The earliest person to unlock their force-sensitive character was Monika T´Sarn on the Intrepid server. She unlocked her Jedi, Akinom T´Sarn , on 8 November 2003. In the first incarnation of SWG, gamers who wished to be a Jedi had to unlock their force-sensitive character by completing tasks in the game.
Jpeg, standing for Joint Photographic Experts Group, is one of the best known digital image formats. It was developed in order to standardize the techniques for digital image compression and is used in the internet and on digital cameras. The earliest images which use the JPEG compression method are a set of 4 test images used by the Jpeg Group called ‘Boats’, ‘Barbara’, ‘Toys’, and ‘Zelda’, created on 18th June 1987 in Copenhagen, Denmark. The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the International Electrotechnical Commission
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On 26 September 2008 Yves Rossy, a Swiss pilot and inventor, known as Jet Man or Fusionman, became the first person to fly across the English Channel using a jet powered fixed wing strapped to his back. He took 9 minutes 7 seconds and attained a speed of 186 mph. The jet wing weighed about 55kg and four kerosene burning jet turbines are attached for propulsion.
Released on 18 November 2008, the first karaoke game to support wireless microphones was Lips on the Xbox 360. The game comes bundled with two microphones as standard, which are not only wireless but also motion-sensing. This feature allows players to join in by shaking their mic, as well as to perform gestures in the various mini games included.
The earliest-known example of live birth is a fossilised 380-million-year-old mother and embryo placoderm (prehistoric armoured fish). The extremely well-preserved fossil clearly reveals the presence of an embryo attached to its mother via an umbilical cord. Measuring 25 cm long, this remarkable specimen was uncovered in the Gogo area of Western Australia in 2005 by a team from Victoria, but its existence was not made public until 2008. Representing a new species, it was named Materpiscis attenboroughi, after British television wildlife presenter Sir David Attenborough.
A jaw-bone with three molars found in the Otavi Hills, Namibia on 4 June 1991, has been dated to 12-13 million years and named Otavipithecus namibiensis.
In December 2000, scientists in the Kenya Palaeontology Expedition announced their discovery of 6 million-year-old fossilised remains of early human ancestors. Orrorin tugenensis walked on two legs and was about the size of an adult female chimp. At six million years old, there is a chance that O. tugenensis lived around the time that the ancestors of humans split from the ancestors of apes – this creature may well be one of the missing links between man and great ape.
The first person to end his life by legally sanctioned euthanasia was Ben Dent of Darwin, Australia, on 22 Sep 1996. He had been suffering from cancer for five years and died with the aid of a computerised death machine.
Formally known as Phreatobius walkeri and not brought to scientific attention until the mid-1980s, this small red worm-like species of trichomycterid catfish from Brazil lives a fully terrestrial existence among leaf litter on river banks. When placed in water, it will swiftly jump back out again.
The first time that a laser weapon has successfully shot-down an operational rocket occurred when the US Army and the Israeli Ministry of Defence destoyed a Katyusha rocket carrying a live warhead, using the High Energy Laser/Advance Concept Technology Demonstrator (THEL/ACTD) – the world’s first high energy laser weapon system designed for such operational use – at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, USA on 7 June 2000.