This post is probably gonna rustle some jimmies lol. Believe it or not I was once the same as you, though I never really called myself an atheist, I was honest about my personal thoughts re: God and religion.
I'm sure many people have heard of NASA and SpaceX plans to colonize Mars, in fact, even the UAE has a plan to colonize the red planet. This project is an ambitious one, and certainly worthy of pursuit (at least, in my personal opinion). It will take some of our worlds most ingenious minds to...
Favorite historical figure for me would have to be Napoleon Bonaparte hands down. He was a brilliant military tactician, an expert propagandist, and was not short.