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Movies have made us believe some wild things about space! For starters, in reality, you can’t just explode in space, like they show in movies—there’s no air to cause that kind of blast. And those super-loud spaceship battles? They’d actually be silent because sound can’t travel in the vacuum of space. Then there’s the idea that asteroid fields are like an obstacle course; in reality, they’re so spread out that you’d probably never bump into anything. And what about quicksand-like black holes sucking everything in? They’re more like cosmic whirlpools that only pull in things very close to them. Oh, and if you tried to plant a flag on the Moon like in the movies, it wouldn’t flutter—there’s no wind to make it wave! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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