You could fit the entire human race into a sugar cube — and 13 other facts...

Business Insider ^ | Aug. 23, 2016 | Ali Sundermier

[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 Insider

In 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: PBS

And when you tune your TV between stations, a small percentage of the static you see is actually the afterglow of the Big Bang.

Source: NASA

Light 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: Symmetry

Many 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: PBS

Forty-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

[TXnMA]

... until ~370,000 years after the Singularity...

And -- that's when God said, "Let there be light."

[publius911]

...and the bootprints will probably still be there a million years from now. That's because...

How about micrometeorites?
A million years' worth?

[publius911]

I don't know why I take those depictions of earth's artificial satellite galaxy personally.

It is the visual depiction that stays with children of all ages.

Practical low earth orbit is 100-200 miles above the mean surface of the earth.
Geostationary orbit about 22,240.

The diameter of the earth is roughly 8,000 miles.

Showing that to scale as an illustration in a typical magazine size page would be very undramatic; hence the hugely distorted common alternative.

[Enchante]

So how many species are in a bowl of sugar cubes?

[Drew68]

know God and one knows the answers.

Works for Muslims. 2+2= whatever Allah says it does.

[Drew68]

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.

The blast from the Lunar Module's engines who it took off likely obliterated those bootprints, and our flag as well.

[teeman8r]

Apology accepted and appreciated, you are a pleasure to encounter on a freeper thread... Be blessed my friend.

[9YearLurker]

I was going to say, a number of these facts are really based on “theories”.

[Crucial]

The Horta could turn you into a salt cube...

[Crucial]

Is that satire or opinion? Or is it both?

[wgmalabama]

Thanks. That was a good read.

[Zeneta]

God IS always the answer but I think he enjoys letting us discover and learn things (which in our whole lifetime will be .00000000000000000000000000000001% of what there is to know :)

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It’s my belief that God not only enjoys letting us discover and learn, but has made it a critical part of our distinctly Human nature. In addition, God has also created the Universe in a way that is both infinitely large as it is infinitely small. As a result and by design, Man can never know everything. Therefore, Man will always be trying to discover new things.

IMHO, Man must always be seeking answers to things that are unknown and the Universe was Created in such a way that mysteries will always exist.

[dp0622]

That was beautiful.

We know almost nothing, and that’s 1000x more than we knew 10000 years ago.

If it wasn’t for the horrors that we let our discoveries sometimes lead to..abortion on demand, transgender surgery, fantastic military machinery (only dangerous in the wrong hands)..but then some of the best discoveries have come during wartime or from the military.

Go figure. Have a good one FRiend. :)