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    Is 34% far or slightly smaller than 100%?

    Actually, good point. Since the question relates to something as HUGE as dark matter, being of the same order of magnitude makes it only 'slightly less'. At A level and uni (although to be fair I dropped out after a year) we were taught that getting an answer to the correct order of magnitude...
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    Is 34% far or slightly smaller than 100%?

    It's a third. Get two pies. Give your friend a whole pie. Give yourself a third of a pie. Are you getting 'far less' or 'slightly less' pie than your friend?
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    Who first put a feather & ballbearing in a vacuum?

    I like your thinking... well that was about 1660, so we've narrowed it down to the last 350 years! :wink:
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    Who first put a feather & ballbearing in a vacuum?

    I've got to really thinking about when this experiment was first done in schools... During the Apollo 15 mission, David Scott dropped a hammer and feather - and Galileo rolled cannonballs down a slope - but does anyone know who first thought up the most simple, mind-bending school lab...
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