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Solar Systems 1. We have strong evidence that our solar system is not the only one; we know there are many other Suns with planets orbiting them
SCIENCE FACT Improved telescopes and detectors have led to the detection of dozens of new planetary systems within the past decade, including several systems containing multiple planets. So far, the limits of technology favor the discovery of large planets, and many are more massive than Jupiter and, surprisingly, hug their stars in scorchingly close orbits that last days instead of years. But some other systems look a lot like our own.
Critters in Space 2. Some organisms can survive in space for years -- without any kind of protective enclosure.
SCIENCE FACT 2. Some organisms can survive in space for years -- without any kind of protective enclosure. A small colony of the common bacteria Streptococcus mitis stowed away for nearly three years aboard NASA's Surveyor 3, an unmanned spacecraft that landed on the moon in 1967. The crew of Apollo 12 recovered the organisms and brought them back to Earth under sterile conditions. This unplanned experiment proved that certain microorganisms can survive years of radiation exposure, the vacuum of space and deep-freeze, without any nutrient, water or energy source. Some researchers say life could have traveled from Mars to Earth inside a space rock.
Hot Stuff! 3. Organisms have been found thriving in scalding water with temperatures as high as 235 degrees Fahrenheit.
FACT 3. Organisms have been found thriving in scalding water with temperatures as high as 235 degrees Fahrenheit. More than 50 heat-loving microorganisms, or hyperthermophiles, have been found thriving at very high temperatures in such locations as hot springs in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park and on the walls of deep-sea hydrothermal vents. Some of these species multiply best at 221 degrees Fahrenheit, and can reproduce at up to 235 degrees. Bacteria have also been found thriving under ice near the poles, in a highly alkaline lake, and deep underground, feeding off rock.
Extra Terrestrials 4. We now have evidence that some form of life exists beyond Earth, at least in primitive form.
FICTION 4. We now have evidence that some form of life exists beyond Earth, at least in primitive form. While many scientists speculate that extraterrestrial life exists, so far there is no conclusive evidence to prove it. Future missions to Mars, the Jovian moon Europa and future space telescopes will search for definitive answers to this ageless question.
Intergalactic Travel 5. We currently have the technology necessary to send astronauts to another star system within a reasonable time span. The only problem is that such a mission would be overwhelmingly expensive.
FICTION 5. We currently have the technology necessary to send astronauts to another star system within a reasonable time span. The only problem is that such a mission would be overwhelmingly expensive. Even the unmanned Voyager spacecraft, which left our solar system years ago at a breathtaking 37,000 miles per hour, would take 76,000 years to reach the nearest star. Because the distances involved are so vast, interstellar travel to another star within a practical time scale would require, among other things, the ability the move a vehicle at or near the speed of light. This is beyond the reach of today's spacecraft -- regardless of funding, according to. Even so, the space agency is looking into the possibilities.
Rings around the Planets 6. All of the gas giant planets in our solar system (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune) have rings.
FACT 6. All of the gas giant planets in our solar system (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune) have rings. Saturn's rings are the most pronounced and visible, but they aren't the only ones. Check out the rings (and clouds) of Uranus and Neptune.
Uranus as seen by Hubble Neptune image taken by Voyager II
TIE Fighters Engines 7. In the "Star Wars" films, the Imperial TIE Fighters are propelled by ion engines (TIE stands for Twin Ion Engine). While these spacecraft are fictional, real ion engines power some of today's spacecraft.
FACT 7. In the "Star Wars" films, the Imperial TIE Fighters are propelled by ion engines (TIE stands for Twin Ion Engine). While these spacecraft are fictional, real ion engines power some of today's spacecraft. Ion propulsion has long been a staple of science fiction novels, but in recent years it has been successfully tested on a number of unmanned spacecraft, notably NASA's Deep Space 1. Launched in 1998, Deep Space 1 rendezvoused with a distant asteroid and then with a comet, proving that ion propulsion could be used for interplanetary travel. And the European Space Agency just put an ion-powered probe into orbit around the Moon.
Gravity in Space 8. There is no gravity in deep space.
