6 Space Myths Everyone Believes (Thanks To Movies)

Cracked.com:

Our knowledge of outer space is a lot like our knowledge of history -- it's really hard to separate what we know from research from what we picked up from movies.

In both cases, this means that a lot of our everyday knowledge about space is just laughably wrong.

Yep, it's not enough for space to make us feel small -- it needs to make us feel stupid, too.

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Comments

[CeltGunn1970]

02:28 AM on 02/03/2012

Absolutely loved this article and the way it was written. Quite fun to read.

[Djay0252]

08:27 PM on 01/29/2012

I think the point is that thanks to many movies and TV shows we are completely ignorant about what goes on in life

[MarkInTexas]

06:38 PM on 01/26/2012

The sun's not yellow, it's chicken.

[mamacat]

06:27 AM on 01/26/2012

The article claims that our own star, The Sun, is white, not yellow.

In fact scientists classify it as a yellow dwarf, not a white dwarf.

Looking at the night sky in a place where there isn't much light pollution one will readily see "red" stars, such as Betelgeuse, blue-white stars, such as Rigel, and yellow stars, such as Arcturus. All of them look white in a cursory glance, but their color can be seen if one compares them to each other.

[palindrom]

10:42 PM on 01/26/2012

If you put a piece of paper out in the sun, it reflects both the direct light from the sun (which is reddened by the atmosphere) and the light from the sky (which is scattered sunlight). The paper is -- white.

[mamacat]

04:44 AM on 01/28/2012

Not sure what your point is. We see colors in an object, such as a green leaf, because it reflects more of the green wavelength than any of the other wavelengths of light. A piece of paper that appears white to us reflects those wavelengths of light which our eyes and brains have learned to identify as white. So? Other pieces of paper might be any color under the sun, as the saying goes.