FabSwingers.com forum: Space facts

By *erdyHolly OP TV/TS
2 weeks ago

In a galaxy far far away

A day on Mercury is longer than its year.

It takes Mercury 88 Earth days to complete an orbit around the Sun, but 176 Earth days to rotate once from sunrise to sunrise.

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By *ranny-CrumpetWoman
2 weeks ago

Crumpet Castle

You can't get a Honda Jazz up your arse hole

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By *ools and the brainCouple
2 weeks ago

couple, us we him her.

Space is big, I mean really big.......

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By *KTim61Man
2 weeks ago

Tipton

Grandparents who say to their Grandchildren " I love you to the moon & back

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By *ranny-CrumpetWoman
2 weeks ago

Crumpet Castle

"Space is big, I mean really big......."

Trump. But my space is bigger, it's the biggest space , the best space, the best space , that's what they told me , it's big , it's very very big .

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By *its_and_TiramisuCouple
2 weeks ago

North Somerset

"You can't get a Honda Jazz up your arse hole"

😂😂😂😂

👏👏👏👏

Obi

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By *ermite12ukMan
2 weeks ago

Solihull and Romford

The Moon stabilizes Earth’s tilt - Without the Moon, Earth’s tilt could wobble chaotically, making climates unpredictable.

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By *erdyHolly OP TV/TS
2 weeks ago

In a galaxy far far away

Pluto is smaller than the United States

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By *ourpornfixMan
2 weeks ago

East Cheshire

"Pluto is smaller than the United States"

But with a higher IQ

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By *its_and_TiramisuCouple
2 weeks ago

North Somerset

In space no one can hear you scream.

Obi

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By *moothshaftMan
2 weeks ago

Coventry

One teaspoon full of a neutron star weighs one billion tons.

That's dense!

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By *inkShyWoman
2 weeks ago

near Windsor

The moon isn't actually round, it is more of a squashed sphere.

And it's made of Edam.

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By *oundtightCouple
2 weeks ago

Manchester

The centre of the milky way smells like rum

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By *avexxMan
2 weeks ago

cheshire

jupiter is huge you can fit 1,300 earths inside it

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By *erdyHolly OP TV/TS
2 weeks ago

In a galaxy far far away

Saturn could float in water.

Saturn is primarily made of hydrogen and helium, making it the only planet in the solar system with a density lower than water

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By *moothshaftMan
2 weeks ago

Coventry

Voyager 1, launched in 1977, travelling at 35,000 mph night and day for 49 years, is now only 1 light day away. The nearest star to us is 4 light YEARS!!!

I'll let someone else do the maths.

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By *erdyHolly OP TV/TS
2 weeks ago

In a galaxy far far away

"Voyager 1, launched in 1977, travelling at 35,000 mph night and day for 49 years, is now only 1 light day away. The nearest star to us is 4 light YEARS!!!

I'll let someone else do the maths."

Mind boggling isn't it 🤔

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By *moothshaftMan
2 weeks ago

Coventry

"jupiter is huge you can fit 1,300 earths inside it

And then, you can fit 1000 Jupiter's inside the sun.

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By *moothshaftMan
2 weeks ago

Coventry

"Voyager 1, launched in 1977, travelling at 35,000 mph night and day for 49 years, is now only 1 light day away. The nearest star to us is 4 light YEARS!!!

I'll let someone else do the maths.

Mind boggling isn't it 🤔"

Absolutely.

Astronomy fascinates me.

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By *erdyHolly OP TV/TS
2 weeks ago

In a galaxy far far away

Scientists estimate there are at least a billion trillion stars in the observable universe, which outnumbers all the grains of sand on Earth.

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By *ANiCURETV/TS
2 weeks ago

Winchester

The wood is the rarest material in our galaxy

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By *ools and the brainCouple
2 weeks ago

couple, us we him her.

"One teaspoon full of a neutron star weighs one billion tons.

That's dense!"

But not as dense as the USA.

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By *he MinionMan
2 weeks ago

Surrey

The best time to travel really far away in space is in the future.

As odd as that sounds, A similar rocket/probe launched today on the same flightpath would over take Voyerger 1 that was launched in the '70's as the technology today has superseeded that of the 70's

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By *he MinionMan
2 weeks ago

Surrey

"The wood is the rarest material in our galaxy"

I've heard that said a few times

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By *aptain Caveman41Man
2 weeks ago

Home

Space is disease and danger wrapped in darkness and silence

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By *oudoir-EroticaCouple
2 weeks ago

Bolton

"Pluto is smaller than the United States

But with a higher IQ"

And a cute tail!

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By *mberValleyManMan
2 weeks ago

Derby/Notts

Astronauts/Space Station(s) don’t ‘float’ in space, they are constantly falling towards the Earth (due to gravity), but due to their speeds, the curve of their fall, matches the curve of the Earth, appearing to make them ‘float’…. I think?!!

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By *oudoir-EroticaCouple
2 weeks ago

Bolton

"The centre of the milky way smells like rum"

Don't go raisin expectations!

