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“If you turn lights on and off often in an attempt to save electricity, it uses more electricity than leaving it on. The idea behind this misconception is that most of the electricity is used in turning on the light. But this is untrue. It’s like believing turning a car on and off over and over again will use up more fuel than travelling hundreds of miles.”
― James Egan, The Mega Misconception Book

“Things can explode in space. Explosions in space are possible but it is not as visually impressive as you would imagine. What do explosions need? Oxygen. Does space have any? Nope. What do explosions do? Make a deafening sound. The tagline for the movie Alien is, “In space, no one can hear you scream.” You can’t hear in space because sound cannot exist in a vacuum. Space ships in Star Trek and Star Wars wouldn’t make any noise in space. Movies like Interstellar and Gravity and tv shows like Firefly portray silence in space during an explosion accurately.”
― James Egan, The Mega Misconception Book

“The moon is spherical. The moon is shaped like an egg. It looks round to us because we always see the same side of it.”
― James Egan, The Mega Misconception Book

“There is no gravity in space. There is gravity almost everywhere in space. It is reduced but we can’t escape gravity because it is a fundamental force of the universe. Astronauts seem weightless because they are orbiting Earth. They are falling towards Earth but they are moving sufficiently sideways to miss it. So they are constantly falling but never landing.”
― James Egan, The Mega Misconception Book