Is water the heaviest thing on earth?

Even though 70% of the world is made of water, water is not the heaviest object in the world. If we consider liquid, then mercury would be the heaviest object ever in the world.
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What is the heaviest thing on Earth?

According to Guinness, the Revolving Service Structure of launch pad 39B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida is the heaviest thing that's ever been directly weighed. It measured at about 5.34 million pounds or 2,423 tons.
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What is the second heaviest thing on Earth?

Here are the top 10 heaviest objects and their weights:
  • Great Wall of China; 116 billion pounds.
  • Three Gorges Dam (China); 20.8 billion pounds.
  • Great Pyramid of Khufu (Egypt); 12 billion pounds.
  • Gullfaks C installation oil storage facility (North Sea); 3 billion pounds.
  • SSCV Thialf crane vessel (various); 2.1 billion pounds.
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What is the heaviest thing lifted by a man?

The Guinness Book of World Records (1985 edition) lists his feat of lifting 6,270 lb (2,840 kg) in a back lift as "the greatest weight ever raised by a human being".
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How heavy is the Moon?

The mass of the Moon is approximately 8.1 x 10^19 tons (7.3 x 10^22 kg or . 01 x Earth mass). The mean diameter of the Moon is 2,159 miles (3,476 km or . 27 x Earth diameter).
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Is there a star bigger than the Sun?

There are bigger stars, and there are smaller stars. We have found stars that are 100 times bigger in diameter than our sun. Truly, those stars are enormous. We have also seen stars that are just one tenth the size of our sun.
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What color is our sun?

The color of the sun is white. The sun emits all colors of the rainbow more or less evenly and in physics, we call this combination "white". That is why we can see so many different colors in the natural world under the illumination of sunlight.
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Is Jupiter a failed star?

"Jupiter is called a failed star because it is made of the same elements (hydrogen and helium) as is the Sun, but it is not massive enough to have the internal pressure and temperature necessary to cause hydrogen to fuse to helium, the energy source that powers the sun and most other stars.
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What is the biggest black hole?

The largest supermassive black hole in the Milky Way's vicinity appears to be that of Messier 87 (i.e. M87*), at a mass of (6.4±0.5)×109 (c. 6.4 billion) M at a distance of 53.5 million light-years.
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Are there 6 dwarf planets?

Dwarf Planets Are Prolific

Currently, there are six dwarf planets officially designated by the IAU: Pluto, Ceres, Eris, Makemake, Haumea, and 2015 RR245, discovered in July.
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Did the Pluto explode?

What happened to Pluto? Did it blow up, or go hurtling out of its orbit? Pluto is still very much a part of our Solar System, it's just no longer considered a planet. In 2006, the International Astronomical Union created a new category for classifying bodies in space: the dwarf planet.
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Is moon bigger than Earth?

The moon is a bit more than one-quarter (27 percent) the size of Earth, a much larger ratio (1:4) than any other planets and their moons. Earth's moon is the fifth largest moon in the solar system.
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How much does the Earth cost?

In fact, according to one astrophysicist who came up with a calculation for valuing planets, Earth is worth a bank-breaking $5 quadrillion dollars, unsurprisingly the priciest in the solar-system.
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How much does the Moon cost to buy?

You Can Now Buy a Piece of the Moon for $2.5 Million.
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Is the sun bigger than the Earth?

At about 864,000 miles (1.4 million kilometers) wide, the sun is 109 times wider than Earth, and it accounts for more than 99.8 percent of the solar system's total mass. If it was a hollow ball, more than a million Earths could fit inside it.
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Can a human lift a car?

In 2012, Lauren Kornacki, a 22-year-old woman in Glen Allen, Virginia, raised a BMW 525i off her father when the car toppled from a jack. Seven years earlier, a man named Tom Boyle hoisted a Chevy Camaro, freeing a trapped cyclist in Tucson, Arizona.
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Can a human lift 1000 pounds?

Deadlift record – 1,104 pounds / 501kg

In May 2020 Game of Thrones actor and strongman Hafthor Bjornsson set a world deadlifting record by lifting 501kg (1,104lb). The Icelandic 6ft 9in, 193kg giant lifted the barbell for two seconds, before dropping the weights and setting a new world record.
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Can a human lift 4000 pounds?

If a human could lift 20 times their body weight, that'd be about 4,000 pounds, which would be similar to carrying a small SUV.
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What's the rarest metal on earth?

The rarest metal on earth is actually francium, but because this unstable element has a half life of a mere 22 minutes, it has no practical use. Tantalum, on the other hand, is used to make capacitors in electronic equipment such as mobile phones, DVD players, video game systems, and computers.
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Why is gold yellow?

Gold appears yellow because it absorbs blue light more than it absorbs other visible wavelengths of light; the reflected light reaching the eye is therefore lacking in blue compared to the incident light. Since yellow is complementary to blue, this makes a piece of gold under white light appear yellow to human eyes.
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What is the lightest metal?

Magnesium is the lightest structural metal and abundantly available in the earth's crust and seawater.
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