MDIF, a New York based non-profit organisation, is planning to beam free Wi-Fi to the entire world from space.
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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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In the last 7 years, humanity has discovered 43 potentially habitable planets.
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It 'snows' metal on Venus.
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If NASA sent birds into space they would soon die; they need gravity to swallow.
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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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It takes a photon 170,000 years to travel from the core of the Sun to the surface, but only 8 minutes to travel the rest of the way to Earth.
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An international team of astronomers has spotted the farthest known gravitational lens and, as Albert Einstein predicted, it is a galaxy that deflects and intensifies the light of a much further object.
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