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People can say whatever they want on Twitter.

But it could easily backfire if said in the wrong context.

And, in some cases, it could cost you your job.

A tweet that hinted at violence cost the Houston Rockets' digital communication manager his job.

Chad Shanks, the digital communications manager of the Houston Rockets, got a little too excited as his team was about to close out a playoff series against state-rival Dallas Mavericks.

With the Rockets' official Twitter account, he tweeted, "Shhhhh. Just close your eyes. It will all be over soon." 

Moments later, the Mavericks' Twitter account responded, "@HoustonRockets Not very classy but we still wish you guys the best of luck in the next round."

But that wasn't it. The Rockets soon apologized, saying the tweet was in "very poor taste." Shanks was soon fired from his position.

This PR consultant became one of the most hated people on Earth overnight.

Justine Sacco, a PR consultant who once had only 170 Twitter followers, became one of the most hated people on Earth with a single tweet she thought was funny.

In 2013, before heading to South Africa, she tweeted, "Going to Africa. Hope I don't get AIDS. Just kidding. I'm white!"

Tech writer Sam Biddle spotted the tweet, retweeted it to the 15,000 followers he had, and it was all downhill from there. Thousands of people were outraged and the hashtag "#HasJustineLandedYet" started trending worldwide. Eventually, Sacco was fired from her position at IAC.

Later, she did an interview with British writer Jon Ronson where she said, "I thought there was no way that anyone could possibly think it was literal."

Chrysler's social media strategist sent the wrong tweet from the wrong account.

Scott Bartosiewicz was a social media strategist in charge of Chrysler's corporate account.

One day, while stuck in traffic on a highway near Detroit, Bartosiewicz decided to tweet what was on his mind: "I find it ironic that Detroit is known as the #motorcity and yet no one here knows how to (expletive) drive."

The problem was that he was logged in to Chrysler's official Twitter account, not his personal account. Soon, he was fired and Chrysler didn't renew their contract with his firm. 

Later, Bartosiewicz said in an interview, "I poured all my heart and soul into that. It's unfortunate it's all being overshadowed by 140 characters."

Juggling a personal life and professional life is no easy feat — especially if you're a parent. 

The good news is, there are plenty of high-paying, low-stress jobs out there that also offer great flexibility, making them ideal for anybody who wants to support their family and still be able to spend time with their kids.

PayScale sifted through its database to find the 10 best professions for working parents.

10. Business intelligence analyst

Median annual pay: $69,500

PayScale says: Business intelligence analysts use a lot of skills that are key in good parenting, like fostering communication between departments and aiding in cross-team collaboration. If you've ever settled an argument between feuding siblings, you can see the connection. With high job flexibility and low stress to boot, BI analysts earn their place on our list of best jobs for working parents.

Percentage who say this is a "low stress job": 54

Percentage who say this job offers high flexibility: 84

9. Environmental engineer

Median annual pay: $64,200

PayScale says: Ninety percent of environmental engineers say their job is highly flexible, and more than half report low stress. That makes environmental engineer a natural job title on our list of the best jobs for parents. Bonus karma points: The work you do with this job title actually helps make the world a better place for your kids.

Percentage who say this is a "low stress job": 51

Percentage who say this job offers high flexibility: 90

8. User experience designer

Median annual pay: $74,400

PayScale says: User experience (UX) designer is one of the hottest jobs in tech right now, and it's a great job for working parents. You can easily work from home while you're designing elegant ways for people to interact with software, and you earn a median salary of over $70,000.

Percentage who say this is a "low stress job": 61

Percentage who say this job offers high flexibility: 76

Moms are probably the best people in our life — they feed us, teach us life lessons, and even join Facebook to stalk us and learn a little bit more about who we are online.

But, sometimes our moms don't really understand how Facebook works — or worse, understand it all too well and remind us who it is that brought us into the world.

Ahead, check out priceless screenshots of moms on Facebook that will surely make you want to call yours immediately. They may not be as great as mom texts, but they're still pretty ridiculous and awesome.

Thanks, but no.

Embracing the '90s.

Ruining your game.

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Earlier this month, Wall Street's tennis community held an annual fundraiser tournament for the R Baby Foundation, a nonprofit foundation dedicated to saving babies' lives through improving pediatric emergency care.

