Have you ever heard about Eris? It's a dwarf planet, and if you asked me days ago whether I could name a dwarf planet, I would only be able to mention Pluto. Eris is almost the same size and is as far away as 38 to 68 AU. AU is short for Astronomical Units and assembles the distance from the Sun to Earth. In KM and Miles, it's approx 150,000,000 km or 93,000,000 Miles. So Eris is far away from us - and why is this interesting? Well, I am fascinated by space, and though only a fraction has been mapped, the creativity of humans able to send space ships to the Moon, Mars, and who knows in the future, maybe even to other solar systems amazes me. Some people believe that space explorations are a waste of money, but the technology spin-offs from these massive and costly programs can't be underestimated. Think of Teflon, memory foam, GPS, CMOS sensors (inside almost every phone/camera), ear thermometers, scratch-free glass, tap-water filters, cordless tools, to mention a few, are spin-offs that we use daily.
If you would like to explore more about Eris and the achievements in space exploration, NASA has created this amazing, great website, just underscoring how small we humans are, but worth checking out regardless!
I am still reading about death sentences in the past 500 years in Denmark, which continue to surprise me. It's still an excellent book, but my God, how evil people have been are almost non-comprehensive. I will get back later!
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