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If the Earth immediately stop
revolving around the sun, everything on earth would fly into
space at 60,000 mph
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If the earth were to stop rotating
you would fly into the nearest wall to the east at up to 1,400
mph.
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The turbo pump on the Space Shuttle
main engine is so powerful it could drain an average
family-sized swimming pool in 25 seconds.
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Just twenty seconds' worth of fuel
remained when Apollo 11's lunar module landed on the moon.
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An aircraft carrier only needs to
be refueled once in its 30 year life span.
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The catapult on an aircraft carrier
can launch 20 Cadillac's at 160 mph at one time.
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You can tell the temperature in
Fahrenheit by counting the number of 'clicks' a cricket makes in
fifteen seconds and then adding 37.
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A space vehicle must move at a rate
of at least 7 miles per second to escape the earth's
gravitational pull. This is equivalent to going from New York to
Philadelphia in about twenty seconds.
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The earth's revolution time
increases .0001 seconds annually.
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The longest total solar eclipse
lasted 7 minutes and 7 seconds (Southeast Asia -- June 20,
1955). The shortest total solar eclipse lasted only 1 second
(North Altantic Ocean -- Oct. 3, 1986.
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The wingspan of the Boeing 777 is
200 Ft. 40 Ft. longer than the Wright Brothers' first
flight.
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The Pioneer 10 spacecraft will make
its next celestial rendezvous, with Proxima Centauri, in the
year 28135 A.D.
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Tomatoes can survive 60,000 times
the radiation damage of a human being and still reproduce.
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One third of the sun's energy
absorbed by the earth is consumed in the evaporation of the
oceans and other bodies of water.
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The shock a person receives from a
doorknob on a dry day can be as much as 35,000 volts.
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The letter J does not appear
anywhere on the periodic table of the elements.
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A lump of pure gold the size of a
matchbox could be flattened out to the size of a tennis court.
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At 90 degrees below zero, your
breath will freeze instantly and fall to the ground
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The lifespan of a dragonfly is 24
hours.
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Today’s average household in the
USA contains more computer power than existed in the world
before 1965.
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The average desktop computer
contains 5-10 times more computing power than was used to land a
man on the moon.
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Dolphins don't automatically
breath, they have to tell themselves to.
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The earth's magnetic field pulls
the electron beams hitting the cathode ray tube in computer
monitors. Every computer monitor has to be calibrated relative
to its position in the earth's magnetic field. Adjust a monitor
in the northern hemisphere and its colors will be wrong if you
plug it into a computer in the southern hemisphere.
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There are more stars in space than
there are specks of sand on the Earth.
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The science of Meteorology has
identified over 200 types of precipitation.
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The average smell weighs 760
nanograms.
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The space shuttle travels at 17,500
MPH. That is fast enough to get from California to New York in
10 minutes!
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The space shuttle produces
31,200,000 Newtons at lift off.
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Enough power is produced by the
catapult on an aircraft carrier to shoot a average-sized pickup
truck over a mile.
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Every six months to 2 years
scientists have to add one second to the world's clocks because
the earth is slowing down.
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An object traveling at the speed of
light will travel from California to New York in 0.0149637
seconds.
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The cargo bay on the Space Shuttle
is large enough to hold a full size tour bus.
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The two nuclear reactors aboard the
USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier produce enough electricity
to power 250,000 homes.
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The earth's population is
increasing by 3 people per second.
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The speed at which data is
transferred between the space shuttle and mission control is
fast enough to send the contents of an entire 20 volume enclosed
in only one second.
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If one of the tiles that protect
the space shuttle from the heat of re-entry was heated to 2,000°F
the tile cools quickly enough for a human to be able to pick it
up with their bare hand after one second, and not get burnt.
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The formula to calculate wind chill
is T(wc) = 0.0817(3.71V0.5 + 5.81 -0.25V)(T - 91.4) +
91.4 where V is the wind speed and T is the temperature. - Ryan
Heaney
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The formula to calculate heat index is HI =
-42.379 + 2.04901523 T + 1014.333127 H - 22.475541 TH -
.00683783 T2 - 548.1717 H2 + 0.122874 T2H
+ 8.5282 TH2 - 0.0199 T2H2
where H is the relative humidity and T is the temperature in
Fahrenheit.
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Each year plants use more carbon in
photosynthesis than is mined throughout the world.
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The next solar eclipse on a
December 25th occurs in 2307, visible off the western coast of
Africa. - Ryan Heaney
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There are at least two solar
eclipses each year, and never more than five, visible somewhere
on Earth. - Ryan Heaney
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Humans have maintained a permanent
presence (flying) in the air for at least fifty years. - Harriet
Shaw
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Humans have maintained a permanent
presence on Antarctica for at least forty years. - Harriet Shaw
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There's been direct dial phone
service to Antarctica since at least 1992. - Harriet Shaw
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Humans have maintained a permanent
presence in the ocean for at least thirty years. - Harriet Shaw
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Humans have permanently inhabited
cyber space for at least twenty years. - Harriet Shaw
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Humans at one time attempted to
maintain a permanent presence in space from September 1989 until
sometime in Spring 1999. - Harriet Shaw
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800 Earths could fit inside
Jupiter! - Adrian Jaronczyk
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Sound travels faster through steel
then water. - Steve Prior
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1,000,000 Earths could fit inside
the sun. - Steve Prior
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If two objects are dropped from the
same height the object with a greater mass will hit the ground
sooner because it has more gravity. - Joe Neylon
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If your skin is laid flat it will
cover an area of 18 square feet.
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Light travels from the earth to the
sun in 8.3 minutes. - Don Signori
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If you wrapped yourself in aluminum
you would need 153.5 pounds to equal the insulation of 5 pounds
of air. - Steve Prior
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The earth is 197,000,000 square
miles. - Don Signori
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You produce enough power to light a
75 watt bulb by riding a bike at 60 rpm. - Matt Raiche
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The largest volcano in the solar
system is found on the Planet Mars. Olympus Mons is truly an apt
name. - Don Mocarski
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A neutron is not a stable particle
outside of the nucleus of an atom. It lasts only about 11
minutes as a neutron before it breaks down into a proton and an
electron. - Don Mocarski
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Using flea powder meant for dogs on
cats can kill them. - Greg Hansen
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If the atmosphere of Venus were
devoid of clouds and haze, the atmosphere would bend light so
much that there would be no sunrise or sunset on Venus. - Andrew
McGrenera
