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spazattack5000Aug 20, 2010
Look at your man, now back at me. This star is now DIAMONDS!
pilot85Aug 21, 2010
I was going to bury you before I read the article for that inane meme... then I realized that the star really IS now diamonds!
chaosprofessorAug 22, 2010
I'm on a horse
spazattack5000Aug 22, 2010
I'm on the Horsehead Nebula
zoshchenkoAug 21, 2010
These are truly interesting factoids about outer space, but why does the author think it is necessary to try and make a truly lame "joke" at the end of each description? If they were funny it would be different. But they are a horrible stretch.
fearlessfreepAug 21, 2010
I think it was just a glorified ad to make you watch the TV show
maxmaxxwellAug 22, 2010
Reminded me of Cracked's attempts at humor.
ghostwoAug 22, 2010
More like Tosh.0
lllslinklllAug 22, 2010
http://blog.koldcast.tv/2010/koldcast-news/15-strange-things-about-outer-space/
Zoshchenko on 03/10/2010
These facts are really very interesting. But why the hell does the author think he needs to try and add some lame joke at the end of every one? I wouldn't object so much if they were in the least bit witty...but they aren't. They're stupid. Insultingly inane. Mind-boggling moronic. Point made?
chachukaAug 22, 2010
yes, I agree entirely. you're reading something fascinating, and then you get to "lovingly refers to them as ma'bitches" and it suddenly has an awful copper taste. lame and unnecessary.
gunit99Aug 22, 2010
Trying to be like Cracked...and doing a s**tty job of it.
addiktionAug 22, 2010
Yeah I'm beginning to think he had a few gay encounters with frat boys in college but I could be wrong...
diggimatorAug 22, 2010
15 lamest Puns About Outer Space. Also, I didn't find spherical water that fascinating or surprising. Seemed more like a "duh" thing to me.
khundavidAug 21, 2010
"Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly hugely mindbogglingly big it is. I mean you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space" - Douglas Adams
mkatzmdAug 22, 2010
RIP.
satendersinghAug 21, 2010
Now man are are going on planets.
datastorageguyAug 21, 2010
Unfortunately, Mars is far to cold to whip it out and take a leak.
Closed AccountAug 21, 2010
very informative, but could have done without all of the stupid comments at the end of each. apparently the guy doesnt like frat boys either.....then again.......who does?
volaitle86Aug 21, 2010
DON't f**k WITH PLUTO'S MOM!
fxspec06Aug 21, 2010
chuck norris cuts glass with his nipples
sdeluxeAug 21, 2010
Chuck Norris was recently bit by a cobra. After five days of excruciating pain, the cobra died.
kronos6948Aug 21, 2010
Haaaaay....That was Commander Riker's Grandfather that had that happen.
rhydebleAug 21, 2010
In Soviet Russia glass cuts your nipples.
s4g4nAug 21, 2010
I'm going to build a tractor beam, that diamond planet is mine.
tdbgamerAug 21, 2010
Yeah it might get to earth in time for your great great great great great great grand children to use :P
b0bbyw1seAug 22, 2010
The diamond would be bigger than the moon. The price of diamonds would drop like a rock.
anneonimousAug 22, 2010
Because diamonds are so rare here on earth, and can never be created in a lab...
b0bbyw1seAug 22, 2010
We can create diamonds in a lab but they are not exactly the same.
weaponsAug 22, 2010
diamond star*
mikimacAug 21, 2010
Seems to me that # 12 (Electrostatic Levitation) debunks #11 (Lasting Footprints).
garmonbozziaAug 21, 2010
My only problem with #12 is that right after he finished saying the moon has no atmosphere, he says the dust floats in the air. I know what he was trying to say, though...
novadeezAug 22, 2010
Maybe, but it would take insane amounts of time for foot prints to dissipate at a few particles of dust every so often.
morpheousmartyAug 22, 2010
The footprints are not entirely made up of fine dust, so the footprints will not erode. Whether or not the dust would settle and cover it up is an interesting concept, a quick google search would give me no timeframe for electrostatic levitation on the moon. It may take centuries for any noticeable amount of dust to settle, and even then I don't imagine it will be spread evenly over the entire moon.
oxidaneAug 21, 2010
I bet some Jewish guy in Brussels is already trying to get his bloody hands on that diamond star...
kmocha822Aug 21, 2010
too bad there isn't a star made of watermelon for all of the black people, or one with lakes of alcohol to send the Irish, or one filled with young boys to send catholic priests, or one filled with bigots - where we could send you.
oxidaneAug 22, 2010
Need a tissue?
kmocha822Aug 22, 2010
need a moral compass?
