Science Factoids

[bfrd]

I thought these were fun. Let me know which ones you find the most interesting. Come back every day to see the next one!

[Tomcat64]

Looking forward to seeing what you come up with

[bfrd]

Looking forward to seeing what you come up with

To be fair, I just found a list. Today's entry is my favorite. The fact that we are all moving at 67,000 miles per hour around the sun is just astounding.

Another fun one that didn't make the list concerns terminal velocity. At a high enough altitude, a bullet fired from a gun straight down will actually slow as it reaches the surface of the earth. Correlary to that is it if you were to drop a bullet cartridge (un-fired) and fired the gun from the same height, the un-fired round would hit the ground with far more energy than the fired round! Granted that is just simple physics, but it is still interesting.

[Tomcat64]

Looking forward to seeing what you come up with

To be fair, I just found a list. Today's entry is my favorite. The fact that we are all moving at 67,000 miles per hour around the sun is just astounding.

Another fun one that didn't make the list concerns terminal velocity. At a high enough altitude, a bullet fired from a gun straight down will actually slow as it reaches the surface of the earth. Correlary to that is it if you were to drop a bullet cartridge (un-fired) and fired the gun from the same height, the un-fired round would hit the ground with far more energy than the fired round! Granted that is just simple physics, but it is still interesting.

Well you caught me out as I thought you were going to add to the list rather than update the first post couldn't figure out where the light-distance from the sun had gone. But yeah contemplating astrophysics always seems to involve very big numbers.

The only factoid I have to mind is that the pilots in Thunderbirds were all named after five of the original Mercury 7 astronauts

Scott Carpenter
Virgil "Gus" Grissom
Alan Sheppard
John Glenn
Gordon Cooper

[Twokidsnosleep]

Remeber the feather an the hammer experiment on the moon??
That was pretty cool
These are great Matthew

[jmurphy18]

Here is one for you all. When I was younger, I worked in the vertical spin tunnel at NASA Langley Research Center. There were some experiments done there to see how fast the human body falls. Physics says 32 ft/sec^2. but testing showed that due to friction and some others it is not so..... We hit terminal velosity depending on the shape. In balled up form ~ 28.8 ft/sec^2, fully spread 24 ft/sec^2. I thought these guys were nuts jumping into the spin tunnel as if they screwed up it could have been fatal.

[bfrd]

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