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INTERESTING SCIENCE FACTS

                                            
                                
           What are the facts you know about science that you found interesting? Here are loaded interesting science facts for you.
  •        The energy generated from lightening can power a bulb for three months.
  •        The maximum efficiency the motor car has achieved so far is 33%.
  •         Do you know that;"LITTLE BOY" was the name given to atomic bomb that destroyed Hiroshima during the 2nd world war?
  •          Violin contains about 70 separate pieces of wood.
  •          The Universe contains over 100 billion galaxies.
  •           In 5 billion years the sun will run out of fuel and turn into a Red Giant.
  •          If you could drive your car straight up you would arrive in space in just an hour.
  •          It takes 8 minutes 17 seconds for light to travel from the sun's surface to the Earth.
  •          10% of all human beings ever born are alive at this very moment.
  •          The speed of light is approximately 299,792,458 m/s.
  •          The only letter not appearing on the periodic table is letter "j".
  •          The Earth spins at 1,000 mph but it travels through space at an incredible 6,700 mph.
  •          Every year,over one million earthquake shake the Earth.
  •          When krakatoa erupted in 1883, its force was so great it could be heard 4,800 kilometres away in Australia.
  •          Every second around 100 lighting bolts strike the Earth.
  •          Every year lightning kills 1000 people.
  •          The fastest speed a falling raindrop can hit is 18 m/h.
  •          In October 1999 an iceberg the size of London broke free from the Antarctic ice shelf.
  •          It would take over an hour for a heavy object to sink 6.7 miles down the deepest part of the ocean.
  •          Every hour the Universe expands by a billion miles in all directions.
  •          Somewhere in the flicker of a badly tuned TV set is the background radiation from the big bang.
  •          A thimbleful of a neutron star would weigh over 100 million ton.
  •         The deepest part of any ocean in the world is the Mariana trench in the pacific with a depth of 35,797ft.
  •          Around a million,billion neutrinos from the sun will pass through your body has you read this sentence.
  •          Even travelling at the speed of light it would take 2 million years to reach the nearest large galaxy,Andromeda.
  •          'Wireless'    communications took a giant leap forward in 1962 with the launch of Telsar,the first satellite capable of relaying telephone and satellite TV signals.
  •          Astronauts cannot belch,there is no gravity to separate liquid from gas in their stomachs.
  •          One million,million,million,million,millionth of a second after the big bang the Universe was a size of pea.
  •          Wilhelm Rontgen won the first Nobel prize for physics for discovering the x-rays in 1895.
  •          The fastest computer in the World is the GRAY Y-MP C90 supercomputer,It has two gigabytes of central memory and 16 parallel  central processor unit.  
  •          The highest temperature produced in a laboratory was 920,000,000 F (511,000,000 c) at the Tokamak fusion Test Reaction in Princeton,NJ,USA.
  •          The most powerful laser in the world,the Nova laser at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory,CA,USA generates a pulse equal to 100 trillion watts of power for 0.000000001 second to a target the size of a grain sand.
  •          The hottest planet in the solar system is Venus,with an estimated surface temperature of 864 F (462 c).
                                                     

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