Factastical Friday – Feeling Small Edition
Nothing like some scientific facts to make you feel small.
Whenever your problems are seeming overwhelming, it’s nice to put things into perspective. Yes, the meek (i.e.: microbes) may inherit the the Earth, but they won’t be getting much. Have a great weekend, because you only have about 260 billion of them left before the sun goes out.
Sure. But can they seat seven passengers?
When a flea jumps, the rate of acceleration is 20 times that of the space shuttle during launch.
For some reason I suddenly feel lonely…
If the sun were just an inch in diameter, the nearest star would be 445 miles away, Pluto 317 feet, the Earth, 8 feet.
So stop procrastinating….
In 5 billion years the Sun will run out of fuel and turn into a Red Giant.
Maybe we should start kissing to seal business deals….
More germs are transferred shaking hands than kissing.