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The Scientific Explanation Of Death

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Death is culturally and socially commonly deemed as an extremely unfortunate circumstance. It could leave persons with familial or cordial relationships with the deceased in chronic psychological stress, deep emotional trauma, extreme grief, sorrow, and depressing conditions. It is what we live to avoid every day. In this article, we shall see what death means clinically and how biological factors determine and set the boundaries between life and death. The biomedical definition of death Death could be portrayed as a state in which all physiological processes which sustain life are terminated irreversibly. The process of death is undoubtedly a complex one. Because not all cells die at the same time, there is difficulty in establishing a death case. This is furthermore complicated as it is somewhat possible to restore a person who has been affirmed clinically dead. General clinical features which confirm that an animal is dead include: 1. Cardiac activity is non-existent and heart pulse

ISS: The International Space Station

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Just recently, NASA revealed that the ISS is scheduled to retire in 2031. It will be crashing down into the South Pacific ocean (far away from the nearest habitation). What has that ISS ever done for us? The International Space Station (ISS) is a spacecraft which is located in the low orbit Earth. It can be described as a manned spacecraft kept in a fixed orbit at a relatively low altitude (a space station). A space station is a type of satellite that is capable of accommodating a crew of humans or any other form of life for an ample period. Space stations orbit around planets, collecting and analysing data, and conducting investigations on the space environment.  ISS originated as a result of a multinational partnership to design a productive space station.  The Soviet Union had earlier succeeded in launching two spacecraft. The ISS was prompted when NASA had drawbacks in funding a national space station and consequently proposed a coalition with other developed countries. Russia gave