FICTION 8. There is no gravity in deep space. If this were true, the moon would float away from the Earth, and our entire solar system would drift apart. While it's true that gravity gets weaker with distance, it can never be escaped completely, no matter how far you travel in space. Astronauts appear to experience "zero-gravity" because they are in continuous free-fall around the Earth. An interesting twist (or rather, nontwist) to this concept is that the gravity of a black hole works the same way. So, while anything too close to a black hole (including light) will be sucked in and hidden from view, objects at a distance from a black hole feel no greater pull than if the black hole were a star of equal mass. Go figure.
Teleportation? 9. The basic premise of teleportation -- made famous in TV's "Star Trek" -- is theoretically sound. In fact, scientists have already "teleported" information about individual atoms from one location to another.
9. The basic premise of teleportation -- made famous in TV's "Star Trek" -- is theoretically sound. In fact, scientists have already "teleported" the quantum state of individual atoms from one location to another. FACT As early as the late 1990s, scientists proved they could teleport data using photons, but the photons were absorbed by whatever surface they struck. More recently, physicists at the University of Innsbruck in Austria and at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Boulder, Colorado, for the first time teleported information between atoms using the principle of quantum entanglement. Experts say this technology eventually could enable the invention of superfast "quantum computers." But the bad news, at least for sci-fi fans, is that experts don't foresee being able to teleport people in this manner.
Planets around a 2 Star System 10. Tatooine, Luke Skywalker's home planet in the "Star Wars" films, has two Suns -- what astronomers would call a binary star system. Scientists have discovered recently that planets really can form within such systems.
FACT 10. Tatooine, Luke Skywalker's home planet in the "Star Wars" films, has two Suns -- what astronomers would call a binary star system. Scientists have discovered recently that planets really can form within such systems. Double stars, or binary systems, are common in our Milky Way galaxy. Even three-star systems exist in gravitational harmony. Among the more than 100 new planets discovered in recent years, some have been found in binary systems, including 16 Cygni B and 55 Cancri A. So far, alas, no one has found a habitable planet like Luke Skywalker's Tatooine.
Time Travel
Fiction CORRECT! Well, sort of. In the way it is portrayed in science fiction, time travel remains an impossibility (30% of those surveyed guessed it is possible). Current theories of physics hold that particles are popping into and out of existence and bouncing back and forth in time - but people cannot.
Cloning
FACT! CORRECT! The first cloned pet was produced in 2004 (a cat called Little Nicky), and for the right price, you could have one too. NB: since both genes and environment shape animals' (and our) dispositions, the result will not necessarily be like the beloved pet you clone.
Tractor Beams
FACT! CORRECT! A staple in science fiction is the baddies' ship being targeted and drawn in using a visible beam of light. Scientists in Hong Kong now say that's theoretically possible - but only for small objects over short distances
Teleportation
DATA	 CORRECT! Teleportation is a tricky concept, and so far only the physical states of electrons and photons have been sent from one place to another. Pulling off the same trick with whole molecules and starship captains is a long way off; a quarter of respondents thought it was possible to teleport people.
Invisibility Cloak?
FICTION CORRECT! Not yet - and 78% of respondents guessed not. But it is a rich area of research, and for small, rigid objects the trick is not all that hard to do. Getting something pliable and wizard-sized will prove tricky, though.
Light Sabers
Fiction CORRECT! Twenty-two percent of survey respondents reckon they are. But not yet. It is certainly easy to make lasers that cut, but stopping them at sabre-length is difficult, and the laws of physics have it that they would never bash against one another but would pass straight through.
Moving things with only your mind.
FACT CORRECT! The power of the mind plus a device to read out brain waves makes it possible - and 30% of respondents said it was. Our primitive understanding of what the brain's electrical signals actually mean can translate our sheer will into motion; the idea has been put to use recently in hi-tech toys and even an orchestra.
Levitation
FACT CORRECT! Frogs are not the only animals that have been levitated, but it still has not been done with humans. A magnetic field of some strength is necessary, and last year's physics Nobel laureate Andre Geim famously did the trick with a live frog in 1997.

