The Milky Way Galaxy is home to over one hundred Billion stars and completes one rotation every two hundred million years.
The universe is presently estimated at 14 Billion years young.

Traveling at over 50,000 miles per hour, the twenty two foot long space ship "Cassini-Huygens" flies into Saturn's rings. Sending data at the speed of light takes 84 minutes to reach Earth which is one Billion miles away from Saturn.

Humans are stripping nature at an unprecedented rate and will need two planets' worth of natural resources every year by 2050 on current trends, the WWF conservation group said on Tuesday.
Populations of many species, from fish to mammals, had fallen by about a third from 1970 to 2003 largely because of human threats such as pollution, clearing of forests and overfishing, the group also said in a two-yearly report.
"Humanity's footprint has more than tripled between 1961 and 2003," it said. Consumption has outpaced a surge in the world's population, to 6.5 billion from 3 billion in 1960. U.N. projections show a surge to 9 billion people around 2050.

If current trends of overfishing and pollution continue, the populations of just about all seafood face collapse by 2048, a team of ecologists and economists warns in a report in Friday's issue of the journal Science.

How much land it would take to generate the renewable resources?

We could do with just rooftops of buildings and homes, land area we’ve already covered,” Turner said. “We could meet 25 percent of our annual electrical demand by just putting solar panels on already existing rooftops of homes and businesses.”

The world currently consumes about 86 million barrels of oil per day.

The Bush administration has decided to supply billions of dollars in advanced new weapons to Saudi Arabia and other Arab countries. President Bush has criticized the lack of democracy in the countries that Washington will now help re-arm.

Brazil's government estimates that about a fifth of the Brazilian Amazon Rain Forest has been burned or cleared, mostly after 1970. That's about the size of the state of Texas. Destruction of the Amazon is again on the upswing.

More than 16,300 species of animals and plants are on the verge of disappearing from the planet, with nearly 200 more species approaching extinction within the last year, according to the World Conservation Union's 2007 Red List of Threatened Species. Of our closest relatives, gorillas and orangutans are both classified as Critically Endangered (the last step on the list before Extinction status).