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"The good Earth -- we could have saved it,
but we were too damn cheap and lazy."

-Kurt Vonnegut


EARTH

EARTH
3rd stone from the Sun

Mean Distance from Sun  149 597 890 [km]  = 1 AU (astronomical unit)

Orbital Period  365.26 days

Rotational Period   23 h 56 m

Diameter  12 756 [km]

Mass  5.9742 x 10ˆ27 [g]

Density  5.515 [g/cmˆ3]

Gravity  980 [cm/sˆ2]

Atmosphere (primary components)
78% nitrogen, 21% oxygen, 1% other

Mean Surface Temperature  15 [°C]

Number of Moons  1

Population  6.5 billion (2005)

Age  5 billion years

 

 

 

The weight of all the ants on Earth is greater than the weight of all the humans on Earth.

 

leaving earth
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Impacts with Earth

Deserts of the World

The Oceans

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Top 10 cities prone to MEGARISK
1. Tokyo
2. San Francisco Bay area
3. Los Angeles
4. Osaka/Kobe/Kyoto
5. Miami
6. New York
7. Hong Kong
8. Manila/Quezon City
9. London
10. Paris
-MunichRe, May 2005

 

 


Energy Star logo
ENERGY STAR is a government-backed program helping businesses
and individuals protect the environment through superior energy efficiency.

Environmental Organizations

Local Environmental Issues

Global Environmental Issues

Pollution

Air

Water

Electricity

Light

Solar Power

Temperature

the Universe

 

 

 

What is your "ecological" footprint?
Worldwide, there are 4.5 biologically productive acres per person.
Find out how much you are using here.

 

If Yucca Mountain is used to store radioactive waste, it would receive 1 to 6 shipments
per day, every day, for 24 years. Planners say most of the shipments would be transported via rail,
with 1/3 of the shipments going through downtown Chicago.

The Federal Government owns 87% of the land in Nevada.

 


 

Evolution
• zircon crystals found in sedimentary rocks in western Australia are 4.0 to 4.2 billions years old
• rocks found in the Amitsoq gneisses in western Greenland are 3.7 to 3.8 billion years old
• bilateral symmetry found in a 300 million year old fossil in southern China
• nine 4.5 million year old Ardipithecus ramidus skeletons found in northern Ethiopia
• 3.6 million year old human-like footprint in volcanic ash in Tanzania
• 1.5 million year old remnants of campfires found in caves in Swartkrans, South Africa
• 70,000 year old ochre lipstick found in South Africa
• Russian archaeologists find 30,000 year old evidence that humans lived in Siberia
• 23,000 year old remains of wild grains, grinding equipment, and stone oven near the Sea of Galilee, Israel

the evolution of antibiotic resistance among bacteria is beyond dispute




Creationism

• God created the Earth and all the species on it, in six days, 6000 years ago


During a round-table interview with reporters from five Texas newspapers on August 2, 2005,
President Bush said he believes schools should discuss "intelligent design" alongside
evolution when teaching students about the creation of life.

Vernal Equinox
everyone sees the sun rise due east, provide 12 hours of daylight, and set due west
2005.03.20 = first day of spring in 2005

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

fun with physics

 

 

 

 

 

 

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