This year's event raised over $300,000. The tournament was founded by Wexford Capital's Jason Pinsky and is cohosted by Jeffrey Appel, an investment banker at Broadband Capital who is affectionately known as "the mayor of New York tennis." 

Wall Street's tennis players have formed a tight-knit community. On Sunday mornings, you can probably find Appel, Bill Ackman of Pershing Square, other finance folks, and top former professional and college players on the Randall's Island courts. They frequently play in charity tournaments, and in the past five years they have raised upward of $1 million for R Baby.

Appel and his partner, Dan Cochrane, were victorious in this year's R Baby Tournament. 

A big thank-you to photographer Jon Nissenbaum, who was kind enough to share some of his photos of the event with us. We have included highlights from the tournament in the slides that follow. 

Here's the group!

John Bader, the CIO of Halcyon Asset Management, gets ready to serve.

Bader's partner Peter Aarts smashes an overhead. He played No. 2 at Michigan and now works at a real-estate company.

So you want to know what happens in the dark alleyways of the internet?

The "Dark Web" or "deep web" was created by online activists who were trying to share content using the most private methods. Without a doubt, there are a bunch of places in this bizarre grove of the web that people should avoid at all costs.

But it's quite easy for people to access and is also a good lesson in how to best anonymize your web surfing. 

What is the deep web?

Wired describes the deep web most succinctly as a "collection of thousands of websites that use anonymity tools like Tor and I2P to hide their IP address." The key is decentralization, meaning that no regular browser (Chrome, Safari) can access these websites. Instead, the user must obfuscate their online identity in order to be granted access.

To many, the deep web is simply a place to buy bizarre and potentially illegal things. Silk Road was the first website to popularize this method. It trumpeted Tor browsing as the best way to avoid online surveillance. It wasn't just a way to buy illegal goods, but it also deanonymized web browsing as a political ethos.

Beyond illicit marketplaces like Silk Road, there's much more to see. For instance, it's the best way for privacy activists to communicate with each other. There are also numerous online boards, wikis, and chats for people trying to divulge information they don't want associated with their identity.

The best sort of dark web content are the privacy and ideological discussions.

The deep web has led to some giant news stories, like the Snappening

The deep web first entered the mainstream thanks to the now-defunct underground marketplace known as Silk Road. At the time, it was the first online market where people could buy nearly anything — drugs, guns, you name it.

The Snappening — last year's scandal where Snapchat users' private photos were put online — were first posted on deep web websites. And the film "Citizenfour" documented filmmaker Laura Poitras, journalist Glenn Greenwald, and whistleblower Edward Snowden communicating using online deep web-esque tools.

Get on the Tor network

The easiest way to obfuscate your IP address — a precondition for operating the deep web — is to use a tool known as a Tor browser. It was built by a group of volunteers who dub themselves the Tor project. The browser looks similar to any other normal web browser, but it works by sending any online request (i.e. what website you want to browse) to another person's network, which is then sent to another person's network, which is then finally sent to the intended recipient. This means that it's difficult to track precisely who is viewing what website. It also means that the internet runs much slower because every request is being routed to more places than usual.

To download Tor you go to the Tor Project's website and follow the instructions. There are also a bunch of other interesting articles and forums about what the Tor project does and online anonymity in general.

Most of us have some experience with debt, whether that's a mortgage, student loans, or a credit card balance.

In fact, a survey from MagnifyMoney found that over 42% of Americans hold an average of nearly $11,000 in credit card debt, specifically.

But not everyone wilts in the face of owing thousands, and we can name names.

Here, we've highlighted insight from normal people who paid their way out of the red.

Austin Netzley started by getting clear on what he owed.

How much debt he paid: $81,000

How long it took him: Less than 3 years

One trick he used: Getting a clear picture of his debts by gathering all of his info in one place.

Netzley writes:

You can't fix what you don't know, so I had to get very clear on all of my loan details, including all of the debt balances, lender information, interest rates, and the required monthly payment amounts and start dates. 

The best ways to find all of this information are via your loan statements and a credit report. When I ran my first credit report, I found two additional accounts that I thought were closed that were not, so it's important to do this on an annual basis.

I put all of my loan information on a spreadsheet that I regularly updated, which allowed me to get a clear picture of what I owed and how to attack it.

Read his full story.

Anna Newell Jones went on a spending fast.

How much debt she paid: $23,600

How long it took her: 15 months

One trick she used: A spending fast.