Closed AccountAug 22, 2010
No. Elizabeth Taylor is studying to become an astronaut... Didn't you read the article? Jeez
icndvlAug 21, 2010
WTB Warp Drive
wagedomainAug 21, 2010
This is a pretty s**tty article. Pluto is NOT "about as far as you can get from the sun in our solar system". Our solar system is HUGE, it goes way past Pluto.
netantAug 21, 2010
Agreed. If you consider dwarf planets as part of our Solar System, and Pluto is now a KBO, there are many dwarf planets that go farther out of the solar system than Pluto. Eris, which is LARGER than Pluto, is 2-3x farther out. (You guys can look up Quaqor, Sedna, and the "official" farthest KBO.)
jadrianAug 23, 2010
Of course dwarf planets are part of it, and so is the kuiper belt, and so is the oort cloud. There's a long way to go.
worldnickAug 22, 2010
The notion that the solar system has a limit at all is arbitrary. I don't mind the author referring to one. Not many people will understand that gravity theoretically should have an effect at any distance. So then what can we call a solar system? In the end to have such a term someone needs to draw a line.
rickthebrickAug 21, 2010
If one were born on Venus, one would have to have two birthdays everyday. A person who is 100 years old would only be 92.59 days old. Some babies would be walking and talking even though they were just born yesterday.
eschompthisAug 21, 2010
That is assuming yesterday was more than a year ago.
chaosprofessorAug 22, 2010
or if you didn't burst into flames instantly approx temp is 894 degrees
addiktionAug 22, 2010
I'm with ChaosProfessor. No one will be born on Venus any time soon but I get what you are saying.
tommyrAug 21, 2010
Here's another, some meteorites contain nano diamonds.
Also, when Chuck Norris sings "is you is, or is you ain't my baby" in a mirror, his reflection says "yes".
Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
crowbarredAug 21, 2010
30,000 years of light from the sun to earth? I dont think so TIM
robertonuno85Aug 21, 2010
Actually, that is true. I don't know the exact number, but it does take the light created in the center of the sun many many years to actually breach the sun's surface and reach us on earth. The time it takes to actually travel through space is only a few seconds.
"The gamma rays (high-energy photons) released in fusion reactions are absorbed in only a few millimeters of solar plasma and then re-emitted again in random direction (and at slightly lower energy)—so it takes a long time for radiation to reach the Sun's surface. Estimates of the "photon travel time" range between 10,000 and 170,000 years."
- NASA (2007). "Ancient Sunlight". Technology Through Time (50). http://sunearthday.nasa.gov/2007/locations/ttt_sunlight.php. Retrieved 2009-06-24.
errorsAug 21, 2010
Not entirely true, it's not a few seconds, it's the 8 minutes we've been hearing since we were kids.
robertonuno85Aug 21, 2010
Crap, I honestly meant to say a few minutes, not seconds. I swear I just read it!
netantAug 21, 2010
@errorS
WRONG. It takes 8 minutes from light from THE SURFACE of the Sun to travel to Earth. We're talking about light created at the CORE of the Sun. (But I didn't have the heart to bury you because you at least got the 8 minutes part right.)Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
novadeezAug 22, 2010
@netant
robertonuno85 said it takes a few seconds for sunlight to travel through space to Earth, ErrorS was correcting him and saying it takes 8 minutes to get from the surface to Earth.
Just felt you should know why you're getting buried.
crowbarredAug 22, 2010
Ha! i liked the way i got buried ... when i was a kid i was told it took mere minute for light to reach us ... dont bury me ... bury the teachers
thebadwolfAug 21, 2010
I can't believe I have lived to see the day when the word "prodigal" was used correctly.
crimsonflashAug 21, 2010
Damn space, you scary.
raoulduke310Aug 22, 2010
Don't be skerred!
tonkhoiAug 21, 2010
the stars are now diamonds!
spazattack5000Aug 22, 2010
It's been done.
chummy2547Aug 21, 2010
16. You will forget all this.
stap1egunAug 22, 2010
Just like a frat boy forgets things after he drinks alcohol.
