Today's top fuel dragsters take off with more force than the space shuttle.
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Not only are there rogue planets floating through space completely alone, not orbiting any stars, but it’s possible that these pitch-black lonely planets support life.
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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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Sound doesn't travel in space.
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Astronomer Percival Lowell believed that he was the first person to observe canals on Venus, but because of a faulty adjustment of the eyepiece on his telescope, he was in fact looking at the blood vessels in his own eye.
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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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Any space vehicle must move at a rate of 7 miles per second in order to escape the earth's gravitational pull.
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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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