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You could fit the entire human race into a sugar cube — and 13 other facts...
Business Insider ^
| Aug. 23, 2016
| Ali Sundermier
Posted on 08/23/2016 10:34:57 AM PDT by Heartlander
The universe is a crazy place... It's full of exploding stars and immortal jellyfish and it's been kicking around for almost 14 billion years.
Here are 14 awesome facts to put it all into perspective.
If you unraveled all of the DNA in your body, it would span 34 billion miles, reaching to Pluto (2.66 billion miles away) and back ... 13 times.
Source: Business InsiderIn fact, your body contains cosmic relics from the creation of the universe. Almost all of your hydrogen atoms were formed in the Big Bang, about 13.7 billion years ago.
Source: PBSAnd when you tune your TV between stations, a small percentage of the static you see is actually the afterglow of the Big Bang.
Source: NASALight from some stars takes so long to travel to our eyes that when you look at the star-speckled night sky you're actually peering deep into the past. NASA's Hubble Telescope can look as far back as 100 million years ago.
Source: NASA
Almost all of ordinary matter (99.9999999% of it) is empty space. If you took out all of the space in our atoms, the entire human race (all 7 billion of us) would fit into the volume of a sugar cube.
Source: SymmetryMany of the atoms you're made of, from the calcium in your bones to the iron in your blood, were brewed up in the heart of an exploding star billions of years ago.
Source: PBSForty-seven years ago, humankind took its first steps on the moon and the bootprints will probably still be there a million years from now. That's because the moon has no atmosphere, so there's no wind or water to sweep through and erase the marks.
Source: Space.com
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Had to look this one up:
The size of an atom is governed by the average location of its electrons. Nuclei are around 100,000 times smaller than the atoms theyre housed in. If the nucleus were the size of a peanut, the atom would be about the size of a baseball stadium. If we lost all the dead space inside our atoms, we would each be able to fit into a particle of lead dust, and the entire human race would fit into the volume of a sugar cube.
As you might guess, these spaced-out particles make up only a tiny portion of your mass. The protons and neutrons inside of an atoms nucleus are each made up of three quarks. The mass of the quarks, which comes from their interaction with the Higgs field, accounts for just a few percent of the mass of a proton or neutron. Gluons, carriers of the strong nuclear force that holds these quarks together, are completely massless.
If your mass doesnt come from the masses of these particles, where does it come from? Energy. Scientists believe that almost all of your bodys mass comes from the kinetic energy of the quarks and the binding energy of the gluons.
To: Heartlander
scientists believe.... they don’t know...
know God and one knows the answers.
t
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posted on
08/23/2016 10:37:22 AM PDT
by
teeman8r
(Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world.)
To: Heartlander
“Business” Insider is into clickbaits now.
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posted on
08/23/2016 10:37:37 AM PDT
by
sagar
To: Heartlander
Between the particles is not empty. It is filled with time.
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posted on
08/23/2016 10:38:46 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: Heartlander
Hey, I found the idiotic "liberalism gene" in human DNA...
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posted on
08/23/2016 10:40:30 AM PDT
by
Carriage Hill
( Peace is that brief glorious moment in history, when everybody stands around reloading.)
To: teeman8r
H3ll, scientists can't even figure out how the Eastern Islanders got those funky statues up their hills. They suspect it was sometime before the last trees on the island were felled around 1600, but they don't even know that for sure.
If they can't figure out what happened just over 400 years ago, how are they supposed to know what happened 4.5 billion years ago? Or however old the earth really is?
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posted on
08/23/2016 10:40:53 AM PDT
by
Vigilanteman
(ObaMao: Fake America, Fake Messiah, Fake Black man. How many fakes can you fit into one Zer0?)
To: Heartlander
So??? Do still need to worry about the BORG?
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posted on
08/23/2016 10:41:54 AM PDT
by
SandRat
(Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
To: Heartlander
Moon Mom: “I told you to clean up those bootprints!”
Moon Boy: “I tried but the vacuum cleaner wouldn’t work!”
Moon Mom: “Well then, go get the broom!”
Moon Boy: “Aw, Mom!!!!”
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posted on
08/23/2016 10:44:16 AM PDT
by
mrsmith
(Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
To: Heartlander
Scientists believe that almost all of your bodys mass comes from the kinetic energy of the quarks and the binding energy of the gluons.
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posted on
08/23/2016 10:44:28 AM PDT
by
Talisker
(One who commands, must obey.)
To: teeman8r
have to disagree. God gave us Minds that were beautiful enough to discover these things.just because there’s a God doesn’t mean we can’t discover things and explain them. Doesn’t mean there’s not a God. But it doesn’t mean we can’t discover things and know things. Your answer was adequate several thousand years ago. It isn’t now. God gave us the grace to Make advances. Not to put our heads in the sand.
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posted on
08/23/2016 10:44:36 AM PDT
by
dp0622
(The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
To: Vigilanteman
No kidding, it is all guesstimates and conjecture.
Ditto with MAN_MADE global warming. Who caused the last global warming which ended the ice age? Cave man?
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posted on
08/23/2016 10:44:37 AM PDT
by
entropy12
(Majority of Politicians are either Globalists pushing cheap labor express or are Neocons.)
To: Heartlander
All our atoms are as old as the universe. (Matter cannot be created nor destroyed - elementary Physics)
Afterglow of the Big Bang. That is, if you accept the theory.
“volume of a sugar cube.” How big would the sugar cube be if you took out all the ‘space’ between the atoms?
Golly gee whiz! go easy on the revelations here, my feeble brain might get overwhelmed.
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posted on
08/23/2016 10:44:54 AM PDT
by
I want the USA back
(The media is acting full-on as the Democratic PartyÂ’s press agency now: Robert Spencer.)
To: Heartlander
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posted on
08/23/2016 10:46:39 AM PDT
by
treetopsandroofs
(Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
To: treetopsandroofs
LOL, sadly I’m old enough to remember that ...
To: Heartlander
And when you tune your TV between stations, a small percentage of the static you see is actually the afterglow of the Big Bang.
Not anymore. The Big Bang missed the digital conversion deadline.
To: I want the USA back
Matter cannot be created nor destroyed - elementary PhysicsMatter can be converted to pure energy and vice-versa - quantum (non-elementary) physics.
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posted on
08/23/2016 10:50:00 AM PDT
by
snarkpup
(Socialism causes the worst people to become in charge - if they aren't already.)
To: Heartlander
thanks for the interesting post
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posted on
08/23/2016 10:51:07 AM PDT
by
NEWwoman
(God Bless America)
To: Heartlander
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posted on
08/23/2016 10:53:47 AM PDT
by
treetopsandroofs
(Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
To: BenLurkin
Between mine are filled with fat.
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posted on
08/23/2016 10:54:56 AM PDT
by
stevio
(God,Guns,Guts.)
To: entropy12
Actually, the last prolonged global warming period ended around 1380. Life was good while it lasted. The vikings stopped pillaging their neighbors, settled Iceland, Greenland and (even briefly) modern Newfoundland, where they planted grape arbors and made wine for two decades or so until the natives grew too much for them to handle.
They lasted four centuries in Greenland. They even left written and archeology records which indicate at least one dairy farmer had a herd of 3000 head of cattle.
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posted on
08/23/2016 10:55:11 AM PDT
by
Vigilanteman
(ObaMao: Fake America, Fake Messiah, Fake Black man. How many fakes can you fit into one Zer0?)
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