"A spending fast is where you spend money on the basics needed to live. It's created by structuring a wants and needs list, which is personalized by each specific person's priorities in life,"Anna Newell Jones explains.

Jones laid out her needs — rent, utilities, cellphone without internet, necessary groceries, low-cost gym membership, medical costs, inexpensive photography exhibits for her side business, car payments and gas, a bus pass, and boxed hair dye — and eliminated pretty much everything else.

Read her full story.

Kelsey and Kendan Folmar tracked every dollar they spent.

How much debt they paid: $24,000

How long it took them: Less than 3 years

One trick they used: Trying an online spending app to see where their money went. 

When trying to eliminate her husband's student loan debt, one of the first steps Kelsey Folmar took was signing up for spending tracking tool Mint.com.

"By the end of the night, I had all of my accounts set up,"she says. "I was already starting to see where we were screwing up. I asked Kendan: 'How much money do you think we spent on food last month? $500? $600?' It was $1,200!"

"The other day I was on Mint and said to Kendan, 'You pulled $40 out of the ATM?,' then realized it was a year ago," Folmar says. 'That's the kind of banter we have now. That's the only way we've managed to pay this debt off."

Read their full story.

If you want to make six figures by playing video games for a living, get ready to play a lot.

The players on Team Liquid, a professional League of Legends team, practice for a minimum of 50 hours per week and most play the game far more. 

“Being pro is time-restrictive,” Team Liquid player Diego “Quas” Ruiz says. "To stay competitive with other pro teams, you can’t stop playing.”

It's insanely difficult to excel at League of Legends, the world’s most popular competitive video game. Only a select few can handle the pro-level regimen required to gain the extensive game knowledge and elite mechanical skills and reflexes to compete.

Team Liquid players practice together for eight hours a day, scrimmaging against other pro and Challenger-level teams. In the hours before and after that team practice, they play on their own for nearly every waking minute.

They eat their lunch and dinner — usually takeout — while they discuss game strategy and review videos of previous matches with their coach and team analyst. When they get home from the team’s training facility, a small office in a Santa Monica office park, players almost immediately hop on the computer to play “Solo Queue,” a game mode that matches you with other random players at your skill level.

Some players, like Ruiz, take time out to video-chat with family members or relax with girlfriends. However, others do nothing but play the game — which changes every few months to introduce new strategies and wrinkles for players to master.

Ruiz’s two Korean teammates, Chae “Piglet” Gwan-jin and Kim “Fenix” Jae-hun, are notorious for pushing the physical boundaries for how much a person can practice. They often sleep only four hours a night and practice between 12 and 14 hours per day.

Their regimen is more extreme than most North American players, but it's common for those from Korea, the epicenter of competitive gaming.

For a time, this past season, the Korean players’ schedule worried other players on the team, who felt their intense schedule was making them less effective.

“[Chae and Kim] don't stop practicing. They are crazy like that,” says Team Liquid teammate Alex “Xpecial” Chu, a 22-year-old California native who has played in the pro leagues for four years.

He says his Korean colleagues practice “25 hours a day,” but the two Korean teammates have their reasons for trying to practice harder than everybody else.

“If someone [in the US] plays 30 games a week — that's just a random number — a Korean would play 70-80 games. Take that difference over a week, over a month, over years, and that's going to be a huge difference,” Chae told Business Insider, through a translator.

Ruiz, on the other hand, says he values “quality over quantity” when it comes to practice. However, his training only sounds marginally less intense.

“I don't play game after game after game. I play a game, take a five-minute break, take a walk around, and then play again,” Ruiz says.

While in season from January through August, the team follows their training schedule Tuesday through Friday and plays matches on Saturdays and Sundays.

Mondays are supposed to be their day off. Most of the time, though, the players end up practicing anyway or film videos for sponsors, the team’s primary way of making money.

“I can technically see friends and family on Monday, our day off,” Chu explains. “But because of the way League of Legends works, there is no downtime. I don't want to spend my time away from here … I'd rather spend my time practicing.”

Even in the “off-season” from August through December, the players are still practicing relentlessly. Even a month's break can hurt your performance, according to Chu.

“Even when you are in the off season … you have to practice,” Chu says. “I'm not satisfied with being anything below first, so I work my hardest the whole time.”

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It's time to eat pasta and look at art in Venice, Italy. 