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By *amsevenMan
2 weeks ago

cork

You can build a extension under 40m² without planning

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By *randMrsArcherCouple
2 weeks ago

southwest

The light from betelgeuse takes 600-700 years to reach earth. So what we observe with the naked eye today left the star when England may well have been gripped by the black death

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By *ANiCURETV/TS
2 weeks ago

Winchester

"The Moon stabilizes Earth’s tilt - Without the Moon, Earth’s tilt could wobble chaotically, making climates unpredictable."

And it helped to mix the "chemicals" in the oceans for the first life forms.

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By *erdyHolly OP TV/TS
2 weeks ago

In a galaxy far far away

It would take a modern spacecraft 450,000,000 years to travel to the center of our galaxy

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By *iltsTSgirlTV/TS
2 weeks ago

Coventry

If you fell of the end it would hurt when you hit the next universe

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By *ourpornfixMan
2 weeks ago

East Cheshire

"Astronauts/Space Station(s) don’t ‘float’ in space, they are constantly falling towards the Earth (due to gravity), but due to their speeds, the curve of their fall, matches the curve of the Earth, appearing to make them ‘float’…. I think?!!"

Correct. They aren't weightless, but their reduced gravitational attraction is equal to the difference between the orbit and the tangent.

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By *rMrsxxxxCouple
2 weeks ago

lincolnshire

We are all made of stardust x

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By *hunderaceMan
2 weeks ago

Dudley

If you give credence to the theory of infinite parallel universes (and I do) then you all have met me. Please all dont forget to leave a verie on how we got on...

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By *ellhungvweMan
2 weeks ago

Cheltenham

It is likely that micro black holes the size of an atom but weighing about the same as Mount Everest pass through the solar system about once a decade.

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By *hamallamadingdongMan
2 weeks ago

London

Many people have seen the dark side of the Moon but not everyone has seen Uranus.

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By *e-OptimistMan
2 weeks ago

Stalybridge

Uranus isn't pronounced the fun way any more.

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By *erdyHolly OP TV/TS
2 weeks ago

In a galaxy far far away

Earth is the only planet not named after a God. Nobody knows how Earth got its name.

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By *dstefiMan
2 weeks ago

Solihull

"The Moon stabilizes Earth’s tilt - Without the Moon, Earth’s tilt could wobble chaotically, making climates unpredictable."

Because they're so stable right now? Or historically?

Once upon a time the atmosphere was so oxygen-rich it could support dragonflies the size of a middling raptor. As much as I like modern day dragonflies I'd love to time travel and see really ginormous ones.

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By *dstefiMan
2 weeks ago

Solihull

"We are all made of stardust x"

Thanks Joni

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By * L RipleyWoman
2 weeks ago

Buckinghamshire

"One teaspoon full of a neutron star weighs one billion tons.

That's dense!"

And would also bend your spoon a bit...

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By *ermite12ukMan
2 weeks ago

Solihull and Romford

Thunderstorms and specifically sprites going upwards from earth, hundreds of miles high. (Raises questions in my mind at least. Are aircraft really immune to lightening strikes.)

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By *hoenixxFeatherWoman
2 weeks ago

Teesside

There's a wall at the edge of the solar system that glows ultraviolet from hydrogen particles interacting with solar wind.

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By *ai Hard 2 - Dai HarderMan
2 weeks ago

Manchester / Cardiff

The Boötes Void is a massive 'nothing' stretching 330 million light years accross. If you were to be sat in the middle of it you wouldn't see ANYTHING as you would be too far from any discernible light source (I still can't get my head round that). Reasonable science suggests in that amount of space you'd expect to find over 2000 galaxies ...but there's barely 60. Nobody really knows why.

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By *erdyHolly OP TV/TS
2 weeks ago

In a galaxy far far away

"The Boötes Void is a massive 'nothing' stretching 330 million light years accross."

Just to make your mind go into overload more, 1 light year, yes just 1 light year is 5.88 trillion miles.

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By *erdyHolly OP TV/TS
2 weeks ago

In a galaxy far far away

The sunset on Mars is blue. This is because Mars has less than 1% of the Earth’s atmosphere. So the sunsets on Mars appear blue due to the way the blue light from the Sun is captured within the atmosphere of Mars

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By *r.ZeusMan
2 weeks ago

Basgiath War College

Nothing can move through space faster than light.

But space itself can expand at any rate.

Many distant galaxies are already receding from us faster than light because the space between us is stretching.

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By *aptain Caveman41Man
2 weeks ago

Home

"Nothing can move through space faster than light.

But space itself can expand at any rate.

Many distant galaxies are already receding from us faster than light because the space between us is stretching."
warp drive is theoretically possible

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By *rthur30Man
2 weeks ago

Warrington

The Sun makes up 99.7% of the mass of the solar system.

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By *unnyandthebookkeeperCouple
2 weeks ago

bristol

"Nothing can move through space faster than light.

But space itself can expand at any rate.

Many distant galaxies are already receding from us faster than light because the space between us is stretching."

Is that because "nothing" can travel faster than light.....

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By *enrietteandSamCouple
2 weeks ago

Yorkshire

Space only exists at nighttime.

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By *ineapplePixieCouple
2 weeks ago

Your to do list

Space is completely silent ✨️

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By *onin25Man
2 weeks ago

Durham

The female of the species is more deadlier than the male

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By *r BloMan
2 weeks ago

Stourbridge

Space dust makes your tongue fizz.

