Too Fast

One of the reasons why NASA don't send probes to land on the surface of Mercury is because the planet is moving too fast. Mercury is traveling at 48 kilometres per second. It is the fastest moving planet in the solar system. The closer you are to the sun the faster you have to move to stop yourself cascading into the star. It is very hard to get probes to travel at close to 48 kilometres per second

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Earth is traveling slower than mercury but it is still moving fast, 30 kilometres per second. It is possible to meet the planet in it's path but the sun's gravity would interfere in the rendezvous. Mercury is 3 times closer to the sun than Earth although it has a highly elliptical orbit and can be as far as 70 million kilometres from the sun. 

Sources : 

Book: The Planets by Professor Brian Cox

Website: https://science.nasa.gov/mercury/

Website: Wikipedia

Astronomical Unit

The distance between the Earth and the sun is used as a measurement of large distances of space. The earth is roughly 150 million km from sun on average, that distance  is called an astronomical Unit, AU. They did it this way to reduce the size of the numbers that represent the distances so humans can begin to imagine the scale of the solar system and deep space. 

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Distances from the sun 

Earth is 1 AU astronomical Unit (150 million km) 

Mercury is about ⅓ of an AU. 

Venus is 0.72 AU. 

Mars is 1.5 AU, about 50% further than Earth. 

Jupiter is 5.2 AU, 5.2 times further from the sun than Earth.

Saturn is 9.4 AU, nearly 10 times further from the sun than Earth. 

Uranus is 19.22 AU . 

Neptune is 30.06 AU, nearly twice as far from the sun as Uranus, that is why you need a telescope to see it. 

Pluto is 39.53 AU 

Sources 

Nasa Website: https://science.nasa.gov/solar-system/

Book: The Planets By Professor Brian Cox, ISBN 9780007488841

True when you think about it

A street light in a computer game is using electricity because the the pixels that show the lamp require electricity and to keep the memory of the street lamp, a constant flow of current is needed. 

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Night time is a shadow ; it is literally  the shadow of the earth. 

If you had offspring with your auntie, you would be your own uncle. 

Source: My own common sense. 

Bloody Mary

You may think the term bloody Mary comes from a cocktail drink made with tomato juice and vodka but it actually comes from the First  English female Queen to have full regency of a male king,  Queen Mary Tudor or Queen Mary I.  

Artificial intelligence image of Queen Mary I(chatGpt) 

The reason she got the nickname bloody Mary was because she had many of her protestant opponents put to death along with her cousin, Lady Jane Grey, the Queen Hand picked  by her brother before he died from tuberculosis and the Father of Jane Grey.  She tried very hard to return England into the Catholic realm until she passed away from suspected stomach cancer. 

possible modern likeness of Queen Mary I rendered by artificial intelligence (chatGPT) 

Source : Elizabeth, the forgotten Years  by John Guy, ISBN 978-0-241-96365 

Source : wikipedia.com 

Source Britanica.com 

Biggest Train Crash

The Biggest Train disaster in the united kingdom wasn't reported because it happened during world war 1 and there was a curfew on news reporting that would expose our weaknesses to the enemy. 

 

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Four trains were involved, a signalman was leaving his shift and forgot to inform the replacement that there was a train waiting at the junction. Two trains eventually crashed into the train that was waiting and a 4th train that was waiting in a nearby railway layby was also hit by derailed train parts. It's like something out of Thomas the tank engine. 

The incident happened at Quintin'shill near Carlisle in 1915.

Source : Amazing and Extraordinary Railway Facts by Julian Holland, ISBN 978-0-7153-25827-7

Chat GPT Draws

You can now ask the free version of chat GPT ai language system to draw pictures.  https://chatgpt.com/

I asked chatGPT to draw a cat playing a scratch card. 

AI is now very common, my smart speaker can tell the difference between me and my wife wife's voice and identifies us by our name. So far ai is coming across as a friend or friendly person that likes to help you out.

Yorkshire Ripper

There is significant evidence that Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper killed people across the whole of Britain, not just in the Greater Manchester area and northern England. 

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It is believed he used his company van to commit deadly assaults while he was delivering goods. 

To this day we still don't know how many people he killed. 

source: Inside the Mind of the Yorkshire Ripper, by Chris Clark and Tim Hicks (book)