An organisation called Mars One is planning to establish a permanent colony of humans on Mars by 2023.
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The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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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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Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet!
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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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There are approximately 3,500 astronomers in the U.S. - but over 15,000 astrologers.
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More than 20 million meteoroids enter Earth's atmosphere every day.
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The earth travels through space at 660,000 miles per hour.
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