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By *ovelyDayXXXWoman
2 weeks ago

Niche

Space man 🎵

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By *hePerkyPumpkinTV/TS
2 weeks ago

Bristol

"Nothing can move through space faster than light.

But space itself can expand at any rate.

Many distant galaxies are already receding from us faster than light because the space between us is stretching. warp drive is theoretically possible "

The problem with warp drive (among others)...

How do you stop your vessel smashing into every bit of space debris in your way?

In all science fiction, the space ship goes into hyperspeed and miraculously avoids every solid object floating in its path...

The only way it makes sense in my head is like in Star Trek Voyager, when Tom Paris breaks warp 10 and literally travels beyond our dimensions and through time

Like in Event Horizon where the gravity drive bends space until two distant points exist as one and the ship travels through from one place to another...

The idea that a vessel can physically travel at those speeds without crashing is absurd at this point

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By *ympho6969Woman
2 weeks ago

glasgow

Its rare for a total solar eclipse. Only works for us cos ours sun is 400x the size of our moon, and also 400x the distance away.

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By *ovelyDayXXXWoman
2 weeks ago

Niche

It's tv.

Not science.

Tv sets are science.

Tv programming is not.

Well, it can be.

But not that.

Not all of it.

Just some.

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By *ovelyDayXXXWoman
2 weeks ago

Niche

"Space dust makes your tongue fizz."

Tongue fizz makes dust space

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By *r BloMan
2 weeks ago

Stourbridge

"Space dust makes your tongue fizz.

Tongue fizz makes dust space"

There's a space on your tongue for fizzy dust

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By *opinovMan
2 weeks ago

Cumbria and Galloway

There is room for all the planets in our solar system, including the gas giants, to line up between the earth and the moon.

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By *opinovMan
2 weeks ago

Cumbria and Galloway

Meanwhile, humanity has already created a functioning casimir warp bubble... albeit by accident.

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By *ovelyDayXXXWoman
2 weeks ago

Niche

If a dog farted on Jupiter they'd smell it on Mars

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By *ulieAndBeefCouple
2 weeks ago

Manchester-ish

If you went to space you would die *

*without appropriate ppe

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By *howtime100Man
2 weeks ago

Stirlingshire

"You can't get a Honda Jazz up your arse hole"

Now, now, no kink-shaming here

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By *erdyHolly OP TV/TS
2 weeks ago

In a galaxy far far away

"If you went to space you would die *

*without appropriate ppe "

The standard spacesuit used by astronauts costs 12million dollars to make

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By *ockwellinMan
2 weeks ago

Over there...

"Voyager 1, launched in 1977, travelling at 35,000 mph night and day for 49 years, is now only 1 light day away. The nearest star to us is 4 light YEARS!!!

I'll let someone else do the maths."

Staying at the same speed Voyager 1 will be there in roughly 280,000 years.

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By *howtime100Man
2 weeks ago

Stirlingshire

Living on the surface of Venus is impossible due to surface temperatures of 464° C and atmospheric pressure 90 times that of Earth.... So why the fuck were Europe heading there?

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By *obwhateverMan
2 weeks ago

Mordor

You can fit every other planet in the solar system into the space between Earth and the Moon.

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By *ulieAndBeefCouple
2 weeks ago

Manchester-ish

"If you went to space you would die *

*without appropriate ppe

The standard spacesuit used by astronauts costs 12million dollars to make "

And I feel bad paying £6 for a new pair of safety glasses 😑

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By *onin25Man
2 weeks ago

Durham

"The female of the species is more deadlier than the male"

Normally when a post is overlooked I don't mind. But this one was really good

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By *erdyHolly OP TV/TS
2 weeks ago

In a galaxy far far away

"The female of the species is more deadlier than the male

Normally when a post is overlooked I don't mind. But this one was really good "

I'll admit I didn't get this, so had a Google search and discovered the answer.

Well played 🤣

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By *redwilma666Couple
2 weeks ago

Kilbirnie

Don't trust ATOMS. They make up everything

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By *onin25Man
2 weeks ago

Durham

"The female of the species is more deadlier than the male

Normally when a post is overlooked I don't mind. But this one was really good

I'll admit I didn't get this, so had a Google search and discovered the answer.

Well played 🤣"

Thank you 😁

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By *rchie300Man
2 weeks ago

Hamworthy

Star Trek is real …. Fact

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By *rispy KremeMan
2 weeks ago

wolves

One million earths could fit inside the sun, yet the sun is just an average sized star.

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By *effdelightMan
2 weeks ago

Grimsby

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By *ovelyDayXXXWoman
2 weeks ago

Niche

"The female of the species is more deadlier than the male

Normally when a post is overlooked I don't mind. But this one was really good

I'll admit I didn't get this, so had a Google search and discovered the answer.

Well played 🤣

Thank you 😁 "

AHEM!

Where's the love for mine?

Babylon zoo got no likes.

Gonna go cry in my Button Moon cup

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By *onin25Man
2 weeks ago

Durham

"The female of the species is more deadlier than the male

Normally when a post is overlooked I don't mind. But this one was really good

I'll admit I didn't get this, so had a Google search and discovered the answer.

Well played 🤣

Thank you 😁

AHEM!

Where's the love for mine?

