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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Summer on Uranus lasts for 21 years.
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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 density of Saturn is so low that if you were to put it in a giant glass of water it would float.
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In the last 7 years, humanity has discovered 43 potentially habitable planets.
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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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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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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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