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Stephen R Homer Send message Joined: 12 Dec 04 Posts: 32 Credit: 23,255 RAC: 0 |
Here's some Spaced out Trivia to help pass the time. What’s special about August 21, 2017 ? ...:wave: No its not the day that Seti@home will have gotten the upload/download server fixed from dropping connections (answer is at the end if my post) The Milky Way galaxy is moving at 170 miles an hour. The Klingon Dictionary has sold over 250,000 copies to date. The word “galaxy†comes from the Greek gala, for “milk.†You can estimate the age of a star by its color ... typically, the redder, the older. Only 5% of the stars in our galaxy are bigger then our sun. The number of crew members of the Star ship Enterprise Under Captain Kirk’s command 430. Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova was the first woman in space June 16, 1963 Flight Engineer Sally Ride became the first American on the space shuttle Challenger. The first time the word :censored: “hell†was spoken on television: a 1967 episode of Star Trek. The surface of Venus has been better mapped then the sea beds of Earth. The moon is 2,140 miles in diameter. That’s less then the width of the continental United Sates. censored:Uranus spins on its side. It takes Pluto 248.53 years to travel around the sun. It takes Mercury 88 days. Last movie ever released on laserdisc: Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace. The Milky Way takes about 200,000,000 years to make one revolution. Worlds fastest computer: the Earth Simulator. (35.86 trillion calculations per second.) The number of crew members of the Star ship Enterprise Under Captain Picard’s command 1,012. Jupiter’s Great Red Spot is 25,000 miles wide. The light put out by the sun is equal to that of (4 trillion trillion) light bulbs. At last count, there are more then 100 known planets outside of our solar system. In the original daft of Star Trek, the Enterprise was called the U.S.S. Yorktown. So what’s special about August 21, 2017 ? It’s the next time a solar eclipse will be visible in the U.S. [FONT=president]Click Please Thank You[/FONT] |
Fuzzy Hollynoodles Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 9659 Credit: 251,998 RAC: 0 |
Here's some Spaced out Trivia to help pass the time. My Bouncer Jupiter's red spot is only about 1 inch wide. Thanks for the trivia, BTW, interesting to read! :-) "I'm trying to maintain a shred of dignity in this world." - Me |
Stephen R Homer Send message Joined: 12 Dec 04 Posts: 32 Credit: 23,255 RAC: 0 |
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Misfit Send message Joined: 21 Jun 01 Posts: 21804 Credit: 2,815,091 RAC: 0 |
Well there goes Terrorhertz's next 22 questions. :) |
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