Why didn't astronauts float off the moon? Heavy boots. Sigh.
phys.ufl.edu — "While a pen always falls when you drop it on Earth, it would just float away if you let go of it on the Moon." My jaw dropped a little. I blurted "What?! A pen would fall if you dropped it on the Moon, just more slowly." I protested. "No it wouldn't." the TA explained calmly, "because you're too far away from the Earth's gravity." (Submitted by mattswain123) More…
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What Earth Would Look Like With Rings Like Saturn?
liveleak.com — What the rings would look like from different cities and latitudes accross the world. It's interesting to imagine how it would effect culture throughout time. It would have influenced religion, mythology, navigation, etc.. Personally, I think the blue hue of earth's atmosphere would partly be reflected in the rings. (Submitted by MrBabyMan) More…
Light pollution: What you're missing view!
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Colbert Wins NASA's Node 3 Naming Contest
ccinsider.comedycentral.com — Colbert urged viewers of his Comedy Central show, "The Colbert Report" to write in his name. And they complied, with 230,539 votes. That clobbered Serenity, one of the NASA choices, by more than 40,000 votes. (Submitted by ThePowerDigger) More…
ISS - Isn't She Magnificent? view!
nasa.gov — Click to see a larger version. (Submitted by msaleem) More…
Lets say you're the first human ever to make alien contact view!
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It's Official: Water Found on the Moon
space.com — Since man first touched the moon and brought pieces of it back to Earth, scientists have thought that the lunar surface was bone dry. But new observations from three different spacecraft have put this notion to rest with what has been called "unambiguous evidence" of water across the surface of the moon. (Submitted by benb24) More…
13 things that do not make sense
newscientist.com — Don't try this at home. Several times a day, for several days, you induce pain in someone. You control the pain with morphine until the final day of the experiment, when you replace the morphine with saline solution. Guess what? The saline takes the pain away. (Submitted by gilg) More…
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