Babylon zoo got no likes.

Gonna go cry in my Button Moon cup"

Mine was actually a Space fact

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By *reya73Woman
2 weeks ago

Whitley Bay

"Living on the surface of Venus is impossible due to surface temperatures of 464° C and atmospheric pressure 90 times that of Earth.... So why the fuck were Europe heading there? "

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By *ovelyDayXXXWoman
2 weeks ago

Niche

"The female of the species is more deadlier than the male

Normally when a post is overlooked I don't mind. But this one was really good

I'll admit I didn't get this, so had a Google search and discovered the answer.

Well played 🤣

Thank you 😁

AHEM!

Where's the love for mine?

Babylon zoo got no likes.

Gonna go cry in my Button Moon cup

Mine was actually a Space fact"

Doubtful.

We're dating bears now for remember

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By *erdyHolly OP TV/TS
2 weeks ago

In a galaxy far far away

If you somehow found yourself in a situation where you fell into a black hole, due to the immense gravitational force, your body would undergo "spaghettification."

Your body would compress from head to toe, all while being stretched out at the same time

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By *ovelyDayXXXWoman
2 weeks ago

Niche

"If you somehow found yourself in a situation where you fell into a black hole, due to the immense gravitational force, your body would undergo "spaghettification."

Your body would compress from head to toe, all while being stretched out at the same time

Size queens to the front of the queue

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By *erdyHolly OP TV/TS
2 weeks ago

In a galaxy far far away

"If you somehow found yourself in a situation where you fell into a black hole, due to the immense gravitational force, your body would undergo "spaghettification."

Your body would compress from head to toe, all while being stretched out at the same time

Size queens to the front of the queue"

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By *nexplored kinksMan
2 weeks ago

Oldham

"Space is big, I mean really big......."

It's mind-boggingly big

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By *apkingMan
2 weeks ago

Stockport

Doggy style and reverse cowgirl would be basically the same position in zero gravity sex?

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By *erdyHolly OP TV/TS
2 weeks ago

In a galaxy far far away

"Space is big, I mean really big.......

It's mind-boggingly big"

There are 2,000,000,000,000 galaxies in the observable universe

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By *reya73Woman
2 weeks ago

Whitley Bay

With fuel prices as they are, our chances of an objects mass accelerating to a speed of light are not going to be pushed by filling up at Morrisons. We may have to hang fire on the interstellar fab field trip to distant nebulae.

A listen to Black Sabbath, Planet Caravan will have to do for now.

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By *reya73Woman
2 weeks ago

Whitley Bay

"If you somehow found yourself in a situation where you fell into a black hole, due to the immense gravitational force, your body would undergo "spaghettification."

Your body would compress from head to toe, all while being stretched out at the same time

It's ok because the intense acceleration to get from your living room to the black hole would reduce you to paste first..or space dust would squish ya

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By *erdyHolly OP TV/TS
2 weeks ago

In a galaxy far far away

"If you somehow found yourself in a situation where you fell into a black hole, due to the immense gravitational force, your body would undergo "spaghettification."

Your body would compress from head to toe, all while being stretched out at the same time

It's ok because the intense acceleration to get from your living room to the black hole would reduce you to paste first..or space dust would squish ya"

Phew!

I was worried for a minute there

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By *moothshaftMan
2 weeks ago

Coventry

"Its rare for a total solar eclipse. Only works for us cos ours sun is 400x the size of our moon, and also 400x the distance away."

I'm gonna be in Tangier on August 2nd 2027 for this.

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By *akedOrangeMan
2 weeks ago

Oxford

Someone mentioned it earlier but missed out that the centre of the galaxy smells like raspberries and rum. Not that you could ever smell it.

This fact is referenced in the song Get To You by The Racing Sloths. But not out until 3rd July.

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By *r1dayMan
2 weeks ago

Middlesbrough

Our solar system isnt a flat disc but we corkscrew and spiral through space at an astonishing rate of speed and if you factor in the three body problem its amazing that the planets haven't just shot off in different directions.

The Moon is made from a mixture of Earth and Theia

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By *exie and HuskyCouple
2 weeks ago

Cockinmouth

Has anyone ever considered that those little twinkling things at night aren't stars?

Maybe they're just pin holes in the lid so we can breathe

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By *akedOrangeMan
2 weeks ago

Oxford

"Has anyone ever considered that those little twinkling things at night aren't stars?

Maybe they're just pin holes in the lid so we can breathe

What if that's true! A soul searching kind of day coming up

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By *erdyHolly OP TV/TS
2 weeks ago

In a galaxy far far away

Neptune’s moon, Triton, orbits the planet in the opposite direction. Triton is the only large moon of any of the planets that does this.

This is known as a retrograde orbit, and astronomers are unsure as to why Triton orbits Neptune this way.

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By *he_Libertines_69Man
2 weeks ago

Leeds

Energy can't be created or destroyed, it can only be transformed from one form to another.

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By *erdyHolly OP TV/TS
2 weeks ago

In a galaxy far far away

There are 70 sextillion stars being visible from Earth through a telescope.

To put that in numbers, 70 sextillion is this: 70,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.

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By *ike_76Man
2 weeks ago

The Andromeda galaxy is hurtling towards our own galaxy at @250,000 miles per hour.

