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LonelyI became mod. President comes next
General_RipperWith the current candidates I feel like NS mod more than qualifies you.
**This post was edited on Jul 13th 2020 at 11:54:13pm
JAHBRADOR2010
Haiti is struck by a devastating earthquake | The longest solar eclipse of the 3rd millennium occurs | Apple debuts the iPad | The Constellation Program is essentially cancelled | The worst marine environmental disaster in US history | Scientists create synthetic life | One-fifth of Pakistan is flooded | Solar power is plunging in cost | Augmented Reality is entering the mainstream | Macular degeneration is curable | The first demonstration of solar-sail technology | Scientists trap antimatter | Speech-to-speech translation is common in mobile phones | Robotic manipulation of non-rigid objects |
2011-2014
British forces withdraw from Afghanistan |
2011
Japan is devastated by a 9.0 magnitude earthquake and tsunami | The death of Osama bin Laden | Worsening economic crisis in Greece | The world's first synthetic organ transplant | South Sudan becomes an independent nation | The Space Shuttle fleet is retired | Global population reaches 7bn | USB 3.0 is widely available | 22 nanometre chips enter mass production | Consumer-level robotics are booming | World's first commercial spaceport | China's Three Gorges Dam is fully operational |
2012
The Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II | Euro 2012 is held in Poland and Ukraine | London hosts the Olympic Games | Mars Science Laboratory explores the Red Planet | Voyager I crosses the heliopause | Windows 8 is released | Quad-core smartphones and tablets | Nintendo launches the Wii U | The Abraj Al-Bait Towers are completed in Mecca | The Mayan calendar reaches the end of its current cycle |
2013
North Korea conducts its third nuclear test | A meteor explodes over the Russian city of Chelyabinsk | The first creation of human embryonic stem cells by cloning | The NSA documents are leaked | Birth of a royal baby | China overtakes the USA in scientific research | The Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) is launched by NASA | The first gene therapy in the Western world | Highly flexible touch sensors are appearing in a range of gadgets | Launch of the PS4 and Xbox One | Uruguay becomes the first nation to allow full legalisation of cannabis | China's first unmanned Moon landing | The Gaia mission is launched |
2014
Latvia joins the eurozone | The first gay marriages are held in England and Wales | Google Glass is launched to the public | Brazil hosts the FIFA World Cup | The 100th anniversary of World War I | 14 nanometre chips are released | Scotland votes "no" to independence | The MAVEN probe arrives at Mars | India's first Mars mission | The global average Internet connection is broadband | A comet passes extremely close to Mars | Increased automation in retail environments | The IPCC releases its Fifth Assessment Report | The new World Trade Center is opened | The European Single Supervisory Mechanism (SSM) is operational | The Rosetta probe deploys its lander on comet 67P | The first test flight of NASA's Orion spacecraft | Laser guns are in naval use | Smart watches are the latest must-have gadget | NATO ends combat operations in Afghanistan |
2015-2019
Personal genome sequencing enters the mainstream | Five-year survival rates for thyroid cancer are nearing 100% | Virtual reality makes a comeback |
2015
Lithuania joins the Eurozone | The Eurasian Union is formed | Expo 2015 is held in Milan, Italy | The Large Hadron Collider reaches its maximum operating power | The first self-regulating artificial heart | A new generation of hi-tech supercarriers | Queen Elizabeth II is the longest reigning monarch in British history | Personal biometric scanners for online banking | Windows 10 is released by Microsoft | The Dawn probe arrives at Ceres | The New Horizons probe arrives at Pluto | Electric car ownership reaches 1 million worldwide | Trucks with emergency braking systems are mandatory in Europe | The deadline for the Millennium Development Goals |
2016
Completion of the Panama Canal expansion project | Microchipping of all dogs in England | Euro 2016 is held in France | Rio de Janeiro hosts the Olympic Games | Supercomputers reach 100 petaflops | The Juno probe arrives at Jupiter | The world's largest single-aperture telescope is completed in China | The mining industry is highly automated | Agricultural robots are increasingly common on farms | High-definition CCTV cameras are ubiquitous | OLED displays are in widespread use | Three-person babies | China completes the largest environmental cleanup in its history | Polymer banknotes are introduced by the Bank of England | United States Presidential Election |
2017-2025
Worsening crisis in Yemen |
2017
Total solar eclipse in the US | The JFK files are released | Sales of electric and hybrid trucks reach 100,000 annually | 10 nanometre chips enter mass production | Web-connected video devices exceed the global population | Electronic paper is seeing widespread use | Wireless, implantable devices that monitor health conditions in real time | A new treatment for prostate cancer |
2018
South Korean city Pyeongchang hosts the Winter Olympics | Launch of the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) | Russia hosts the FIFA World Cup | East Africa's largest ever infrastructure project | The Japanese Hayabusa-2 probe arrives at 1999 JU3 | The Transbay Transit Center is opened in San Francisco | The NHS begins high-energy proton therapy in England | Enterprise-grade SSDs reach 100TB of capacity | InSight touches down on Mars | Completion of the 100,000 Genomes Project |
2019-2020
The 5G standard is released |
2019
The New Horizons probe arrives at Kuiper Belt Object 2014 MU69 | US copyright begins to expire, starting with all works from 1923 | Jair Bolsonaro becomes President of Brazil | The first soft landing on the far side of the Moon | The Emperor of Japan abdicates | Europe's Galileo satellite navigation system is fully operational | Connected vehicle technology is being deployed in a number of countries | Automated freight transport | LEDs dominate the lighting industry | The City Circle Line opens in Copenhagen | The CHEOPS telescope is deployed to study exoplanets |
OregonDeadhow many electoral votes does the upper peninsula of Michigan even get?
