{"id":544,"date":"2017-11-11T11:59:44","date_gmt":"2017-11-11T11:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/?p=544"},"modified":"2017-11-11T12:02:23","modified_gmt":"2017-11-11T12:02:23","slug":"spaced-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/2017\/11\/11\/spaced-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Spaced-Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Sibo-in-Space.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-520\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Sibo-in-Space-1024x1016.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"422\" height=\"418\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Sibo-in-Space-1024x1016.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Sibo-in-Space-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Sibo-in-Space-300x298.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Sibo-in-Space-768x762.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 422px) 85vw, 422px\" \/><\/a>The 4<sup>th<\/sup> to 10<sup>th<\/sup> of October celebrates World Space Week. In honour of this I\u2018m making my book \u2013 Sibo in Space &#8211; available on the website to read freely for the next two weeks. Visit\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sibo.co.za\">Sibo&#8217;s website<\/a> and just click on the link.<\/p>\n<p>Thought for Space week this year I\u2019d share some awesome (and slightly gross) facts that you could wow your friends with, unless they have also read the paper!<\/p>\n<p>Did you know that if you were in space\u2026 the skin would be peeling off your feet? Eergh! Because astronauts are not actually walking on their feet, the skin starts to soften and then flakes off. Here\u2019s an even grosser fact \u2013 because there are no washing machines in space, the dudes wear their socks and jocks for longer than they usually would on earth! When they take their socks off, they have to do it very very gently otherwise those yucky dead skin cells would just float around all over \u00a0the place.<\/p>\n<p>How\u2019s this\u2026 one million earths would fit inside the sun.<\/p>\n<p>If you are vertically challenged\u2026 you should go to space. In micro-gravity, because the spine is not being pushed down, it straightens out and a person can become a whole 5cm taller!<\/p>\n<p>One always imagines that space is really far away, but in actual fact \u2013 if you could drive your car 100km upwards, you\u2019d be in space in about an hour. Makes you wish your car could drive upwards hey!<\/p>\n<p>The solar system is around 4.6 billion years old\u2026 but scientists reckon it will probably last another 500 million years still \u2013 so don\u2019t worry \u2013 there is still time to do stuff.<\/p>\n<p>Space is entirely silent.<\/p>\n<p>One day on Venus is longer than an entire year on earth!<\/p>\n<p>If metal touches in space it will bond together and permanently stick together.<\/p>\n<p>One day on Mercury last around 59 days on earth!<\/p>\n<p>If you ever stepped onto the moon\u2026 your footprints would remain there for ever. Why is that\u2026 because there is no weather on the moon. No wind or rain to blow or wash those footprints away.<\/p>\n<p>Neutron stars can turn at a rate of around 600 rotations per second! Enough to make a person really dizzy!<\/p>\n<p>If you fell into a black hole\u2026 you would stretch like spaghetti!<\/p>\n<p>So \u2026 if you have a choice of going to school on Venus or Mercury \u2013 which would you choose? Duh! Mercury of course!<\/p>\n<p>Sibo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 4th to 10th of October celebrates World Space Week. In honour of this I\u2018m making my book \u2013 Sibo in Space &#8211; available on the website to read freely for the next two weeks. Visit\u00a0\u00a0Sibo&#8217;s website and just click on the link. Thought for Space week this year I\u2019d share some awesome (and slightly &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/2017\/11\/11\/spaced-out\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Spaced-Out&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[108],"tags":[77,54],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=544"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":547,"href":"http:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544\/revisions\/547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}