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5 Facts That Will Make You Feel and Look Smarter

January 27, 2015 By Fred Mitchell Leave a Comment

5 Facts That Will Make You Feel and Look Smarter

Not saying that you’re not. But comes a time in any conversation when the train of ideas comes to an end and awkward silence sets in. While none of these facts may end up as life changing to neither you nor your chatting partner, they are surely better than any other random topic you could revive the conversation with. And if you’re going to do that, why not shift the chat in a more clever direction? Here you go then, 5 facts carefully selected for you from various fields of interest.

Every single cell in your body gets replaced

  1. Every single cell in your body gets replaced

That is pretty much true with the only exception of your brain cells of course – the only type of cell in our bodies that sadly does not regenerate. That would explain why so many people seem to be unusually fond of protecting their own brain cells by not partaking in strenuous, stressful mental activity. But back on topic – every single type of cell in our body has its own life span. For example, red blood cells live for about 4 months, skin cells for 2 to 3 weeks, while some internal organ cells die in a matter of days. Naturally, the body does what is meant to do and replaces the dead cells with brand new, fully functional and ready to go ones.

A photon prepares for tens of thousands of years to launch to Earth

  1. A photon prepares for tens of thousands of years to launch to Earth

„Prepare” is a bit of an overstatement. What we mean here is that a photon literally travels for up to 200,000 years from the core of the Sun up to the surface. The radius of the sun is roughly 700,000 kilometers and the photons would surely take less if their trek to the surface would be straightforward. But considering they go through a long and tedious trip of constantly travelling in a direction before they’re absorbed and released by an atom in a completely different, random direction kind of hinders their smooth and happy departure in outer space. And as a very anticlimactic end to the story, they take 8 minutes to reach the surface of the Earth.

Immortality exists, but only in jellyfish

  1. Immortality exists, but only in jellyfish

There is a species of jellyfish found in the Mediterranean Sea and waters of Japan that can, in essence, be considered immortal. Known by either Turritopsis Dohrnii (that is, if you want to look even smarter) or simply the immortal jellyfish isn’t literally immortal as you would think it is; instead however, it is the only animal capable of reverting completely to a sexually imature stage after having reached sexual maturity. So when this jellyfish is threatened by stress and physical assault or simply reaches old age, it can return to the polyp form that it once came from and give birth to a new polyp colony. And not only is it immortal, it is amazingly pretty looking too.

The direction brain teaser

  1. The direction brain teaser

It goes something along the lines of “If you keep going North, you will end up going South. If you keep going East, you will never end up going West.” It’s one of those things that has you spend several seconds trying to figure out whether the statement is valid or not, then a handful of minutes trying to figure out why. The answer is pretty simple – it’s all perspective. Considering our planet’s axis orientation and, inherently, its rotation around said axis, the Earth’s North and South poles are the mostly static points in its motion.

The longest storm in the solar system

  1. The largest, longest storm in the solar system

More commonly known as the Red Spot on Jupiter. Surely you have seen it in the past but never thought much of it. This red spot is in fact a great anti-cyclonic storm – akin to a hurricane – that has been going on for at least 400 years – that’s how long human kind has been observing it for. What is even considerably more staggering however ist hat considering the planet’s mere size, the Red Spot is large enough to fit 3 entire Earths in its turbulent cillinder of stormy gases and particles. The reason it seems to be so persistent, according to scientists, is that the hurricane never touched land (as Jupiter is a gas giant with a small solid core) and that the storm itself is being kept alive by Jupiter’s internal heat source.

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10 Little Known Solar System Facts

December 11, 2014 By Fred Mitchell Leave a Comment

Astronomers learn new facts about our solar system every single day. However, with every discovery, we realize just how little we actually know about our Earth’s neighbors. No wonder that we can’t keep up with the advancements in the field. So here are 10 little known solar system facts that kids who are passionate about astronomy may find interesting.

1. Venus is hotter than Mercury

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One would expect the closest planet to the Sun to be the hottest, but this is not the case. Mercury has no atmosphere to retain the heat provided by its powerful neighbor. On the other hand, Venus has a very thick atmosphere that keeps most of the heat on the planet.

2. There is ice on Mercury

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Cool fact: because the planet has no atmosphere, it hosts ice in its polar regions. Although the planet can witness up to 800 °F during the day, some crater floors are not directly hit by light. Consequently, temperatures do not rise beyond the freezing point. Because Mercury’s polar areas highly reflect radar, scientists strongly believe that Mercury has frozen water. The red areas in the picture signal the deepest craters.

3. Our solar system hosts five dwarf planets

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We have our answer, Pluto is not a planet. After being relegated to the status of dwarf planet, Pluto joined other four celestial bodies in our solar system: Ceres, Haumea, Eris, and Makemake. Ceres, the largest one, makes up about a third of the mass of the asteroid belt. However, astronomers believe that the solar system could contain thousands of dwarf planets.

4. Eris is the largest dwarf planet

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Eris, the largest dwarf planet, was discovered almost 10 years ago. This celestial body was close to receiving its planet title, but researchers changed their minds, taking Pluto down in the process as well. Eris revolves around the Sun three times further away from the star than Pluto.

5. Ceres has plenty of fresh water

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Although Ceres has a surface area about the same as India, the dwarf planet is estimated to hold 200 million cubic meters of fresh water, which is more than Earth’s reserves. Moreover, recent hypothesis include the possibility that life on Earth originated on Ceres.

6. The Sun makes up more than 99 percent of the solar system’s mass

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More precisely, the Sun represents 99.86 percent of the mass. Jupiter and Saturn stand for most of the rest, while the inner solar system planets have a negligible impact from a purely statistical point of view. When you are talking about solar system facts, this could actually be the most important one.

7. The solar system ends much further away than Pluto

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We live in the hip central part of the neighborhood. Taking into account the huge Oort cloud, the edge of the solar system lies is 1,000 further away than Pluto.

8. Saturn has 62 moons

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If you ever thought that our Moon obscures the view, imagine the crowded, yet amazing panorama you’ll enjoy while trying to gaze at the stars. Titan, the largest and most famous one, is bigger than Mercury. Fun fact: astronomers named just 53 of all the 62 Saturnian moons.

9. Jupiter has the largest ocean

One would expect the largest planet to host the largest ocean, but then again, Venus is the hottest planet, although Mercury sits closer to the Sun, so expect surprises. Jupiter’s ocean, which is basically liquid hydrogen, is estimated to be around 25,000 miles deep.

10. Mars has the highest mountain in the solar system

Olympus Mons is about 17 miles high, which is roughly three Everests placed on top of each other. Curiosity rover, the most advanced NASA machine on the red planet, just started climbing and investigating Olympus Mons.

There are plenty of space missions that will soon provide new data about Pluto in 2015 (New Horizons probe) and Jupiter in 2016 (Juno probe), so be prepared to update your knowledge of solar system facts in a very short time.

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