I’ve heard, don’t know it’s true, that astronauts have fans above their heads while sleeping. Reason being that the CO2 as they breathe out tends to form a cloud in space that could encircle the head of the sleeping astronauts. Just another way to die in space. Can anyone confirm this?
I love that more and more open source science projects are streamlining deployment and encouraging folks to just try it. This one has a binder link in the README (though it seems to be failing… may need some TLC). I really think this is a positive template for what academia could eventually become!
It makes sense, but it’s also annoying. Now instead of which planet is closest, the question should be which planets in our solar system have the closest orbital radius to ours? And then it can still be mars and venus. Thankfully in school the question was based from the sun outward. In which case the order isn’t fussed with.
This article reads like a smarmy kid who just wants to say the clichéd “acktually” with it’s technical truth.
It’s like asking “how much of the earth is water” vs “how much of the earth’s surface is covered by water”. Those are two very different answers, but if you ask people the first with no context they will answer with the answer for the second most of the time because it’s the thing we’ve heard so much from schooling days.
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