The Olympic was the sister ship of the Titanic and she provided twenty-five years of service

The Hoover Dam was built to last 2 000 years - the concrete won t fully harden for 500 years

CAPTCHA stands for Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart

The first Harley Davidson motorcycle was built in 1903 and used a tomato can for a carbureto

With modern day technology it would take astronauts about 260 days in a rocket to land on Mars

Today s average smartphone has more computing power than the first space shuttle ever produced

For every extra kilogram carried on a space flight 530 kg of excess fuel is needed at lift-off

There is now an ATM at McMurdo Station in Antarctica which has a winter population of 200 people

Contrary to popular belief microwaves actually emit a lower amount of radiation than cell phones

On February 17 1959 Vanguard II was the first satellite to send weather information back to Earth

The cruise liner Queen Elizabeth II moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns

Limousines originally got their name because they were first built in the Limousin region of France

The first manned spacecraft to be launched was the Soviet’s Vostok 1 which left Earth in 1961

On average a human being spends two weeks of their entire lives waiting for traffic lights to change

Intelligence researcher David Levy predicts that human-robot marriages will be legal by the year 2050