An organisation called Mars One is planning to establish a permanent colony of humans on Mars by 2023.
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A neutron star (what remains after a Super Nova) is so dense that a portion of it the size of a sugar cube would weigh as much as all of humanity, or more than all the cars in the United States.
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If two pieces of metal touch in space, they become permanently stuck together.
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The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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Mars had an oxygen-rich atmosphere around 4 billion years ago
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In outer space there exists a gigantic cloud of alcohol which can be used to produce 400 trillion trillion pints of beer.
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There are approximately 3,500 astronomers in the U.S. - but over 15,000 astrologers.
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