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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The Sun and Moon appear to be the same size because the moon is 400 times smaller than the Sun, but 400 times closer to Earth.
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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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An organisation called Mars One is planning to establish a permanent colony of humans on Mars by 2023.
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Jupiter is bigger than all the other planets combined.
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Jupiter's magnetosphere is the largest single structure inside the Solar System. If you could see it with your eyes, it would appear larger than our full Moon.
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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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The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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