Our 2 galaxies will clash in @4.5 billion years!

Despite the universe expanding, gravitational pull is bringing us together.

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By *e-OptimistMan
2 weeks ago

Stalybridge

"There are 70 sextillion stars being visible from Earth through a telescope.

To put that in numbers, 70 sextillion is this: 70,000,000,000,000,000,000,000."

Why is it always a round number? 70 sextillion and 43 sounds more plausible.

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By *erdyHolly OP TV/TS
2 weeks ago

In a galaxy far far away

"There are 70 sextillion stars being visible from Earth through a telescope.

To put that in numbers, 70 sextillion is this: 70,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.

Why is it always a round number? 70 sextillion and 43 sounds more plausible."

Yeah that's a good question

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By *egWorshipperMan
2 weeks ago

Flintshire

The Moon is visible from the Great Wall of China.

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By *he_Libertines_69Man
2 weeks ago

Leeds

Rain on Uranus and Neptune is Diamonds, I find that hauntingly beautiful.

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By *he_Libertines_69Man
2 weeks ago

Leeds

"Has anyone ever considered that those little twinkling things at night aren't stars?

Maybe they're just pin holes in the lid so we can breathe

Makes me think of The Wall in Solar Opposites

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By *rivextrMan
2 weeks ago

London

There is absolutely zero swinging out there… at least nothing statistically significant has been reported.

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By *erdyHolly OP TV/TS
2 weeks ago

In a galaxy far far away

If two pieces of the exact same metal touch each other in the vacuum of space, they will instantly fuse together and become a single piece. This occurs because there is no oxygen or air molecules to prevent the atoms from bonding.

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By *ranny-CrumpetWoman
2 weeks ago

Crumpet Castle

If you go to stay in the Clangers hotel it costs extra to be served by the Soup Dragon

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By *ranny-CrumpetWoman
2 weeks ago

Crumpet Castle

No one has had sex in space........

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By *007ManMan
2 weeks ago

Worthing

There is a lot of chocolate in space...Milky Way, Mars and Galaxy for example. Maybe chocolate button aliens.

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By *erdyHolly OP TV/TS
2 weeks ago

In a galaxy far far away

"No one has had sex in space........ "

NASA is currently planning for a permanent base on the moon, it may happen one day.

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By *ranny-CrumpetWoman
2 weeks ago

Crumpet Castle

Astronauts are professionals with a very tight schedule

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By *wcjw70Man
2 weeks ago

Great Barr

The nearest galaxy tour own Milky Way is andromeda at 2.5 million light years away.

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By *ellhungvweMan
2 weeks ago

Cheltenham

"No one has had sex in space........

NASA is currently planning for a permanent base on the moon, it may happen one day."

The 238,855 mile high club.

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By *erdyHolly OP TV/TS
2 weeks ago

In a galaxy far far away

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By *erdyHolly OP TV/TS
2 weeks ago

In a galaxy far far away

Neutron stars can rotate up to 600 times per second

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By *rnookieMan
2 weeks ago

London

"No one has had sex in space........ "

How do you know?

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By *iver78Man
2 weeks ago

barton upon humber

It's big and apparently smells like gunpowder

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By *erdyHolly OP TV/TS
2 weeks ago

In a galaxy far far away

"No one has had sex in space........

How do you know?"

It would be technically challenging, as every thrust would push your partner away due to zero gravity

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By *rnookieMan
2 weeks ago

London

"No one has had sex in space........

How do you know?

It would be technically challenging, as every thrust would push your partner away due to zero gravity"

But possible if you have restraints 😆

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By *ohn 66Man
2 weeks ago

South Birmingham

"Uranus isn't pronounced the fun way any more."

That's not how languages work. If we ALL agreed to pronounce it "arsehole", then that would become the real pronunciation

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By *erdyHolly OP TV/TS
2 weeks ago

In a galaxy far far away

Astronomers estimate our solar system is 3.16 light years in diameter.

1 light year equals 5,878,628,192,999.1 miles x 3.16 = 18,576,465,089,877.156 miles

But thats nothing compared to the Universe: 552,591,050,141,915,400,000,000 miles.

I'm sorry but I just can't get my head around those numbers

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By *layfullsamMan
2 weeks ago

Solihull

Star Wars was often filmed in a studio to keep the out of this world costs when they actually filmed in space from sky rocketing

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By *layfullsamMan
2 weeks ago

Solihull

42 is the answer

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By *ormerWelshcouple2020Man
2 weeks ago

Stourbridge

If a picture paints a thousand words,then why can’t I paint you?

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By *erdyHolly OP TV/TS
2 weeks ago

In a galaxy far far away

On Venus it snows metal and rains sulfuric acid.

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By *rthur30Man
2 weeks ago

Warrington

"On Venus it snows metal and rains sulfuric acid."

That's a bit like St Helens.

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By *rthur30Man
2 weeks ago

Warrington

"No one has had sex in space........

How do you know?

It would be technically challenging, as every thrust would push your partner away due to zero gravity

But possible if you have restraints 😆"

It's what Velcro was made for.

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By *rthur30Man
2 weeks ago

Warrington

"The nearest galaxy tour own Milky Way is andromeda at 2.5 million light years away."

Easily made in Fireball XL5.

