The Space Shuttle main engine weighs 1/7th as much as a train engine but delivers as much horsepower as 39 locomotives.
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If aliens located 60-65 million light years away from us, looked at earth through a really powerful telescope today, they would see dinosaurs!
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The typical spec of dust that you see floating in the air is half way in size between the Earth and a subatomic particle.
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In space, astronauts cannot cry properly, because there is no gravity, so the tears can't flow down their faces!
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A 100-pound person on Earth would weigh 38 pounds on Mars.
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An organisation called Mars One is planning to establish a permanent colony of humans on Mars by 2023.
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On Titan, Saturn's largest moon, the atmosphere is so thick and the gravity so low that humans could fly through it by flapping "wings" attached to their arms.
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It would take more than 150 years to drive a car to the sun.
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