An organisation called Mars One is planning to establish a permanent colony of humans on Mars by 2023.
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Sound doesn't travel in space.
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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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In the last 7 years, humanity has discovered 43 potentially habitable planets.
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A neutron star (what remains after a Super Nova) is so dense that a portion of it the size of a sugar cube would weigh as much as all of humanity, or more than all the cars in the United States.
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According to a study by the National Science Foundation, only half of Americans believe in evolution, and one in 4 don't know that the Earth orbits the Sun.
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It 'snows' metal on Venus.
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