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By *erdyHolly OP TV/TS
2 weeks ago

In a galaxy far far away

The speed of the ISS as it orbits Earth is roughly 17,150 miles per hour

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By *ndy58Man
2 weeks ago

Birmingham

"Nothing can move through space faster than light.

But space itself can expand at any rate.

Many distant galaxies are already receding from us faster than light because the space between us is stretching. warp drive is theoretically possible

The problem with warp drive (among others)...

How do you stop your vessel smashing into every bit of space debris in your way?

In all science fiction, the space ship goes into hyperspeed and miraculously avoids every solid object floating in its path...

The only way it makes sense in my head is like in Star Trek Voyager, when Tom Paris breaks warp 10 and literally travels beyond our dimensions and through time

Like in Event Horizon where the gravity drive bends space until two distant points exist as one and the ship travels through from one place to another...

The idea that a vessel can physically travel at those speeds without crashing is absurd at this point "

Matter represents something like 0.00000001% of the universe, so the chances of a ship hitting anything that could damage it are vanishingly small (although likely to increase if it travels towards the centre of a galaxy).

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By *layfullsamMan
2 weeks ago

Solihull

I love that they named a planet after a chocolate bar

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By *AJMLKTV/TS
2 weeks ago

Burley

No Earth-based telescope is powerful enough to see any of the lunar landing sites.

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By *ormerWelshcouple2020Man
1 week ago

Stourbridge

"I love that they named a planet after a chocolate bar

There’s a planet Twix?

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By *v13Couple
1 week ago

Aberdare

You can fit the earth inside the sun 930,000 times. And if the sun was the dot of an "I" in a book, and the solar system was that book, the book would be the size of the earth..... its my way of saying all penis's are small not just mine

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By *heExcommMan
1 week ago

llantrisant

The hottest planet in our solar system is not Murcury, who's surface temperature runs at 430⁰C, but is in fact Venus, who's surface temp runs at 464⁰C, thanks to its thick atmosphere

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By *pencer75Man
1 week ago

Stirlingshire

"No Earth-based telescope is powerful enough to see any of the lunar landing sites."

Not true

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By *pencer75Man
1 week ago

Stirlingshire

Pluto was discovered then relegated to a dwarf planet before completing an orbit of the sun

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By *ortheastFarmerMan
1 week ago

Northumberland

Han Solo says the Millennium Falcon made the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs.

A parsec is a measurement of distance, not time, theres for he took a dangerous short cut to minimise distance in order to save time.

A Kessel run usually takes 20 parsecs following the safer route.

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By *AJMLKTV/TS
1 week ago

Burley

"No Earth-based telescope is powerful enough to see any of the lunar landing sites.

Not true"

I'm genuinely interested in why you think this statement is not true. Google search that exact sentence and get back to me

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By *erdyHolly OP TV/TS
1 week ago

In a galaxy far far away

"No Earth-based telescope is powerful enough to see any of the lunar landing sites.

Not true

I'm genuinely interested in why you think this statement is not true. Google search that exact sentence and get back to me

I have to say ever since Google added the AI feature to their searches it's been really useful.

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By *AJMLKTV/TS
1 week ago

Burley

"No Earth-based telescope is powerful enough to see any of the lunar landing sites.

Not true

I'm genuinely interested in why you think this statement is not true. Google search that exact sentence and get back to me

I have to say ever since Google added the AI feature to their searches it's been really useful."

I find it genuinely odd that people have the greatest individual source of knowledge and information ever created literally at their fingertips, but won't spend 5 seconds checking it before making an easily checkable untrue statement. Maybe it's a commonly held belief? A bit like the "who cut Samson's hair" question. (Tip, it wasn't Delilah!)

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By *pencer75Man
7 days ago

Stirlingshire

"No Earth-based telescope is powerful enough to see any of the lunar landing sites.

Not true

I'm genuinely interested in why you think this statement is not true. Google search that exact sentence and get back to me

I have to say ever since Google added the AI feature to their searches it's been really useful.

https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/advice/skills/how-to-find-apollo-11s-landing-site-on-the-moon

https://skyandtelescope.org/stargazing-and-observing/celestial-objects-to-watch/moon/how-to-see-all-six-apollo-moon-landing-sites/

.... Genuinely odd.... greatest source of information.... fingertips.... 5 seconds.... easilbly checkable untrue statement.... blah blah

Thanks for playing though!

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By *erdyHolly OP TV/TS
7 days ago

In a galaxy far far away

"No Earth-based telescope is powerful enough to see any of the lunar landing sites.

Not true

I'm genuinely interested in why you think this statement is not true. Google search that exact sentence and get back to me

I have to say ever since Google added the AI feature to their searches it's been really useful.

https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/advice/skills/how-to-find-apollo-11s-landing-site-on-the-moon

https://skyandtelescope.org/stargazing-and-observing/celestial-objects-to-watch/moon/how-to-see-all-six-apollo-moon-landing-sites/

.... Genuinely odd.... greatest source of information.... fingertips.... 5 seconds.... easilbly checkable untrue statement.... blah blah

Thanks for playing though!

Those links say the photographs were taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.

That's not earth based as the original fact says, it was in space.