YaTiddleAug 21, 2010
16.) Outer space smells like welding metal or occasionally fried steak. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1078215/Ever-wondered-space-smells-like-Fried-steak-hot-metal-say-scientists.html
As you can see, I have linked "the daily fail" in a selfless risk of being buried just in the hopes that I can provide someone with something they might find interesting.
misterohAug 21, 2010
Quasar's aren't the actual black holes in the middle of galaxies. They're actually the area surrounding the black holes.
seaofcheeseAug 21, 2010
Well that was a bad attempt at trying to write a cracked article.
chachukaAug 22, 2010
Cracked articles are full of lame jokes, too.
chikenshitAug 22, 2010
the one about elizabeth taylor learning to become an astronaut gave me chuckle
redhouse67Aug 21, 2010
Since when does Criss Angel claim he has supernatural powers? He refutes it...
chaosprofessorAug 22, 2010
he says he can float and people believe him
redhouse67Aug 22, 2010
he never attributes it to super natural powers. he makes that perfectly clear. remember that show about the magicians and that dude claimed he could talk to the dead. criss give him the business.
daltonkuepkerAug 21, 2010
16.) The universe isn't small. It's actually very big. And you can't breathe in space.
blatsekAug 22, 2010
Those comments at the end of each comment are childish
urbanfenixAug 22, 2010
Boobification!
jrgalauraAug 22, 2010
The picture of Pluto looks like one of the final stages of Mystery Case Files: Dire Grove
dscarrollAug 22, 2010
ok so his jokes at the end of each of the explanations are ridiculously corny and not funny...except for number 9. number 9 got a chuckle out of me.
808atheistAug 22, 2010
My favorite is the fact that space is infinite, but the planets, photons etc are not. That means that there is a point where you could push away from the last object, fly into the darkness and there would never be anything ever again. Ever.
hurricanedcAug 22, 2010
That's what always mindf**ks me. Are we basically all floating inside of an ever-expanding beach ball without any walls?
allantronAug 22, 2010
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ob37KzlUEPA
snarqAug 22, 2010
Good info, bad humour... don't give up your day job to become a comic.
lllslinklllAug 22, 2010
Okay WTF people?
By B.Z., March 10, 2010 <----------------
I got this strange feeling of deja vu until I looked at the date of the article. Its the same one submitted back in march, with the same top comment by the same poster about the same subject.
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http://digg.com/space/15_Strange_and_Awesome_Facts_About_Outer_Space
Zoshchenko on 03/10/2010
These facts are really very interesting. But why the hell does the author think he needs to try and add some lame joke at the end of every one? I wouldn't object so much if they were in the least bit witty...but they aren't. They're stupid. Insultingly inane. Mind-boggling moronic. Point made?
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Seriously?
lintmonkeyAug 22, 2010
All this has happened before. And it will all happen again.
nevinlAug 22, 2010
Kinda interesting regarding "Extra inches":
In pathology, we learned that all astronauts are carried off the space shuttle when they land. Since the astronauts are in space, there is no stress on their bones, resulting in weaker bones and osteoporosis.
Link: http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=19970
"Although most people may not think of it, bedridden patients and astronauts share something in common: progressive bone loss. Immobile patients lose bone density because they don't exercise muscles that would otherwise build skeletal strength through motion. Astronauts also face long periods of immobility, in addition to zero gravity, which negatively affects bone cell function."
ethanthelameAug 22, 2010
#1 regarding the energy in quasars is incorrect. While you would initially read the energy as being incredibly intense from quasars due to their lightshifting, it is actually that way because the directional output of the energy from a quasar. The light shift is not due to the quasar having 1000x the energy of the sun, it is just because the energy is pointed out in our direction.
thejackylAug 22, 2010
Wait, there are things about outer space that AREN'T strange?
kaliorAug 22, 2010
buried for 5th grade science seemingly written by a 17 year-old
smpaisnutrientsAug 22, 2010
Article is full of small incorrectitudes. Saturn does not float because it is light, it is just less dense. Weight has nothing to do with buoyancy. The moon actually does have an atmosphere, a very thin argon one. Pluto is NOT the farthest you can get from the sun in our solar system, the Voyager craft are way farther away. The solar system includes the Oort Cloud, Kuiper Belt, heliosphere, etc. Its more then just the planets.
spazattack5000Aug 22, 2010
For those who don't know; the Oort Cloud stretches somewhere near 1 light year away from the sun. We are 8 light minutes from the sun.
smpaisnutrientsAug 22, 2010
and that's not even the farthest thing in the solar system. that tells you how large it really is.
bigviAug 22, 2010
Id love to read the article, but its been digg DOSd
ihateclownsAug 25, 2010
I'm telling you folks, putting navigational directions on how to find Earth on Voyager 2 will end up badly. We should launch billions of Kei$ha cd's to all points of the galaxy. That way the Monster-Aliens will get sick and leave us alone.