Cyxymu overwhelmed Twitter’s servers with communications requests, taking the microblogging platform offline for several hours.

Members of Facebook, the world’s largest Internet social network with more than 250 million active users, saw delays logging in and posting to their online profiles.

Twitter became a key form of communication in Iran amid the protests and clampdown that followed the country’s disputed June elections. Thursday’s attack on a single blogger underscored the vulnerability of fast-growing Internet social networking sites.

©Reuters