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By *andomDickMan
7 days ago

Northern England

"No Earth-based telescope is powerful enough to see any of the lunar landing sites.

Not true

I'm genuinely interested in why you think this statement is not true. Google search that exact sentence and get back to me

I have to say ever since Google added the AI feature to their searches it's been really useful.

https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/advice/skills/how-to-find-apollo-11s-landing-site-on-the-moon

https://skyandtelescope.org/stargazing-and-observing/celestial-objects-to-watch/moon/how-to-see-all-six-apollo-moon-landing-sites/

.... Genuinely odd.... greatest source of information.... fingertips.... 5 seconds.... easilbly checkable untrue statement.... blah blah

Thanks for playing though!

Depends what people mean when they say moon-landing-sites, Yes you can see the location, but not the impact of the Apollo lunar module, the flag, footprints etc

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By *erdyHolly OP TV/TS
7 days ago

In a galaxy far far away

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By *erdyHolly OP TV/TS
7 days ago

In a galaxy far far away

"No Earth-based telescope is powerful enough to see any of the lunar landing sites.

Not true

I'm genuinely interested in why you think this statement is not true. Google search that exact sentence and get back to me

I have to say ever since Google added the AI feature to their searches it's been really useful.

https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/advice/skills/how-to-find-apollo-11s-landing-site-on-the-moon

https://skyandtelescope.org/stargazing-and-observing/celestial-objects-to-watch/moon/how-to-see-all-six-apollo-moon-landing-sites/

.... Genuinely odd.... greatest source of information.... fingertips.... 5 seconds.... easilbly checkable untrue statement.... blah blah

Thanks for playing though!

Depends what people mean when they say moon-landing-sites, Yes you can see the location, but not the impact of the Apollo lunar module, the flag, footprints etc "

A test shot taken by Yepun, one of the four 8.2m telescopes located at Paranal in Chile, part of the Very Large Telescope facility, resolved features as small as 130m across, close to the telescope’s resolving limit.

However, this figure is a long way off the 4.2m width of the body of the Apollo Lunar Module’s descent stage, which was left on the surface.

The only images captured of the precise landing sites were captured by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter which was in orbit of the moon, thus, not earth based.

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By *erdyHolly OP TV/TS
7 days ago

In a galaxy far far away

Funnily enough some of those facts came from his own links 🤓

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By *aissez-faireMan
7 days ago

Right behind you…. Boo

In approximately the year 4000, Polaris will stop being the North Star. Just saying, in case any of you get lost around that time.

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By *ild_oatsMan
7 days ago

the land of saints & sinners

The Universe is over 13 billion years old…. Yet that is nothing in the scale of how long the universe be around for….

To understand the time scale this is a good watch and take a journey to the end of time….

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uD4izuDMUQA&ra=m

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By *otlovefun42Couple
6 days ago

Costa Blanca Spain...

The universe is over 13 billion years old. Yes but how much older?

Maybe there are galaxies that are 20/30/40 billion light years away but the light hasn't got here yet.

Then we can wonder if the ones we can see on the outer edges actually still exist.

It takes that light 13 billion years to get here and the life span of our sun is around 8 billion years, so much of what we can see will have either disappeared or radically changed.

It's all quite mind boggling really.

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By *irthandgirthMan
6 days ago

Camberley occasionally doncaster

"Grandparents who say to their Grandchildren " I love you to the moon & back "

I have a tattoo of that (designed by my daughter) on my inner bicep.

On my last holiday to Athens, bumped into a family on a bus. The mum had the same quote (different design) on her inner bicep.

Wonderfully coincidental.

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By *rBruce101Man
6 days ago

Leicester

"In space no one can hear you scream.

Obi"

In the vacuum of space no one can hear you scream. There was plenty of screaming on the USCSS Nostromo that was heard. Sorry. Pedant's corner is calling me.

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By *rthur30Man
6 days ago

Warrington

"In space no one can hear you scream.

Obi

In the vacuum of space no one can hear you scream. There was plenty of screaming on the USCSS Nostromo that was heard. Sorry. Pedant's corner is calling me."

The space ship was in space but the crew were not. They had an atmosphere capable of propagating sound.

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By *oadrunner57Man
6 days ago

Norwich

So is Granny crumpet's back door!

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By *oadrunner57Man
6 days ago

Norwich

Had to read that twice, thought you said climaxes were unpredictable! Phew!

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By *oadrunner57Man
6 days ago

Norwich

Don't understand that, so I am more dense! D'oh!

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By *oadrunner57Man
6 days ago

Norwich

Cheeses H Christ, change your dealer, they are cutting it with bad stuff!

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By *ensualbicockMan
6 days ago

liverpool wavertree picton clock

The speed of light is not the fastest thing in the universe. The expansion of space is

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By *rBruce101Man
6 days ago

Leicester

"In space no one can hear you scream.

Obi

In the vacuum of space no one can hear you scream. There was plenty of screaming on the USCSS Nostromo that was heard. Sorry. Pedant's corner is calling me.

The space ship was in space but the crew were not. They had an atmosphere capable of propagating sound."

So the astronauts/cosmonauts on the ISS aren't in space?

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By *e-OptimistMan
6 days ago

Stalybridge

"In space no one can hear you scream.

