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John Quincy Adams and His Hollow Pursuits

By Commonplace Fun Facts on October 31, 2016 • ( 1 Comment )

Who would believe that the earth is hollow and home to underground vegetation and animals? Such is the fantasy of science fiction, not of reasoned, rational minds, right? Certainly, such notions would not […]

Who Wants to Spend Christmas Looking at Planets?

By Commonplace Fun Facts on December 24, 2014 • ( Leave a comment )

For the Voyager space exploration program, engineers plotted around 10,000 potential trajectories and then narrowed them down to find the optimal mission objectives. They chose trajectories that would reduce or eliminate planetary […]