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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One pinhead of the sun's energy is enough to kill a person at a distance of 160 kilometers.
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There's a mysterious dwarf planet between Mars and Jupiter called 'Ceres' which has never been visited by spacecraft or photographed in detail, however, Earth-bound telescopes reveal a large bright shining spot on the surface of this planet, the origin and nature of which are unknown.
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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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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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The last time that the Sun was in its current position in space around the Milky Way, dinosaurs ruled the Earth.
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Mars had an oxygen-rich atmosphere around 4 billion years ago
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