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What is the most amazing/awesome fact about the Earth? 5/2/2012 8:23AM Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
Could be a geologic fact, social fact, environmental fact, or anything else. But, make sure you list a FACT.
Well Now That You Mention It
RE: What is the most amazing/awesome fact about the Earth? 5/2/2012 8:49AM - in reply to factoids Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
It exists.
Sir Edwin Homework
RE: What is the most amazing/awesome fact about the Earth? 5/2/2012 8:52AM - in reply to Well Now That You Mention It Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
Homework was invented in 1849 by Sir Edwin Homework.
Jeffster!!!
RE: What is the most amazing/awesome fact about the Earth? 5/2/2012 8:57AM - in reply to factoids Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
It would take 1.3 million earths to fill the sun.
http://www.universetoday.com/65356/how-many-earths-can-fit-in-the-sun/
factoids
RE: What is the most amazing/awesome fact about the Earth? 5/2/2012 9:12AM - in reply to Jeffster!!! Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
Cool!
Aghast
RE: What is the most amazing/awesome fact about the Earth? 5/2/2012 9:20AM - in reply to Jeffster!!! Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
It takes over a 100,000 years for light to get from the core of the sun to the earth's surface.
Toxic Avenger
RE: What is the most amazing/awesome fact about the Earth? 5/2/2012 9:24AM - in reply to Aghast Reply | Return to Index | Report Post

Aghast wrote:

It takes over a 100,000 years for light to get from the core of the sun to the earth's surface.


That isn't about the earth, nimrod.
Ivyguy
RE: What is the most amazing/awesome fact about the Earth? 5/2/2012 10:02AM - in reply to Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
Though there are more human beings on the planet than ever before, the percentage of humans who get enough to eat is the highest it's ever been.
Johnny Pony
RE: What is the most amazing/awesome fact about the Earth? 5/2/2012 10:07AM - in reply to Jeffster!!! Reply | Return to Index | Report Post

Jeffster!!! wrote:

It would take 1.3 million earths to fill the sun.
http://www.universetoday.com/65356/how-many-earths-can-fit-in-the-sun/


It would take 1.4 Million earths to fill Goatse.
demographer
RE: What is the most amazing/awesome fact about the Earth? 5/2/2012 10:10AM - in reply to factoids Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
More people live in China, India, the USA, Indonesia, Brazil, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nigeria than in the rest of the world put together.
underthinking it
RE: What is the most amazing/awesome fact about the Earth? 5/2/2012 10:24AM - in reply to factoids Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
Life exists on Earth
The Stache
RE: What is the most amazing/awesome fact about the Earth? 5/2/2012 11:04AM - in reply to factoids Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
IMO, the most amazing fact is that it exists in a temperature range that allows H2O to be liquid. That is a relatively narrow temperature band when looking at cosmic scales. Liquid water is essentially what allowed life - ANY life - to form on Earth.
gluteus
RE: What is the most amazing/awesome fact about the Earth? 5/2/2012 11:13AM - in reply to The Stache Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
Every 400 years the Earth goes through a flaring stage known as "Folkson". Essentially, the tectonic plates do a shifting from each point, and there is usually a temp drop of about 30 degrees for a day, and then the sky
most importantly
RE: What is the most amazing/awesome fact about the Earth? 5/2/2012 11:27AM - in reply to factoids Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
It plays host to the Commander's Cup.
TrackCoach
RE: What is the most amazing/awesome fact about the Earth? 5/2/2012 11:28AM - in reply to gluteus Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
The perfect conditions for water, the perfect gravitional pull and the fact that the magnetic poles actually shift from time to time. When it comes to earth, too many things have lined up so perfectly that it is almost impossible to say it was all random.
TrackingCoach
RE: What is the most amazing/awesome fact about the Earth? 5/2/2012 11:40AM - in reply to TrackCoach Reply | Return to Index | Report Post

TrackCoach wrote:

The perfect conditions for water, the perfect gravitional pull and the fact that the magnetic poles actually shift from time to time. When it comes to earth, too many things have lined up so perfectly that it is almost impossible to say it was all random...


...sorry, I meant to add, 'except that there were trillions of chances with planets throughout the universe so that it was essentially inevitable that the perfect conditions would arise over and over again'.
rjru
RE: What is the most amazing/awesome fact about the Earth? 5/2/2012 11:48AM - in reply to TrackCoach Reply | Return to Index | Report Post

TrackCoach wrote:

The perfect conditions for water, the perfect gravitional pull and the fact that the magnetic poles actually shift from time to time. When it comes to earth, too many things have lined up so perfectly that it is almost impossible to say it was all random.


Yep, we lucked out--though, I suppose, with 100 sextillion (the low-ball estimate) stars in the universe, it was kinda likely that one or more of their planets would be life-friendly. And, given that one of those is OUR planet--special people that we are!--we'd like to think there was something other than chance involved...
You
RE: What is the most amazing/awesome fact about the Earth? 5/2/2012 11:50AM - in reply to TrackingCoach Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
It weighs this many pounds, approx.

1,300,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
Gaius Frakin Baltar
RE: What is the most amazing/awesome fact about the Earth? 5/2/2012 11:52AM - in reply to factoids Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
Earth was found by a race of men on a spaceship called the Battlestar Gallactica after the destruction of the 12 colonies with cybernetic organisms known as Cylons.
goatard
RE: What is the most amazing/awesome fact about the Earth? 5/2/2012 11:53AM - in reply to Johnny Pony Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
ick.


Johnny Pony wrote:

[quote]Jeffster!!! wrote:

It would take 1.3 million earths to fill the sun.
http://www.universetoday.com/65356/how-many-earths-can-fit-in-the-sun/


It would take 1.4 Million earths to fill Goatse.[/quote]
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