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Most popular Unix-like OS on consumer devices is Linux (Android). Most popular Unix-like OS on servers is Linux. Most popular Unix-like OS in embedded is Linux. Most popular Unix-like OS on supercomputers is Linux. Most popular Unix-like OS
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1C is popular programming language in Russian.
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See https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2019/10/biggest-fastes...
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All that is speculation, which was based on two premises: 1) Hubble constant has value about 70(km/s)/Mpc; 2) with distance, we see "younger" (bluish) galaxies. (1) - wrong, Hubble "constant" has different valu
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Stephen Hawking's book was published in 2001. Please, look at data from 2019: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubble%27s_law#Measured_values...
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This explanation has lot of weakness. Some scientists disagree with it. For example, if we heat up a metallic sphere, then it will expand in all directions. If we project this expansion backward, then we will see that metallic sphere was cr
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It possible that we will see much denser region of Universe in one direction at some point, while we will see less dense regions until clean vacuum in other directions. It's hard to predict which outcome is more plausible at this point
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Our atmosphere is full of Oxygen, which is very poisonous gas, which killed 99% of live organisms on Earth. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Oxidation_Event Life adapts.
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Of course, not. Universe is infinite in size, time, and scale. The farthest object we can see in _visible_ light is at least 32bly away, so it is at least 32by old, or just 13.4by old by mainstream theory called «Big Bang».