The 56th Venice Biennale International Art Exhibition opened this past Saturday, May 9th, and will run through November 22nd. Celebs like Kanye West and Cate Blanchett have already been spotted perusing the exhibition. 

Key information: Okwui Enwezor is the curator, the exhibition is titled "All the World's Futures," and 136 artists from 53 different countries are represented. 

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"I SCREAM DADDIO" is one of many provocative sculptures created by British artist Sarah Lucas. (Yes, that is a cigarette you see there.) She describes the works as bringing strangeness into the sunny light of day — note the bright yellow walls.

Chiharu Shiota’s "The Key in the Hand" is visually captivating with a powerful message. Representing our ability to unlock our minds and discover our memories, thousands of keys hang from crimson threads above two wooden boats. The installation is surrounded by videos of children remembering moments in their lives.

A major player in the evolution of Moscow Conceptualism — that is, "a critical reflection on Soviet imagery"— Irina Nakhova is behind this eerie installation, part of The Green Pavilion that's made up entirely of her work. She is the first woman to represent Russia in a solo pavilion at the Venice Biennale.

There are only so many times you can hike the Great Wall of China, take in the lights of Times Square, or steady the Leaning Tower of Pisa before these typical tourist rituals lose their thrill. 

Inspired by this Quora list asking about the best travel destinations most people never knew existed, we put together our own list of the 35 hidden gems around the world that are worth the trek.

Additional reporting by Megan Willett.

The Stairway to Heaven, also known as the Haiku Stairs, provides the most stunning views of Oahu, Hawaii. The US military built the 3,922-step hike during World War II so soldiers could access a radio antennae 2,000 feet up.

Norway's Lofoten Islands are best explored as a local. Rent a fisherman's cozy cottage, try your luck at catching cod, and take in the beauty of the midnight sun and northern lights from the islands' pebble beaches.

A small fishing village, 300 kilometers removed from Brazil's capital, Jericoacoara is the kind of place where the streets are paved with sand, beaches stretch for miles in every direction, and electricity arrived just 20 years ago. The sleepy beach town attracts kite-surfers and windsurfers from around the world.

LinkedIn is a great place to connect with recruiters who can help find your dream job.

But your first point of contact with the recruiter is often not your résumé — it’s your profile photo.

LinkedIn shared these seven simple tips to take a better selfie for your profile photo, and increase your chances of getting viewed by recruiters.

You don't need a professional photographer for your LinkedIn page. A selfie with your smartphone will do it, as long as you follow these tips.

In fact, you're 14 times more likely to be viewed on LinkedIn if you have a profile photo. These tricks will give you a better photo.

#1 Make sure the background is clear

At as I write this sentence, there are 7,313,527,932 people on earth.

Such a massive number of human beings can often look chaotic and overwhelming, but now and again human bodies can arrange themselves in a way that appears fascinating, and even beautiful.

Whether it's world records or huge group activities, when lots of people come together for a single purpose, special things can happen, as I think you'll see in the following images.

Schoolchildren attend a yoga session during a camp in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad on January 9, 2012.

Hundreds of surfers take to the water in an attempt to break the Guinness World Record for the most surfers on one wave at Muizenberg in Cape Town September 17, 2006. Organisers claimed a new record of 73 surfers standing on a wave for 5 seconds, beating the previous total of 53.

College students stand around sculptures during an art performance in Zhengzhou, central China's Henan province March 27, 2007.

Ever wonder what happens to your phone once you've traded it in or dropped it off at a recycling center?

In 2014 the world produced more than 40 million metric tons of discarded electronic goods, or e-waste. Many items end up in landfills where young men work in hazardous conditions to sort, recycle, and dispose of our formerly beloved gadgets.

Photographer Valentino Bellini documented the world's largest e-waste hubs in his series called The BIT ROT Project, which you can read more here.

Every few months, consumers hit the streets with the latest, fastest, smartest, and slickest gadgets in their pockets. But what happens when those shiny new toys go out of style? Some end up in "e-waste" dumps like this one, in Qingyuan, China.

In 2014, the world generated 41.8 million metric tons of e-waste, or electronic goods discarded by their owners without intent to reuse. It is believed that less than one-sixth of the e-waste was properly recycled.

Source: United Nations University

In some countries, legislation requires major corporations to collect, recycle, and dispose of e-waste in an environmentally responsible way. But these processes can be expensive.

