Comments on: 50 Weird Science Tidbits – 4

By: Kennytic Energy

Kennytic Energy — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 23:50:57 +0000

So if the Earth stops moving, we’ll all be flung outta space, if that were the case…awesome.

By: VSmirk

VSmirk — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 19:51:20 +0000

Bagels and Poppy seeds? That one was debunked by MythBusters, if I recall correctly.

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 03:45:19 +0000

Well, astronauts may not be belching in space, but from reading several books written by astronauts, there is some interesting flatulence going on when astronauts first enter orbit. When a body, used to 14.7 pounds per square inch at sea level, enters space in a craft with less than 4 or 5 pounds per square inch, the gas inside the body (intestinal tract) has to expand somewhere.

By: Aileen

Aileen — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 19:55:03 +0000

Thanks, Nony Mouse. Will edit to remove “exact.”

By: Nony Mouse

Nony Mouse — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 17:07:07 +0000

He got closer to the speeds of the moons of mars than you’d expect, I’ll grant you. But not exact. The characters said something like 3 and 5 for distances, when it’s really something like 1.5 and 3.5, time of rotation have a difference of 10 and 21.5 vs really something like 8 and thirty.
So maybe he fairly accurately predicted a possible rotation size and speed, but they didn’t match up right.
Better than one would normally do on an essay question without a clue.

By: Dak

Dak — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 23:25:48 +0000

Wikipedia says the Sun goes at “~2.20×105 m/s (orbit around the center of the Galaxy)”

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 04:54:27 +0000

How fast is the sun going around the Milky Way?

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