Schlagwort: space
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5 Weird and Bizarre Things That Actually Exist in Space
Reading Time: 3 minutesDid you know that there’s a real-life Tatooine planet, complete with two suns? Kepler-16b is a Saturn-mass planet consisting of half gas and half rock and ice, and it orbits a binary star, Kepler-16, with a period of 229 days. „[It] is the first confirmed, unambiguous example of a circumbinary planet –…
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5 Reasons Why People Think the Moon Landings Are a Hoax
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe most notable claim is that the six manned landings (1969-1972) were faked and that the twelve Apollo astronauts did not walk on the Moon. Conspiracy theorists (henceforth conspiracists) base their claims on the notion that NASA and others knowingly misled the public into believing the landings happened by manufacturing, destroying, or…
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You’ll Soon Be Able to Take Trips to the Edge of Space for $75,000 in This
Reading Time: < 1 minuteFor $75000, you’ll soon be able to take trips to the edge of space in this special balloon. Developed by World View, the flight would take 90 minutes to go up at about 1,000 feet a minute, set sail up high for 2 hours with an emphasis on smooth riding, hit…
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Scientists Announce That Jupiter and Saturn May be Filled with Diamonds
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAccording to a group of scientists, lead by University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Kevin Baines, both of our solar system’s largest gas giants are home to conditions favorable to the creation of solid diamonds. That’s right, „about a thousand tons of diamonds per year.“ Here’s how it works: Massive lightning storms which…
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Bizarre Theories About the Universe That Might Blow Your Mind
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe multiverse theory essentially refers to the hypothetical set of infinite or finite possible universes (including the historical universe we consistently experience) that together comprise everything that exists and can exist: the entirety of space, time, matter, and energy as well as the physical laws and constants that describe them. In…
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Geeks Who Might be Having a Really Bad Day
Reading Time: < 1 minuteNo matter how bad your day might be going, you’ll never have to tell your boss that you toppled a $290-million satellite right onto the shop floor. Unfortunately (or fortunately), that is just one of the many geeks who might be having a really bad day.
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Destiny – Defeat Earth’s enemies
Reading Time: < 1 minuteDiscover all that we have lost. Become legend. In Destiny you are a Guardian of the last city on Earth, able to wield incredible power. Explore the ancient ruins of our solar system, from the red dunes of Mars to the lush jungles of Venus. Defeat Earth’s enemies. Discover all that…
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Need some time off your feet? NASA paying volunteers $18K to lie in bed for 70 days
Reading Time: 4 minutesIf you just can’t get out of bed, NASA might have a mission for you. A NASA study is recruiting volunteers to to lie in a bed that is tilted downward at a 6 degree angle for 70 days. Subjects who complete the entire bed rest project can earn up to $18,000.…
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Objective Europa Will Send Astronauts on One-Way Mission to Jupiter’s Moon
Reading Time: < 1 minuteObjective Europa is basically a group, led by Kristian von Bengtson, that is in the early planning stages of sending astronauts to Jupiter’s moon Europa to look for life. One caveat: the trip is one-way with no hope of return at the end of the mission. This is different from the…
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Han Solo Frozen in Carbonite Photographed on Mercury
Reading Time: < 1 minuteNot just any photograph of Mercury, „a portion of the terrain surrounding the northern margin of the Caloris basin hosts an elevated block in the shape of a certain carbonite-encased smuggler who can make the Kessel Run in less than twelve parsecs.“ Official Source: http://geekologie.com/2013/09/its-uncanny-han-solo-in-carbonite-spotte.php
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NASA’s Voyager 1 Officially Leaves Solar System, Enters Interstellar Space
Reading Time: < 1 minuteIt’s finally official, NASA’s Voyager 1 has left the solar system and entered interstellar space. Approximately 36-years after it was launched from Earth on a tour of the outer planets, the plutonium-powered probe is more than 11 1/2 billion miles from the sun, cruising through what scientists call interstellar space –…
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Over 200,000 People Have Applied for a One Way Trip to Mars
Reading Time: 2 minutesShould the Mars One project become a reality, the team will have to narrow down the number of candidates to just 24-40 from the 200,000+ applicants. The £4,000,000,000 project was founded in 2010 by engineer Bas Lansdorp, who plans to recoup its costs by selling the broadcasting rights to the mission. The Dutch group…
