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Astronauts can connect to the Internet in space!

In the past, astronauts have been able to post tweets to Twitter; however, this always had to be relayed through a third party here on Earth. That is no longer the case! Thanks to the International Space Station's high-speed Ku-band antenna, space travelers can now connect to the Internet LIVE from the station! The Crew Support LAN allows for a station laptop to control a grounded computer that is physically wired to the Internet whenever this connection is available. This technological advancement makes life a bit less lonely for the crew aboard the ISS by allowing for occasional video chatting and keeping their families and the general public informed through social networking updates.
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Astronauts on the International Space Station see around 15 sunrises and sunsets every day.

The ISS is located about 220 miles above the Earth and is traveling at a speed of around 17,211 miles per hour, which means that it completes an orbit every hour and a half! Because of this, the astronauts and cosmonauts aboard the station see either a sunrise or a sunset approximately every 45 minutes. This makes for 15 to 16 sightings of the sun "rising" and "setting" every single day. Space sunsets are said to be even more spectacular than any that can be viewed here on Earth. This is because from space you can see all the detail within each of the Earth’s atmospheres in breathtaking bands of pink, orange and blue!
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In space, no one can hear you whistle.

We all know that you can’t hear sound in the vacuum of space, but the old adage “in space, no one can hear you scream” doesn’t apply when talking about astronauts in spacesuits talking through microphones. However, even under those same circumstances you can’t hear a whistle. In fact, in a vacuum, you can’t whistle, even while wearing a space suit. Recently, astronauts on the shuttle Atlantis tried whistling in an airlock waiting for the right conditions before beginning a space walk.
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iPhones can survive falls of over 13,000 feet.

Giant iPhone? Nah, this guy is just really really short.

A skydiver lost his iPhone 4 in midair after jumping from 13,500 feet. Using a GPS tracking app, Jarrod McKinney was able to locate his runaway phone a half mile away on top of a building. Thankfully the phone landed on a building and not on a person’s head, or McKinney would be in a lot of trouble.

The screen was cracked, but not only was he able to track it down, he was also still able to answer incoming calls with it! McKinney must have been surprised by the device’s durability, especially since the same phone had previously cracked after falling a few feet off of a bathroom shelf.
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Babies can recognize their moms’ voices in the womb.

Research has shown that babies can hear sounds at 30 weeks. Additionally, more recent research going on concurrently in China and Canada has found that babies can discern between different voices. There’s a marked in the baby’s heart rate between listening to a stranger’s voice and listening to his/her mother’s. Babies in the womb react to hearing their mothers by increasing their heart rate. When listening to a stranger, their heart rate actually decreases. The same research found that before being born, babies are able to discriminate different sounds in any language, an ability they lose as they get older and learn their first language.
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