- the Earth is 4.5 billion years old!
- nebular hypothesis: who cares what it is, it sounds cool
- earthquakes helped us learned what the interior of the Earth is like
- plate tectonics - in a few million years all the continents will be in different places and none of our current conflicts will matter at all
- the East African Rift Valley is actually the formation of a new ocean
- The Coriolis Effect
- the poles reverse themselves every few million years. We are currently in a reversal right now.
- The moon is actually made up of Earth's mantle
- you can still hear the Big Bang
- Snowball Earth
- the horse latitudes are so named because when ships would be stranded out at sea for a long time the crew would throw over the horses in order to conserve water
- The Himalayas were formed by India crashing into Asia
- the Mariana Trench is deeper than Mt Everest is tall
- Climate change is man made. There has been scientific consensus on this for fifteen years.
apr 9 2009 ∞
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