Of all the gripes students have about college, the biggest usually has to do with the food. But not every college fails where food is concerned; in fact, some colleges offer food so good that it's just like mom used to make.

To create this list, school information website Niche rounded up data from students at colleges around the US who rated their schools in the quality of both on-campus dining facilities and off-campus dining options.

Many of the colleges on the list are large schools, with plenty of resources devoted to whipping up near-gourmet meals for their students. Others are centered in big college towns (where cheap-yet-satisfying meals are available at every corner) or in big cities (like New York, which is known for its food scene).

We've included some quotes from students on Niche to show why each school made the list.

50. University of Kansas

Lawrence, Kansas

"There is a dining hall near every dormitory. How many meals you get depends on your meal plan but the dining halls are set up in a buffet style, so it's unlimited amounts per visit."

"Huge variety of places to choose from, all conveniently on Mass [Street] and throughout Lawrence. A lot of places deliver and offer student discounts. A lot of trademark Lawrence places and local dining."

Visit Niche for more information on University of Kansas.

49. University of Central Florida

Ocala, Florida

UCF has a number of big-chain names on campus— including Chik-fil-A, Burger King, Einstein Bros. Bagels, and Starbucks — but also features some specialty purveyors like the YUM YUM Cupcake Truck. Students can take advantage of weekly dining services deals, like a free 20-ounce fountain soda with the purchase of a sandwich at Bits & Bytes Cafe, or $0.99 coffee refills at Java City.

Visit Niche for more information on University of Central Florida.

48. DePaul University

Chicago, Illinois

"DePaul offers a vast variety of foods to each for each meal of the day."

"DePaul also makes an attempt to encourage healthy eating, and offers both vegetarian and vegan options to its students. On-campus food is definitely the easiest option for freshmen, and most of the dining places are centrally located in the Student Center on the Lincoln Park campus."

Visit Niche for more information on DePaul University.

When you're traveling, sometimes the best way to experience the destination is to eat with locals in the comfort of their own home.

But if you don't know anyone personally, there are apps that can connect you with people who will host such gatherings.

Meal-sharing apps like Feastly, EatWith, and Cookapp, are basically like Airbnb for meals. They connect tourists with locals and are changing the way people travel.

I decided to be a tourist within my own city and try out one of these apps. I signed myself up for Feastly, and booked a $42 dinner of unique handmade pizzas prepared by a woman named Michelle, who lives in Union Square, in the center of Manhattan. The three other guests I shared the meal with were all tourists visiting New York City from other countries.

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I chose to attend Michelle's pizza party, but Feastly offers cuisines from all over the world. Prices range from free to around $70 in New York City. The site currently operates in four US cities (New York, San Francisco, Chicago, and Washington, DC), but is planning to expand.

Michelle enjoys cooking, and the recipes she tries often don't come from a cookbook. This meal was the fourth she's prepared for guests through Feastly. In the past, she's made dishes like Beef Wellington. She generally prefers to keep groups small: the largest number of guests she's served is eight.

The meal I booked with Michelle started at 7:00 pm, so around 6:45 pm I made my way over to Michelle's Union Square apartment.

Los Angeles may be a few hundred miles south of Silicon Valley, but it's a hub brimming with up-and-coming tech startups.

We've compiled a list of 25 of the hottest startups in the Los Angeles area. To do so, we spoke with investors, employees, journalists, and active members of the city's tech scene.

Though our list includes some big names, it also features young startups, some of which you may not have heard of yet. 

Acorns is an app that automatically invests your spare change for you.

What it is: When you download Acorns, you link up your credit or debit card to the app. Every time you use your card to make a purchase, Acorns rounds the amount up to the next dollar and invests the change from that purchase into a diversified portfolio of index funds.

The app, which was founded in 2012, is perfect for beginning investors because it doesn't require much knowledge of investing, and it charges you only a dollar a month if your account has a balance of less than $5,000.

Founders: Jeff and Walter Cruttenden

Funding:$32 million from e.ventures, Greycroft Partners, Great Oaks Venture Capital, Math Venture Partners, Garland Capital Group, Sound Ventures, Jacobs Asset Management, Groundswell Investments, Steelpoint Capital Partners, and Cruttenden Partners

The Black Tux is an online-only tux rental site.

What it is: The Black Tux, founded in 2012, is the first online-only tux rental service; it does it all, from suit design to production to rental logistics. When you decide to rent, The Black Tux sends you measuring tape and instructions on how and where to measure.

