What has happened to the flat-Earth fellow who was going to be launched into space?
Has he done it yet, or what has he been up to? On March 25th of 2018, Mike Hughes did indeed complete his rocket launch, and survived. Quite…
How can a giant panda defend itself against predators like tigers, brown bears, wolves?
It’s a bear – and quite a big one. It’s unlikely to encounter any of those animals, and most of them would have more sense than to try…
If you lit a match on Jupiter, would the planet explode?
Jupiter is 90% hydrogen, but the remaining 10% is mostly helium. A match is composed of carbon, which reacts with heat to combine with oxygen to create CO2….
If I was in a room made of mirrors, and I shut off the lights, why wouldn’t the residual light continue to bounce off the mirrors and illuminate the room?
No. Because no mirror is 100% efficient. Every time it reflects light it absorbs a small amount of photons. Also, once you start to look, the room will…
What would Jupiter look like to us from Earth if Venus and Jupiter switched spots?
eplace Venus (67 million miles from the sun) with Jupiter, a planet with 390 times the mass of Venus. And roughly 11 times the diameter. Now, you would…