Fold a piece of paper 42 times and it's thick enough to reach from the Earth to the Moon. Fold it again and it'll reach to the Moon and back. Fold it 100 times and it'll take you beyond the observable universe. (Folding paper 42 times, doubles thickness each time. 20# paper = 0.097 mm thick. Thickness required for paper folded 42 times to reach the moon, mm: 0.0874. So, "(.097 times (2 to the power of 42)) inches"
and you get a number 1.2 times as big as the mean Earth-Moon Distance.) Of course, it's all mathematical since it's impossible to really fold a piece of paper 42 times.
In 1903 the Wright brothers flew for 59 seconds.
38 years later the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor.
28 years after that, we landed on the moon.
We went from gliding a few feet off the ground for less than a minute to launching rockets out of orbit, traveling for hundreds of thousands of miles, landing on the moon, and then returning, all within a single lifetime.
Your GPS unit or cell phone has more computing power than the entire Apollo 11 mission. What's even more impressive than a cell phone putting man on the Moon is, a slide rule and graph paper is what got them there.
The amount of matter in relation to space in the universe can be compared to a 20 mile long, 20 mile high, 20 mile wide box containing only one grain of sand.
A total of 5.3 billion troy ounces of gold has been mined throughout all of human history. In terms of volume, all of the gold mined in the history of the world would more or less fit into a 20x20x20 meter cube, roughly 22.3 cubic yards.
If you cut a piece out of the Sun with the same volume as the Earth, it would weigh 5 times less than the Earth.
A man on a rocket can reach the moon in less time than another man can travel the length of England on a stagecoach.
You weigh slightly less when the moon is directly over your head.
You are over 1.5million miles away from where you were yesterday. This is due to the Earth's rotation around the Sun. Next week, you'll be over 10.5million miles away from where you are now.
A solar eclipse will never last more than 7 minutes 58 seconds.
If the Sun were to disappear from existence right now, we would have about 8 minutes of sunlight left.
YouTube - What A Glorious Space To Dwell (Fun Facts Song)
We should look outside of what we experience from our immediate perspective and strive to observe ourselves within the full scope of the universe rather than constrain ourselves to fantasy, or the veil of convention that society has constructed over thousands of years.
and you get a number 1.2 times as big as the mean Earth-Moon Distance.) Of course, it's all mathematical since it's impossible to really fold a piece of paper 42 times.
In 1903 the Wright brothers flew for 59 seconds.
38 years later the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor.
28 years after that, we landed on the moon.
We went from gliding a few feet off the ground for less than a minute to launching rockets out of orbit, traveling for hundreds of thousands of miles, landing on the moon, and then returning, all within a single lifetime.
Your GPS unit or cell phone has more computing power than the entire Apollo 11 mission. What's even more impressive than a cell phone putting man on the Moon is, a slide rule and graph paper is what got them there.
The amount of matter in relation to space in the universe can be compared to a 20 mile long, 20 mile high, 20 mile wide box containing only one grain of sand.
A total of 5.3 billion troy ounces of gold has been mined throughout all of human history. In terms of volume, all of the gold mined in the history of the world would more or less fit into a 20x20x20 meter cube, roughly 22.3 cubic yards.
If you cut a piece out of the Sun with the same volume as the Earth, it would weigh 5 times less than the Earth.
A man on a rocket can reach the moon in less time than another man can travel the length of England on a stagecoach.
You weigh slightly less when the moon is directly over your head.
You are over 1.5million miles away from where you were yesterday. This is due to the Earth's rotation around the Sun. Next week, you'll be over 10.5million miles away from where you are now.
A solar eclipse will never last more than 7 minutes 58 seconds.
If the Sun were to disappear from existence right now, we would have about 8 minutes of sunlight left.
YouTube - What A Glorious Space To Dwell (Fun Facts Song)
We should look outside of what we experience from our immediate perspective and strive to observe ourselves within the full scope of the universe rather than constrain ourselves to fantasy, or the veil of convention that society has constructed over thousands of years.