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you have ZERO right to say you are a space enthusiast. You insult to the core the people who put blood sweat and tears into making this magnificent rocket launch. We launch no later than December 20th 2020

by CopyPastaArchive September 5, 2022, 7:35 pm

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TIL, the CIA hunted down top Nazi scientists after WWII, in hopes of convincing them to help develop weapons and the space program that took the US to the moon. These Nazis and their families received full American Citizenship and their war crimes were well known to the officers that found them

by whatilearned September 3, 2022, 11:30 pm

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TIL: The HAL 9000 in 2001: A Space Odyssey is named as a one letter shift and dig at IBM by writer Arthur C. Clark, at the time one of the largest corporations in the world.

by whatilearned September 2, 2022, 10:53 pm

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TIL the Nardo Ring is an 8 mile long perfectly circular test track for cars in Italy (now owned by Porsche Engineering) visible from space.

by whatilearned September 2, 2022, 8:58 pm

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What is your favorite space movie of all time?

by QuestionGuy August 30, 2022, 2:50 am

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TIL. that the term computer network security term “air gap”, referring to the space between two computers that are not connected to each other in any way, comes from plumbing.

by whatilearned August 28, 2022, 4:20 pm

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Einstein asks his wife what she needed from him. She replied, “Just two things, space and time.”

by cringeyjokesman August 26, 2022, 6:50 am

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TIL Christa McAuliffe’s backup from NASA’s failed Teacher in Space program became an astronaut in 1998 and flew aboard a space shuttle in 2007

by whatilearned August 19, 2022, 7:00 pm

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What do you call a Mexican in space?

by cringeyjokesman August 19, 2022, 3:07 pm

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TIL That Henry VIII’s Foot Combat Armour was studied to help develop space suits.

by whatilearned August 16, 2022, 4:58 am

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TIL that the Russian space program (from the 1960s to the 1980s) was the first to not only land a probe on another planet (Venus) but also photograph it

by whatilearned August 15, 2022, 1:48 pm

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TIL that TGI Fridays banned “flair” because of the movie Office Space.

by whatilearned August 14, 2022, 1:25 am

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