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USELESS FACTS ABOUT SPACE THAT ARE STILL COOL TO KNOW

Added on: 1st May 2016

 

 

CHANGING TASTES AMONG THE STARS

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Astronauts’ food preferences change when they’re floating around

space. International Space Station astronaut Peggy Whitson says

her favourite Earth food, shrimp, is positively revolting

to her in space.

 

 

AN UNGRATEFUL PRIZE COMMITTEE

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One of the most influential cosmologists in history, Edwin Hubble

has a crater, planetarium, asteroid, and even the famous

Hubble Space Telescope named after him. Despite his

contributions to the field of astronomy, Hubble never received

the Nobel Prize because the Nobel Committee did not have a

category for astronomy and refused to include astronomy

with physics at the time.

 

 

A SUIT WAY PRICIER THAN VERSACE

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A useless space fact for us but useful for the finance team,

the cost of an entire NASA space suit is 12 million dollars.

 

 

NEIL ARMSTRONG WASN'T BORN TO BE AN ACTOR

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Actors have plenty of lines to remember and only rarely mess

one up. Neil Armstrong had one line to say when he became

the first man on the moon and he botched it. Armstrong was

supposed to say “That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap

for mankind.” He left out the “a”, making the sentence redundant.

 

 

BETELGEUSE! BETELGEUSE! BETEL…

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The popularly-cited star (and a name you shouldn’t try to say

three times), Betelgeuse is a red star that is so massive its

diameter is larger than the diameter of Earth’s entire

orbit around our best-known star, the sun.

 

 

HOW LIKELY WE ARE TO GET HIT WITH SPACE DEBRIS

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Our annual risk of getting seriously injured by a piece of space

debris entering the atmosphere and landing on Earth is 1 in

100 billion. If you’re worried about 1,000 ways you could die,

this might not be so useless a space fact after all.

 

 

MASSIVE CELESTIAL BODIES

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Jupiter’s mass is 2.5 times greater than that of all the other

solar system planets combined. Despite this useless fact,

an even more useless one may be that the sun makes up

99.86% of the mass in the entire solar system.

 

 

WATER CAN MIRACULOUSLY FLOAT AROUND SPACE

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In a galaxy far, far away – about 10 billion light years to be

more precise – a massive vapour cloud is home to water with

a mass 140 trillion times greater than the mass of all the

water in Earth’s oceans.

 

 

VOLUME OF THE MOON IN COMPARISON TO THE EARTH

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Compared to Earth bodies, the volume of the moon would

roughly equal the volume of the Pacific Ocean. Maybe an

interesting fact, definitely a useless fact.

 


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