scientist on Twitter have been deal some of the science miscommunications that beleaguer them the most , including things that scientists oversimplify or under - simplify or are just ill explained in their field .

Science communicator Susanna L Harris kicked things off with her meme - shatter fact that you ’ve been lie to about mitochondria .

Planetary astronomer and communicator James O’Donaghue jumped in with an brio to destroy your preferred planet fact .

This one cast raspberry in their position .

This one ruins the poesy a little bit , but would it really kill poets to get their facts straight once in a while ?

We feel like this one might be a bugaboo of just about everybody , not just scientists .

This chart excuse evolution much more than the chart used at   schooltime , and it ’s candidly baffle that this is n’t the monetary standard yet .

This one is particularly fun and counterintuitive .

The Sun has a massive gravitational pull , containing 98.8 percent of our Solar System ’s mass . Despite its monumental influence over all the body in the Solar System , it ’s surprisingly difficult to actually manoeuver mighty at it . This is because of our own major planet ’s movement . We ’re journey at around30 kilometers ( 19 Roman mile ) per second , or   108,000   kilometer ( 67,000 miles ) per hour around the Sun .

In lodge to get to the Sun , you need to cancel out the   sideways impulse , which will cost you a lot of energy . This is n’t just a theoretical idea , NASA ’s Parker Solar Probe was designed to do just this ( though to   skip the Sun ’s atm rather than poke fun itself ) . for do so , it had tolose 85,000   kilometers per hour(53,000 miles per 60 minutes ) of movement   through the use of powerful rockets and seven gravity aid from Venus .

Though it lost sideways impulse , by its 7th and final approaching to the Sun , the maven ’s gravity will help it become the firm human - made aim ever built , at around   692,000 kilometre per 60 minutes ( 430,000 miles per hour ) .

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Another cute " fact " is destroy .

We ’re fair certain it ’s widely known that not all the dinosaurs lived together , but it ’s uncanny to see thatT. Rexlived closer to ourselves than to theStegosaurus .

While we ’re on the topic , are you aware that a lot of the dinosaur live on theother side of the wandflower ?

And eventually , a fun one .

The quietus can be viewed on Twitter and are well worth your clip .