Your measurements are used to perfectly tailor your tux, which arrives in the mail one week before your event. Total rental cost averages around $150 — far cheaper for better quality than many other tux rental services and without the commitment of buying a nice tux.

Founders: Andrew Blackmon, Patrick Coyne

Funding: $15 million from The Raine Group, Menlo Ventures, First Round, BoxGroup, RRE Ventures, Crosscut Ventures, Founder Collective, and Lerer Hippeau Ventures

BloomNation is an online marketplace for florists to promote and sell their arrangements.

What it is: With BloomNation, florists can upload pictures of their own arrangements (so they don't have to rely on stock photos) and enable potential customers around the US to discover and buy them.

It's an easier and more customizable and reliable way to buy and sell flowers. Founded in 2011, BloomNation also helps florists with their online sales, from building websites to point-of-sale systems, e-marketing, and social media.

Founders: Farbod Shoraka, Gregg Weisstein, and David Daneshgar

Funding: $7.2 million from CrunchFund, Mucker Capital, Chicago Ventures, Spark Capital, Chris Dixon, A Capital Partners L.P., and Andreessen Horowitz

There are machines cranking out articles for The Associated Press and robots slicing the perfectly shaped noodle in restaurants across China — and that's just the start of it.

Historically, experts believed that robots would only threaten blue-collar jobs, but they're beginning to challenge white-collar professions, as well. 

While some economists believe this "Second Machine Age" will ultimately create more jobs, others predict that several unlucky employees will be pushed out of work in the near future.

Can a robot do your job? 

Actors

Engineered Arts, a British company, has created a fully interactive and multilingual robot called the RoboThespian. Controlled by a tablet, it can hold eye contact, guess a person's mood and age, break into song, and will soon be able to walk, hop, and jump. 

In addition to performing on stage — including taking the lead role in new a production of Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis — the RoboThespian gives guided tours to the public at museums, science centers, and other visitor attractions.

Anesthesiologists

White collar jobs are not immune to the Second Machine Age. Anesthesiologists, who are the highest-paying professionals in America, could be pushed out of the room now that Johnson & Johnson has developed a system called Sedasys, which delivers low-level anesthesia at a much cheaper price.

The FDA approved Sedasys for patients 18 and older, but several anesthesiologists are sounding the alarm and challenging the safety of the technology.

Bellhops

Aloft Hotel in Cupertino, California, is enhancing customer service thanks to their newest employee: a robotic bellhop named Botlr. 

Designed by the Silicon Valley startup Savioke, Botlr, which has a camera and other sensors, independently delivers items from the hotel lobby to guest rooms. It makes its way to the elevator, sends a command for the door to open, travels to its destination to make the delivery, and plugs itself into a recharging station after completing the errand.

Economics as a university subject has boomed in popularity since the financial crisis, but which European institutions are producing the best graduates? 

QS recently released its worldwide university rankings, which it has broken down by both by region and subject.

The university ranking is based on the institution's reputation with academics and employers, and the number of research citations the school gets per paper published in a specific discipline — in this case, economics and econometrics.

20) Maastricht University is the Netherlands' fourth-best institute for an education in economics, according to QS. Sixty percent of business and economics students come from abroad and many courses are taught in English.

19) Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich comes second for Germany. This is where controversial German economist Hans-Werner Sinn teaches.

18) KU Leuven is Belgium's second-highest ranking university for economics. It's the oldest university in the country and many of the courses are offered in English.

Right now, NASA is constructing a monster rocket, called the Space Launch System, that will be the most powerful rocket ever built.

This rocket is designed for NASA's future deep-space missions to an asteroid, the Moon, Mars, and beyond.

Taller than the Statue of Liberty and capable of carrying more than twice the payload weight of any of NASA'S former space shuttles, the Space Launch System will transport four astronauts at a time on board the agency's Orion spacecraft farther into space than any human has ever ventured before. The first unmanned test flight of this rocket is scheduled for September 2018.

NASA's Marhsall Space Flight Center has created a series of charts and infographics that show just how revolutionary this rocket will be for the future of spaceflight.

NASA will have to step it up to get a human into deep space — something they haven't done for more than 40 years. Here's where they're starting from:

Check out past achievements for how far humans have ventured into space and where the SLS will take us next:

And here's how the SLS compares to its predecessors: