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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The Earth gets heavier each day by tons, as meteoric dust settles on it.
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There is a mass reservoir of water floating in space that is 100,000 times bigger than our sun and holds 140 trillion times more water than all of our oceans.
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One pinhead of the sun's energy is enough to kill a person at a distance of 160 kilometers.
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If you went out into space, you would explode before you suffocated because there's no air pressure.
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Tidal forces between the Earth and Moon are slowing the Earth down and pushing the Moon further away.
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Scientists have confirmed that Enceladus, one of Saturn’s moons, has a watery ocean.
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