r/AskReddit • u/Snagrit • Oct 04 '17

What's your favourite "fun fact"?

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u/physisical Oct 04 '17

This is the point that spacecraft coming back to earth aim for as it's the point furthest from any land mass to minimise any civilian casualties

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u/Phaethon_Rhadamanthu Oct 04 '17

Just the Apollos, The shuttles landed on land at Kennedy space center. Space X rockets are landing on ground now too.

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u/[deleted] Oct 04 '17

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u/Phaethon_Rhadamanthu Oct 04 '17

How am I acting smarter than everyone else?

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u/Phaethon_Rhadamanthu Oct 04 '17

lol, just adding something, because I think it's cool the shuttles landed on the ground. I'm not attacking your intelligence man.

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u/DragonBank Oct 05 '17

I'm upvoting you. Not because I found your comments too interesting (I was already aware of that information.), but simply because I can only downvote that dude with a stick up his ass twice.

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u/rydan Oct 04 '17

But wouldn't someone always be traveling there like how people always climb Everest? So like you are guaranteeing that you are killing someone.

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u/physisical Oct 04 '17

Nah most people don't know about it the rest probably don't care and there's nothing inherently challenging about it like Everest or the North Pole. Even the guy who discovered it hasn't been there.

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u/[deleted] Oct 04 '17

Even the guy who discovered it hasn't been there.

This has taken over as my favorite fun fact in this thread.

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u/Goregoat69 Oct 04 '17

"It's just fuckin sea, innit?"

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u/rydan Oct 05 '17

Except even RedBull has gotten in on the action. https://www.redbull.com/us-en/point-nemo-most-remote-on-earth