In zero gravity, a candle's flame is round and blue.
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In Arizona, a solar wind energy tower has been proposed that would generate as much energy as the Hoover Dam.
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The inventor of the Super Soaker squirt gun was a NASA Scientist who also helped develop the Stealth Bomber and the Galileo mission to Jupiter.
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A single speck of dust is half way in size between a subatomic particle and the Earth.
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One barrel of petroleum holds 42 gallons.
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The earth is approx. 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
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Scientists are attempting to create a synthetic brain by reverse-engineering the mammalian brain down to the molecular level. A cellular human brain is predicted possible by 2023. It hopes to shed light on consciousness.
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