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Science Fact Or Fiction

  • 1. Science Fact or Fiction Space Questions: http://www.space.com/550-fact-fiction-10-questions-test-space-iq.html Sci-Fi Questions: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-12758575
  • 2. Solar Systems 1. We have strong evidence that our solar system is not the only one; we know there are many other Suns with planets orbiting them
  • 3. SCIENCE FACT Improved telescopes and detectors have led to the detection of dozens of new planetary systems within the past decade, including several systems containing multiple planets. So far, the limits of technology favor the discovery of large planets, and many are more massive than Jupiter and, surprisingly, hug their stars in scorchingly close orbits that last days instead of years. But some other systems look a lot like our own.
  • 4. Critters in Space 2. Some organisms can survive in space for years -- without any kind of protective enclosure.
  • 5. SCIENCE FACT 2. Some organisms can survive in space for years -- without any kind of protective enclosure. A small colony of the common bacteria Streptococcus mitis stowed away for nearly three years aboard NASA's Surveyor 3, an unmanned spacecraft that landed on the moon in 1967. The crew of Apollo 12 recovered the organisms and brought them back to Earth under sterile conditions. This unplanned experiment proved that certain microorganisms can survive years of radiation exposure, the vacuum of space and deep-freeze, without any nutrient, water or energy source. Some researchers say life could have traveled from Mars to Earth inside a space rock.
  • 6. Hot Stuff! 3. Organisms have been found thriving in scalding water with temperatures as high as 235 degrees Fahrenheit.
  • 7. FACT 3. Organisms have been found thriving in scalding water with temperatures as high as 235 degrees Fahrenheit. More than 50 heat-loving microorganisms, or hyperthermophiles, have been found thriving at very high temperatures in such locations as hot springs in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park and on the walls of deep-sea hydrothermal vents. Some of these species multiply best at 221 degrees Fahrenheit, and can reproduce at up to 235 degrees. Bacteria have also been found thriving under ice near the poles, in a highly alkaline lake, and deep underground, feeding off rock.
  • 8. Extra Terrestrials 4. We now have evidence that some form of life exists beyond Earth, at least in primitive form.
  • 9. FICTION 4. We now have evidence that some form of life exists beyond Earth, at least in primitive form. While many scientists speculate that extraterrestrial life exists, so far there is no conclusive evidence to prove it. Future missions to Mars, the Jovian moon Europa and future space telescopes will search for definitive answers to this ageless question.
  • 10. Intergalactic Travel 5. We currently have the technology necessary to send astronauts to another star system within a reasonable time span. The only problem is that such a mission would be overwhelmingly expensive.
  • 11. FICTION 5. We currently have the technology necessary to send astronauts to another star system within a reasonable time span. The only problem is that such a mission would be overwhelmingly expensive. Even the unmanned Voyager spacecraft, which left our solar system years ago at a breathtaking 37,000 miles per hour, would take 76,000 years to reach the nearest star. Because the distances involved are so vast, interstellar travel to another star within a practical time scale would require, among other things, the ability the move a vehicle at or near the speed of light. This is beyond the reach of today's spacecraft -- regardless of funding, according to. Even so, the space agency is looking into the possibilities.
  • 12. Rings around the Planets 6. All of the gas giant planets in our solar system (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune) have rings.
  • 13. FACT 6. All of the gas giant planets in our solar system (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune) have rings. Saturn's rings are the most pronounced and visible, but they aren't the only ones. Check out the rings (and clouds) of Uranus and Neptune.
  • 14. Uranus as seen by Hubble Neptune image taken by Voyager II
  • 15. TIE Fighters Engines 7. In the "Star Wars" films, the Imperial TIE Fighters are propelled by ion engines (TIE stands for Twin Ion Engine). While these spacecraft are fictional, real ion engines power some of today's spacecraft.
  • 16. FACT 7. In the "Star Wars" films, the Imperial TIE Fighters are propelled by ion engines (TIE stands for Twin Ion Engine). While these spacecraft are fictional, real ion engines power some of today's spacecraft. Ion propulsion has long been a staple of science fiction novels, but in recent years it has been successfully tested on a number of unmanned spacecraft, notably NASA's Deep Space 1. Launched in 1998, Deep Space 1 rendezvoused with a distant asteroid and then with a comet, proving that ion propulsion could be used for interplanetary travel. And the European Space Agency just put an ion-powered probe into orbit around the Moon.
