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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