Ever read something that blew your mind? How about the fact that you would have shelled out $3.5 million to buy the parts to make an iphone in 1991. In fact, today’s iphones have more computing power than the computers used on the Apollo 11 moon landing. Following are nine more mind-bending facts produced by Top Trending.
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It’s safe to say our relationship with the moon is pretty one-sided–literally. Because it rotates exactly once on its axis each time it orbits Earth, we always see the same old side of the moon. Fact is, the first time we saw the far side of the moon was when Russian satellite Luna III beamed back images in 1959. Join Henry Reich as he discusses the moon’s evolution and how it settled into its current orbit in this edition of MinuteEarth.
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One of mankind’s enduring dreams has been to one day colonize our Moon. But although visiting our orbiting satellite in 1969 went fairly well, an actual colony on the Moon would face a myriad of problems. For starters, the absence of an atmosphere makes for some radical temperature changes, going from 240 degrees during the day to -280 at night. And imagine the influx of radiation because of no atmosphere. And one big problem–a Moon day lasts 29 Earth days! Now that would take some adjusting to. Join Jake Roper as he reveals some more Moon gems in this celestial edition of Vsauce3.
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Henry Reich of MinutePhysics tells us that the splendor of a full moon is on optimum display in the dead of winter. “The moon is full when it’s on the opposite side of the earth from the sun, its whole face reflecting the light of the sun back at us,” he says. “The winter moon is like a summer sun. It’s up for a long time and takes a high path through the sky.” Listen in as Reich elaborates on why we are so fascinated by the full moon phenomenon.
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How can the shadow of the tiny moon eclipse the sight of the gargantuan sun? By sheer coincidence, the disc of the sun is 400x larger than the disc of the moon, but it’s 390x farther from Earth — which means that when they align just right, the moon blocks all but the sun’s glowing corona. Andy Cohen details this extraordinary celestial phenomenon (and when it will next occur).
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Time-lapse cameras show a supermoon rising into the sky in Melbourne, Australia. Rob Gillett reports for ITN.
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Conspiracy theorists still allege that astronauts never landed on the Moon, that NASA staged the spectacle in a TV studio. But, in reality, video technology was too primitive in the 1960s to orchestrate such an elaborate hoax. Watch and learn. H/T IMAO
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“Look how big the moon is!” you’ve shouted before. But as the moon never really changes size, it’s simply your brain playing a trick. Find out what the Moon Illusion is, and why it happens in this edition of AsapSCIENCE.
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NASA has announced plans to build a Mars base — a space station beyond the dark side of the Moon that would serve as a way station for future astronauts traveling to Mars. H/T SourceFed
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The world’s most influential and controversial conspiracy theorist, David Vaughan Icke, gives David Morpurgo from Vice a tour of Icke’s inner sanctum. From his home on the Isle of Wight, Icke also takes Morpurgo to an isolated rock formation allegedly used as an altar for satanic rituals and human sacrifices. Icke’s theories are bizarre, but he has a massive global following, having sold more than 20 million copies of his 19 books.
Among his central claims:
Morpurgo’s encounter with Icke is fascinating, although not as thorough as the 2006 documentary, David Icke: Was He Right?, broadcast by Channel Five in the United Kingdom and also presented below. Neither film, though, adequately covers the charges of his detractors that he’s a New Age huckster or that his theories have an anti-Semitic tinge. The interviewers also ask only softball questions of Icke. We get a sense of his quirkiness, but never is he put on the firing line to prove his more outrageous assertions. First up, Vice’s David Icke: Conspiracy of the Lizard Illuminati.
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And now the Channel Five documentary.
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