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    BRAIN DUMP

    Oct 03, 2019 4 minutes

    How long would it take to run a light year?

    Liam Fausti

    ■ A light year spans nearly 9.5 million million kilometres. Let’s assume that the runner is as quick as the world’s fastest ever marathon runner, Eliud Kipchoge, who completed the Berlin Marathon in just over two hours in 2018. We’ll also say that they’ll never age, and they’ll never tire. Even then it would take the runner over 51 million years to run an entire light year. JH

    Why do trains always run on tracks instead of roads?

    Jonny Bombardier

    ■ Trains can go much faster than cars, because there is less friction between steel wheels and steel tracks than there is between rubber tyres and tarmac roads. JS

    How much plastic is in the sea?

    Liam Fausti

    ■ We’ve only recently started to realise the extent of plastic pollution, and there

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