Outer Space
Where Did The Word Robot Come From ?
This is a question we get asked a lot so we thought we’d put people out of their misery. Firstly the word robot comes from the Czech word ‘robotnik‘ which means forced labour or even slave. Watching movies and reading various sci-fi novels of the past you’ll quickly see that robots have mostly always been portrayed as servents of humanity.
What’s The Fastest Possible Speed ?
Well imagine going 500,000 times faster than a concorde and you have a speed nearing 299,792,458 meters per second. This is the speed of light as it travels through a vaccum which it’s so fast that if you were able to move at this speed you could go around the earth 7 times in just 1 second, now that’s fast!
Black Holes Vs Light
Black holes aren’t just science fiction, scientist actually think they occur. The theory behind their existance is of massive stars dieing and collapsing in on themselves to form a super heavy, mega dense entities. These entities become so tightly packed that they suck in everything around them and thus become a black hole.
To get an idea of their [...]
Whats A Light Year ?
A light year is the total distance travelled by a beam of light in one year. A beam of light can travel at up to 300,000 km/sec and the approximate distance covered in a year works out to be 9,470,000,000,000 km (1 light year = 9.47 x1012 km). So why did scientists create this new [...]
Dwarf Planets
A dwarf planet is a celestial body which is too small to be considered a real planet but too large to be called a space rock. It must revolve around the sun and it should not be a satellite of another planet. Hence this disqualifies earth’s big moon from being a dwarf planet.
Our solar system [...]
International Space Station (ISS)
The International Space Station (ISS) is a result of the collaboration between six countries (United States, Russia, Japan, Canada, Italy, and Brazil) and the European Space Agency.
Not only has it been inhabited by astronauts continuously since the first crew entered the station on November 2nd 2000 but amazingly it only needs three astronauts on board [...]
Jupiter - The Gas Planet
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Jupiter is the biggest planet in the solar system but unlike Earth it has no ground to speak off. It is made up of dense helium and hydrogen, along with water, nitrogen, and other gases.
Despite it being gas that doesn’t mean things will just pass through it. In fact when the 21 fragments of comet [...]
Life On Extra Solar Planets ?
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There are 9 planets within our solar system and all of them are rotating around the sun thanks to its natural gravitational pull. Thats a pretty unique setup and until the mid 90s the idea of other solar systems in distant galaxies was mere speculation.
That speculation became a reality in 1995 when the first extra-solar [...]