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12/ If you could drive your car straight up you would arrive in space in just over an hour.

17/ When a flea jumps, the rate of acceleration is 20 times that of the space shuttle during launch.

21/ Astronauts cannot belch - there is no gravity to separate liquid from gas in their stomachs.

43/ There are 60,000 miles of blood vessels in the human body.

48/ The call of the humpback whale is louder than Concorde and can be heard from 500 miles away.

Doctors in France say they have performed the first partial face transplant on a woman who had suffered extensive injuries in a dog attack.

CNN.com - Woman ‘has first face transplant’ - Nov 30, 2005

Albert Swank Jr., a 55-year-old civil engineer in Anchorage, Alaska, is a man with a mission. He wants to install a nuclear particle accelerator in his home.

But when neighbors learned of plans to place the 20-ton device inside the house where Swank operates his engineering firm, their response was swift: Not in my backyard.

“Cyclotrons are not nuclear reactors,” explains Roger Dixon of the FermiNational Accelerator laboratory or Fermilab in Illinois, funded by the U.S.Department of Energy. “Probably the worst thing that could happen with small cyclotrons is that the operator might electrocute themselves.”

The Anchorage Assembly plan to hold an emergency publichearing on Dec. 20 to determine whether he will be permitted toinstall the device at his lifelong residence.

Wired News: The Cyclotron Comes to the ‘Hood’