  • 17. Gravity in Space 8. There is no gravity in deep space.
  • 18. FICTION 8. There is no gravity in deep space. If this were true, the moon would float away from the Earth, and our entire solar system would drift apart. While it's true that gravity gets weaker with distance, it can never be escaped completely, no matter how far you travel in space. Astronauts appear to experience "zero-gravity" because they are in continuous free-fall around the Earth. An interesting twist (or rather, nontwist) to this concept is that the gravity of a black hole works the same way. So, while anything too close to a black hole (including light) will be sucked in and hidden from view, objects at a distance from a black hole feel no greater pull than if the black hole were a star of equal mass. Go figure.
  • 19. Teleportation? 9. The basic premise of teleportation -- made famous in TV's "Star Trek" -- is theoretically sound. In fact, scientists have already "teleported" information about individual atoms from one location to another.
  • 20. 9. The basic premise of teleportation -- made famous in TV's "Star Trek" -- is theoretically sound. In fact, scientists have already "teleported" the quantum state of individual atoms from one location to another. FACT As early as the late 1990s, scientists proved they could teleport data using photons, but the photons were absorbed by whatever surface they struck. More recently, physicists at the University of Innsbruck in Austria and at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Boulder, Colorado, for the first time teleported information between atoms using the principle of quantum entanglement. Experts say this technology eventually could enable the invention of superfast "quantum computers." But the bad news, at least for sci-fi fans, is that experts don't foresee being able to teleport people in this manner.
  • 21. Planets around a 2 Star System 10. Tatooine, Luke Skywalker's home planet in the "Star Wars" films, has two Suns -- what astronomers would call a binary star system. Scientists have discovered recently that planets really can form within such systems.
  • 22. FACT 10. Tatooine, Luke Skywalker's home planet in the "Star Wars" films, has two Suns -- what astronomers would call a binary star system. Scientists have discovered recently that planets really can form within such systems. Double stars, or binary systems, are common in our Milky Way galaxy. Even three-star systems exist in gravitational harmony. Among the more than 100 new planets discovered in recent years, some have been found in binary systems, including 16 Cygni B and 55 Cancri A. So far, alas, no one has found a habitable planet like Luke Skywalker's Tatooine.
  • 24. Fiction CORRECT! Well, sort of. In the way it is portrayed in science fiction, time travel remains an impossibility (30% of those surveyed guessed it is possible). Current theories of physics hold that particles are popping into and out of existence and bouncing back and forth in time - but people cannot.
  • 26. FACT! CORRECT! The first cloned pet was produced in 2004 (a cat called Little Nicky), and for the right price, you could have one too. NB: since both genes and environment shape animals' (and our) dispositions, the result will not necessarily be like the beloved pet you clone.
  • 28. FACT! CORRECT! A staple in science fiction is the baddies' ship being targeted and drawn in using a visible beam of light. Scientists in Hong Kong now say that's theoretically possible - but only for small objects over short distances
  • 30. DATA CORRECT! Teleportation is a tricky concept, and so far only the physical states of electrons and photons have been sent from one place to another. Pulling off the same trick with whole molecules and starship captains is a long way off; a quarter of respondents thought it was possible to teleport people.
  • 32. FICTION CORRECT! Not yet - and 78% of respondents guessed not. But it is a rich area of research, and for small, rigid objects the trick is not all that hard to do. Getting something pliable and wizard-sized will prove tricky, though.
  • 34. Fiction CORRECT! Twenty-two percent of survey respondents reckon they are. But not yet. It is certainly easy to make lasers that cut, but stopping them at sabre-length is difficult, and the laws of physics have it that they would never bash against one another but would pass straight through.
  • 35. Moving things with only your mind.
  • 36. FACT CORRECT! The power of the mind plus a device to read out brain waves makes it possible - and 30% of respondents said it was. Our primitive understanding of what the brain's electrical signals actually mean can translate our sheer will into motion; the idea has been put to use recently in hi-tech toys and even an orchestra.
  • 38. FACT CORRECT! Frogs are not the only animals that have been levitated, but it still has not been done with humans. A magnetic field of some strength is necessary, and last year's physics Nobel laureate Andre Geim famously did the trick with a live frog in 1997.