This is really educating, you need to read and share.

1. There are no 24 hours in a day. It has
23 hours, 56 minutes and 4 seconds, the time it takes the earth to rotate on its axis.

2. The year 2015 will be one second longer than usual
because of the slowing of the Earth's rotation.

3. 1.3 million Earths could fit inside the
sun, an average-sized star.

4. Earth days are getting longer by
1.7 milliseconds every century.

5. 1.3 million Earths could fit into the
Sun.

6. Antarctica is the coldest, windiest,
highest and driest continent on Earth.

7. Each day, up to 4 billion meteoroids fall
to Earth.

8. If the earth didn't have the moon, our days would only be 6
hours long.

9.Only about .003 percent of the water on Earth can be used by humans.

10. Fossil evidence suggests that fish have been on Earth for about 530
million years.

11. Rain has never been recorded in parts of Chile's Atacama Desert, the
driest place on Earth.

12.Oceans cover 71% of the Earth's surface.

13. Between 100 and 300 tons of cosmic dust enter the Earth's
atmosphere every
day.

14.There are about 500,000 detectable
earthquakes in the world each year. 100,000 of those can be felt, and 100 of
them cause damage. - The 2011 earthquake near Japan increased the Earth's rotation
speed, shortening the day by 1.8 microseconds.

15.If the Sun were the size of a beach ball
in Space, then Jupiter would be the size
of a golf ball and the Earth would be as small as a pea.

16.If you drilled a tunnel straight through the Earth and jumped in, it would
take you about 42 minutes to get to
the other side.

17. Earth is the only known place where a fire can occur naturally.

18. The Queen of the UK is the legal owner of one-sixth of the Earth's land surface.

19. The Earth, seen from the moon, also
goes through phases.

20. It takes 8 minutes and 20 seconds for light to travel from
the sun to the earth.

21. There are more living organisms in a
teaspoonful of soil than there are people
on earth.

22. One-third of Earth's land surface is
partially or totally desert.

23. Before trees were common, the Earth
was covered with giant mushrooms.

24. Our galaxy probably contains at
least 2 billion planets like Earth.

25. There are about
7500,000,000,00
0,000,000 grains of sand on Earth.

26. Lightning strikes Earth about 100 times
per second or 8.6 Million times per day.

27. Every second, the Sun sends to earth 10 times more neutrinos than the number of people on earth.

28. Earth is the only place in the Solar System where water can be present in its
three states: solid, liquid and vapour.

29. The Earth lost 40% of its wildlife in the
past 40 years, according to the WWF.

30. 63 Earths can fit inside Uranus.

31. Earth is the only place in the solar
system where a total solar eclipse can
happen.

32. Between 10 and 20 volcanoes are
erupting somewhere on Earth every day.

33. Water constitutes only 0.07% of the earth by mass or 0.4% of the earth by volume.

34. The highest place on Earth, and closest
to space, is Mount Chimborazo in the
Andes.

35. There are about 22,000 manmade objects orbiting around planet Earth.

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Hmm delicious, just fed my brain with this delicious piece.


Thanks op

Educating....

who counted the grain of sand

Hmm. I can give a nod to some of them. But the rest . . .


Cc johnyjohn22, teempakguy, sukkot. Come and comfirm everything on that list.

Geofavor:
Hmm. I can give a nod to some of them. But the rest . . .


Cc johnyjohn22, teemparkguy, sukkot. Come and comfirm everything on that list.

1. There are no 24 hours in a day. It has
23 hours, 56 minutes and 4 seconds, the time it takes the earth to rotate on its axis.

Let me start with number 1 which I have quoted above. well you know the zodiac cycle is 360 degrees meaning that if one degree is 1 day, then it would take 365 degrees of the zodiac cycle to complete a whole year meaning you have gone past the 360 degrees by 5 degrees and that would cause lots of complications, so it makes sense that a day is 23 hours 56 minutes and 4 seconds because this way a 365 day year can fit into 360 degrees. i will deal with the rest later. too many of em and i am currently sipping on wine lol


this is a good frontpage topic. lets try to get this to FP

LALASTICALA, SEUN. THIS IS FP MATERIAL

36:...the earth houses more oloshos dan any known planet in the universe...

sukkot:


1. There are no 24 hours in a day. It has
23 hours, 56 minutes and 4 seconds, the time it takes the earth to rotate on its axis.

Let me start with number 1 which I have quoted above. well you know the zodiac cycle is 360 degrees meaning that if one degree is 1 day, then it would take 365 degrees of the zodiac cycle to complete a whole year meaning you have gone past the 360 degrees by 5 degrees and that would cause lots of complications, so it makes sense that a day is 23 hours 56 minutes and 4 seconds because this way a 365 day year can fit into 360 degrees. i will deal with the rest later. too many of em and i am currently sipping on wine lol


this is a good frontpage topic. lets try to get this to FP

LALASTICALA, SEUN. THIS IS FP MATERIAL

yeah i'm quite familiar with this one.
See, 2, 4, 7, 8, 11, 14, 16, 17, 26, 28, 31, 32.

awwww
educative!!!..

This is great! An interesting thread!

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