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HOW DO PEOPLE DIE?

You might have heard that mosquitos kill more people than anything else.  Not so.  More than any insect, but not serious enough make the top three.  I asked Google AI about how people most die: "Old age" indirectly kills the most people annually , as age-related non-communicable diseases (like heart disease, stroke, and cancer) cause over 70% of all global deaths . However, if we strictly evaluate biological pathogens, bacteria are the deadliest category , killing roughly 7.7 million people every year (excluding tuberculosis) . [ 1 , 2 ] "Old Age" (Age-Related Diseases) ~41–45+ million Ischemic heart disease (9.5M), Stroke (6.8M), Cancer (10M), Dementia. Bacteria ~9+ million Lower respiratory infections (pneumonia), neonatal sepsis, and Tuberculosis (~1.2M). Viruses ~2–4 million (highly variable) Seasonal influenza, HIV/AIDS (~830K), Hepatitis, and viral pneumonia. (Fluctuates during pandemics like COVID-19). Insects ~700,000 to 1 million Malaria (~670K, tran...

WHY ARE WE HERE? WHERE WILL WE GO?

  Let's today ignore the question of who created God or what happened before the Big Bang, or why anything like that even occurring.  Let's just assume that there is a   God who created Man in his own image .  Then, on this Sunday, set that possibility aside to consider that other option called the Big Bang. Of course, even science is speculative, so here is another point of view: So from left to right,  time marched on  where basic elements began to form 3 seconds after the BB,  stars/galaxies at around a time of 300 million years.  Now looking backwards from the present, life began to form 3.8 billions ago, dinosaurs went extinct 65 million years ago and we  Homo sapiens  evolved  600,000 years ago .  However, anatomically modern  Hs  appeared around  300,000 years ago . Now, imagine the entire history of the Universe compressed into a calendar year.  Each month would be equal to almost a billion years, so...