Obi

In the vacuum of space no one can hear you scream. There was plenty of screaming on the USCSS Nostromo that was heard. Sorry. Pedant's corner is calling me.

The space ship was in space but the crew were not. They had an atmosphere capable of propagating sound.

So the astronauts/cosmonauts on the ISS aren't in space?"

Technically they are in a caravan type structure which is in space but they are inside for the most part so not exactly "in space".

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By *rBruce101Man
6 days ago

Leicester

"In space no one can hear you scream.

Obi

In the vacuum of space no one can hear you scream. There was plenty of screaming on the USCSS Nostromo that was heard. Sorry. Pedant's corner is calling me.

The space ship was in space but the crew were not. They had an atmosphere capable of propagating sound.

So the astronauts/cosmonauts on the ISS aren't in space?

Technically they are in a caravan type structure which is in space but they are inside for the most part so not exactly "in space"."

You try telling them that.

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By *irthandgirthMan
5 days ago

Camberley occasionally doncaster

As a crossover fact...

Sharks are older than the rings of Saturn and Polaris (North Star)

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By *ensualbicockMan
5 days ago

liverpool wavertree picton clock

"As a crossover fact...

Sharks are older than the rings of Saturn and Polaris (North Star)"

So is Keith Richards

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By *eekaboo BellyMan
5 days ago

Bradford

Space is big. Like really big. It's at least twice the height of the Eiffel tower

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By *orticistMan
5 days ago

Northampton

As I recall Earth comes from the old English word eorþe which roughly translates as ground.

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By *ustyKunzsMan
5 days ago

Birmingham

Space isn't exactly cold like films would lead you too believe. Hot and cold is a measure of partical movement or velocity and in true "empty space" that partical movement stops.

We feel the heat off the sun due to the movement of the physical particles being emitted from it's abundant fuel source, and while their are still rememats of heat left over from Big Bang radiation, true empty space has no temperature.

Within the observable universe you can never have true zero-gravity as their is always a weak gravitational pull from the Earth and other objects depending on their masses and distances from each other.

This can be observed by viewing footage of the inhabitants of International Space Station as they "appear" to float around. As he ISS is in a state of acceleration the inhabitants are in a state of always falling towards the earth's gravitational pull, but never hitting due to the ISS acceleration.

The supermassive black hole Sagittarius A at the center of the Milky Way is about 26,000 light years away and it has enough mass to affect the Earths orbital path around the galactic center.

So whenever you are in the observable universe there is always gravitational pull, which means objects will always have weight.

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By *v13Couple
4 days ago

Aberdare

"In space no one can hear you scream.

Obi

In the vacuum of space no one can hear you scream. There was plenty of screaming on the USCSS Nostromo that was heard. Sorry. Pedant's corner is calling me.

The space ship was in space but the crew were not. They had an atmosphere capable of propagating sound.

So the astronauts/cosmonauts on the ISS aren't in space?

Technically they are in a caravan type structure which is in space but they are inside for the most part so not exactly "in space".

You try telling them that.

It may seem pedantic but I think hes right, otherwise you could just argue we are in space also, just happen to be sat ok a floating rock covered by an atmosphere.

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By *nt0themysticMan
4 days ago

Birmingham

"Space isn't exactly cold like films would lead you too believe. Hot and cold is a measure of partical movement or velocity and in true "empty space" that partical movement stops.

The supermassive black hole Sagittarius A at the center of the Milky Way is about 26,000 light years away and it has enough mass to affect the Earths orbital path around the galactic center.

So whenever you are in the observable universe there is always gravitational pull, which means objects will always have weight.

Gravitational “pull” is a misconception.

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By *nt0themysticMan
4 days ago

Birmingham

Olympus Mons is located on Mars and is the tallest mountain in the solar system (more than twice as tall as Mount Everest)

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By *nt0themysticMan
4 days ago

Birmingham

"In space no one can hear you scream.

Obi

In the vacuum of space no one can hear you scream. There was plenty of screaming on the USCSS Nostromo that was heard. Sorry. Pedant's corner is calling me.

The space ship was in space but the crew were not. They had an atmosphere capable of propagating sound.

So the astronauts/cosmonauts on the ISS aren't in space?"

They are travelling through spacetime

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By *rman82Man
4 days ago

Manchester

The band disbanded in 2005 due to label disputes and member fatigue.

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By *lways BeardedMan
4 days ago

Wetherby

So in 1930 Clyde Tombaugh disvovered Pluto and in the late 90's the US decided to make a probe called New Horizons to go there.. he died in 1997 before they launched. So the New Horizons team reached out to his family and they placed some of his ashes on the probe, so that way a little bit of him got to travel there.

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By *nt0themysticMan
4 days ago

Birmingham

"So in 1930 Clyde Tombaugh disvovered Pluto and in the late 90's the US decided to make a probe called New Horizons to go there.. he died in 1997 before they launched. So the New Horizons team reached out to his family and they placed some of his ashes on the probe, so that way a little bit of him got to travel there."

That’s pretty crazy. It’s quite amazing how much humanity has been able to achieve really, to be able to send something so far away. At the same time I’m a bit disappointed with us, we could do better.

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By *erdyHolly OP TV/TS
4 days ago

In a galaxy far far away

The end.

Or is it?

The truth is out there

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