Can you blow my mind with a space fact?
Here’s one that blew my mind not that long ago when I read about it. I wrote about this before. As an amateur astronomer who has been looking…
Was the Battleship Yamato really that big compared to other WW2 battleships?
It was absolutely huge. The USS Texas that served in Both world wars was 532 feet long and 27,000 tons. The USS South Dakota and North Carolina classes…
What is the most remote monument on the planet?
Elephant island, in the Antarctic Ocean, has this one To the Chilean naval officer who rescued the survivors of a British 1914 Antarctic expedition. It is about 500km,…
Is China underestimating America’s capabilities and competency?
I am from Taiwan, and I have never lived in mainland China. So I can only estimate from what I read from Chinese sources. I believe people at…
How can Voyager send a signal strong enough for us to receive, in spite of its enormous distance from us? And how can it have the power to do so more than 20 years after its launch?
It’s better to reverse the question and ask not how Voyager can send a signal strong enough, but how Earth can receive a signal so weak. The signal…
China’s J-10C just shoot down India’s Rafale fighter jet. What is the position of J-10C in China’s air fighters?
The J-10C does not hold a very high position in the Chinese Air Force, and its role is similar to that of the F-16V in the U.S. Air…
What makes the Rafale France fighter jet inferior to the Chinese fighter jet J-10C?
The Rafael isn’t inferior to the Chinese J-10C. In fact, the Rafael is probably a better plane for multi-role missions. The J-10, however, was designed with air-superiority in…
What would happen if a Jupiter-sized iron planet hit the Sun at 100 kilometers per second?
First of all it could NOT hit the sun at 100 km/s – the MINIMUM speed at which it could hit the sun would be 617 km/s. If…
If the AK-47 is so good, why isn’t there an AK-48?
There is. It’s just not called the AK48 because it wasn’t introduced in 1948. In 1959 the AK47 was updated, changing from a heavy, expensive milled receiver to…
What are the most extravagant and least known animals on the planet?
This is the Aye-Aye. It only lives in Madagascar. The dumbo octopus. The gerenuk, an antelope from East Africa Cantor’s giant soft-shell turtle The Panda ant. Its bite…