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Groucho's Fact Hunt


The planet Saturn's average density is 0.69g/cm3 which is the lowest of all the planets in the solar system. This also means, that if you could find a body of water big enough, it would float!

The largest known star is UY Scuti has a radius 1700 times larger than the sun (you could fit about 5 billion suns inside it)... see scale:

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If you placed it where the sun is, it would reach out beyond the orbit of Jupiter.

I love space.
 
yes , UY Scuti has a diameter about 1700 times greater than the Sun's diameter (1.5 billion miles vs 850 thousand miles)...and 1700 cubed is over 5 billion. Earth's diameter is about 8000 miles so 6 quadrillion (6 x 10^15) Earth's fit into Scuti's volume.
Impressive numbers.

And if I fold your typical thickness piece of paper in half 80 times, it will attain a dimension that extends across the known universe (96 billion light years)...a light year being equivalent to about 10 trillion kilometres (6 trillion miles)
 
yes , UY Scuti has a diameter about 1700 times greater than the Sun's diameter (1.5 billion miles vs 850 thousand miles)...and 1700 cubed is over 5 billion. Earth's diameter is about 8000 miles so 6 quadrillion (6 x 10^15) Earth's fit into Scuti's volume.
Impressive numbers.

And if I fold your typical thickness piece of paper in half 80 times, it will attain a dimension that extends across the known universe (96 billion light years)...a light year being equivalent to about 10 trillion kilometres (6 trillion miles)
Reminds me of this.
 
No person, born blind, has ever been diagnosed as schizophrenic.


 

yes , UY Scuti has a diameter about 1700 times greater than the Sun's diameter (1.5 billion miles vs 850 thousand miles)...and 1700 cubed is over 5 billion. Earth's diameter is about 8000 miles so 6 quadrillion (6 x 10^15) Earth's fit into Scuti's volume.
Impressive numbers.

And if I fold your typical thickness piece of paper in half 80 times, it will attain a dimension that extends across the known universe (96 billion light years)...a light year being equivalent to about 10 trillion kilometres (6 trillion miles)
It's ~1700 times bigger but not as proportionally heavy in mass, interestingly, even though all we 'know' are estimations from the composition and the neighbours it has.
 
So much interesting factual information and about things I never knew. I'm going to bore the ass of my mates in the pub!

And about the paper and halving it apparently it's nigh impossible as a human being to actually fold and halve a piece of paper without mechanical assistance more than 4-7 times and that is dependent on the thickness and density of the paper eg. very thin paper/cardboard v toilet tissue.

I've tried the latter but my finger still goes through 🫣
 

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